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View from the Loo

Materials

What we like to specify, and why.

Not a shop. A short list of things we will actually stand behind once they’re in a wet room. Pin any of them and they’ll travel with your enquiry.

Samples laid on an oak table: stone, tile, a chrome handle, timber and linen.
Close view of handmade off-white wall tiles with uneven grout lines.
Matte black single-lever mixer on pale stone, with a few drops of water.

  • Sanitaryware

    Wall-hung pan

    Easier floor to clean. It needs a frame in the wall, which we allow for in the drawing, not as a surprise on day two.

  • Sanitaryware

    Close-coupled pan

    The right call in a period house, where a floating loo can look like it landed from somewhere else.

  • Sanitaryware

    1700 built-in bath

    Still the family workhorse. We panel it in tile or painted board. Not a clip-on plastic skirt.

  • Sanitaryware

    Freestanding bath

    Only if the room can spare space all the way round. If it can’t, we say so before anyone falls in love with a picture.

  • Sanitaryware

    Wet-room former

    A real fall to a drain. A tray pretending to be a floor always looks like a tray.

  • Taps and showers

    Matte black mixer

    Shows water, wears in rather than out. We spec a make we can still get a cartridge for in eight years.

  • Taps and showers

    Brushed nickel

    Quieter than chrome. Less costume than unlacquered brass, which fingerprints and then becomes a hobby.

  • Taps and showers

    Chrome

    Honest, and the easiest to match when a valve dies. We are not embarrassed to specify it.

  • Taps and showers

    Exposed shower

    Looks right on a Victorian wall. Concealed valves are for when the wall can actually take them.

  • Surfaces

    Honed limestone

    Sealed, and not for anyone who wants zero maintenance. Beautiful if you accept that it lives in the house.

  • Surfaces

    Handmade wall tile

    Slightly irregular on purpose. We don’t rectify it into something that could have been a catalogue page.

  • Surfaces

    Warm microcement

    Good in a small room. Bad if the substrate moves. We check that before we promise it.

  • Surfaces

    Large-format porcelain

    The practical floor. Spend the money on the wall, or on the tap you touch every day.

  • Joinery

    Oak vanity

    Oiled, not sprayed until it looks like plastic. Grain stays visible.

  • Joinery

    Painted flat-panel cabinet

    Eggshell, in a colour taken from the tile. Not from whatever was on a mood board last March.

  • Joinery

    Recessed niche

    Lined in the same tile as the wall, with a fall so the shampoo doesn’t sit in a puddle.

Nothing pinned. That’s fine. The form works either way.

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