Plantation Bamboo

This nautically themed bathroom in a heritage home reflects the tones and craftsmanship potentially associated with, say, a captain's quarter's – an ornately finished benchtop, gold tapware and Portuguese patterned tiles all come to the shipboard party

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More than cladding for an old terrace house or creating a charming garden wall, brick is a material that really does keep on giving. In fact, timeless, soft on the eye and affordable, brick is a building material that can span generations. This project – by design studio Graft – shows how old and new can flow seamlessly together.