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Warm, reflective and glowing… VitrA’s stunning Copper Brassware & Bathroom Accessories

Copper is a traditional material that has stormed its way back into fashion.  Warm, reflective and glowing it is certainly making all of us here at ukbathrooms.com keen to update our own bathrooms!

         

We love this stunning range from VitrA, encompassing brassware and accessories all in a choice of finishes including Copper. Pair this metal with natural materials such as wood and marble for an elegant, contemporary look.  The copper trend is showing no sign of slowing down, and current demand is high on our site.  The polished finish from VitrA has a more golden look as opposed to a natural deep orange tone.

Over the past few years metallics have become really popular with the warm copper and brass shades being easy to incorporate in our homes.  In your bathroom, opt for copper taps, shower, waste, exposed bottle trap and matching accessories, use the Copper as a standout feature so it really makes your room pop.

      

Opulent shades such as Kingfisher blue and teal are a perfect partner to this metal, decadent in tone they are an ideal combination. Equally, a bathroom that uses marble and copper brassware has an appeal that is timeless. Charcoal, smoky greys, blush pink and neutrals also work with this warm finish and can be visually stunning.

Tip – use copper sparingly for more impact – either limit to a gorgeous copper bath or brassware and accessories – less is often more!

Perfectly tailored to the perfect finish you desire: AXOR FinishPlus

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Bathroom design can be as individual as you are, express your personality and taste with bespoke touches such as colour and texture. Introducing the ultimate design concept for bathroom brassware, AXOR FinishPlus. You will now be able to select the desired finishes on AXOR taps and mixers, showers and valves.

Since colour and finish play an important role in the design process, with different colours and finishes from AXOR you are able to transfer your creativeness into your bathroom pieces.

Personalised Options:

Available in 15 exquisite special surface finishes, additionally, other colours or colour combinations can be realised to satisfy individual requirements. Chose from brushed or polished metallic shades, or specify more options yourself with a fully bespoke colour request service available!

AXOR FinishPlus

See some beautiful examples here

Gold-Finish Exclusivity

The AXOR Citterio E collection created in red gold

Available in the following collections

AXOR Citterio, AXOR Citterio E, AXOR Citterio M, AXOR Montreux

AXOR Starck, AXOR Starck Organic

Perfection in the workmanship.

AXOR FinishPlus

Manufactured with the special PVD method, AXOR FinishPlus surface finishes are brilliant.  Robust and durable, they are tougher than you can imagine.  PVD method stands for the physical vapor deposition process. It not only provides an extra metal layer, the evaporation of various process and gas mixtures also create a different surface light reflection. Because of the PVD method, you can transform these already iconic AXOR products with exceptional aesthetics and functional quality.

All AXOR FinishPlus items are made to order, please contact us to discuss your requirements. We will be happy to help build a quote for you.
You can use the following methods to discuss your requirements.
Call us: 01765 694 720
Email us: [email protected]
or use our contact form.

Perrin and Rowe’s luxurious products at UK Bathrooms

Forming in 1978, Perrin and Rowe’s achievement of the sustained level of growth and innovation has allowed them to provide outstanding examples of excellence. This is also combined with cutting edge precision engineering in their products. All of their products are manufactured in the UK and are made from the highest quality raw materials available.
It enhances their authenticity as a company, which keeps their promise of maintaining their luxurious brand. Their outstanding products help to radiate UK Bathroom’s traditional product offering. Perrin and Rowe, therefore, provide some of the World’s finest bathroom collections.

Perrin & Rowe Products:

Brassware and ceramic materials hold a true mark of international quality. This kind of finishing is something that UK Bathrooms highly promotes, enticing customers to view more.
As UK Bathrooms have the full range of Perrin & Rowe’s bathroom collection, if there are any items that you are interested in please don’t hesitate to contact UK Bathrooms or press the website link at the bottom of the page to view more on our website.

The Bathroom collection:

This exquisite collection is individually hand built and ensures a flawless finish and unbeatable performance, which relates to any of UK Bathrooms product offerings. Their pristine, solid brass taps, showers and accessories complement their re-owned style, quality and durability.

