Bathroom

This was a very tricky space to design! Originally the door to the bathroom was accessed through the bedroom but I didn’t want guests to have to travel through the bedroom to use the bathroom so I had to change the layout entirely and knock out a wall in the hallway. I also knocked out the false ceiling here to reveal more original cornicing. I decided since it was so long and narrow my only choice was to make the most out of the vertical. To deal with moving the toilet farther from the outside wall (plumbing issues) I needed to add steps to the bath. I also decided to put in a Japanese deep soak tub since they aren’t as long but are very deep and there is something refreshing about stepping into a jacuzzi style tub. I covered the entire floor traveling up to the ceiling in thick cement tiles from Morocco. I think some people are scared of using loud patterns and wallpapers in small spaces but really this to me is precisely where they belong. By keeping the rest of the bathroom neutral and having a long line of bold pattern one feels they are traveling down a long corridor even though it ends halfway sooner than one would expect. I found a marble shell sink from the garden of an estate, the rugged honed marble compliments the tiles, in that both could be used indoors or outdoors. I wanted to have a swan shaped faucet but because of how thick the marble lip was I needed to actually fix a kitchen sink to it.

I also decided to have a little tiled seated area next to the bath since originally that narrow space was wasted space. Where the former door was I put an opaque glass pane so light from the bedroom balcony is reflected into the bathroom. I also put a window above the bathroom door to get more light into this space that has no natural light on its own. I tried to have the cupboards as long and lean as possible to blend in with the wall.

The inspiration for the bathroom was actually how a mid 1800’s Victorian English person would think of an ancient Mediterranean bathing house. This house was built in the 1860’s so I thought it was fitting. I love watching period movies made decades ago because one can always see what that specific decade is romanticizing about the fashions/ norms of the period they are trying to exemplify.

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