You’ve thought of every detail to ensure a guest’s stay is as comfortable and enjoyable as possible… almost! In the bathroom, decorative wiring accessories are often an after-thought. There are a vast range of options on the market that can add the finishing touch to a design scheme, while smart controls ensure your guests have the most luxurious and convenient stay. Hamilton Litestat’s Gavin Williams explains…
Guests expect a lavish, indulgent environment when staying in high-end hotels. One of the first experiences they have when entering a room is reaching for the light switch. Decorative wiring accessories can add to, or unfortunately detract from, a design scheme and the guest experience.
The bathroom is a key area where the right wiring accessories can help add a luxurious finishing touch. Today’s eye-catching trend for bold colours, patterns and a mixture of materials can be perfectly complemented by the huge variety of finishes available in wiring accessories. One particularly luxe trend is that of dark, traditional wall colours, such as Pantone’s Colour of the Year 2020, Classic Blue. These deep and moody shades are lifted by warm metallic finishes, such as bronzes and brasses. At Hamilton, we’ve seen an upturn in interest for our contemporary designs in elegant finishes, such as the Hartland CFX and Sheer CFX plates in Connaught, Copper, Etrium, Richmond Bronze or Antique Brass, which add the perfect finishing touch.
In order to get a coordinated look, switches and shaver sockets that come in high-shine metals to match taps and heating solutions are also popular and add a chic feel to the bathroom. Hamilton provides a vast array of contemporary and traditional plate designs in materials and finishes to complement the fittings, with Bright and Satin finishes in Stainless Steel, Chrome and Nickel favoured choices. This year, we’re also seeing a trend towards Matt White and Matt Black within monochrome design schemes.
“Hamilton’s Vogue range offers a contemporary slant on the traditional and minimalist white plastic plate, with rounded corners giving it an updated and stylised look.”
Guests delight at a quirky feature, so adding a ‘pop’ of contrasting colour with a wiring accessory can be very effective. Hartland CFX Colours comes in white, red and black gloss finish with both white or black inserts. Or, at the other end of the scale, you can make the switches and sockets almost disappear with Perception CFX, which is supplied in a transparent finish to allow a wall colour or paper design to show through.
If your guest bathrooms are of a clean and classic design, there are still options to avoid reverting to dated wiring accessories. Hamilton’s Vogue range offers a contemporary slant on the traditional and minimalist white plastic plate, with rounded corners giving it an updated and stylised look.
Getting the look and feel of the bathroom right is important, but adding more to the guest experience can really upgrade their stay. Smart lighting control helps create a better-than-home experience at the flick of a switch or swipe of a finger. A poll by interior design outfit Houzz indicated that a luxury bathroom experience is in high demand, with good lighting and a relaxing space top considerations.
Hamilton’s plug-and-play Smart Lighting Control solution can be programmed with different lighting scenes for varying tasks.Bright scenes make shaving or make-up application easier, while dimmed scenes help create are relaxing environment that’s perfect for a soak in the bath. Red, green or blue mood lighting can be added with DMX lighting control, or RGBWW delivers a ‘warm white’ light in a cost-effective way rather than the often stark white light typical of LEDs.
As people look to make their homes and bathrooms more luxurious, hotels can utilise designer wiring accessories along with smart lighting and audio control to provide an outstanding guest experience as only a hotel stay can.
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