Basin and Bidet taps:

These brass bathrooms basin and bidets taps highlight classical styling and engineering excellence.

Bath Taps:

Style, substance and splendour are what these bespoke bath taps are made from.

Bathroom Accessories:

Accessories to give your bathroom a final finesse of style.

Shower components and sets:

The shower components and sets are beautiful and offer convenient combinations.

If you would like to find out more information please visit our website or call us on 01765 694 720

EcoSmart is trending- be smart and save water!

UK Bathrooms are committed to sustainability and being as eco-friendly as we can to the planet. We improved our delivery packaging earlier this year to green packing materials that are not harmful to the environment. However, there are still many other efforts we can make into protecting the climate and the environment.

Presenting the Hansgrohe EcoSmart function:

Innovative EcoSmart

Climate protection concern for the everyday individual can begin with showering and bathing, as the function that consumes the most water in our everyday lives. As water experts, Hansgrohe assumes a pioneering role in conserving this precious natural resource. Most of Hansgrohe mixers and showers are fitted with Hansgrohe’s EcoSmart technology. It only requires up to 60% less water than other normal products with no obvious difference thanks to its efficient design. Less hot water consumption means lower energy requirements. Therefore, fewer CO2 emissions and lower costs.

How does this work?

Showers

The water pressure in your shower is measured by the “Precision O-Ring”, it reacts flexibly to the water pressure and adjusts water quantity. If the pressure is too high, the ring makes the opening smaller. Vice versa, if it is too low, it expands the opening.

Available EcoSmart showers

Mixers

These work by adding air and operating with a special flow limiter. The EcoSmart aerator is integrated into the spout of the basin mixer and enhances the water with air. The outcome is a full, bubbling jet of water. A “precision elastomer” reacts automatically to various water pressure and modifies its shape. It maximises the flow, thus constantly saving precious water.

Here are a few available EcoSmart mixers

 

Hansgrohe Focus 100 Basin Mixer Tap

The above picture is the Hansgrohe Focus 100 Basin Mixer Tap

We have more available EcoSmart showers and mixers on our website.
Please visit our website for more options.

 

Add value to your Home

Did you know upgrading your bathrooms, or adding additional washrooms/cloakrooms to your property can increase the value of your home?

According to Nationwide Building Society, it can boost your property value by approximately 5 %.

An en-suite bathroom is particularly popular at the moment, as people are increasingly looking for comfort, convenience and better living space.

At UK Bathrooms, you can find a wide range of branded bathroom goods to create the perfect en-suite or cloakroom washroom.

We also offer suites and packages to save you time and money.

You can find bathroom suites here.

If you don’t have a big budget at the moment, or you are not quite ready to renovate the whole bathroom,

here are some insider tips to make your instantly refreshed and updated:

Update your brassware with a set of new taps

Burlington Claremont Cloakroom Taps

The above picture is the Burlington Claremont Cloakroom Taps

We offer a wide variety of taps, from traditional, classic to contemporary and modern in style.

You can find the perfect style to match your basin.

Check out our range of taps here.

Upgrade your shower head into a large overhead shower

Crosswater Dial Fixed Shower Head

 The above picture is the Crosswater Dial Fixed Shower Head

A large, round overhead shower can build a luxury look immediately, and create a sense of lavishness.

Find shower heads here.

Replace a shower door

Instead of having a shower curtain that is easy to get mouldy, a shower glass is always a much better choice.

It’s easy to clean and allows light through into the bath space, the more light the brighter and lighter your room feels.

Have a look of shower door here.

This is a great time of year to plan on improving your home and property value, you could start by upgrading your bathroom today!

Designer Brassware: envisioned by Kelly Hoppen, created by Crosswater.

Kelly Hoppen is a renowned name in the interior Design world, and now increasingly so in the consciousness of the general public, with Kelly’s appearances on popular programs such as Dragons Den, and interior Design series ‘Superior Interiors’. Creating chic, sleek interiors Kelly Hoppen’s designs are timelessly elegant and her style is highly coveted. Key notes are upscaled decorative accessories (think large scale vases and lamps), which create a sense of space and luxury, combined with a more paired back colour pallet and luxurious materials and surfaces.

