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BATHROOM & INTERIORS Magazine ISSUE 1 Industrial Revolution Carron Bathrooms takes on the timeless look of the industrial interior. News & Trends Style Guides Supplier Focus Destination Spotlight Find out what’s From City Chic McKay Flooring give Check out the rooms happening with Carron to Traditional and an insight into the world with a view at Cameron Bathrooms and the Elegant, check our tips of reclaimed flooring House Lodges on world of bathrooms and hints for bathroom and what it can do for the bonnie banks of and interiors. design and installation. your bathroom. Loch Lomond. Contents 34_ Carron Bathrooms REGULARS Carron Bathrooms is the UK’s premier bath manufacturer. Welcome A welcome to our new magazine from Every bath is hand finished to 05_ Commercial Director, James McMorrine. the exacting standards that have been our benchmark News + Trends since the first Carron works 06_ A range of Carron updates, industry opened in 1759. news and interior trends. Range Focus: Urban 12_ Styled for city living, take a look at our Urban Range. GET IN TOUCH ADDRESS: Bathing Guide: Carron Bathrooms Limited Family Bathrooms North Carron Works 26_ Stenhouse Rd Tips and hints for harmonious bathing Falkirk FK2 8UW for the whole family. Scotland United Kingdom Range Focus: Celsius TEL: +44 (0)1324 638 407 Luxury for every occasion. EMAIL: [email protected] 28_ The Celsius range. 26_ FAQs: Carronite FOLLOW US 32_ What are the benefits of Carronite? FACEBOOK: facebook/carronbathrooms Check our handy guide and find out. TWITTER: @CarronBathrooms YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/CarronbathroomsUK Style Guide: City Chic PINTEREST: uk.pinterest.com/carronbathrooms/ 34_ Our Profile DE is the perfect choice for chic, minimalist styling. carronbathrooms.com Bathing Guide: 42_ Urban Bathrooms Don’t forget your bathroom when getting the most from your urban space. Credits Range Focus: Profile PHOTOGRAPHY FEATURES A modern, elegant take on contemporary MARK K SEAGER, ASHLEY LENNON, 48_ GRAHAM WYLIE KEITH McQUADE bath design. ILLUSTRATIONS DESIGN LAURA HENDERSON, SEVENFIVE EDWARD McGOWAN CREATIVE Style Guide: 52_ Traditional & Elegant Less is more when creating a period ON THE 42_ style bathroom. COVER FAQs: Cleaning COVER Keep your Carron bath looking as good PHOTOGRAPHY 56_ MARK K SEAGER as possible for as long as possible. Product Range 64_ Our entire range in a new, easy to view format. 38_ Product Focus: 70_ Filmore Skincare The latest in mens toiletries and grooming. Made here, in Scotland. CONTENTS 03 O8_ Welcome FEATURES elcome to the first edition of the Carron Bathrooms and Interiors Carronite Magazine. For those of you familiar 08_ We talk to the management team with Carron Bathrooms and our at Carron to find out what goes WConnections magazine, this new extended format into the industry’s most respected ensures that our customers can understand bath finish. the inspirations behind our designs, and our commitment to first class manufacturing. Cover Feature: We wanted to create a magazine that would 16_ Industrial Revolution engage with all of our customers, whether in the Stripped back interiors and trade, an installer or our consumers. industrial features contrast with 16_ the stark white of our baths in our Strong, vibrant imagery sets the tone for our magazine, industrial theme photoshoot. which is why we went on-location to the historic Manufacturing Biscuit Factory in Edinburgh. The industrial interior Lots of products work provided the perfect backdrop to our newly launched, Excellence 38_ limited edition Ascoli freestanding bath in copper finish. Over 250 years of history combine for bathrooms but The Ascoli became Carron’s first freestanding model to make Carron Bathrooms what it over a decade ago. Its traditional design makes it the is today. you can’t beat the perfect product to showcase the unique, metallic finish. Supplier Focus: warm, natural feeling With copper rapidly becoming the colour of choice for 44_ McKay Flooring designers looking to create a timeless installation. Introducing the innovative family of wood, underfoot. team taking the next step in the “ In this edition we talk with McKay Flooring, specialists in reclaimed flooring (as used in our photoshoot), world of flooring. Richard, McKay Flooring Full article on Page 44 about flooring and the use of wood within the bathroom. We also paid a visit to the banks of Loch Lomond, where Carronite was the finish required for the baths used at one of Scotland’s top destinations, Cameron House Lodges. The team at Cameron House wanted to ensure that they had a product that was able to ” hold its own in the most enviable of surroundings. Destination Spotlight: This magazine also delivers useful and practical articles The Lodges at on our market leading Carronite finish and the benefits 58_ it offers installers and consumers alike. Additionally, Cameron House we have included an adapted version of our product We visit one of Scotland’s most wallchart with