The Irish Times

Me time, not we time, in the bathroom

In the Press: April 2018

In homes across the country there are skirmishes taking place every day over bathroom rights, from teenagers hogging the mirror behind a locked door to kids walking in on a parent’s only moment of quiet to couples seething at each other’s reflections in their one mirror wondering how a small thing like leaving the cap off the toothpaste can have you idly thinking about divorce.

The traditional solution for this latter dilemma, his and hers sinks, is no longer enough. The secret to successful marriage or co-habitation is a whole bathroom to call your own, says Louise Ashdown, head of design at West One bathrooms, a London-based boutique business that established itself in upmarket Mayfair in the 1960s and has been catering for those with the space and deep pockets for such a wish list ever since.

Masculine bathrooms seem to take their design cues from the Henry Ford – any colour as long as it’s black. This manly space from West One bathrooms has a punchy black toilet and black tiling.

Masculine bathrooms seem to take their design cues from the Henry Ford – any colour as long as it’s black. This manly space from West One bathrooms has a punchy black toilet and black tiling.

Ashdown is now designing whole floors given over to adult-only, suite-style set-ups and in several recent projects has installed a separate bathroom for each half of the couple. For a job in Sussex, pictured, she designed two very different spaces for husband and wife. Hers features crisp white sanitaryware, a separate shower and freestanding bath of a very feminine form and a dressing area. It is bathed in light with original exposed wood beams softening the overall ambiance. His, on the other hand, is manly in monochrome with a punchy black loo and black tiles.

The hers bathroom, from West One bathrooms, is feminine in feel and includes a separate shower and freestanding round tub as well as a dressing table.

The physical space doesn’t have to be enormous, she says, her firm stocks a Japanese style small bath just 120cm long, for example, but it does need to be separate.

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