Essential Kitchen Bathroom Bedroom Magazine March 2015 Back Issue

With moody February skies giving way to patches of blue and the first buds of spring gently breaking through, this is my favourite season for planning new projects. Our starting point at this issue’s shoot The Soft
 Option (page 76) was 
a sink brim-full of fresh blooms and
 pretty eco washing products, and from 
there we styled up the perfect spring
cleaning nook as well as the cosiest
 of romantic settings. In fact, Valentine’s Day wasn’t the only thing on our minds as we worked – the soft colour palette of pale greens and pastels perfectly corresponds to the romantic vein running through much of the design directions coming to the fore now. The trend for the ornate and the feminine over the chic and minimal is further explored in our bathrooms section in Eau Zone (page 118), where we look at the dizzying selection of graphic chevron, Art Deco and Moroccan-inspired tiles gaining popularity. Note for 2015: bathrooms are anything but boring! This theme follows through in kitchens where the mood for the pared-back scheme is giving way to the dark, handsome and lavish – and challenging the Scandi-influenced all-white look we’ve seen so much of for so long. ‘Think beauty, think simplicity, think Chanel’, says Hayley Gilbert as she explores Black vs White (page 87) kitchens. She argues that while trends come and go, a classic look will never date. In other words, no matter where the taste makers and style dictators take us next, a kitchen in either black, white, or even monochrome, is a design staple that will never go out of style. Just like the iconic Chanel branding.