Bathrooms: Simply Add Water

by Terence Conran

World-famous and bestselling design expert Terence Conran provides a comprehensive guide to creating or revamping a bathroom, along with a discussion of this small room's expanding role as the ultimate refuge from the stresses of everyday life. He offers a full range of options for planning, design, and decoration, along with plenty of inspiration and advice on how to integrate the many practical, decorative, structural, and technological elements needed to create a bathing sanctuary. Such crucial issues as waterproofing, heating, and lighting receive in-depth attention, and there's also a detailed guide to fittings and fixtures, all well-illustrated. Large and lush photographs throughout featuring everything from bathroom pods to lavish spas will feed the home decorator's imagination.

Genres: Design

224 pages, Paperback

First published October 22, 2004

About the author

Sir Terence Conran was educated at Bryanston School, Dorset, and trained as a textile designer at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. Hand in hand with his much-publicized career as an arbiter of good taste for a whole generation goes a career in cookery and restaurant management. Having learned the basic skills in the kitchens of a two-star Parisian establishment, he opened several small restaurants in London.These were later sold to finance his fast-expanding furniture business, from which grew the hugely successful Habitat stores. No-one has had a greater influence on contemporary living style than Conran. From the outset of his career, in the brilliant era of the '60s, he devoted his talents to interpreting the home-making aspirations of the bright, busy people of his generation - and to providing them with an excellence of craftsmanship and design at a price they could afford.

Reviews

[Pam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Terence Conran has created an absolutely gorgeous book on bathrooms with incredible colored photographs. Beyond the photos, the book has real substance with "a beginner's guide to plumbing" which explains plumbing systems however it is complicated by its description of the differences between European, US and British plumbing systems. Other chapters discuss layout, lighting, materials, water conservation etc. Each bathroom shown has a short description of its interesting features. Most of the bathrooms are modern or contemporary in design with only a few which would fit more traditional homes. Conran presents literally hundreds of interesting and unique ideas, but the average homeowner will find most of the fixtures used rare and overly expensive.

[Sue · Rating 4 out of 5]

Simply stunning, really expensive, beautiful bathrooms. Lots of pictures but also lots of good information re designing and getting a bathroom built. Things to consider: what happens if someone in your family is in a wheelchair? How will they negotiate your bathroom?

[Manintheboat · Rating 4 out of 5]

So pretty and inventive. Inspirational with variety.