Baths in the Bedroom

Times Online: Would you want a bath in the beedroom? Mark Macauley, a documentary-maker from London, did. His three-bedroom flat in South Kensington has an elegant drawing room with the original 1890s shutters and stained-glass windows in the dining room, but the most eye-catching feature is undoubtedly the handmade £5,200 copper-clad bath that takes centre stage in the master bedroom.
The inspiration was not just the colonial splendour of African safari lodges that Macauley, 53, has visited over the years, but also Babington House hotel in Somerset, where three of the 32 rooms have baths by the beds and Room Six — Madonna’s favourite — has one on the balcony.
Chris Sanderson, a director at the Future Laboratory, a trend-forecasting consultancy, says people increasingly want their own homes to be like the hotels where they stayed on holiday — especially the bathrooms. “It has made us realise they didn’t have to be poky places where we knocked our elbows against a mouldy shower door,” he says. “We now want wet rooms, scented candles and shelves full of gorgeous bath products.” If anything, he says, the practice appears to have increased during the recession.
Baths in the bedroom: the chic of it [Times Online]