Kelly Hoppen MBE

Kelly Hoppen MBE

In 2013 Crosswater, one of the UK’s most popular brassware brand names and Kelly Hoppen teamed up to produce a range of fashionably stylised and lustrous coordinating mixer taps, showers and mixers.

The first range was dubbed: KH Zero 1. These products were welcomed into the market with continued success and interest. The popularity of these has seen a further 5 ranges launched.

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The current Design groups are: KH Zero 1, KH Zero 2, KH Zero 3, KH Zero 5, KH Zero 6

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This design range fuses together squared edge, ample-feeling tap bodies with slimmer curved spout designs that feature very sculptural negative spaces. The matching shower valve plates combine the same mix of squared back face plates, with round handle blocks and slim, curved levers. The handles add a lovely functional element, with comfortable smooth action technology and premium quality you would expect from Crosswater.

KH ZERO 2

KH Zero 2.

The Zero 2 range features rounded solid tap bodies with elongated, sophisticated thin lever handles, following the form of the spout. Modern and chic, these pivot on a smooth joint to control both temperature and flow in one action. The cleverly designed, slim handles are the main showpiece feature of these taps. Coordinating bath and basin versions with minimal ceramicware would create a softly serene, sophisticated bathroom space with a spa feel.

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KH Zero 3.

Zero 3 has a well designed, thin handle on a pivot similar in fashion to the Zero 2, but with a completely different overall aesthetic. Boldly geometric, with crisp 90 degree angles and squared off corners the Zero 3 evokes a more architectural taste with strong, straight lines and corners.

You could pair these with black basins, polished concrete floors, geometric tiles, and a bespoke smoked glass wetroom screen for a look right out of the most exclusive interior design magazine of the moment.

KH05KH Zero 5.

Next is Zero 5, with a completely different feel again. This is a single kitchen tap, with a subtlety traditional design, featuring decorative fluted nozzle and base detail. Combine this kitchen mixer with a Belfast Sink for a beautiful timeless look.

KH Zero 6.

Last but not least is Zero 6, an edgier range with a nice contemporary twist. The forward angled tap bodies add a sense of movement and energy. The slim handles are light and smoothly operated adding to the overall dynamic, a pleasure to operate.

 

kh zero 6 collection

Overall you have a great choice on offer here, with varying designs that can be incorporated into a wide range of interior design plans for all kind of bathroom spaces.

For further technical details or to browse the whole range please visit Crosswater here:

https://www.crosswater.co.uk/designer-collections/kelly-hoppen/

We can supply the entire range, if there is a specific tap you would like but you cannot find it on our website simply give our friendly sales team a call, or bob us an email for a quote: [email protected]

Remember to come back to ukBathrooms.com to place your Kelly Hoppen brassware order, we can have these delivered to you in 3 to 5 working days ready to install in your new bathroom!

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Hansgrohe Axor Starck V tap – innovation in movement!

We are really excited about the very latest tap that is in our showroom and we wanted to share this with you as soon as we could. Philippe Starck has excelled himself with this design of tap which he himself describes as “a revolution, the essence of minimalism a vortex, this wonder of nature, surrounded by complete transparency,”

The Axor starck V Spout tap has a glass body with an open ended spout which when operating allows us to see the water forming a vortex so fascinating that many will, we feel sure, just want to see it operate and almost forget why they have turned on the tap in the first place! The glass body and open-ended spout make it possible for us to experience water a completely natural element at home.

Axor Starck V

Hansgrohe are the manufacturers of this latest masterpiece and are renowned for their technological design and for bringing some stunning designs to the bathroom, the AxorV is just the latest. The spay researchers at Hansgrohe have been working in conjunction with Philippe Stack to try to bring us a way in which we could see the vortex in operation and they have succeeded with this glass bodied product.

However, what has not to be lost it that the tap has to be both functional and made easy to keep clean, they have achieved this with their easy click-in design and safety-stop function make it really easy to remove the glass body from its base to clean it, even without having to close the valve. Naturally the selected crystal glass has also been very carefully chosen and is dirt resistant and can be cleaned in the family dishwasher.

