casa cook
I am often asked where I find my inspiration and the short answer is simply everywhere. Which is about as helpful as a chocolate teapot isn’t it. I’ll try to expand. It’s not just from magazines and pinterest although that clearly forms a part of it. I’m a big fan of restaurant loos – they often have amazing tiling and counters for the basins that you can adapt for the domestic environment – but also the larger communal areas can bring ideas too.
Take this room above – a hotel restaurant (Casa Cook in Rhodes to be precise). Not only are these colours wonderful and, I’m sure, we can’t all have windows like this but a wall of open shelves with a long island for the cupboard space might be doable. One table instead of 20, a couple of outsize pendants and a practical tiled floor. Throw in a couple of giant plants and imagine the glass wall at the end as smaller-scale bifolds and you’re there. Pin away people…..
We have long taken bathroom inspiration from the hotel but what about the bedroom? This room above is an interesting way to bring in an ensuite and, I’ll tell you something else – it’s a good idea if space is tight. You could have the central part as a sliding door to hide the bath when you’re in it and slide it out of the way so you have somewhere to step out and dry afterwards. With a little adaptation this could be a really good way to create an ensuite when you haven’t quite got the room. That’s way hotels are a great place to look for inspiration – they need to get as much into a small space as possible.
hotel de la tamise
Another idea from the Hotel de la Tamise, where I stayed last year, is when you want to create an ensuite but there are no windows available. You can install an internal window, which will bring in light from the bedroom during the day and if you want more privacy you can simply pull down a blind, or as in the image above, a decorative sliding screen. In addition, putting a large mirror in the windowless bathroom, will reflect the light back from the bedroom window and create more light all round.
internal window by anders bergstadt
It’s a similar idea to this one shown above. Imagine the sink as a basin and you can see the bed through the window. So, on the other side, where the wall is flat, you can simply slide a screen across. Or pull a blind down on this side.
cotton house hotel in barcelona
This Barcelona hotel has used a similar idea in this room, which is much more open plan but does give you the idea of a screen between the basin and the rest of the room.
This room below, also in Spain, has a couple of good ideas to take away. One is the idea of using tiles as a headboard, which creates a fantastic effect. The other is those neat little angled bedside wall lights.
The Serras in Barcelona
This is basically a bathroom in a cupboard in the New York branch of Soho House. The door slides across to a supporting pillar so there is privacy from the rest of the bedroom but it remains open at one end so you aren’t completely enclosed.
Or how about taking inspiration from another Parisian hotel? Why leave the doors white? Paint them a vibrant colour. And be adventurous over the coffee table. The chances are that there’s only one place it can go anyway so you might as well hang some dramatic lighting over it.
And what if I have a party and need to move the furniture I hear you say? Well if you have longer flexes you can put some cuphooks in the ceiling in front of the window and drape the flex across the ceiling so the lights hang down right in front of the window. Which will bring instant party decor. Especially if you remembered to install a dimmer…
Hotel Henriette Paris
And if you were in any doubt about having black doors leading out to the garden just look how pretty it is against the green.
hotel henriette in Paris
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