Laurie

Storage galore! Painted in our specialist cabinetry paint colour matched to Annie Sloan’s Antoinette Pink, this compact breakfront unit really is a centre piece. Its two-toned drawers, adapted to Laura’s specifications (for make-up and brushes) coupled with the ample storage in the cupboards truly met the brief.

In order to give it that slightly older vintage feel, and make it the perfect height, I also changed out the feet.

Crowned with a pure white quartz countertop cut to the same shape as the furniture and with a backsplash neatly houses the beautiful black and white hand-painted semi-inset basin. The porcelain and chrome tap matches nicely with the knobs chosen which are pewter and porcelain.

Verditer

A small edwardian pot cupboard-turned-bathroom vanity unit. With pewter hardware, white quartz top and a traditional style chrome pillar tap.

Eve

This was an exceptionally interesting project. My client, Maxine, was creating a themed guest bathroom in her East London home. The theme was ‘Adam & Eve’ and she was looking for a piece that would be the main focal point and tie in with the other finishes such as wallpaper, tile and flooring, that had already been selected.

After some hunting around, we decided to go for this curvaceous vintage french bombe chest of drawers, converting the top drawer to allow room for plumbing. The countertop - designed perfectly to sit within an alcove, was crafted from 3 billion-year-old Brazilian granite which has beautiful streaks of gold and amber running through the black.

To crown this stunning piece, we sourced a double-walled solid brass countertop basin with a distinctive pattern around the outside (it reminded me of snake skin and complimented the green wallpaper very well indeed. The final touch was the antique solid brass griffin head tap that I had acquired a month before ever speaking with Maxine. It needed to be refinished and also shortened by my brassware restorer, but it suited this project perfectly. It must have been fate!

Fleur Noir

Vintage French carved oak vanity unit with 3 drawers, stained in a walnut finish. Commissioned by Swiss Architects for one of their local clients in Switzerland..

Monroe

Classic black, chrome and carrara quartz. Beautiful serpentine sideboard converted into a double vanity unit with two oval drop-in basins.

Annie

A sweet and simple space saving single bathroom vanity painted colour matched to Farrow & Ball Off Black. This piece has the original hardware, an adapted drawer, plinths added to back sides (to make the piece deeper) and has a cararra quartz top.

Bluebelle

100-year-old solid oak sideboard/buffet sympathetically restored and repurposed into a stunning double-basin vanity unit. Size 155cm/61inches wide)

Spanish Beauty

A huge, 250cm (100 inches wide) Spanish solid oak carved sideboard weighing 100kg.

Key points:

  • Reduced the height by trimming down feet

  • Two, drop-in style basin holes created

  • Countertop edging applied to allow the top to be tiled in Porcelanosa solid aluminium gold arrow mosaic tiles with no edges visible.

  • Original hardware cleaned and brushed to match the brushed gold tiled top.

  • Professionally primed, sealed, undercoated and spray painted inside and out.

“What a fantastic find and beautifully renovated. THANK YOU.”
— Lucy Schiel (Project Spanish Beauty)

Blue Dragon

A sweet Queen-Anne style medium-sized vanity unit painted in one of my all-time favourite colours - Little Green’s ‘Thai Sapphire’ chosen especially to match up to the rim of the fantastically bright basin.

The brightness of the basin works well against the more muted grey/stone tones of the weathered wood-effect porcelain tiles. The interior has also been carefully hand-painted to match the tiles on top. Antique brass cup handles (treated to more closely match the colour of the tap) and a solid brass dragon tap complete the piece.

“I purchased one of the bathroom cabinets, the magnificent ‘Blue Dragon’ and I must admit It was so beautiful that I decided to design my bathroom especially for it, not other way round. Really stunning piece of work”
— Basia Czuba (Project Blue Dragon)

Atomic Parranda

Compact French-style oak cabinet painted in Little Greene’s ‘Atomic’ red with off-white mosaic tiled top, hand-painted countertop basin and chrome tap and knobs.

“Thank you so so much Karla, for my beautiful vanity unit! Atomic Parranda is going to look stunning in my new bathroom! You were attentive and helpful above and beyond, couldn’t recommend you enough!! I will be back soon to buy more of your beautiful pieces.”
— Antonia Price (Project Atomic Parranda)