information on our entire range. beautiful resorts to find out what makes this destination so special. We really hope you enjoy this edition as much as we enjoyed putting it together. JAMES McMORRINE COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR 04 CARRON MAGAZINE ISSUE 1 WELCOME 05 + The latest news, NEWS industry and In the bathroom trends Mood for TRENDS from Carron. Wood Popular wisdom means a tendency for people to choose The future’s bright, tiles when finishing their bathroom. When fitted and finished properly, however, the future’s copper wood is the ideal material for bathrooms when looking for a warm natural feeling. The use of metallic accessories Our Supplier Focus shines and finishes has been on the a light on McKay Flooring and rise, with our favourite, copper, our Urban Edge Showerbath bringing a delicate hint of roomset (left) shows how the warmth while remaining stylish addition of wood and a touch and on-trend. Our Industrial of Scandinavian style can add photoshoot has included these a whole new, natural, element subtle elements and our limited to a bathroom fit-out. edition Ascoli Bath looks stunning with its hand finished, copper exterior. And it’s not just Carron getting in on the copper act. Check out this range of stylish copper lighting from Habitat. Ideal for any room in the house – Warm and generally humid, bathrooms provide an ideal not just the bathroom. Bathroom environment for growing plants. Especially exotic species that may not do so well in other locations around the home. From a selection, habitat.co.uk Plantlife Here are some of our favourites. From a selection, ikea.com The idea for a universal marque Formica and the legendary to identify products made Thomas Crapper & Co. and in Britain was conceived by although the full list of members Stoves, the Prescot-based, world is diverse, they all have one famous cooker manufacturer. essential element in common. This lead to the development All members manufacture of the Made in Britain Campaign their products here, in Britain. which supports and promotes This results in money spent in British manufacturing, enabling the country being reinvested Carron Bathrooms are buyers and consumers, at home back into the economy. This proud to announce that and abroad to identify British- helps the industry and workforce we have renewed our made products. but also contributes to further membership of the Made Carron joined the campaign spread the message that British FICUS MICROCARPA GINSENG ORCHID in Britain campaign. in 2014 with the likes of Belling, manufacturing is booming. MARGINATA DRACAENA 06 CARRON MAGAZINE ISSUE 1 07 STRENGTH DURABILITY QUALITY DESIGNED TO LAST A LIFETIME Carronite was designed to take acrylic bath production to the next level and James McMorrine of Carron Bathrooms tells us why. crylic baths often have alternative to the strength of cast iron to overcome objections and steel. All without compromising from consumers, after all the benefits of acrylic; specifically how can plastic compare the heat retention of water and the Awith cast iron or steel? At Carron, opportunity to mould acrylic in ways a company with iron at the heart of simply not feasible in metals. its inception, that evolution began The installation of Carronite Baths in 1965, when the Carron Company is designed to simplify the process developed acrylic bath manufacturing. for installers, ensuring that Carronite It wasn’t until 20 years later that became, and remains, the Professional’s Carronite was first developed. choice. The process is also applied to Carronite was developed by the our panels, providing the strength you PHOTOGRAPHY MARK K SEAGER technical team to offer a genuine can only expect from Carronite. 08 CARRON MAGAZINE ISSUE 1 CARRONITE FEATURE 09 How did it begin? History tells us that not all innovative STRENGTH OF CARRONITE™ products find their way to greatness in the way that the designer intended and while Carronite may not have Carronite™ baths are stronger and heavier than weight requires a bespoke fitting system that had the same impact as Penicillin, standard acrylic baths. The additional finishing only adds to the stability and rigid feel of our its evolution from its infancy to the layers crafted during the Carronite™ process Carronite™ baths. These elements combined gold standard for bath manufacturing create a uniquely reinforced product. The added help deliver the Carronite™ experience. owes much to fortune as Commercial Director, James McMorrine explains… “Carronite was a production technique developed in the mid 1980’s when Carron Bathrooms was a very different company to today. The technical team were looking to STRONGER WARMER FOR LONGER PEACE OF MIND create a product targeting the contract It’s our patented process that Due to the extra finishing layers, We are so confident in the market, specifically the hotel sector, creates the added strength found Carronite™ baths are able to keep quality and finish of our Carronite™ where durability was a prerequisite to in all Carronite™ baths.