Dramatic Black and White Primary Bathroom with Wet Room and Steam Room

Twin Peaks House is a vibrant extension to a grand Edwardian homestead in Kensington. Originally built in 1913 for a wealthy family of butchers, when the surrounding landscape was pasture from horizon to horizon, the homestead endured as its acreage was carved up and subdivided into smaller terrace allotments. Our clients discovered the property decades ago during long walks around their neighbourhood, promising themselves that they would buy it should the opportunity ever arise. Many years later the opportunity did arise, and our clients made the leap. Not long after, they commissioned us to update the home for their family of five. They asked us to replace the pokey rear end of the house, shabbily renovated in the 1980s, with a generous extension that matched the scale of the original home and its voluminous garden. Our design intervention extends the massing of the original gable-roofed house towards the back garden, accommodating kids’ bedrooms, living areas downstairs and main bedroom suite tucked away upstairs gabled volume to the east earns the project its name, duplicating the main roof pitch at a smaller scale and housing dining, kitchen, laundry and informal entry. This arrangement of rooms supports our clients’ busy lifestyles with zones of communal and individual living, places to be together and places to be alone. The living area pivots around the kitchen island, positioned carefully to entice our clients' energetic teenaged boys with the aroma of cooking. A sculpted deck runs the length of the garden elevation, facing swimming pool, borrowed landscape and the sun. A first-floor hideout attached to the main bedroom floats above, vertical screening providing prospect and refuge. Neither quite indoors nor out, these spaces act as threshold between both, protected from the rain and flexibly dimensioned for either entertaining or retreat. Galvanised steel continuously wraps the exterior of the extension, distilling the decorative heritage of the original’s walls, roofs and gables into two cohesive volumes. The masculinity in this form-making is balanced by a light-filled, feminine interior. Its material palette of pale timbers and pastel shades are set against a textured white backdrop, with 2400mm high datum adding a human scale to the raked ceilings. Celebrating the tension between these design moves is a dramatic, top-lit 7m high void that slices through the centre of the house. Another type of threshold, the void bridges the old and the new, the private and the public, the formal and the informal. It acts as a clear spatial marker for each of these transitions and a living relic of the home’s long history.

A large, wall hung timber vanity with white basin, and wall cabinet above, draws the eye in this otherwise simple bathroom. The timber contrasts with the large format grey wall and floor tiles, and the shower and sink tapware's brass tones marry beautifully with the timber. Discrete integrated niche, footrest and drainage channel complete the spacious shower.

This painted master bathroom was designed and made by Tim Wood. One end of the bathroom has built in wardrobes painted inside with cedar of Lebanon backs, adjustable shelves, clothes rails, hand made soft close drawers and specially designed and made shoe racking. The vanity unit has a partners desk look with adjustable angled mirrors and storage behind. All the tap fittings were supplied in nickel including the heated free standing towel rail. The area behind the lavatory was boxed in with cupboards either side and a large glazed cupboard above. Every aspect of this bathroom was co-ordinated by Tim Wood. Designed, hand made and photographed by Tim Wood

Chevron Tile, Chevron Bathroom, Grey Bathrooms, Timber Vanity, Brushed Brass Tapware, Wall Hung Vanity, Light Up Mirror, Freestanding Vanity, VJ Panel, Bathroom VJ Panels, Dado Rail Sheets, Green Basin

The wet room is fully tiles with classic square white tiles with a stone feature wall.

Restyling di Bagno, rimozione vasca, realizzazione di doccia walk in, nicchi retroilluminate con controllo luci domotico

A "new" classical style room with a mix of modern simple fittings like Laufen furniture and Italian Porcelain tiles alongside British Made Thomas Crapper High Cistern WC and brass taps.

Landhaus Bad

The space planning has been remodeled in order to create privacy, a separate laundry, a private toilet room, a large open shower, with a hot mop flooring. Caroline Ruszkowski created this unique space full of natural light, selected neutral colors and very soft materials. This master bathroom is elegant and provide well being and nice feeling, for a better life.

Guest bathroom with separate marble top bathtub and shower.

Durch die transparente Duschwand ohne Tür und die Winkellösung zwischen Badewanne und Dusche ergibt sich das offene Gefühl einer geräumigen Einrichtung. Farbliche Akzente im Fliesenspiegel werden durch dunklere Fliesen zum helleren Grundton am Podestsockel, der Badewannen-Armatur und der Wellnessdusche erzielt.

Master bathroom with a grey bathroom vanity, gorgeous bathroom mirrors, and wall sconces.

Featuring Reece matte black fittings, VJ panelling, custom vanity and encaustic floor tiles.

SB apt is the result of a renovation of a 95 sqm apartment. Originally the house had narrow spaces, long narrow corridors and a very articulated living area. The request from the customers was to have a simple, large and bright house, easy to clean and organized. Through our intervention it was possible to achieve a result of lightness and organization. It was essential to define a living area free from partitions, a more reserved sleeping area and adequate services. The obtaining of new accessory spaces of the house made the client happy, together with the transformation of the bathroom-laundry into an independent guest bathroom, preceded by a hidden, capacious and functional laundry. The palette of colors and materials chosen is very simple and constant in all rooms of the house. Furniture, lighting and decorations were selected following a careful acquaintance with the clients, interpreting their personal tastes and enhancing the key points of the house.