Home Beautiful Bathroom Design Ideas - 50 of the best Australian Bathrooms 2010

For those seeking modern bathroom design ideas go out and grab a copy of the Home Beautiful Bathrooms book just released; it features 50 of the best Australian bathrooms.

Minosa has two of our completed design projects in this edition & our bathroom products are featured in another three modern bathrooms. We also have few more completed projects in the editorial section in the front of the magazine.


Featured Bathroom 1 PG 70-73. Contemporary Chic - Minosa Design

Queens Park - Sydney NSW

This is a bathroom we have featured on our blog late last year. This modern bathroom setting is filled with design features and for a long narrow space has great function.

Bathroom Products used to create this space are;

• The Ovo washbasin in Venaro White
• Rettangalo Tapware by Gessi
• Parisi Wall Hung Toilet
• Kaldewai free standing bath
• Hydrotherm floor to ceiling heated towl rail
• Luca Drawer unit under the Milana bench
• Minosa D20 Ceiling mounted (flush) soaker
  

Featured Bathroom PG130-131. Nature Calling - Minosa Design

Dover Heights, Sydney NSW

This modern bathroom/powder room features a great splash of colour, varying textures & light sources to make a wonderful bathroom setting.

Bathroom Products used to create this modern bathroom setting;

• Scoop Washbasin - Venaro White
• Milana Bench - Walnut
• Alessia two drawer unit - Ripe Avacardo
• Ovale tapware - Gessi
• Steing lighting
• Rettangalo accesories

Bathroom Featuring Minosa washbasin PG126-127 - Subtle Impact

This elegant modern bathroom features the Ovo washbasin sitting on a beautiful piece of Calcutta Marble. The Calcutta marble is a great contrast to the Pietra Grey wall tiles. This modern bathroom has been lovingly detailed, a real triumph.

Featured Minosa Bathroom Product;

• The Ovo washbasin in Glacier White

Bathroom Featuring Minosa Products. PG138-139 - Bowled Over

The starting point for this comtemporary bathing space was the Ovo washbasin. Our client fell in love with the Ovo washbasin when it was on display at the Power House Muesum as part of the 2008 Product of the Year awards.

This inspired our client to want to create a bathing sancutary for their family, the use of travertine gives this bathroom a real classicaly contempary look & with the darkness of the Luca bench the Ovo washbasins is the centre piece to this bathing space.

Featured Minosa Bathroom Products;

• Ovo washbasin in Venaro White
• Luca Bench - 1500mm with concealed drawer

Bathroom featuring Minosa Products - PG 88-89 - Access All Areas

The Puddle washbasin is used to great affect in this vibrant bathroom setting. The washbasin is wall mounted opening up the space and providing a very contemporary look.

Featured Bathroom Products

• The Puddle Washbasin
• RAW001 Stainless Steel wall bracket

This is a great magazine for those that are seeking modern bathroom design ideas, it is filled with design concepts to suit all budgets.

Cheers

Home Ideas

Spice up an all-white den with tangerine accents. A Moroccan floor cushion and cozy throw blanket become statement pieces in this simple, symmetrical living room.

A wash of pastels brings this coastal living room together. Promote conversation with four chairs instead of the traditional sofa, anchored by round ottoman.

In recent years, pretty much the only place you could spot a beverage cart was in black-and-white movies. But recently, the wheeled, multitrayed carts have been appearing in stores. "Entertaining at home is hot right now, and people have rediscovered the utility cart.

 If you're unsure where to go first in this Abilene, Texas, home, just follow the cat tracks. From the front door, tiny feline footprints lead toward the open living area. Guests frequently comment on them, not because the homeowners refuse to clean the floor, but because the footprints are the only reminder of a cat who long ago stepped across the terra-cotta tiles while they were drying in the sun in Mexico, leaving his mark forever.

It's a quarter to five and here's a country kitchen, modern in every way, where hearty meals are prepared for big appetites. There is a two-oven stove, a warming oven across the way, a wine cooler and no-worry concrete countertops. The kitchen has easy access to the family room and to a very large dining room.

Vintage Bathroom Suites

These vintage bathroom suites by Regia are sweet indeed! The combination of their contemporary, clean lines and throwback silhouettes make these vintage suites a bathroom essential that’ll lead you into the future in style. The timeless and classic combinations of black / white and red / white make these sinks, tubs and toilets pop. Just splash your favorite color on the walls or by way of towels and accessories, top it off with some artwork or a large mirror, and you’ve got a trendy look that’s easy to change when the “it” color turns from turquoise to… whatever it’ll be next year! Making the old new again, this chic vintage bathroom collection works well with both modern and traditional designs. Check it out at Regia.

