Take the Spa Home with a Spa Bath

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by Matt Shine | 8 July 2017

Spa Days have gone through somewhat of a revolution in recent years, once the preserve of the rich & famous – they are now available from as little as £30 and some great deals are available, especially for midweek spa days. These deals are just waiting to be snapped up on voucher code sites.

Home Spa Baths

This increase in the popularity of spa days has left us thinking, why not transform your own bathroom into a little piece of spa heaven? So you can enjoy the peace & tranquillity of a Spa, not every couple of weeks – but every single night. 

The starting point in transforming your bathroom into a spa bathroom is adding bubbles (no, not Prosecco) but a Whirlpool Bath. Again, once the preserve of the wealthy – Whirlpool Baths and Spa Baths are now available from under £500 and boast many, luxurious features. Allowing you to escape and relax.

To celebrate everything wonderful about Bubbles, we are running a limited time only discount of 5%, when you use the code FEMALEFIRST5 on any Spa Bath available on our site. So without further ado, we will show you some of our bestselling Spa Baths, which you could have in your home – for less than you may think.

Phoenix Whirlpool Baths

All of our Spa and Whirlpool Baths are manufactured by Phoenix, who build luxury, reliable baths crammed with the latest in Whirlpool and Spa technology. We have handpicked this range not only because of their high levels of performance, but also the fact that unlike many cheaper alternatives, they are truly designed to last. Below are three of our bestsellers within the range, all of which are designed to sooth your mind and body, whenever you fancy.

Phoenix Crystal System Acrylic Single Whirlpool & Airpool Bath

This is the cheapest Spa bath within the range, but doesn’t sacrifice either performance or quality. A number of configurations and upgrades are also available with this model. 

RRP: £645.00 Trade Plumbing Price: £483.75 (Without 5% Discount Code)

https://www.tradeplumbing.co.uk/phoenix-crystal-system-acrylic-straight-whirlpool-spa-bath.html

Phoenix Figure System Corner Spa Bath

This Bath really is something special. Perfect for contemporary bathrooms, it provides excellent performance and unrivalled levels of luxury – allowing you to achieve what can seem the impossible after some days, complete relaxation. Again, lighting upgrades are available with this model. 

RRP: £1,370.00 Trade Plumbing Price: £1,027.50

https://www.tradeplumbing.co.uk/phoenix-figura-system-amanzonite-acrylic-corner-whirlpool-spa-bath-1700mm-x-1300mm.html

Phoenix Ibiza Whirlpool & Airpool Spa Bath

This bath combines luxury with romance, with a double ended design – this bath allows you and a partner to lie back, relax and spend some quality time together, away from the hassles of everyday life. 

RRP: £723.00 Trade Plumbing Price: £542.25

https://www.tradeplumbing.co.uk/phoenix-ibiza-system-acrylic-straight-whirlpool-spa-bath-1800mm-x-800mm.html

Trade Plumbing

The above represents just a couple of baths within our full Spa Bath range which has been broken down into straight spa baths, corner spa baths and double ended spa baths. As always, our purchasing teams have worked incredibly hard to source the very best products, at the lowest Trade prices. As well as meaning that lots of our customers are trade, our ‘end user’ customer’s benefit from exclusive prices.

At Trade Plumbing, we stock and supply a wide range of other Bathroom products including Designer Radiators, Showers, Baths, Bathroom Suites and Towel Rails, as well as all of the plumbing and heating supplies needed to run a home.

Any questions? Just get in touch with us: https://www.tradeplumbing.co.uk/.

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by Matt Shine for www.femalefirst.co.uk
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What goes into a spa bath that wins a National 'Contractor of the Year' award? | Articles

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It's a matter of record that only one National Contractor of the Year (COTY) award was conferred on a Washington-area company in 2017. The winning project is a spa bath in the McLean home of Sunder and Premilla Raman. The project was ranked the nation's best residential bath in the $25,000 to $50,000 range.

The winning remodeler, Michael Nash Design Build and Homes, is a 30-year-old design build firm which maintains an extensive Lee Highway showroom.

Michael Nash is no stranger to awards for excellence in home remodeling. In recent years, the firm has won several prizes from the “Finest in Family Living” competition sponsored by the National Association of Homebuilders, and about a dozen Chrysalis awards from Qualified Remodeler Magazine, which assess the quality of remodeling projects in a nationwide contest.

