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Warm Inviting Bathroom Renovation

This Gold Coast bathroom project included a complete makeover. The new bathroom features a modern bath, custom built vanity with a stone top, brushed brass tapware, a double shower niche, rain dropper shower head, back-to-wall toilet, in-wall cistern and floor to ceiling tiling. With this project we would like to give a shout out to our colleagues and collaborators:

Floor & wall tiles: Gold Coast Tile Market
Shower niche tiles: Nerang Tiles
Tap ware: Builders World
Shower screen: REGAL Shower Screens
Plumbing: Consistent Plumbing Services
Electrical: LCMB Electrical

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Warm Inviting Bathroom Renovation

The timber elements in this bathroom renovation make it a cinch to create a warm and inviting feeling. Adding warm tones in the towels and floor mat completes the effect. It’s interesting to note that the timber could easily go well with any number of alternative colour schemes.

Floor to Wall Tiling

This unconventional approach to tiling creates a strong design impression. Utilising timber-style tiles in this way achieves the benefits of creating an immersive experience that also highlights the whites of the porcelain and plastic in the fixtures and fittings. In all-white bathroom designs, the raw beauty of such elements is easily lost – here they stand out, to be noticed and enjoyed.

Learn more about tiling with Armrock Constructions here.

Shower with Rain Dropper Showered

This photo easily describes why this is a bathroom to love! From the rain-dropper showerhead to the tiled niche, the timber floor with tile inset drain, brushed brass tapware and replete with warm tones, it is made to be used and enjoyed.

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Custom Vanity with Stone Top

Armrock Constructions specialises in custom bathroom vanities. In this Gold Coast renovation, the vanity is relatively concise in keeping with the available space. With a stone top, brushed brass tapware and handles, it’s the perfect accompaniment to this beautiful bathroom.

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Custom Tiled Bathroom Niche

We love bathroom niches – they’re practical and they bring an element of interest into the bathroom. This one is particularly interesting. It brings a textural, asymmetrical random element into the bathroom which creates interest and helps to accentuate this aspect of the room.

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Brushed Brass Accessories

Brushed brass tapware and accessories create the highlights in the bathroom renovation which provide touches of class and style. Brass goes beautifully with timber, helping to warm the room as well as provide key notes for complete enjoyment of the design.

Modern Bath

Simple lines, minimal notes, serene composition – in this image you can see the virtue of the design. Brushed brass tapware engage with the modern bath for a design equally suitable for a family home or a lavish Gold Coast penthouse. Versatile Armrock beauty.

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Armrock Constructions are renovation specialists in the Gold Coast. We exclusively work on bathrooms, and provide a complete team to undertake all aspects of your project. If you’re interested in a bathroom renovation, contact us – we provide a free measure and quote.

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Superior Gold Coast Bathroom

This Gold Coast bathroom renovation project by Armrock Constructions produced a fantastic result. With warm tones, modern accessories and a unified theme, it’s a bathroom that is easy to enjoy and use. Read on to learn about this project, or contact our team for a free consultation for your bathroom:

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New Bathroom Layout

This bathroom features a new layout. When we renovate, we often remove walls – but sometimes we add them in. The latter was the case in this project. With a new dividing wall in place, two objectives are achieved – privacy for the shower and a station for the vanity and mirror.

Floor to Wall Tiling

Utilising floor-to-wall tiles creates an impressive result, and also resolves the challenge of balancing colour choices. Interestingly, in interior design, it’s often the case that more can be achieved with less. In this case, with less colours in play, a strong result is achieved. Learn more about tiling with Armrock Constructions here.

Matching Accessories

By matching accessories, a uniform expression is created. In the example below, the towel rails match the louvre window frames; looking through the other photos this black is extended to other areas as well, such as the basins. Learn more about fixtures and fittings here.

Toilet with Sliding Door

The toilet in this renovation is nicely tucked away behind a sliding door – an optimal way to make the most of space in a renovation. This is one of the real advantages of renovations – the ability to update old ways with new, and improve the usability and presentation of your spaces.

Double Showerhead

Luxury! A double showerhead in a room within the room – this doorless shower is tucked away for privacy, and there’s no risk of water running away with our carefully engineered shower floor and long tile insert strip drain. You can learn more about shower installation here, or read about tiling in your renovation project here.

