Where East Meets West: Inside a Japandi-Inspired Home in Putney

Four spaces. Two buildings. One design philosophy held with complete conviction.

This project in Putney, South West London is one of the most layered and rewarding bathroom schemes Kallums Bathrooms has designed and supplied. The home spans two buildings, a main house and a separate garden tea house, each distinct in character, unified by a single vision.

That vision is Japandi. The quiet meeting point of Japanese minimalism and Scandinavian warmth. Not used here as a trend or a mood board shortcut, but as a genuine way of making decisions. What stays. What goes. What earns its place.

We worked across four spaces: the master bathroom and guest bathroom on the lower level of the main house, the cloakroom upstairs and a shower room in the garden tea house. Each room is its own world. Each one belongs to the same home.

A Wellness World Beneath the House

Walk down the warm, softly lit staircase that leads to the lower level and something shifts. The house quiets. The pace slows. This is where the wellness vision comes to life, unfolding across two spaces united by a shared design vision.

The Master Ensuite

Warm sage green, brushed nickel and a shower that rivals the best hotel spas.

The master bathroom opens with a double vanity unit from Idea Group, Via Condotti range, a soft, warm sage green that brings texture and quiet confidence to the room. Above it, twin illuminated mirrors from the Origins Living, frame the space with clean, even light.

The Graff wall-mounted basin taps in brushed nickel are a study in restraint. Precise, architectural and beautifully made, they hold their own against the green cabinetry without competing with it. It is the kind of brassware decision that separates a well-designed bathroom from a truly exceptional one. The result is a space that feels effortlessly resolved from every angle.

The wet room shower earns the room its spa credentials. A custom-height matt black glass shower panel. Clean geometry. No fuss. Just falling water and beautifully laid stone-effect tile.

The Guest Bathroom

The guest bathroom shares the same calm, wellness-focused sensibility as the room next door and builds on it. Step inside and you are in a space that feels like a private spa retreat. The sauna behind at the far end of the room sets that tone immediately.

The Idea Group fluted vanity in warm aubergine brings depth without being decorative. Subtly more feminine in register than the sage green next door, but still contemporary and completely refined. A matt white basin, an Origins Living Solid Light mirror above it and Graff wall-mounted taps in brushed nickel keep the vanity zone composed and uncluttered.

The Bette Starlet bath is the room’s anchor. Set into a full surround of marble effect tiles that climb the wall behind it, it is the kind of bath installation that makes the room feel complete rather than assembled. An LED strip traces a soft horizontal line between the stone above and the bath below. One of those details you feel before you consciously notice it.

The room feels immersive without being overwhelming, which is exactly the brief.

Two bathrooms. The same floor. Connected by a shared design vision, yet each with its own subtle character. That balance is not accidental. It is designed.

The Cloakroom

The cloakroom could have been a safe room. It is not.

Nuvole Onyx Green polished stone runs across every surface, from the walls to the custom-fabricated porcelain basin, made offsite specifically for this project in the same extraordinary material. The veining shifts from deep teal to amber gold as the light moves through the day. It is luminous. It is alive. It is the kind of room that makes guests pause before they even reach for the tap.

The Graff wall-mounted basin mixer in brushed nickel is the only fitting that speaks against the stone and it does so quietly, confidently. A brushed nickel free-flow drain sits flush in the basin.

This is what total commitment to a single idea looks like. Not a feature wall. The entire room. And it is unforgettable.

Tea House Shower Room

Matte black throughout. Every detail chosen once, applied everywhere.

The garden tea house is a building in its own right, clad in blackened timber, fronted by a large circular crittall window that frames a Japanese-planted garden like a piece of living art. Inside, exposed oak trusses, Chinese calligraphy panels and a vintage iron bed sit beneath skylights.

The shower room follows that same composed energy, centred around a black wall-mounted vanity paired with matt black brassware and a softly illuminated rectangular mirror.

One finish. Applied to every single touchpoint. No exceptions.

It is a small room that does not feel small, because every decision in it was made with intention. That is the tea house philosophy in a single sentence.

Design That Flows With the Home

Great bathroom design does not begin and end at the bathroom door.

What makes this Putney project exceptional is the thread that connects all four spaces. At Kallums Bathrooms, we design and supply bathrooms as part of a whole, not as isolated rooms, but as natural extensions of the home around them. The sage green of the master bathroom echoes the planted garden outside. The onyx cloakroom mirrors the boldness of the living spaces above it. The tea house shower room respects the stillness of the building it sits within.

These are not bathrooms that could belong anywhere. They are bathrooms that could only ever belong here.

If this project has inspired you, we would love to help you create something just as considered for your own home. Visit our showroom in Putney, explore our project portfolio or get in touch with our design team to start the conversation.