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6 budget-friendly bathroom updates

Post author By Guest Poster
Post date October 11, 2013

By Laney Clancy

If you want to give your bathroom a new look but don’t know where to start, focus on these 6 essentials and you’ll soon have a washroom wake-up that won’t wreck the budget.

1. Fixtures as a foundation

New fixtures (vanity/sink, toilet, shower, bathtub) can completely transform a bathroom; everything from the shape to the colour of a fixture can set the look of the whole room. Use fixtures as a foundation for your style. You can then embellish with other touches and accessories.

Budget tip: Save on labour costs by using the existing plumbing infrastructure; install your new toilet, shower and/or basin in the same position as the original fixtures.

2. Turn it on with taps

Taps make great style accents and changing your taps can be an affordable way to update the look of your bathroom. The change needs to be like for like, for example if you have a mixer (hot and cold through one outlet) it’s easier to replace it with another mixer, or 2 outlets for 2 outlets, (starting from $40 for a set of handles).

Tags bath tub, bathroom design, bathroom reno, laney clancy, pipe perfection, plumber, plumbing, shower, tiling, white knight tile n tub paint

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Darren Genner is Australian bathroom designer of the year

Post author By Jen Bishop
Post date September 2, 2013
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Darren Genner of Minosa took out several awards at the KBDi Designer Awards, including the coveted KBDi Australian Bathroom Designer of the Year 2013.

As if the kudos of winning this prestigious award wasn’t enough, he also won a trip to Italy in 2014 to visit Eurocucina, a huge international trade exhibition held in Milan.

Tags australian bathroom designer of the year, awards, bathroom design, bathrooms, darren genner, featured, kbdi, kitchens, kithcen design, minosa

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Reece Bathroom Innovation Award winner 2013

Post author By Jen Bishop
Post date August 28, 2013

Showering technology took the top prize in the 2013 Reece Bathroom Innovation Award (BIA), with new innovations in air extractor integration and sustainable showering technology announced as the winners at Sydney Indesign earlier this month.

Chris Connell, Principal at Melbourne’s Chris Connell Design, was awarded the professional prize of $20,000 for his multi-dimensional shower unit, Wind Rain Fire, which combines an air extractor fan with a flush-mounted showerhead. Judges praised his clever approach to creating a more streamlined bathroom by removing the need for separate exhaust fans and the careful balance of aesthetic, function and technology in his product.

Tags amanda paukner, bathroom design, bathroom innovation award, bathroom technology, chris connell, greg natale, reece, reece BIA, shaynna blaze, shower, showering, water saving

Bathrooms Designers Expert Tips

Top 10 design tips for a really great bathroom

Post author By Jen Bishop
Post date July 17, 2013
3 Comments on Top 10 design tips for a really great bathroom

From using epoxy grout to avoid mould, to not having a freestanding bath unless you really have space, to embracing shallow basins and making good use of lighting, Darren Genner knows a thing or two about creating stunning bathrooms, and he shares his tips with us today.

1. Find a designer you like/love, employee them to design and create a plan and then stick with it. It is not as expensive as you may think. Remember, designers have the experience as they do it day in, day out.

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Almost a third of young people are social networking from the bathroom

Post author By Jen Bishop
Post date April 22, 2013

Last year's winning design by Gavin Harris

I was surprised too! I thought it was just me that once (okay, twice!) dropped a BlackBerry in the bath (true story). Reece has opened entries for its Bathroom Innovation Award (BIA), bringing technology to the forefront with a revamped concept this year, exploring Tomorrow’s Bathroom Today.

“For 2013, we’re bringing the future of bathrooms closer by asking designers to explore the role of technology in the bathroom,’ says Reece CEO, Peter Wilson. “Technology now plays a key role in the home. We believe exploring the potential of technology in the bathroom offers a unique platform for designers to create something truly innovative in a space that has not yet fully realised that potential.”

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Wallpaper & trinkets, in a bathroom? Why, yes!

Post author By Jen Bishop
Post date January 10, 2013
2 Comments on Wallpaper & trinkets, in a bathroom? Why, yes!

This little bathroom is in an old converted shop/terrace in Surry Hills. Its residents collect beautiful objects from across the world and decided the bathroom was somewhere that the smaller items could be displayed. Add some Neisha Crosland wallpaper and you definitely don’t get your average bathroom!

“The house has warm and earthy tones so we wanted to keep this aesthetic continuing through,” says interior designer Brooke Aitken. “The bathroom door is in its original timber unfinished state and was the starting point for adding the light timber veneer and cladding.

“We wanted the small bathroom to feel very large but also very special and as much as we all worried about putting wallpaper in a bathroom, it seems to be coping very well. We were lucky in that we had height so could extend the wallpaper around the walls for detail without it being in the line of water.”

The handcrafted nature of the bathroom extended to the choice of handmade tiles on the walls (from Academy Tiles). “It’s the detail of texture that harks back to the time that the house would have been originally built,” says Brooke.

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