Bathrooms and shower rooms
Bathrooms in Plaster and Brick
Wet rooms detailed in poured plaster, brick and solid stone, where the surfaces do the work instead of the fittings.
A bathroom is mostly surface, so these were designed around three materials and almost no trim: poured plaster, herringbone brick and stone. The fittings are brass and deliberately few, because a seamless wall gives a busy detail nowhere to hide.
- Scope
- Bathroom and shower room design, including the wet-area detailing
- Rooms
- A vanity bathroom, two shower rooms and one lined in green tile
- Materials
- Poured plaster, herringbone brick, solid stone and brass
- Stage
- To be confirmed
The niche is cut into the ribbed plaster rather than added onto it, which is how the shower ends up with storage and still no shelf.
Here the same detailing is taken warmer, with a solid stone basin and a woven rug, to show how far the palette can move before it changes character.
Deep green tile and an arched mirror show what happens when one room is allowed a colour, with the brass held constant so it still belongs to the set.
The close view is the test of the whole approach: a floating plaster bench meeting brick with no skirting, no trim and nothing for water to sit in.
Bathrooms like these are built by drawing the junctions, not by choosing the fittings. Once the plaster, the brick and the stone are set out to meet cleanly, the room needs very little else.