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!  

Beautiful Bathrooms

This article is from the May edition of Berkshire Life 2013 by Catriona Lock, Creative Director.

Catriona Lock, Creative Director, Soak in Style

  The bathroom is becoming an integral part of people’s homes and life; a space to wake up and feel invigorated and ready for the day, or relax and unwind and enjoy some longed for ‘me’ time, and is reflected in the trends for the space.

  50 shades of grey are the colours of 2013, which can be interpreted in many different styles. Bold strong tones feel very modern and minimal, or soft ‘vintage’ shades give a more traditional feel.  My personal favourites are the ‘greige’ tones, an almost stoney looking grey which is very on trend colour wise, but timeless due to the neutral and natural feel.

Grey and Greige stone tiles

  From a hygiene point of view a wall-hung toilet is much easier to keep clean than one mounted on the floor.

  A designer can help to ensure the frame and cistern is incorporated into the room in a subtle way.  Being able to see more of the floor also makes the room feel bigger.

  Integrated basins with wall mounted vanity units continue this clean effortless elegance.  Neutral tones such as cappuccino, beige or grey are incredibly popular this year in either gloss or matt finishes and woods in an almost distressed looking finish are very on trend.

Happy D.2 in basin unit in Linen

  Wet room/walk in showers are lusted after for every master en suite, with luxurious rain fall showers.

Gessi Wellness Shower

Body jets and multi-function showers have taken over from enclosed ‘cabins’.  Even if the wet floor has to be raised this can be seamlessly incorporated into the design.  

Raised shower area with bespoke mosaics and wood effect tiles enhanced with LED lighting

Again, having a designer’s help is invaluable.

  Freestanding baths and sit on sculptural basins are popular for larger, grander rooms.

Victoria + Albert Barcelona Bath with floor LED lighting - the lighting enhances the bath and makes a relaxing area in a master suite overlooking a large south-facing garden

Gessi ISpa White Taps + Sculptural  Basins + Accessories

Victoria + Albert Toulouse Bath + Basin - the sculptural shapes add structure and balance to the bathroom

  Cat Lock, Creative Director for Soak in Style, has been nominated for the last three years for Bathroom Designer of the Year in various categories.  Cat is a qualified bathroom designer and has also studied Interior Design.