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A bathroom wall that still looks new — six years on

This bathroom had the same problem as many others: the ceiling above the sink sloped and broke into several angles, and the walls met at a run of sharp corners that no single tile size or flat cladding would have hidden well. Rather than try to hide the shapes, we measured them precisely and let the wall cladding work with them instead of fighting them.

The result is built from CNC-routed panels in a deliberate diagonal pattern that carries on the angles already in the ceiling. The panels are finished in a steel-look interior film, and the narrow strips between them are filmed to match the existing furniture in the home, so the wall reads as part of the room rather than a new layer on top of it. An LED strip is set into one corner and lights the line where ceiling meets wall, and the bathroom's ventilation duct is cut into the pattern rather than boxed off, so it reads as part of the geometry instead of breaking it.

The footage here was shot now, not when the work was done — this is a revisit to a job installed around six years ago. The film is unbroken, the joints are straight and the lighting still works exactly as it did on the day it went in.

Preiss Workshop — Mosfellsbær
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