Custom Vanity with Mounted Basins

This vanity is a quiet work of art. Featureless, except for the double-mounted basins, it quietly presides in this bathroom – designed specifically for this space. Although it can’t be seen in this image, there is an LED strip light underneath the vanity as well. Installed by Armrock’s team, this vanity looks like it was made to be there – and it was. Learn more about custom vanities here.

Custom Mirrored Wall Cabinet

Another custom piece in this renovation is the wall cabinet. In the spirit of the style of this bathroom, it’s a simple and clean design. It connects to the remainder of the room via its black sides. An advantage of working with Armrock Constructions is that we handle all aspects of the renovation – making it easy for you to achieve the bathroom of your dreams.

Bathroom Usability

As this picture demonstrates, the new bathroom is highly usable. It combines the washing-station, shower and toilet, but each of them is separated meaning everything can be enjoyed privately and simultaneously.

Louvres – a Nice Touch

Finally, a note on the louvres in this project. Updating windows is a great way to get a new fresh look and feel in a renovation, and louvres are a fantastic way to make this happen in a bathroom. Louvres allow light into the room, enhancing the sense of space – but with frosted panes, they maintain privacy as well.

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Are Roller Blinds The Best Option For Narrow Windows?

Narrow roller blinds are a great option to consider when considering a window-dressing solution for a narrow window or thin space, such as you may find in a bathroom or toilet. In this brief article, we discuss the considerations to bear in mind when assessing and installing narrow roller blinds.

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How Narrow Can a Roller Blind Be?

Pretty narrow! Roller blinds can be custom-made to suit windows as small as they come. The only real limitation on how small a roller blind can be is whether the rollers can be installed to fit on each side of the window frame.

The Problem Solved with Narrow Roller Blinds

The purpose of roller blinds is twofold – to solve a problem such as glare or privacy, and to enhance the appearance of a room by the application of the right type of roller blinds. With thin or narrow roller blinds, this formula doesn’t change – what does change is the fact that the blinds have to fit an irregularly-sized (narrow, or thin) window.

Common Narrow Windows

Narrow windows are encountered very commonly in bathrooms and toilets! Whether it’s the type of room, type of premises or period of construction, we see them all the time. Narrow windows may be alone or presented along with a series of one, two or several more windows. This is another situation where custom roller blinds are a great solution, since they can be made to suit your specific window requirements.

Are Roller Blinds the Best Solution For Narrow Windows?

Roller blinds are a great solution for narrow windows. The reason being that unlike other types of window dressings, the simplicity of roller blind functionality isn’t lost on narrow or smaller windows. Other types of solutions, for example, panel glides, can’t successfully solve very narrow windows while retaining their full functionality.

Other considerations to take into account when selecting the window dressing for your narrow window include:

Existing Blinds or Shutters Used on the Premises
Type of Window Frame
Budget
Style Preferences
Privacy Considerations
Natural Light Opportunities

Like any interior design solution, there are many factors to take into account. Our service addresses this problem by giving our customers access to the experience and professional installation capability needed to get a great result.

Should Blinds Be Lighter or Darker Than Walls

Have you ever wondered whether blinds should be lighter or darker than walls? It’s a great question and one that should be considered when approaching an optimal interior blind solution for your home or business renovation.

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Unfortunately, this is not a “Yes” “No” answer – there’s more to it than that! It depends on a few factors. What we will do here, (and hopefully this is useful for you) is look at some common colour-difference examples and also important considerations that have bearing on this question.

Blinds Same Colour as Walls

When your blinds are the same colour as your walls, you’re effectively creating a continuous look with your interior blind installation. The presence of the blinds is absolutely minimised, which means you have a totally safe solution, from the point of view of being concerned about design errors! The blinds, frames and walls work together, with no visual hierarchy. The advantage of this solution is that it’s safe and gives you total control over the design of the room with accessories, artwork & furniture, and that it’s easily transferrable to a new resident or style. The disadvantage is in the eye of the beholder – there are many design opportunities with interior blinds, and using the same colour as the walls doesn’t necessarily make the most of these opportunities.

Blinds Lighter than the Walls

When blinds are lighter than the walls, you have a degree of contrast in the room. Is this contrast better, or worse than the contrast created by blinds that are darker than the walls? One advantage of lightening the blinds is that you can also lighten the room. If the room is smaller, or darker, adding lighter blinds can help to lift and extend the perspective of the room. Also, a pattern on lighter blinds can reference the outdoors as well and integrate the blinds with the walls via the pattern.

Blinds Darker than the Walls

Opting for blinds that are slightly darker than the colour of the walls & frames gives the blinds more visual strength in the room. By defining the window shapes with our slightly darker colour, we convert them into design objects within the room.

