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Best of the Week: 32 Spaces Where Tapware Steals the Show
These tapware choices show just what an impact small details can make – in the nicest possible way
The right taps can elevate a kitchen, laundry or bathroom in all the right ways, if your decision is made in line with the look and feel of the space. Take inspiration from these homes around the globe – the tapware in each case is a standout, and adds a final flourish to an already beautiful area of the house.
2. Location: Newport, NSW
Designer: Dan Kitchens Australia
Features: With a view this amazing, a kitchen shouldn’t compete. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get a little creative when it comes to tap design.
Designer: Dan Kitchens Australia
Features: With a view this amazing, a kitchen shouldn’t compete. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get a little creative when it comes to tap design.
3. Location: Sydney, NSW
Features: The industrial look is ever evolving, as this bathtub set-up reflects.
Features: The industrial look is ever evolving, as this bathtub set-up reflects.
4. Location: USA
Features: This shapely kitchen tap takes inspiration from the swan.
Features: This shapely kitchen tap takes inspiration from the swan.
5. Location: Sydney, NSW
Features: If you’re going for a traditional kitchen, beautiful period-style taps can add the perfect finishing touch.
Features: If you’re going for a traditional kitchen, beautiful period-style taps can add the perfect finishing touch.
6. Location: Sydney, NSW
Features: With a brushed or matt finish, modern black tapware can enhance even the most opulent of settings.
Features: With a brushed or matt finish, modern black tapware can enhance even the most opulent of settings.
7. Location: Sydney, NSW
Features: An aged finish on gold-coloured tapware, combined with a sleek design, delivers contemporary appeal.
Features: An aged finish on gold-coloured tapware, combined with a sleek design, delivers contemporary appeal.
8. Location: Milan, Italy
Features: The Closer showerhead from Zucchetti was created to resemble a lamp
Features: The Closer showerhead from Zucchetti was created to resemble a lamp
9. Location: London, UK
Features: Polished gold tones perfectly punctuate the navy and white colour scheme in this kitchen.
Features: Polished gold tones perfectly punctuate the navy and white colour scheme in this kitchen.
10. Location: Brighton, VIctoria
Features: Who says water has to come from the wall?
Features: Who says water has to come from the wall?
11. Location: Beecroft, NSW
Features: A curvaceous spout in black takes this bathroom upmarket.
Features: A curvaceous spout in black takes this bathroom upmarket.
12. Location: Annandale, NSW
Features: Black tapware is a cohesive choice for a bathroom with black grout.
Features: Black tapware is a cohesive choice for a bathroom with black grout.
13. Location: London, UK
Features: A novel take on chrome tapware is gunmetal grey – a simple feature like this adds designer style in spades.
Features: A novel take on chrome tapware is gunmetal grey – a simple feature like this adds designer style in spades.
14. Location: Mosman, NSW
Features: A vanity this impressive deserves tapware with sleek lines. This one has a quiet confidence about it.
Features: A vanity this impressive deserves tapware with sleek lines. This one has a quiet confidence about it.
15. Location: Toorak, Victoria
Features: Black tapware on white tiles is a look that works, but white on black is even edgier.
Features: Black tapware on white tiles is a look that works, but white on black is even edgier.
16. Location: Preston, Victoria
Features: Antiqued tapware on a wall plate makes cleaning easier and gives this contemporary bathroom some soul.
Features: Antiqued tapware on a wall plate makes cleaning easier and gives this contemporary bathroom some soul.
17. Location: Hornsby, NSW
Features: Like the vanity, the brushed nickel tapware is super functional but different enough to attract attention.
Features: Like the vanity, the brushed nickel tapware is super functional but different enough to attract attention.
18. Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Features: This reclaimed blackbutt timber bath spout adds an artisan touch to a lovely space.
Features: This reclaimed blackbutt timber bath spout adds an artisan touch to a lovely space.
19. Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Features: White is no longer the only choice for bathrooms. Deeper tones are finding their way into this functional space, with tapware increasingly adding a warm gleam rather than clinical shine.
Features: White is no longer the only choice for bathrooms. Deeper tones are finding their way into this functional space, with tapware increasingly adding a warm gleam rather than clinical shine.
20. Location: London, UK
Features: Rose gold and marble tapware turns this bespoke bathroom into a standout.
Features: Rose gold and marble tapware turns this bespoke bathroom into a standout.
21. Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Features: Yellow is used as a highlight throughout this home, including the taps and grout in the bathroom.
Features: Yellow is used as a highlight throughout this home, including the taps and grout in the bathroom.
22. Location: Brighton, Victoria
Features: The marble benchtop stays pristine with the tap and spout installed on the wall, while a graceful curve adds… well… grace.
Features: The marble benchtop stays pristine with the tap and spout installed on the wall, while a graceful curve adds… well… grace.
23. Location: Dorset, UK
Features: The renovators of this Georgian house have gone for authentic but quirky taps that work brilliantly with the wallpaper.
Features: The renovators of this Georgian house have gone for authentic but quirky taps that work brilliantly with the wallpaper.
26. Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Features: Concrete and timber are a marriage made in heaven, even in tapware.
Features: Concrete and timber are a marriage made in heaven, even in tapware.
27. Location: Milan, Italy
Features: If you’re going bold and beautiful with the tiles, why stop there? The coloured taps make this bathroom far more fun.
Features: If you’re going bold and beautiful with the tiles, why stop there? The coloured taps make this bathroom far more fun.
28. Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Features: A laundry needn’t be a neglected room of the house. Fresh white tiles and a slick tap and sink can turn it into a space you actually want to spend time.
Features: A laundry needn’t be a neglected room of the house. Fresh white tiles and a slick tap and sink can turn it into a space you actually want to spend time.
29. Location: New York, USA
Features: A pull-out spray tap can be a useful laundry addition – getting mud off shoes has never been easier – but this one’s aesthetically pleasing too.
Features: A pull-out spray tap can be a useful laundry addition – getting mud off shoes has never been easier – but this one’s aesthetically pleasing too.
30. Location: Manitoba, Canada
Features: Matt black tapware isn’t just for the bathroom – it can be a stylish feature in the kitchen too.
Features: Matt black tapware isn’t just for the bathroom – it can be a stylish feature in the kitchen too.
31. Location: Milan, Italy
Features: The Geda Nextage Maco collection introduces neon green to the bathroom because… why not?
Features: The Geda Nextage Maco collection introduces neon green to the bathroom because… why not?
32. Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Features: A brass spout with timber backplate, round concrete taps with timber backplates.
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Want more great design? Check out last week’s Best of the Week: 38 Eclectic Kitchens From Around the Globe
Features: A brass spout with timber backplate, round concrete taps with timber backplates.
Tell us
Which set-up is your favourite? Tell us in the Comments section below. And while you’re at it, don’t forget to like or share this story and save the photos. Join the conversation.
More
Want more great design? Check out last week’s Best of the Week: 38 Eclectic Kitchens From Around the Globe
Features: The Webert Opera tap makes a statement in ‘Pink Gold’ – a fresh take on the rose-golds of yesteryear.