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Latest looks for kitchens and bathrooms

Combine design trends with Clipsal smart home technology

Kitchens and bathrooms might be functional spaces, but they still offer plenty of scope for adding style, personality, and touches of luxury. Discover the latest trends for these rooms and see how you can make them work at your place.

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Nature meets smart homes

Connection with nature is at the forefront of great design today. Known as ‘biophilic design’, it sees architects and interiors experts creating spaces that help people better connect with natural elements in their daily life. Picture windows to maximise views, skylights to add natural light, raised ceilings for a spacious feel, and an emphasis on natural finishes all combine for a more pleasurable, relaxing experience in our homes.

In kitchens and bathrooms, this means natural light combined with tailored lighting design, use of stone, wood, and marble, nature-inspired colour palettes for tiles and accessories, and more organic shapes in benches, basins and mirrors. Smart home automation is also integrated to make these rooms more intuitive — allowing each person to curate lighting, climate control, music and other elements to enhance how they want to use the space.

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Create moments with Wiser

Clipsal Wiser is a scalable smart home system that lets you do all of those things whether you’re building new or in an existing home, as it doesn’t require any special wiring. Control it from the Wiser by SE app on your smart device, whether you’re at home or anywhere else, and easily add more products over time. Wiser also helps you tailor your home to how you want to live. With ‘Wiser Moments’ you can link a selection of activities to a single ‘Moment’ in the app.

A ‘Morning Moment’ might turn on the bathroom underfloor heating, adjust the lights to a cool white setting to mimic natural light and help wake you up, and play the news or music over the audio system. A ‘Dinner Prep Moment’ could turn on the lights in the kitchen and pantry, boost the brightness for any task lighting and start your favourite play list.

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Two young girls walking together in a brightly lit bathroom, surrounded by colourful towels and bathroom fixtures.
A woman sits in a bathtub surrounded by calming decor and soft lighting.
Two young girls walking together in a brightly lit bathroom, surrounded by colourful towels and bathroom fixtures.

A spa at your place

Bathrooms are becoming sanctuary-like spaces — evoking luxury spas or high-end hotels. Create your own retreat by planning how your fixtures, electrical features and overall design aesthetic can work together. Bathrooms need a combination of task and ambient lighting. Backlit LED mirrors are ideal for illuminating your face from both sides or in front. Downlights are great for maximum light but add dimmers so you can set a more relaxed scene too.

Use LED strip lights under vanities and link them to a motion sensor to activate dimmed lighting at night. Add a feeling of luxury by using them in shower niches, recessed at the top of walls, or under display shelving. Want to really stand out? Hang a chandelier or other feature light over a freestanding bath for instant impact.

Capture that spa feeling by bringing touches of nature inside. Choose natural stone tiles, a vanity and storage cupboards with wood finishes, or a vessel basin in stone. You can also add stone or marble in soap dispensers or accessory trays, fluffy towels in sage or forest tones, and a lush pot plant. Finish the scene with a beautiful candle or diffuser so you’re greeted by your favourite fragrance every time you walk in.

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Add Wiser features

Add useful smart home features like a Wiser Temperature/Humidity Sensor to trigger the exhaust fan when needed and shut it off again when the air has cleared. Wiser Connected Power Points can be set to turn off automatically or even remotely for tools like straighteners that might be left on accidentally. They’re also ideal for energy efficiency, like scheduling heated towel rails. A Wiser Water Leak Sensor under the vanity or next to the bath can send a notification to your phone if a leak or overflow occurs.

Smart showers offering temperature and pressure control through touch screen or voice control, smart mirrors, and motion sensor taps are all adding to the level of smarts in today’s bathrooms too. This is all part of what Clipsal calls “Electric Home Design”. It’s a great way to start thinking about how you want your home to work for you and how to achieve it — from smart home technology to lighting and finding the perfect switches and power points to complement your style.

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A modern kitchen featuring elegant marble countertops and a clean, minimalist design.
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A modern kitchen featuring elegant marble countertops and a clean, minimalist design.

The heart of the home

Kitchens today are multi-purpose and need to blend practicality and style for a space that everyone enjoys using. Today’s kitchen designs incorporate rounded stone or marble benches with nature-inspired colours in textured tiled splashbacks or feature walls. Wood is used in cabinetry or in floor-to-ceiling slats as a room divider.

Consider adding personality through your kitchen appliances — choose a coloured fridge or group a matching toaster, kettle and blender on the bench. Storage trends are for customised solutions to achieve a streamlined space. Consider pull-out drawers with built-in bottle holders or spice racks, ‘appliance garages’ for storing microwaves, coffee machines or air fryers, and curated drawer interiors for utensils, pots and pans. Designers are also creating ‘zones’ for coffee preparation or pet food and treats.

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How to create your dream kitchen

Create a versatile kitchen

Butler’s pantries are still popular for second sinks or a place to store larger appliances and other items. Kitchens benefit from plenty of natural light as well as task lighting above benches — downlights and LED strip lights are perfect for this. Add a motion sensor to the pantry for automatic lighting when you walk in. A single striking feature light over the end or middle of an island adds flair, while LED strip lighting under benches, open shelving, cupboards, or on toe kicks adds a soft glow of warmth.

Be sure to plan your kitchen’s electrical components at the beginning of your project so you don’t find yourself short of power points or other electrical features that would have made life easier. Add power points with built-in USB Type-C Fast Charger to remove bulky chargers from bench tops and free up power points for other things too.

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Luxury with the Clipsal Solis™ Collection

Finish the look with the latest in luxurious electrical design: the new Clipsal Solis™ range of switches and power points. Clipsal Solis combines world-class design with smart home capabilities, linking seamlessly with the Clipsal Wiser system.

Clipsal Solis T-Series is the perfect complement to kitchen or bathroom tapware in brushed brass or black thanks to its choice of finishes in Brushed Brass, Platinum Aluminium, Ebony Aluminium, and White Ceramic. It blends the old-school feel of robust toggles with modernist, perfect square edges and thin, flush covers, transforming everyday interactions into something special.

You can also change the toggle switch adaptors to create a customised colour combination for your home. Talk to your electrician about combining different finishes in toggles and covers for a unique look.

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