Seven Bathroom Designs Featuring Bold Material and Color Contrasts
By
Alice Laycock
6mo ago· 7 min readen
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Summary
This lookbook showcases seven bathrooms that break from traditional sterile designs through bold material and color combinations. The article features diverse examples including a South African lodge, an upstate New York home, and other international projects that demonstrate how bathrooms can become dramatic, texturally rich spaces rather than purely functional rooms. The designs reject uniformity in favor of contrasting materials, unexpected color pairings, and creative use of textures to transform bathrooms into visually striking environments.
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The bathroom's rigid function as a place for washing, cleaning and bathing has led them to be an oft overlooked room in the home when it comes to design.
The following examples, including a South African lodge, an upstate New York home, demonstrate how bathrooms can become dramatic, texturally rich spaces.
This lookbook compiles bathrooms with unlikely textural, material and colour combinations, creating dramatic schemes in rooms renowned for sterility.
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