Axor: Create your Dream Bathroom

Having a large bathroom with all the features charming and modern concept is a very definite wish is owned by everyone; the bathroom is no longer just a space for one’s personal hygiene. Today’s design possibilities for bathrooms are limitless.

Axor stands for the diversity and fascination of individual lifestyles in the bathroom. Comprehensive and individual bathroom collections are created in cooperation with some of the world’s most successful designers. These collections are as individual and different as people themselves, and propose multiple different styles: from lively, charming living rooms/bathrooms in one to nature-inspired havens of peace.

Axor collections include taps, showers, baths and basins to fully compliment each designer's bathroom concept.

But Axor offers more than just excellent design. The company also develops solutions that adapt to changing consumer needs and meet the diverse design requirements for this particular living space. It is not the individual product, however, that takes centre stage but the interaction between water, person and space. Axor’s visionary concept in combination with Hansgrohe’s over 100-year experience in the sanitary sector have secured Axor’s place as a designer brand of the highest quality.

Axor collections can be found in the Burj Khalifa as well as the Yoo Apartments in Manhattan, the Bulgari Hotels of Milan and Bali, the Grand Hyatt in Shanghai, the Else Club in Moscow, as well as on the Queen Mary II. The Axor brand manager is Philippe Grohe, grandson of the company’s founder, Hansgrohe.

Axor is a special design furniture and bathroom. Axor prioritizes peace and comfort in accordance with what you want. The ideas from Hansgrohe are very unique, luxurious and beautiful. Hopefully Axor can provide inspiration for your bathroom.

Visit Farrey's Lighting and Bath, our experts will help you create your dream bathroom.

Ready for the Oscars? 7 Ways to Set Up a Home Theater Style Family Room

Gearing up for a night at the Oscars in the comfort of your own home? Or do you just love movie nights? Family room designs with a home theater style make for some serious TV watching!

Here's how to make it happen...

1. Choose a flat screen, high-definition TV in proportion to your room. Simply measure, in inches, the distance from your sofa or living room furniture arrangement to the TV. Divide by 2 to find the maximum-sized TV screen for your room; divide by 3 to find the minimum-sized TV.

2. Add additional speakers behind your seating furniture placement for the ultimate surround-sound theater experience!

3. Face all seats so they have a good view of the TV. Authentic home theater rooms resemble real theaters… all attention on the TV than the view of each other.

4. Darken the room. Paint the walls in a deeper tone and keep daylight out with light-blocking blinds or shades. Use a dimmer switch or 3-way bulbs for lighting fixtures. For real home theater-style ambiance, add floor lights – a rope light around the baseboard or just a few floor spotlights that light just the walkway.

5. Choose the most comfortable chairs or sofas you can find. Furniture tip: individual reclining seats with a high back feel most theater-like and put us into instant relax mode.

6. Keep blankets nearby. Dark rooms feel cool; they also make us want to snuggle into our chairs and escape reality. For scary movies, they're a must.

7. Add a popcorn maker. Nothing identifies move-centric family room designs like the aroma of popping kernels. Free-standing, theater-style popcorn makers are popular today - so they're easier to find and afford!

Happy TV watching!

Bright Tips: Romance your Home

Whether you live alone or with your true love, every room in your home should evoke emotions and excite your senses.

It doesn’t matter whether you rent an apartment or own a home, there are some very simple things you can do to add some romance to your home that will have a huge impact.

• Add dimmers to your lighting fixtures. Everyone looks better in soft lighting, and dimming the lights can really change the mood of a room.
• Display lots of photos of family and friends. Remember how special those occasions were? They bring a smile to your face, don’t they?
• Light a fire and sit and enjoy. If it’s a warm weather season, fill the fireplace with candles instead. It’s still very romantic…
• Use your good china and crystal more, even if there are no guests. Why not? You are worth it.
• Turn off the television and put on some music. It doesn’t matter what kind of music, as long as it makes you feel good.
• Don’t wait for someone else to buy you flowers, buy a beautiful bouquet of flowers for yourself, just because…
• Scatter candles all around. What’s your favorite scent?
• Add texture. Whether it’s silk throw pillows for the couch, luxurious bedding, or a warm throw to cuddle up in, they will feel great against your skin.
• Replace an overhead light with a chandelier. There are some many beautiful designs for any room in your home. Very romantic…
• Put out some delicious chocolates for yourself, share if you must. How decadent!

GRAFF: Beautiful, Sensual. Modern

The bedroom is not the only part of the house that can spark romance. You can also heat things up in the bathroom by creating a spa-like retreat where you and the one you love can take a bath together and relax after a long day. Graff can help you make your bathroom spa like and romantic.

Graff Faucets offers both thermostatic and traditional luxury shower heads and hardware. GRAFF’s products embody the essence of refined elegance, bringing a touch of discreet yet alluring cutting-edge luxury to the most intimate rooms of your home, filling the most familiar moments and gestures of daily life with aesthetic vibrancy.

Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, with locations throughout Europe, GRAFF® is recognized globally for its European design aesthetic and engineering excellence. Internationally recognized as an avant-garde manufacturer of exciting and trend-setting bathroom and kitchen fixtures, Graff has built its reputation as an interpreter and protagonist of modern lifestyle, bringing creativity and inspiration into many homes, and as a company, being keenly aware of human and environmental issues and values.

Come to Farrey's and visit Graff's new display, our experts can answer any question and suggest you products for your project.