These objects have a relationship with each other and also with the other elements inside the room. Depending on the room, these relationships can be optimised to anchor the overall design of the room and give direction and stability to the layout. Note how in the example below, the windows align with the edges of the desk creating an invisible grid within the room. The strength of this grid is aligned to the fact that the blinds have sufficient presence to create them – an advantage of slightly darker blinds than walls.

Blind vs Wall Ratio

Using a screen fabric roller blind (which during the daylight hours allows light transmission through the blinds, making them lighter than the walls) creates indoor / outdoor integration, and a spaciousness that extends beyond the room. Here, the blinds effectively become a whole wall unto themselves, an altogether different consideration than when blinds form only a part of a wall. The extent of then blinds vs the wall should always be taken into account when considering the lightness and darkness of blinds vs walls for this reason. In this example, the blinds become a feature wall that has a relationship with the rest of the room, which is a different proposition altogether.

Factoring Frames

In art, the frame plays an important role in the presentation of the artwork. When pictures are professionally framed, they are made in sympathy to the artwork they’re framing, and even the room for which they are intended. Frames matter, because they establish a relationship between the artwork and the room.

In the case of blinds, frames perform a similar role, but they’re not necessarily being changed when you change your blinds. So they need to be taken into account, particularly when they’re different to the walls. In this roller blind example below, the white frames are a lighter colour than the walls, and the blinds are darker than both. This has the effect of strengthening the presence of the blind, a handy result since the blind is only slightly darker than the wall. These are the little nuances that make interior designs interesting and successful.

Summary

In summary, there are advantages and disadvantages to different approaches. With interior blinds, it’s really important to achieve a result that has longevity (that you won’t get sick of quickly) and that contributes positively to the style of your room. This can be achieved with both dark and lighter window-dressing solutions.

Using Grey Blinds with White Walls

Grey blinds and white walls – yes, no, or maybe? The grey & white combination is a popular one that you we see in many homes and businesses. The issue is not whether grey blinds will work with white walls (they will) – it’s overcoming concerns about this particular interior design vision. Is it sufficient? Is it too weak, or wishy-washy? Does it have longevity?

In this brief article, we reflect on this important discussion. Read on as we enter the amazing world of grey blinds… with white walls!

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The Psychological Problem with Grey

It turns out that choosing grey occupies something of a psychological challenge, or obstacle, for many people. The argument is that by choosing grey, you’re not really committing to anything. You’re in the middle.. a sort of safe, neutral place that isn’t supposed to stand out. This is the same notion as in the idea of the grey man:
The intentional act of dressing and behaving in an inconspicuous manner, in order to avoid any unwanted attention from strangers or authorities. The goal is to dress, walk, and behave as a local, without attracting any attention to yourself. To “blend in” in a foreign (usually hostile) enviroment. To be visible and yet invisible at the same time.
SRC: urbandictionary.com

So the argument goes, if you choose grey, you’re not making a choice. But we beg to differ.
There is more to this than meets the eye. Rather than allow the neutrality and inconspicuousness of grey prevent you from the consideration of this interior blind choice, what we find is that grey blinds can achieve a highly-successful result when paired with white walls. Following are a range of reasons why we think grey blinds have a number of essential advantages which makes this so, starting with how grey and white work together.

How Grey and White Work Together

Grey and white work together because they both have a relationship to the achromatic palette, in which there is no colour value. Unlike bright or bold colours, white, black and grey, and strict combinations of them, have little or no chroma, or colour. Even when degrees of colour are added to your greys, this relationship binds them with white, except with more nuanced effects being achieved.

Even White Blinds Can Have Shades of Grey

As greys get darker, or stronger, they move further away from white, but the achromatic relationship continues to bind them. Although white-walled rooms by themselves inadvertently work with most types of blind-colours (see this article for more information) the real benefit of using grey tones in your white-roomed walls is that they make it very easy to furnish and manage the rooms, since the role of the blinds is more neutral than when brighter or bolder colours are utilised.

In summary, grey and white work together very nicely. But let’s get back to the concern of neutral territory. They may work together, but should we choose this combination or go with a different solution?

So, Should We Choose Grey & White?

The thing is, with interior design, and including the selection of blinds, there are times to be bold and times to not. Sometimes it’s about being noticed, and other times, it’s about making choices that are deliberately less noticeable. Whether it’s to create an opportunity for something else to shine, or to specifically pursue a look that’s less in-your-face, or for any number of other reasons, sometimes grey is the best choice you can make for your blinds.

