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Behind closed doors
This powder room may be a room without a view,
but it still packs plenty of punch
Playing up a downside can a great way to
inject a little excitement into a home interior, as
this project illustrates.
In this case, it was a powder room without
windows. Designer Guy Shallard of Lat Forty
Five chose to emphasise the dark, internal
nature of the bathroom with a houndstooth
wallpaper from Design Country.
The houndstooth pattern is an appropriate
choice for the country house, which sits on
2.8ha of land near Queenstown. But the slightly
metallic sheen of the wallpaper ensures the
interior avoids any sense of a rustic look.

The contemporary feel is reinforced by the
sleek, imported wall-hung basin and toilet, and
a Boffi wall-mounted tap.
As with all the bathrooms in the house,
the vanity continues the moody theme –
black-stained American oak is teamed with a
blackened steel drawer.
“These materials and the monochromatic
palette feature throughout the house, in the
bathrooms and also the kitchen, providing
visual continuity,” says Shallard.
Large-format stone floor tiles also help to tie
the spaces together visually.

Above: The black-stained oak vanity
has a blackened steel drawer.
These materials feature in all the
bathrooms in the house, and also
on the kitchen cabinetry. The crisp
edges of the vanity are contrasted by
the organic form of the basin.

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