This bathroom in a Carter Road, Bandra home was designed for a client in his mid-seventies with a taste for materials built to be lived with for decades, not just looked at — the same instinct that shaped the rest of the house, brought here into a room meant purely for slowing down.

Travertine runs across the walls and floor, grounding a rosewood veneer look that carries through the mirror frame and the wood storage below the vanity, finished with sanitary fittings from Aquant and matching powder-coated brushed gold profile handles for the below-counter storage. A vertical fluted glass cabinet adds further storage without breaking the room's quiet, and a ribbed white vessel sink sits on the vanity counter under a wall-mounted brushed gold Aquant faucet.

The shower runs on the same brushed gold Aquant fittings, set against a seagreen mosaic feature wall that repeats, at a larger scale, on the wall behind the WC — the one note of colour in an otherwise warm, neutral room. It reads less like a bathroom and more like a small, considered retreat.