With this in mind, the argument that choosing grey for your blinds is a choice that does not display confidence is revealed to be an invalid argument. Actually, the confidence to make any choice isn’t about being the brightest, boldest or most noticeable. It’s about making the best choice for your interior design goals.

Functional interior colour choices are ones that look great, and work well within the room and premises. These type of choices not only have more longevity than confident, faddish options, but also enjoy the benefit a more flexible interior, since the room’s possibilities are not dictated by the strength of the blinds.

But isn’t Grey and White.. Boring?

Emphatically, NO! A grey and white combo need not be boring. Within this combination, there is a wide spectrum of possibilities. Stronger greys create more contrast, and powerful, impactful results can be achieved.

Working with contrast in this way provides access to a wide range of options, none of which are lacking confidence or boring. Furthermore, when you work with patterns and textures, you can create nuances which subtly enhance the presence of even mild grey combinations.

The Grey Edge

Something really powerful about grey is realised when you think about it in comparison to black or white options. Grey has an edge over black and white, being that of integration. Because greys have a bit of black and a bit of white, to varying degrees, they have got wide scope to create integrated palettes with many different colours. Again, this may not be your design goal, but the maligned safety of working with grey should always be appreciated in this light. It’s a strength than can make life easier for you – take advantage of it!

Grey & White – Are They ‘In’ Right Now?

Timeless palettes never go out of fashion. Fads bring them in and out of attention, but they’re always valid and relevant. Grey and White is an enduringly timeless combination of colours. Black and white is another one. They may temporarily fall back in favour of modern trends, but it’s only a matter of time before they’re back front and centre.

High-Rise Powder-Room & Ensuite

This power-room & ensuite renovation is part of a high-rise penthouse bathroom renovation project which you can read more about here. This part of the project features beautiful floor/wall porcelain marble-style tiles and standout features in the choice of basin and mixer. Armrock Constructions specialises in bathroom renovations on the Gold Coast – contact our team to discuss your project. We offer a free consultation and quote.

Powder-Room Layout

There are a couple of stand-out features in this room that take it to the next level – the circular mirror and mounted glass basin and mixer. Contrasted against floor-to-wall porcelain marble-style tiles, an opulent, lavish look is created.

Tile-Insert Drain

By utilising a tiled drain, a seamless look is created which also creates the opportunity for the bathroom to be informed by a sense of workmanship.

Glass Basin & Mixer Tap

With the addition of this glass basin and mixer tap, this bathroom is elevated to the next level! Our team is experienced – if you have something in mind, we can help you make it a reality.

Ensuite Shower

This shower is built into an unconventional cavity which you can see by looking at the ceiling in the picture below. A primary advantage of working with Armrock Constructions is our ability to work flexibly within the space provided. We can customise all aspects of the renovation to accommodate both existing spaces and new objectives.

Round Mirror

Circular mirrors are in! This mirror is back-lit by LEDs making it the perfect solution for this high-end powder room. Choosing a round mirror adds visual interest and flow to your bathroom, and they’re a popular solution. Learn more about using round mirrors in your Gold Coast renovation here.

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Warm Inviting Bathroom Renovation

Floor to Wall Tiling

Shower with Rain Dropper Showered

Custom Vanity with Stone Top

Custom Tiled Bathroom Niche

Brushed Brass Accessories

Modern Bath

Contact Our Team

New Bathroom Layout

Floor to Wall Tiling

Matching Accessories

Toilet with Sliding Door

Double Showerhead

Custom Vanity with Mounted Basins

Custom Mirrored Wall Cabinet

Bathroom Usability

Louvres – a Nice Touch

Contact Our Team

How Narrow Can a Roller Blind Be?

The Problem Solved with Narrow Roller Blinds

Common Narrow Windows

Are Roller Blinds the Best Solution For Narrow Windows?

Blinds Same Colour as Walls

Blinds Lighter than the Walls

Blinds Darker than the Walls

Blind vs Wall Ratio

Factoring Frames

Summary

The Psychological Problem with Grey

How Grey and White Work Together

So, Should We Choose Grey & White?

But isn’t Grey and White.. Boring?

The Grey Edge

Grey & White – Are They ‘In’ Right Now?

Powder-Room Layout

Tile-Insert Drain

Glass Basin & Mixer Tap

Ensuite Shower

Round Mirror

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