A Royal Flush
A bathroom by Natalie Du Bois of Du Bois Design, Auckland, and a featured 2025 NKBA Excellence in Design Awards project.
A Royal Flush is bold in a room that usually plays it safe. Colour, pattern and finish are all pushed further than convention allows, and the result is genuinely enjoyable.
The confidence is structural rather than decorative. Strong elements are balanced against calm ones, so the room has somewhere for the eye to rest between statements.
Practical planning has not been sacrificed for the sake of the theme. Storage is real, the vanity works, and the wet area behaves itself.
Detailing keeps the whole thing credible — tidy junctions, considered tile setting-out, and fittings selected to match the ambition of the surfaces.
A bathroom by Natalie Du Bois of Du Bois Design in Auckland, entered in the 2025 NKBA Excellence in Design Awards.
