In the Bathroom

hammam towels from the white company These lightweight cotton towels are used in Turkish baths and, while they're ideal for taking on holiday, they're also pretty handy to use as guest towels too. They're very absorbent and can double up as a sarong for the journey from bathroom to bedroom. Also handy in the kitchen

Kate Spade shower curtain Gone are the days when shower curtains used to wrap themselves limply round you and cling on as you tried in vain to escape their enveloping dampness while the rail teetered dangerously above and threatened to bring the whole thing down around your ears. candy stripe shower curtain These days changing

perfect for guests I first spotted these wooden toothbrushes a few months ago and will confess to having been slightly bamboozled by them. What, I thought, as I flexed my Braun electric toothbrush, can be the point of those? Why, I wondered, as I watched the timer count down from two minutes on my sonic

bluetooth speaker from stelle One of the most important things in a bathroom, I think, is the addition of sound. Personally I prefer the radio but for those all-too-rare occasions when a long spa type soak is on the agenda, then some sort of speaker is required. the stelle speaker comes in white, black or

glass fronted wall cabinet from Graham and Green I may have mentioned before that I do love a bathroom that doesn't necessarily look like a bathroom. By which I mean the addition of a battered old leather armchair, the freestanding bath in front of the fireplace - that sort of thing - click here to

grey bath mat from H&M When I was doing up my shower room (in black and white since you ask) I searched high and low for a black bath mat. For some reason there were masses of bright colours and even lots of pastel but it was hard to find monochrome. Eventually, for those who

the tay bath from drummonds Bathrooms and kitchens are the two most important rooms when it comes to selling a house, with many buyers being instantly put off by a lack of cleanliness in either. Having said that, they are also the two rooms that buyers are most likely to rip out and renovate. copper

  ronnskar bathroom storage from ikea This is one of those bathroom pieces that, in the right setting, will look a lot more expensive that it was. I would resist the temptation to buy the full range and, instead, pick the one piece that is the most useful for you and just have that. perfect

folding mirror from cox and cox If ever there was a room where form and function need to be perfectly aligned it's the bathroom. The mirror is often an afterthought, something large enough, possibly with the addition of an anti-fog mechanism is often as far as we get, but this rather pretty mirror has a

brass decorative stool from lombok When it comes to bathrooms, there is one piece of furniture I always want in there (apart from the obvious) and that's a stool. Perfect for resting a glass of wine or cup of coffee when you're lounging in the bath. wooden shanxi stool from lombok Great for draping a

urban basin from roca  -  the series includes London, New York and Barcelona Another month, another series. This time we are focusing on bathrooms and to kick off we're looking at Roca, a Spanish company founded in 1917 in Barcelona. It began by making radiators and gradually branched out into cast iron baths, porcelain and