Waves Bathroom

Winner of 2024 Bathroom of the year award from HOME Magazine. This was a transformation of a Villa where the clients wanted to keep the link to the buildings heritage whilst also having a new contemporary space to enjoy. Pulled from the HOME awards article: The clients — a young family of four — wanted to fit as much as they could into a relatively modest extension to the back of a villa. At the same time, they sought to modify the front end so that it was updated in keeping with the rest of the extension. Their wish list included: a walk-in wardrobe and an en suite, all to be fitted into a relatively small space. For Katie Scott of Sticks+Stones Design, the main question was how to create something new, with cohesion, in a classic-looking villa — or any traditional-style house? “The way I see it is that living in the space needs to still feel like you’re in a villa,” says Scott. “You need to feel connected to the history of it, retain that classic touch.” The solution was to institute a flow between the new and the old, gradually blending the style at the middle where the two met. “It’s a link between the old and the new, and that was done as a gradual thing — not too contrasting and polarising as you walk in.”