Project · Bathrooms
Classic travertine bathroom renovation
A bathroom lined in travertine, wall and floor, with a framed mirror and taps that stay in the background. Warm, classic, and sealed so it stays that way.
Stone on the walls and the floor, and a framed mirror where the eye stops.
The brief
Warmth first, and a room that ages well
This one started with a material rather than a look. Travertine is the stone people fall for in somebody else’s bathroom and then hesitate over at home, having been told it is difficult. It is not difficult. It is specific: it wants sealing, and the water kept where it belongs.
What the room had to give back was warmth. Travertine carries its own colour — creams, ochres and the soft horizontal grain the stone is cut along — so walls and floor do the work paint and accessories usually have to do. A framed mirror breaks the run of stone at the one height you look at every morning, and the brassware sits inside all that rather than announcing itself.
And classic had to mean classic, not a period reproduction. That is a matter of restraint more than of style: a narrow palette, plain lines, one thing in the room allowed to have any pattern in it.
On site
Stone goes on last. Everything it depends on goes in first
Travertine is unforgiving about what happens behind it, so most of this job was settled before a piece was cut.
The wet area was waterproofed at the start, as one continuous skin, not a set of surfaces that meet in a corner. That layer earns its keep twice over in stone: water trapped behind natural stone does not dry out quietly, it comes back through the face of it months later as a mark nothing will scrub off.
Then the services. Plumbing and electrics were run and tested while the walls were open, set out against the finished room — the mirror, the basin, the light above it — not against wherever the old pipework happened to sit. Cutting a channel into fixed stone is nobody’s idea of a repair.
The cladding went on last, and slowly. No two pieces of travertine read the same, so the wall is laid out face by face before anything is fixed: which piece lands at eye level, how the grain carries from one to the next, how the stone turns the corner by the door. Sanitaryware, mirror and brassware followed. Then the stone was sealed and the room handed back finished by the same in-house team that stripped it out, at the price we had put in writing beforehand.
Materials and finishes
What each choice asks for in return
Nothing rare in this room. What it asks for is the right sequence on site, and a little care once you are living with it.
The same stone, wall and floor
Carrying one material all the way round is what makes a bathroom feel settled: no border, no change of surface, nothing to interrupt it. Floor and walls weather at the same rate.
Sealing, because the stone is porous
Travertine takes in what you leave on it. Sealed, it shrugs off soap, shampoo and the hard water we have here; unsealed, it drinks all three. Sealing is the small job that saves the big one.
The layer nobody sees
Under the cladding, the wet area is tanked as one piece. It is the part of a bathroom you can never inspect once it is finished, and the part that decides whether the rest lasts.
Gallery
Other bathrooms from the same team
In English
If English is the language you make decisions in, nothing above has to change. The quote arrives itemised and in English, the choices — which stone, and where — are put to you in English, and whoever priced the job is the one who walks you round it at the end. That is a build managed in English.
Related work
Where this bathroom sits in our work
Two rooms finished nothing like this one, and the service behind all three.
Your bathroom
Show us the bathroom you have now
A photograph of the room as it stands, and a rough idea of what you want instead, is enough to begin. We come out and measure it ourselves. What comes back is a fixed written quote, line by line, in English — and the figure at the bottom is what you pay. Asking commits you to nothing.
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