The Canberra Project

The challenge with large space is connection, trying to keep the space not only connected but in proportion to each other is a difficult task. The designer set out to keep the private areas of the space (shower & bath) completely hidden from view, the clients wish for connected spaces drove the designer to place these two functions on the south wall behind tinted glass doors, towel rails are concealed inside the shower area to keep from everyday view in the adjoining spaces. One of the big points of the brief is timber floors, now most would say that timber floors can not be used in the bathroom but this is a mis conception; the BCA states that the floor must be water resistant (not water proof); the designer choose the MAFI system which can not only handle the water due to the use of fast grown larch sandwiched in between two 6mm layers of OAK which allows the product to breath but it can also handle underfloor heating which runs throughout the entire home The house needed a bath, this is the only one in the house and the client wanted it to a showpiece; the family are not big on baths but you know the old adage…every home must have a bath! So, the designer decided to raise the bath, add a floor waste and a large format porcelain tile under, which allowed the heating a cooling to come up through the floor as the ceiling was to thin to house this.