Indulge yourself

Winter is on the way, the nights are drawing in and there is a chill in the air.  Enjoy a warm pamper in a soothing soak in a bath.  Just because.

Victoria + Albert Amalfi Bath

Toulouse by Victoria + Albert

Gessi ISpa Bath

Duravit Happy D.2 freestanding Bath

Enjoy.

Soak in Style featured in Berkshire + Buckinghamshire Life

Soak in Style are delighted to announce that we have been featured in the November edition of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire Life.

Treat Yourself and Your Bathroom for Christmas

Amalfi bath from Victoria + Albert - soaking in style!

Have you family or friends coming to stay over the Christmas / New Year period?  You may be thinking about updating your bathroom for Christmas, and if so, you need to sort things out pretty speedily as time is very much of the essence if you want a new bathroom for Christmas.

Soak in Style in Maidenhead are specialists in wet rooms and they find more and more people want to maximise their space drawing ideas from a hotel look with low maintenance wall hung WC, and a basin with furniture providing plenty of storage.  Their clients experience luxury bathrooms during their travels abroad, and they want them recreated or reinterpreted for their own home.  Soak have an industrial style showroom not far from Maidenhead Bridge at Reform Road which showcases some innovative European designs, and it is worth popping in to check these out, and get guidelines for what product ranges would be the best to select from to meet the pre-Christmas deadline.

If however you run out of time fear not as you can still spend some time thinking and planning your new bathroom.  Check out some bathroom websites and get some inspiration from them.  Tear out pages from magazines if you see something you like, and have a think about colour schemes.  You can still call in and start the ball rolling.  Soak’s talented Designer, Cat Lock, has been a finalist for the last 3 years for Bathroom Designer of the Year, and as you would expect the designs are of a very high standard.   Everything can be planned and approved, a deposit paid so that items can be ordered for work to start shortly after the New Year, and you should beat any possible price rises that take place in January / February.

You can then relax, run a warm bath, light some candles and turn off the light so you can forget about the state of your current bathroom and dream about the beautiful new one you will soon be either be showering or soaking in!  

2012 Finalist Bathroom Designer £25K+ Soak in Style

Soak are delighted to announce that for the second year running, our Head Designer, Catriona Lock, is a finalist in the KBB Review Industry Awards.  Catriona has been nominated as one of 4 finalists for Bathroom Designer of the Year in the £25+ category.

Catriona Lock, Designer Soak in Style

Catriona describes the inspiration behind her design: "the theme of black and white came into play once I had selected the bath, after which everything else just seemed to drop into place.  I settled on the iconic design of the Amalfi bath from V+A deciding that the sculptural aspects of the bath were perfect for this space.  The design concept of this room is from the minute you walk in you want to start touching and using everything as the tactile appeal has such a huge impact on this design.  The fascinating part of this design is as soon as I walked into the existing bathroom I could see that a huge amount of space was not being used to it's full advantage.  Having worked with our clients on their master bathroom, I had a good idea of what their tastes were, and as soon as I had established what they wanted from this room in the way of product, i.e bath and shower, and storage, I could start to put the room together in my head and it all just slotted into place."

Amalfi Bath, Bisazza Mosaics, Dansani Zaro and Valentino Tiles

Catriona Lock's Design Nominated for Designer of the Year KBBR Awards 2012

Side-by-Side Bathing from Victoria + Albert | ChicTip.com - Interior Design Blog -Interior Design Ideas, Tips & Inspiration

Side-by-Side Bathing from Victoria + Albert | ChicTip.com - Interior Design Blog -Interior Design Ideas, Tips & Inspiration

Amalfi baths by Victoria & Albert

Amalfi Baths from Victoria & Albert in a Hotel setting

 For those with a spacious bathroom that you are looking to update side by side free-standing baths are something to seriously consider.

Check out the tactile Napoli bath on display in the Soak showroom to see the quality of these beautiful baths from Victoria & Albert.

Napoli bath on display in the Soak showroom, tiles by Valentino from Piemme