Location: UK

Interior Designer: Pippa Paton Design

Photography: Paul Craig

In the master ensuite the primary design focus for Pippa Paton Design Ltd was to create a space for the busy working couple to rejuvenate with a decadent and spa-like aesthetic, whilst also providing the daily functional requirements of a bathroom.

The layout positions each of the functions in separate zones around the outside of the room, and was designed to ‘hide’ these elements from view whilst luxuriating in the large, centrally-positioned white composite stone bath, selected both for its comfort and for its simple feminine silhouette which enhances the uncluttered simplicity of the room’s design. Sitting on a warm pale grey seamless resin floor, the bath has plenty of adjacent space for a lounging stool and two antique martini tables for the couple to chat and drink whilst bathing. A stone resin bath tray provides an additional surface close to hand.

To enable the shower area to be positioned centrally on the end gable wall behind the bath, a north-facing window was covered over. The shower area was formed from a bespoke floor-to-ceiling Corian pillar supporting glass shower panels on either side. The pillar houses a bath filler and controls on the bath side, together with low level niches for bath products, and a wall-mounted shower head, handheld wand and mixer and diverter for the ceiling-mounted rain shower on the shower side.

The bespoke wall-to-wall vanity, with Corian countertop and undermounted basins and drawers below, uses the full width of the alcove. Wall-mounted mixers are mounted on a Corian backsplash and a mirror with inset lights hangs above. To either side extending magnifying mirrors are mounted at different heights to reflect the requirements of each client and towel bars for hand towels are positioned on the walls to either side of the vanity. Bespoke Corian skirting was fitted around the whole room.

Throughout the ensuite, high luxe materials such as bespoke floor-to-ceiling hand-silvered antiqued mirrored panels either side of the back wall of the shower and textured blush coloured wallpaper with a silver mirrored motif enhance the decadent feel of the space set against a neutral palette of white, warm grey and blush tones.

The layout, volume and storage solutions in the master suite, combined with the use of both simple and luxe materials and neutral palette, afford a truly relaxing and luxurious space.