More generally, Michael Nash ends the year by submitting work to the National Association of the Remodeling Industry's Washington, D.C. chapter, which has conferred its Contractor of the Year award on Michael Nash projects in one category or the other every year for 30 years. In fact, the full-service remodeler has amassed more Washington-area COTY awards than any company in the award's nearly 40-year history.

Among other things, the COTYs are designed to assess what the remodeler has accomplished within a specific budget range.

“The criteria works well for us,” says Sonny Nazemian, Michael Nash founder and CEO. “Our work culture is oriented towards outperforming the limits of the budget. Yes, you can point to an upscale celebrity bathroom in, say, Architectural Digest that's more luxuriant than anything we've done, but what the story doesn't reveal is that someone spent $200,000 on it. The COTY, by contrast, compares apples to apples, and we are good at stretching the size and quality of what can be achieved in a bathroom within a specific budget parameter.”

Part of this, the remodeler observes, is the design and technical back-up provided by the firm's 11,000-square-foot showroom. Nazemian places a premium on being able to sell finish work materials for close to cost.

Even so, the range of counter surfaces, cabinetry, flooring, plumbing fixtures, lighting solutions on display are without rival in Northern Virginia. Then, too, the company commits to a “fixed price” contract, which means that the quoted figure is binding even when there may be change orders.

The company's greatest value component is its talent pool. The top designers have been with the firm for a minimum of 12 years. There is always a professional in the showroom to talk through ideas with browsers when asked.

Some homeowners say they “discover” the core solution to a previously undeveloped design problem on the first visit. Others take their time, treating themselves to multiple visits, researching online and in magazines, then spending long afternoons in the showroom.

Premilla Raman falls into the later “patient and deliberate” category. Raman and her daughter spent hours poring over selected web sites and magazines – even talking with neighbors who had recently remodeled.

It was on a friend's recommendation that Premilla Raman wandered into the Michael Nash showroom, and began looking at full-sized displays and talking with staff designers.

“There are hundreds of samples; I could wander around on my own gathering ideas and taking notes. There was no sales pressure, but when I asked for feedback, I received immediate assistance and very relevant suggestions.”

Raman's vision called for converting a 210-square-foot production-house master bathroom in their four-bedroom Colonial into an open, free-flowing spa bath loaded with cutting-edge amenities. After occupying the house for 22 years, the Ramans – both seniors – were ready for luxury.

“In the previous floor plan, there was a platform tub in a bay window that absorbed about half of the available floor space, yet the shower was too small,” Premilla Raman recalls. “But once we starting looking at alternatives with the designer, we began to see the possibilities of a much more luxuriant space.”

Still, the larger question was how “successfully” can a dated production-house floor plan be transformed into a flowing postmodern design while sticking to the boundaries of the bathroom's existing footprint? For instance:

“We wanted a larger walk-in design that wouldn't require a built-in curb to keep the water in,” the homeowner remembers. “But weren't sure this was even possible.”

To meet these new requirements, the design team removed the platform tub and introduced a subfloor that raised the floor about an inch. The shower is now lower than before, and the subfloor bevels slightly toward a linear drain, eliminating the need for a built-in lip around the shower.

“Of course, this kind of change demands angles that are absolutely precise,” Nazemian explains. “Water is an absolute judge of whether a shower design works well.”

Tucked behind floor-to-ceiling glass walls, the new shower sits on river rock flooring that connects it visually to a freestanding pedestal tub. There's a small bench at one end, a hand-held shower nozzle within easy reach. Overhead, the stainless steel “waterfall” shower head proffers a range of body sprays with varied temperatures and pressures.

The shower's inside wall is finished in soft Brennero Pearl porcelain accented by a glass tile inseam; cubbies designed to hold personal items are within easy reach.

For a still more leisurely bathing experience, the acrylic tub tucked into a three-window bay presents a restful view of the tree tops. Window shades by Applause can be easily adjusted to screen back light.

For enhanced convenience and privacy, the former double sink has been replaced with a pair of floating vanities, each on a different wall.

Featuring espresso-colored maple and mission style cabinet facings and white quartz surfaces, the vanities present a clean, linear elegance in a room that is refreshingly simplified and spacious.

Is this the nation's prettiest new spa bath?

“We like it,” Premilla says. “Better yet, everything we were promised was delivered. That's a good feeling.”

For information call (703) 641-9800 or visit MichaelNashKitchens.com

John Byrd has been writing about home improvement for 30 years. He can be reached at (703) 715-8006, www.HomeFrontsNews.com or byrdmatx@gmail.com