Bathroom Basins- Traditional Choices

Bathroom Basin- Modern Styles

A porcelain bowl can be painted with motifs to enhance the décor of the room. Nursery characters, flowers, or fish are common themes. Once the paint is dry, a glaze is applied and the piece is re-fired. The result is a beautiful, custom bowl that is durable as well as interesting.

Many manufacturers are including bold colours in their line of traditional style sinks. These are fun in contemporary decors or for use in children’s baths.

Glass basin bowls are a newer introduction to the bathroom. Amazing colours, textures, and shapes are replacing traditional styles. The bathroom is taking on a fashionable look, using the fixtures as art. These glass bowls are usually set in wrought iron bases, on brass or chrome stands, or on top of a traditional countertop.

Brass, stainless steel, chrome, copper and stone and many combinations of materials are also used for bathroom sinks.

One choice looks like fabric draped over a black iron base. Another available is copper encased between two layers of glass. The options are endless.

If you’re a trend-setter with a sky’s-the-limit budget, you might want to consider a mahogany, birch, or teak basin and bathtub. With the trend moving away from a hard, sterile environment in the bathroom to seeing it as a place for serenity, pampering, and relaxation, wood, with its warmth and soft look, is a natural choice. The wood is aged, dried, glued together, impregnated with wax, and polished with a hard-wax oil. Because it’s such a new choice, there’s not a lot of data regarding durability, but manufacturers suggest that the bowl or tub should be waxed semi-annually and dried after each use.

Whether you choose a traditional bowl or let your imagination soar, your budget will undoubtedly play a big role in your choice of material and style for your bathroom basin.