A number of finishes is offered for this revolutionary tap, chrome and high-gloss white variant, together with 12 other exclusive finishes, such as brushed nickel for the base and a sandblasted crystal glass variant for the body.

Modern bathroom design with Crosswater taps and mixers

Crosswater offers a comprehensive range of unique brassware solutions, the design of which is cutting edge using superior materials. The range of taps and showering products all embracing the latest technology can be found at our web pages, we describe just three of them here.

The Crosswater Water Square Mini Basin is perfect for a smaller bathroom or possibly for use in a cloakroom. The rectangular handle and the slim spout are sure to be admired and it will work equally well on either high or low pressure systems with a minimum pressure of 0.2 bar and the mini basin tap is guaranteed for 15 years. This delightful chrome Crosswater product, clearly demonstrates that good things really do come in small packages.

Crosswater Water Square Mini Basin Mixer

For another stunning design from the Crosswater team look no further than the superb and innovative Glide Floor standing Bath Shower Mixer with Kit. This innovative mixer is yet another demonstration that you can rely upon Crosswater to be one step ahead of its competitors. Made from the very best materials and finished in high chrome, the mixer is guaranteed for 15 years ensuring years of bathing pleasure.

Crosswater Glide Floorstanding Bath Shower Mixer

The Crosswater Essence bath mixer tap is sure to give any bathroom a touch of elegance and in the same way as other essence products from the collection; you are assured of both style as well as dependability. This stylish Essence Bath Filler Tap features a waterfall spout, a chrome finish that will effortlessly blend in with any type of decor and in the same way as all other products from the range it offers style as well as dependability; the mixer is offered with a 15 year guarantee.

Crosswater Essence Bath Filler Tap

We ensure that our website will give you hassle free shopping, unbeatable prices, and fast delivery direct to your door. Check the complete Crosswater collection at the manufacturer’s pages.

Axor Starck V bathroom tap by Philippe Starck

We are delighted to be associated with the exclusive launch of another stunning design from Philippe Starck in the shape of a glass bodied open ended spout tap that looks, as well as functions, beautifully. Indeed when describing his new design, Philippe said “Axor Starck V is a revolution, the essence of minimalism, a vortex, this wonder of nature, surrounded by complete transparency,” and we could not have described it better.

Axor Starck V

The Axor Starck V was the subject of a lot of research by the Hansgrohe technicians until they finally perfected the vortex principal which is the secret of this exclusive mixer. The Axor Starck V is certainly beautiful, but importantly it is functional as well. With the very easy-click-in design and safety-stop function, this makes it really easy to remove the glass body from its base to clean it.

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The material itself is also very carefully selected, Hansgrohe used crystal glass, which is top quality and importantly this is dirt resistant, you can even put the glass body into the dishwasher! In addition to the chrome and high gloss white, you have a choice of twelve different finishes, for example brushed nickel for the base and a sandblasted crystal glass variant for the body.

Check out a video of the Axor Starck V features below:

Bringing 21st century technology to your bathroom – Vado Identity Taps

As if by magic the Vado Identity waterfall taps, controlled cleverly by a unique digital touch screen which allows the change of temperature at the touch of a button! This is truly futuristic technology and with the water falling down the spout, changing in colour provided by LED lights, from blue to purple and from purple to red according to the temperature that has been selected on the touch screen.

Vado Identity Waterfall Basin Tap

You can choose between an open a wall mounted open channel spout or one mounted on a deck to fill the basin or bath and the open channel is a feature that is a wonderful blend of high chrome and LED lighting. The Vado system works well with low pressure plumbing, which it is not unusual to find in UK homes, working perfectly at just 0.5 bar.

Vado Identity Wall Mounted Waterfall Tap

The wall mounted completely digital touch screen which gives the bathroom an ultra-modern look that is sure to add style to any type of bathroom decor. A warm or hot bath is yours at the touch of a button and the temperature is easily gauged by the colour of the water running down the waterfall effect spout. The concealed control unit has the assurance of a 12 year guarantee from the manufacturer, supplied through UK Bathrooms at the lowest discounted prices to be found anywhere.