5 Reasons Industrial Style Bathroom Taps Are Trending

Industrial look with use of “natural feel” materials will continue to be on trend in bathroom design this year. Nothing complements more contemporary bathroom style like an industrial looking bathroom taps, showers and bath mixers.

Creating a bathroom look inspired by factories and warehouses can be achieved by using surface textures such as marble, concrete effect porcelain and smooth bevelled-edge metro tiles with a combination of brushed nickel or steel wetroom wastes combined with contemporary wetroom shower screens and even black, grey or chrome finished wall hung toilets.

Ultimately the centre peace of industrial look bathroom is its brassware; basin taps or mixers, bath taps or mixers, shower valves, head showers and hand showers. They have become increasingly popular aesthetics in creating the ultimate industrial makeover.

You can explore the full range of tap finishes and styles in our bathroom product collections, where our brassware brands are showcased in full.

Here are Five Reasons Why Bathroom Designers and Architects Love to Use Industrial Style Taps and Bathroom Fixtures

1. Adding a Sophistication to Your Bathroom

Concealed two or three-hole basin mixers in combination with bath and shower mixers combined with attractive finishes creates a classy, minimalistic, metropolitan bathroom ambience

2. Cutting Edge-Technology

In the race for the best and the most attractive finishes, tap manufacturers are constantly pushing boundaries and inventing new and better finishes, so industrial bathroom taps and mixers are the cutting-edge technology.

3. Precision Engineered Tap Handles

Industrial Tap Handles represent designs inspired by industrial valves, steering wheels or even by a classic fire hose nozzle look, bringing that vintage experience and more importantly great engineering.

4. Industrial Metal Finishes

Industrial type of brassware brings best finishing technology out of tap manufacturers. Most popular finishes are rough, industrial, vintage look like Vintage Brushed Brass, Gunmetal Distressed or two-tone finish like Polished Nickel with Black, Brushed Gold with Black or Chrome with Black.

5. Tap Handles are Ergonomically Designed

Tap handles, levers and wheels are also very practical, ergonomically designed and easy to use due to their knurled edges to prevent slipping

Note:
As a official supplier of Graff faucets or taps, for this blog post, we at Kallums Bathrooms have used photos of Graff’s new industrial ranges Harley and Vintage.

Should you have any questions on the new ranges of industrial bathroom taps from Graff, please call us at:

T: 020 3620 2076

Choosing the right finish for your taps goes hand in hand with your tile choice, our guide to pairing brassware finishes with bathroom tiles shows exactly how different metals change the mood of a space.

Zita

As part of the family behind Kallums Bathrooms, Zita has helped shape the business alongside founder Matthew Kallum. As Marketing Director, she lives and breathes bathrooms every day, working closely with designers, industry partners and homeowners while staying at the forefront of bathroom design, innovation and emerging trends. Her articles are inspired by real projects, genuine expertise and the passion that has shaped Kallums Bathrooms.

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