It is a little quiet to see how interior designers decorate their own houses.
It is an insight into your most honest design opinions, the look you trust will not go out of fashion. To learn how your style can impress yourself without short and nobody. How is it different from the houses that you design for customers and what remains consistent?
Well, in the case of interior designer Emily Rickard, we have an insight into her recently completed small bathroom renovation. Warm tones, rich textures and natural materials are omnipresent, as are their subtle, refined color approach and always works with gently diffuse colors that wash the room with warmth.
In her house she also hugs sustainable materials and combines them with luxurious surfaces for a Zen, spa-like space.
Emily grew up in various parts of Great Britain and lived in Australia in Brooklyn for six years. Every year it travels between Great Britain and the USA for commercial styling projects and residential projects for residential buildings. After traveling extensively in Europe, America and Southeast Asia, she loves to draw from all breathtaking little corners of the world and to interweave them into their daily work when they create interiors, pictures and sets to inspire. Working with light, color and texture and writing about design, decoration and creation of delicious spaces is your passion. Your design studio, Emily Rickard Design, is based in Bristol. However, design customers reach London, Scotland, New York and beyond.
The inspiration
By shifting different textures, he managed to feel this monochromatic space filled with depth.
(Photo credit: Oliver Perrott Photography. Design: Emily Rickard)
With warm, pink tones, supple textures and the soft glow of diffuse lighting, this bathroom causes the feeling of a sunny holiday haze. As if after a whole day you would step into your hotel again on the beach, Fuzzy eyes that are not yet in inside, salty skin and sun -soaked hair.
So it makes sense that the blissful Balearic Islands formed the basis for the final look of this bathroom. “The main inspiration for this design came from my love for Mallorcan and Ibizan Color Palettes, combined with Moroccan textures. I love the way rooms on the Balearic Islands feel when I step into it,” explains the interior designer Emily Rickard.
The combination of soft, sandy colors and green leaves that flow over the shower over the shower helps to create this comfortable Mediterranean feeling. There is a relaxed elegance of the room. At the same time luxurious and inviting, free of charge from the mutilation that you can expect in spa-inspired bathing rooms.
The design of this room was also about remembering a feeling of how it was about achieving a certain design style.
Emily explains: “I wanted to create the atmosphere of a quiet Zen room -almost spa -like. As if they had gone from Bristol into a boutique spa hotel.”
The most important players to achieve this? Light and a lot of it. “So far there has been no window in the room and I went to the attic to add an clock light … Natural light and air are a must for me in all bathrooms,” says Emily.
The design
Emily says: “The use of several tiles and the creation of a custom shower room with two levels can be a challenge! A little bit of thought, time and patience is required. But we all went through it in the end and the results are wonderful!”
(Photo credit: Oliver Perrott Photography. Design: Emily Rickard)
If you choose a monochromatic color palette, it can feel like a challenge to ensure that your space does not feel flat or a grade. But Emily clearly found out how this challenge was overcome. By handing over various textures, surfaces and materials, this small room creates a powerful influence.
Perhaps this is most clear in the dainty shower, where spotted Bejmat tiles combine with smooth marble squares, the two materials that are united in their common warm, pink tones. Emily explains the design selection and says: “I love being brave and mixing materials and having the combination of the texture of a Bejmat tile with the luxury of the marble.”
While mixing murmurs in the past year became a popular design style, this setting of the trend offers a more supple, structural appearance. The separation of the tiles with the function with the Bejmat for the shower walls and the marble for the shower seat adds another layer to this look, which makes it an even more effective design selection.
If we imagine luxurious bathrooms, a huge free -standing tub is practically a matter of course. In this small room, however, a tub was not on the cards. But that did not prevent Emily from reaching her vision. Instead, she shows how luxurious a shower can be.
“This room is not big enough for a bathroom, and that's why I wanted to create a shower with an additional luxury piece. A bench in the shower not only looks fabulous, but is also a useful addition to the room,” she explains. A built -in shower bench is one of the wonderful design moments in which the function and visual attraction are equally present, and this marble version is a perfect example of how beautiful you can look.
But a luxury shower was not the only space -saving solution that Emily had to support in the design of this room. “I reused the shelves over the toilet, which had previously been enclosed with an MDF door and were a bit like an eyesore. The reclaimed chest of drawers I moved into online has enough storage under the pelvis,” she says.
The materials
Gold brass goods give this design another luxury level.
(Photo credit: Oliver Perrott Photography. Design: Emily Rickard)
However, it is not just the beauty of this room that makes it so inspiring. Emily searched for opportunities to have this bathroom renovated, as a planet friendliness and sustainable as possible to hug second hand, vintage and re-application parts.
“Sustainability is really important to me, and to use as much as possible as the existing shelves, the reclaimed vanity and vintage art, meant that I didn't buy everything new,” she explains. These pieces create exactly the relaxed, quiet luxury feeling in this bathroom. Combining vintage parts with modern surfaces helps to create a balanced, inviting feeling that is only improved by the warm tones in this area.
While objects such as the vintage chest of drawers on which the sink balances and bring the beautiful work of art into the room, it is the materials used under these additions that build up the general mood of this bathroom. The layers of different types of tiles with light tonal variations ensure a rich, structured canvas on which you can build up.
And this commitment to sustainability was also available in the materials with which it worked. She explains: “I also used water base with low VOC colors made of lick and chose handmade natural tiles from Bert & May.” And they are these tiles that undoubtedly act as stars of the design of this bathroom.
“I used a mixture of three types of bathroom tiles. Marble, Bejmat and Encaustic, all from Bert & May, was the idea of mixing different patterns and textures, and wanted to create a room that felt high-end, but relating and completely unique,” says Emily.
You can imagine that this dependence on the cool, hard texture of tiles would lead to a less cozy space, but they would be wrong. “I also wanted to bring in elements made of wood and brass to give warmth. The Kast concrete pool is a fun addition, and I decided a neutral color to improve the spa-like design,” says Emily.
It is this conclusion that give the bathroom the cozy but luxurious feeling of reaching Emily to the bathroom. Texture, light and warmth, everything in perfect harmony.
Feel inspired by this house
Bert & May
Marrakesh Hessian Bejmat
Thanks to their structured surface, these tiles handmade in Morocco with conventional methods have a unique, raw finish.
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Rose Pink Square sanded marble sanded
With tones of terracotta, gold and light pink, this delicate marble is an improved neutral.
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Luna grenade tiles
Patterned enclosure cement tiles bring a certain personality into the soils of this bathroom.
Pink 02 is a pale, peach -colored shadow with under tones of yellow and gray that create a soothing, relaxing tone.
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