Trends New Zealand Trends Volume 31 No 6 New Zealand | Page 37

Looking back
This contemporary bathroom, set within a
heritage space, reflects its surroundings
A heritage renovation comes with its own set
of rules, not least the need to acknowledge
and celebrate what’s gone before. A refit that
effectively extends the period style is one way
forward, while another option is to contrast the
traditional with the strikingly contemporary.
When the team at Architect Prineas designed
this master bathroom in an 1890s Grand Italianate terrace home, they took both approaches.
The brief was to create a modern ensuite and
walk-in robe in the ori v