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Alice Joscelyne has utilized her artistic skills to pattern a oppulance space featuring superb marble equipment and high-quality lavatory fixtures.
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The owners: Alice Joscelyne (right), an interior designer, lives here with her father Mark, who is a solicitor, and their dual children, Ellie, 16, and Ben, 13.
The property: A five-bedroom semi-detached Victorian house.
The location: Barnes, south-west London.
What they spent: The integrate have spent around £19,600 on their lavatory project.
As an interior engineer I’m used to operative to my clients’ pattern briefs, so we was unequivocally looking brazen to giving a en apartment a finish makeover,’ says Alice. ‘It was good to know we had a vacant board as my father Mark was happy for me to have a giveaway palm with a new look.’
The integrate wanted to renovate their en apartment into a stylish, willing space where they could relax divided from family life, withdrawal a family lavatory on a building subsequent to their dual teenage children.
‘I’ve always desired a demeanour and feel of marble, yet as it can be sleazy when it’s soppy we couldn’t have it in a family bathroom, generally when a children were younger. That done it ideal for a en suite,’ says Alice.
Alice envisaged a most lighter space than their existent en suite, with a brew of dim blue and patterned tiles.
‘The faux-Victorian decorations and floral tiles done it seem rather dated, even yet a fixtures and equipment were not that aged – yet they were not to a taste,’ she adds. ‘As for a shower, it looked cramped; as if it had been forced into a corner.’
The integrate employed a builder to tummy a whole space yet motionless opposite relocating a plumbing to equivocate serve intrusion and additional expense. They also kept some of a existent fittings.
‘The roll-top bath was in good condition and embellished cream, that was ideal for a new exemplary room scheme,’ Alice explains. ‘We put some of a other fixtures to good use in a residence – we changed a dish to a downstairs cloakroom and a radiator upstairs.’
With a space wholly gutted, Alice focused her courtesy on a showering area.
‘I didn’t like a approach a showering didn’t fit in with a design. It was as yet it had been put in a dilemma by mistake and only left there, so we asked a builder to build fake walls on any side of a showering enclosure,’ she explains.
‘We had a square of cornicing reproduced to make it demeanour as yet a showering had always been there – that works perfectly,’ she adds. ‘All we afterwards indispensable was a right equipment and an enclosing to emanate a some-more organic showering space.’
The integrate chose a contemporary showering doorway to supplement a turn to a altogether exemplary theme, that is reflected in a adjoining master bedroom.
‘Mark and we had motionless on a 1930s character with lots of marble,’ says Alice. ‘I trust a exemplary look, rather than a some-more delicate style, works best for a integrate sharing.’
The walls and floors were all tiled in stylish mottled-effect marble building tiles, with black plane limit tiles violation adult a neutral colour to supplement interest. Alice also found a association to emanate co-ordinating dull marble shelving and cornicing to furnish a ideal seamless finish.
It was easy adequate sourcing a tiles, yet Alice knew she would need to call in a dilettante association for a other marble facilities to finish a space.
‘I wanted a marble showering tray, so it had to be bespoke,’ she says. ‘It was impossibly complicated and they had to make a special support, and skirtings and shelving to work with a rest of a tiles.’
The walls were embellished in elementary white matt mixture to lighten a space and element a tiles, afterwards a final equipment and fixtures were added, such as new mixer taps for their cast-iron roll-top bath and a traditional-style exhilarated towel rail. While Alice and Mark adore a nickel accessories that they systematic for their space, Alice admits that they have to be discriminating regularly.
With all a marble work and equipment complete, storage was a subsequent pursuit on Alice’s to-do list – she didn’t wish any confusion ruining a superb new look.
‘There is a Biedermeier-style habit in a bedroom and we’ve had other seat done in that style,’ says Alice, ‘so we hired a sideboard builder to build a vast storage sideboard and a dilemma sideboard in sycamore to continue a thesis in a en suite.’
Mark gave Alice some framed exemplary prints as a ideal finishing hold for a new scheme. She is anxious with them – and of march a en suite.
‘It’s a oppulance retreat. We adore a undying demeanour and a peculiarity fixtures and fittings,’ says Alice. ‘Admittedly, it was costly yet it did come in somewhat underneath bill – and we trust it won’t date.’
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Featured in a Sep 2011 emanate of Real Homes
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