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being mindful of your favourite hues when curating your space’s colour palette. Colours that make you happy have the power to lift your mood. Candles have the ability to generate positive energy and ambience in your space, changing its feel through our senses,.

Functionality

Making your space feel lived-in is a great way to create comfort. Not only does functionality ease and reduce unnecessary stressors, it can o er notions of habitation to help you relax. Subtle touches such as coasters for your co ee, and a lamp for reading the latest Metropol, make a space feel easy and soothing, while avoiding feelings of mess or clutter.

Freshness

A potted plant does wonders to uplift a room’s decor, and has hidden benefits for our wellbeing. Proven to help with mental and emotional stress, plants promote natural and relaxed feelings to lift your spirits. Sometimes, taking care of a plant is the simplest reminder you need to give yourself the same love and care.

German Bathroom Sector Association managing director Jens J. Wischmann says the show will shine a spotlight on the trends that are boosting a huge growth market with innovations, emotion and bathroom narratives. “In our trend showcase we will be telling the most important stories that can serve as a basis for planning modern bathrooms, as well as providing ideas and inspiration for translating them into reality,” he says.

For the ISH 2023, Pop up my Bathroom is staging a trend exhibition with new products for lifestyle-oriented bathrooms, presenting trend developments for small bathrooms, exploring the options for sustainable bathroom design, building a walk-through wellbeing studio and zooming in on the emotional side of bathroom design.

Here’s a sneak peek at what will be on show:

SUSTAINABLE BATHROOMS

A future concept that strives for the optimal combination of smart, water-saving and energy-saving products, eco-friendly industrial production, sustainable materials and enduring design – while simultaneously conveying a sense of being in touch with nature.

TINY BATHROOMS

The trend towards compact bathrooms for urban homes is prompting the industry and bathroom planners to develop innovative solutions specifically tailored to small spaces. Distinguishing characteristics are a simple aesthetic, new, scaled-down product categories, smart solutions, comfort and convenience, as well as a high degree of customisation.

WELLBEING BATHROOMS

Turning your own bathroom into a private spa comes with the promise of regenerative time out with health-promoting benefits – a little piece of luxury. A wellbeing bathroom comes with both simple and highly complex products like a bathtub or whirlpool (for indoors or out), an infrared sauna or individually programmable showers, classic water applications, a clean aesthetic, smart products for therapeutic lighting and experience-enhancing multimedia features, or a personal space for health-promoting activities.

EMOTIONAL BATHROOM

A feel-good space within the home, combining high tech with high emotion. The real goal of bathroom planning is high emotion – an emotional bathroom design based on colour, light and sensory appeal, achieved by means of sanitaryware and smart equipment, with actual technology hidden behind walls.

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Set back on Kilmarnock Street, in a boutique development of four stand-alone residences, it enjoys a sunny, north-facing aspect and private garden, while a short distance from Hagley Park, the Farmers’ Market, Merivale Mall, and Victoria Street.

Wrapped in a stunning cedar and brick façade with seamless connection to the surrounding garden, this home o ers practical and comfortable contemporary living, elevated beyond the ordinary with undeniable design magic. Features include open-plan living and dining, and a warm, inviting custom-made kitchen with timberlook cabinetry, stone counters and highspec appliances.

Adjacent to the kitchen is a clever scullery making excellent use of space, and upstairs, a light-filled master bedroom with luxurious tiled ensuite, two more double bedrooms, plus a family bathroom with separate bath and shower.

Floor-to-ceiling timber battens are an eye-catching feature echoed on the upper level. A guest powder room and double internal-access garage add essential liveability, complemented by exceptional fixtures and fittings, including ducted heating, photo voltaic solar panels, and provision for an EV car charger. www.johncreightonbuilders.co.nz

All this can be yours. Contact Harcourts Redwood agent Mark O’Loughlin on 021 339 078.