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A bathroom and en suite in one seamless surface

Walls, shower and floor in hand-applied microcement, with no tiles and no grout lines. Light is built into the walls and the fittings do the rest.

Twin backlit oval mirrors above a double basin with brushed-brass taps, against a soft microcement wall.
Rooms
Main bathroom, en suite
Surfaces
Walls, shower enclosure, floors
Finish
Seamless microcement
Details
Lit shower niche, flush thresholds
The approach

Let the light find the surface

Two rooms, one quiet palette. Microcement runs from the floor up the walls and into the walk-in shower in a single, continuous skin, so the rooms read as calm shells rather than a collection of tiled planes.

The lighting was planned with the finish. Backlit mirrors and a long LED niche in the shower graze across the trowelled surface, picking out its soft movement. Brushed brass in the main bathroom and black with fluted oak in the en suite give each room its own character.

I

The main bathroom

A double basin under twin oval mirrors, a frameless walk-in shower, and a full-width lit niche set into the microcement.

Long view of the bathroom: double basin, oval mirrors and the glass shower beyond.
Walk-in shower with brushed-brass rainhead, controls and a lit niche.
Walk-in shower with brass fittings
Side view of the lit niche along the shower wall.
The niche, lit along its length
The shower behind frameless glass, with the vanity to the right.
One floor from vanity to shower
Double basin with brass taps beneath two backlit oval mirrors.
Backlit mirrors on the finish
The shower niche lit from within, with brushed-brass controls below.
Light built into the wall
II

The en suite

A compact room with the same seamless finish: a corner shower in black-framed glass, a fluted oak vanity and a round vessel basin.

En suite with a black-framed corner shower and a fluted oak vanity under an oval mirror.
Corner shower and vanity
Fluted oak vanity with a round basin under a backlit oval mirror.
Fluted oak against the microcement
The vanity from a lower angle, showing the mirror's glow on the wall.
Mirror light on the wall
What made it work

Three decisions

No tiles

Walls, shower and floor share one finish. Nothing to grout, nothing to discolour, and nowhere for the eye to stop.

Light planned with the finish

Backlit mirrors and a lit niche graze the surface and bring out the movement of the trowel.

Two characters, one palette

Brushed brass for the main bathroom, black and fluted oak for the en suite, both on the same calm ground.

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