Spaces for Stillness: The Rise of the Wellness Bathroom
Wellness-led design is reshaping the modern bathroom — now one of the home’s most carefully considered spaces of retreat.
Wellness-led design is reshaping the modern bathroom — now one of the home’s most carefully considered spaces of retreat.
Architecturally designed 1970s homes in Auckland have a charm that is often difficult to replicate — the strongly expressed timbers, the fascination for long, uninterrupted glazing, that remarkable feeling of barefoot bohemia.
Fantini’s Sailing tapware, with its precise lines and subtle maritime influences, anchors the 2025 Bathroom of the Year — a perfect foil to the room’s softly sculpted, enveloping composition.
Overlooking the gentle horseshoe of Ōmaha Bay, a substantial addition to a 25-year-old home introduces an intriguing narrative of nautical influences, organic forms, and enduring symmetry.
Plumbline's latest bathroom collection, Oasis, echoes the overarching narratives presented at Milan Design Week. We found out what's behind this dynamic offering.
ABI Interiors began its journey in a humble garage set-up on the Gold Coast, with a simple yet powerful concept: to offer an affordable range of architectural fixtures that rivalled the quality of the highest in the market.
Drawing on modernist and Japanese influences, and recreating the distinctive tonal interplay of dappled light on a forest floor, this Grey Lynn bathroom offers an enchanting take on spatial design where beauty and accessibility coexist.
It is in the sensual elements that luxury resides in the bathroom: the touch of a surface, the embrace of the sculptural form of a bathtub, the curvature or graphic abstraction of an object.
Experience-oriented spaces designed for living; that’s the concept behind The Bathelier, a new global design collaboration by Cosentino using its C·Bath range.
Plumbline’s latest bathroomware comprises collections of a delectable composition of colour, texture, finish and form.
Eden Stone considers the delight of bathing and simple rituals through its collection of handcrafted baths and basins.
The bathrooms and laundry renovation of this loft apartment in a former carpet factory is a respectful and delightful nod to its past. We speak to its designer, Yvette Jay, to find out more.
Think burnt orange-red hot sauce, mustard-tinged olive dirty martini, grunge eyeshadow and circular voids. We talk to the designers behind a new tapware range that embodies this eclectic group of concepts.
In 2016 in the attic space of an Auckland cafe, an idea was formed. Fast forward six years and this Kiwi company is making waves globally.
In celebration of its 40th year, Athena has launched two new vanity ranges, designed with Auckland-based interior designer Sonya Cotter.
Named after some of New Zealand’s great walks, a new range of pull handles by Windsor Architectural Hardware offers a fresh take on sustainable door decor.
Material Space’s Duncan Rooney talks to HOME about defying trends and a growing desire to work with natural materials and textures.
A wet-room design, marked by a level-entry shower delivers an enviable feature — without long-term maintenance.
The statement pink-tinted concrete bath and basin were sourced from Concrete Nation, in a tone that is picked up by the chunky texture of the Italian floor tiles.
Wellness-led design is reshaping the modern bathroom — now one of the home’s most carefully considered spaces of retreat.
Architecturally designed 1970s homes in Auckland have a charm that is often difficult to replicate — the strongly expressed timbers, the fascination for long, uninterrupted glazing, that remarkable feeling of barefoot bohemia.
Fantini’s Sailing tapware, with its precise lines and subtle maritime influences, anchors the 2025 Bathroom of the Year — a perfect foil to the room’s softly sculpted, enveloping composition.
Overlooking the gentle horseshoe of Ōmaha Bay, a substantial addition to a 25-year-old home introduces an intriguing narrative of nautical influences, organic forms, and enduring symmetry.
Tucked into a lush garden corner of this thoughtfully reimagined Christchurch villa, an outdoor bath sits like an art piece — ornate, sculptural, and serene.
A fruitful collaboration between Plumbline and sculptor Gidon Bing has resulted in an alluring new vessel — an artistic centrepiece that speaks beautifully of New Zealand’s diverse landscapes.
Viola marble is a true statement. It’s a classic testament to the powerful beauty of natural stone.
In a villa renovation by Jones Architects, interior firm Sticks+Stones Design crafted a small, unassuming en suite that packs a big punch.
Plumbline’s latest bathroom collection, Oasis, echoes the overarching narratives presented at Milan Design Week. We found out what’s behind this dynamic offering.
ABI Interiors began its journey in a humble garage set-up on the Gold Coast, with a simple yet powerful concept: to offer an affordable range of architectural fixtures that rivalled the quality of the highest in the market.
Drawing on modernist and Japanese influences, and recreating the distinctive tonal interplay of dappled light on a forest floor, this Grey Lynn bathroom offers an enchanting take on spatial design where beauty and accessibility coexist.
It is in the sensual elements that luxury resides in the bathroom: the touch of a surface, the embrace of the sculptural form of a bathtub, the curvature or graphic abstraction of an object.
This Ponsonby en suite was designed around existing window placements within an awkward space.
In this doorless bathroom, light is drawn in from above and a trio of materials is used in unexpected ways.
Experience-oriented spaces designed for living; that’s the concept behind The Bathelier, a new global design collaboration by Cosentino using its C·Bath range.
Plumbline’s latest bathroomware comprises collections of a delectable composition of colour, texture, finish and form.
Eden Stone considers the delight of bathing and simple rituals through its collection of handcrafted baths and basins.
The bathrooms and laundry renovation of this loft apartment in a former carpet factory is a respectful and delightful nod to its past. We speak to its designer, Yvette Jay, to find out more.
Think burnt orange-red hot sauce, mustard-tinged olive dirty martini, grunge eyeshadow and circular voids. We talk to the designers behind a new tapware range that embodies this eclectic group of concepts.
Utilising a new material known as Cristalmood, due to its transparency and sheen, the Reflex bathtub is a piece of undeniable beauty and composure.
These 12 new architectural tapware collections by Italian company Quadro offer an elemental, understated aesthetic.
In 2016 in the attic space of an Auckland cafe, an idea was formed. Fast forward six years and this Kiwi company is making waves globally.
In celebration of its 40th year, Athena has launched two new vanity ranges, designed with Auckland-based interior designer Sonya Cotter.
Named after some of New Zealand’s great walks, a new range of pull handles by Windsor Architectural Hardware offers a fresh take on sustainable door decor.
Material Space’s Duncan Rooney talks to HOME about defying trends and a growing desire to work with natural materials and textures.
A wet-room design, marked by a level-entry shower delivers an enviable feature — without long-term maintenance.
Outside of the quintessential black and white aesthetic, Plumbline’s latest collection offers an array of textures, colours, and finishes to cement a feeling of ageless refinement in the bathroom.
Colour is an interior designer’s superpower. Whether your home is dipped in monochrome, or playfully painted in complementary tones, colour has the ability to inspire.
The statement pink-tinted concrete bath and basin were sourced from Concrete Nation, in a tone that is picked up by the chunky texture of the Italian floor tiles.
Surrounded by grand old trees, including an 80-year-old oak, the site called for a new home that took full advantage of the garden.
This luscious bathroom is part of a luxury lodge situated high on a hilltop in Motueka, near Nelson.