Hickory Furnituture Mart

Hickory Furniture Mart, the nation’s leading home furnishings resource offers a diverse selection of 100 factory outlets, stores and galleries, representing 1000 fine furniture manufacturers. You’ll find everything you need under one roof. Open to the public 6 days a week: Mon - Sat, 9am-6pm. Shop & Stay packages available. Hickory Furniture Mart is the ultimate furniture destination. Choose from countless selections at affordable prices, featuring the most reputable manufacturers, designers and expert craftsmen within the furniture industry. For fine furniture from all over the world and topnotch service to match, there’s truly only one place to go…………Hickory Furniture Mart.

They also offer a Personal Shopper Program which is another example of Hickory Furniture Mart’s dedication to providing exceptional service for their shoppers. This complimentary program was specially designed for busy individuals that need to furnish multiple rooms if not an entire house. Let one of their Personal Shoppers guide you throughout their extravagant North Carolina furniture galleries and assist you in finding everything you need to bring your design plans to life!

Check out their furniture blog for up-to-date information on what's going on with new designs and more.

Chateau Lyon

Introducing......Chateau Lyon. Ancient craftmanship in a modern masterpiece. Incredibly ornate details, from the Biblical Stone in the Grand Foyer to the imported French Limestone walls. Hand carved Mexican pinon stone surround all exterior windows/doors. Pecky Cypress eaves and ceiling on the Loggia and Grand Salon, Palm Court, kitchen, master bath and morning room. Upper level flooring is of 250 year old heart pine. Antique European Roof Tiles. Centuries-old hand carved restored doors. French Boisiere style adorns this magnificiant estate. Italian chandelier in the Palm Court, zinc coated copper roof flashing, hand forged Mar-a-Lago balcony, hand cut Texas Limestone foundation walls, original iron balcony grill from the 1880's, all compliment this 5 bedroom 6 bath work of art. Timeless in design, but completely modern in terms of efficiency and upgrades, as there are 13 heating/cooling zones, Generac generator, and equiped with Creston Home Control and Automation Solutions.


This beautiful home is located on Lake Norman close to Charlotte NC. This listing can be found through Sotheby Real Estate.

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At Belle Meade Signature, they concentrate their efforts on the core elements of success: original design, quality raw materials, offshore manufacturing facilities, leading technology, principal internal operating systems, stateside warehouse distribution, and they are foremost imperative-exceptional people.


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Belle Meade Signature Showplace
Market Square, Mezzanine M99
305 West High Street
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Don't miss the High Point furniture show in April 2010!!!!

Kitchen Concepts

German kitchen giant Miele DIE KÜCHE has rebranded itself as Warendorf, rolling out four new kitchen models by one of the biggest names in design, Philippe Starck. The designs represent something of a departure, both physically and functionally, from the traditional wall-to-wall kitchen models. Starck calls it ‘democratic design’. Its wide range of individual elements - and the ability to combine them in different ways - make for wide appeal to a range of consumers, lifestyles and spaces.

All four concepts are designed with the philosophy of the kitchen as a social hub, merging the practical utilities of food preparation and eating with living functions. The aesthetic can be likened to a living room rather than a traditional kitchen. Refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, ovens etc are all concealed behind handle-less unit fronts. Accompanying exhaust hoods disappear into the ceiling when not in use. And finally, there is the Trumpet Table. It is a functional table that serves as a response to changed kitchen dynamics. It can be integrated into every Philippe Starck kitchen - or serve as a standalone concept, and serves as anything from a working and dining area (with a sink and flush-mounted cooker hob) to a working module (complete with a sink, cooker hob, pull-out drawers and bar-height dining table) or simply a round bar-height table.

Library uses bookshelf-style elements to combine culture and food in the domestic kitchen. A wall-high frame of shelves, surrounding the kitchen monoblock, is accessible via a sliding ladder.

Primary is a small space solution and can be customized to your space using its modular components. “A compact version of the luxury kitchen, extendable with supplement modules.”

Duality, as its name might suggest, is accessible on both sides. “Traditional wall element or detached kitchen island” (and room divider) - you decide.

Finally, Tower reduces cooking to its essentials: fire, water, hot and cold are all incorporated into rotating towers and concealed behind sleek doors.

Miele DIE KÜCHE’s rebranding as Warendorf is an attempt at marking the beginning of a new kitchen era. They explain, “Miele kitchens come from Warendorf and that is also their new name. The quality and experience of the last 35 years are here to stay, a new way of thinking and a new design are added to the mix.”