10 Bathroom Pieces I’d Buy From The Blue Space Right Now
I get asked for my shopping list more than almost anything else. Not “what’s on trend” — people want to know what I’d actually put in a bathroom if I were the one paying for it. So here it is: ten The Blue Space bathroom picks I’d happily spec right now, with honest notes on who each one suits and where I’d spend versus save.
Quick disclosure: Some links in this post are affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission—and you may get a discount—if you make a purchase through them. I only include pieces I’d genuinely recommend, and the honest notes below are exactly what I’d tell a paying client.
How I actually picked these
Three filters. First, would I put it in a client’s home and still be happy with it in ten years? Second, is the price fair for what you’re getting — not cheap, fair? Third, does it solve a real problem rather than just looking good in a product shot. A few of these are unashamedly pretty. Most of them are quietly practical. Prices below are approximate and were correct when I wrote this, so treat them as a guide rather than gospel.
A note on the prices
Every price on this list was correct at the time of writing, and bathroom stock moves faster than almost any other category I shop. Ranges get discontinued, finishes sell out, and the piece that was on run-out in March is back to full price by August. Treat these numbers as a guide, not a quote.
The good news is that the surprise usually goes the right way. The Blue Space runs brand-specific discount codes and free shipping thresholds that come and go, so the number you see at checkout is often better than the one written here. Have a look at what’s running before you commit — and if you’re buying several pieces, put them through in one order rather than three.
1. Otti Byron Fluted Wall Hung Vanity, Woodland Oak — from around $970
If you’ve saved a bathroom to a Pinterest board in the last two years, it probably looked something like this. Warm fluted oak, crisp white ceramic top, wall hung so the floor runs underneath it. The fluting is what does the work — it catches light and gives a small bathroom some texture without adding a single millimetre of clutter. Available from 600mm right up to a 1500mm double bowl. Who it suits: mid-range renovations where you want one piece to carry the whole room. The ceramic top keeps the price sane. Just make sure your bathroom has decent ventilation — fluted timber and permanent steam are not friends.
2. Ingrain Curved Fluted Wall Hung Vanity — from around $950
This is the one that surprises people on price. Real timber veneer, curved ends, fluted front — the shape you normally see in a magazine with no price tag attached — and the cabinet-only version starts under $1,000. Who it suits: anyone getting a stone benchtop fabricated anyway, because buying it without a top only makes sense if you’ve already got that covered. If you’re not doing stone, take the version with the porcelain top and don’t look back. One honest caveat: curved ends look beautiful but they do eat usable bench width, so I’d only go curved at 900mm or wider.
3. Ingrain Round Fluted Powder Room Vanity, 400mm — around $1,440
A completely round, fluted column vanity. It reads as a piece of furniture rather than joinery, and I haven’t seen anything else quite like it from an Australian supplier. Who it suits: a powder room—and honestly, only a powder room. At 400mm, you usually get essentially zero storage, but with this one, you actually do! Even though nobody will store a lot in it, having a couple of shelves for extra toilet paper, hand wash, a hand towel, or cleaning products you don’t want visible is a nice touch. If you’ve got a small, awkward downstairs loo you’ve been ignoring, this is the piece that fixes it in one move.
4. Caroma Urbane II Back to Wall Freestanding Bath — from around $1,860
The best value on this entire list, and it isn’t close — this one has been sitting at close to half its usual price. Caroma is a major Australian brand with parts and support you can actually get hold of in ten years, which is not true of every bath sold online. Who it suits: almost everyone, and especially small bathrooms. Back-to-wall gives you the freestanding silhouette without the strip of floor and grout behind a true freestanding tub that you’ll be cleaning for the rest of your life. The 1400mm is one of the few good small-bathroom baths on the market.
5. Bao Fluted 1700mm Back to Corner Bath, Matte White — around $2,130
The bath in the photo at the top of this post. Fluted, matte white, and designed to tuck back into a corner rather than float in the middle of a room you don’t have. Who it suits: a standard Australian bathroom, roughly 2m x 3m, where you want the freestanding look and simply don’t have the floor area for a true freestanding tub. It’s the smart compromise. One thing worth knowing: matte white needs non-abrasive cleaning products to stay looking new. No scouring powder, ever.
6. Caroma Luna Lead Free Basin Mixer, Brushed Brass — around $216
Brushed brass tapware from a brand you’ve heard of, for a bit over $200. That’s the entire pitch, and it’s a good one — people routinely spend three times this on a basin mixer without getting three times the tap. The “lead free” part matters more than it used to: since 1 May 2026, Australian plumbing work has had to use WaterMark-certified lead-free products for anything touching drinking water. If your plumber starts work now, this is not optional. Who it suits: most people. The Luna is a clean, unfussy shape rather than a statement piece — which is exactly right when your budget is better spent on the vanity.
7. Meir Paddle Round Basin Mixer, Tiger Bronze — around $330
If the Caroma is the sensible choice, this is the one you’ll actually want. Tiger Bronze is a warm, slightly gold-bronze finish, and the flat paddle handle is a small detail that makes a basin feel considered rather than builder-standard. Who it suits: someone willing to commit. And I do mean commit — a warm bronze finish has to be carried across every fitting in the room, including the shower, the towel rail and the toilet button. One bronze tap in a room of chrome looks like a mistake, not a feature. Decide at the start, not halfway through.
8. Ingrain Arch Brushed Gold Framed Mirror, 500 x 900mm — around $380
An arched mirror in brushed gold, under $400. This is the cheapest way I know to make a plain bathroom look designed, because the arch breaks up all the hard rectangles a bathroom is otherwise made of. Who it suits: a vanity with no other gold in the room, or a room where the tapware is already brushed gold or brass. What you don’t want is gold mirror plus chrome tap plus black shower — pick a lane. Also worth saying: this is a mirror, not a cabinet, so you’ll need storage elsewhere.
9. Ingrain Ash Pill Shaving Cabinet — from around $470
This one solves a problem I get asked about constantly: “I want a soft-shaped mirror but I need the storage.” A pill-shaped timber-framed mirror that opens to reveal a cabinet behind it. You keep the curve, you keep the shelves. Who it suits: almost any bathroom where the mirror sits above the vanity. Be realistic about depth though — it’s a toothbrush, skincare and medicine cabinet, not somewhere to hide a hair dryer. If this is your only storage, size up the vanity instead.
10. Thermogroup 7 Bar Heated Towel Ladder, Brushed Brass — around $700
A brass heated towel ladder is the single fastest way to make a bathroom feel like a hotel rather than a room in a house. It also does something useful, which not every luxury does — in a Melbourne winter, a heated rail is the difference between towels that dry and towels that quietly go mouldy. Who it suits: anyone renovating properly, because this is a decision you have to make early. It needs a hardwired circuit sorted at rough-in stage. You cannot add it later without opening a wall, so if you think you might want one, run the cable now even if you don’t buy the rail yet.
Bonus 11. Bao Elegant 1500mm Back to Wall Bath— around $1600
This bathrub is so elegant the shadow line details at the bottom make it looks like a ceramic bowl. the best thing, it is a back to wall as well but it is so free standing look! if you happen to have a lot of curver, rounded basin or vanity, you can totatlly match the curve and pattern with this special bath.
Three things to check before you click buy
One: your waste and tap hole configuration. Before you fall for a vanity, find out where your plumbing rough-in actually sits. A wall hung vanity in particular assumes the waste comes out of the wall, not the floor, and changing that is a plumber and a wall repair, not a five-minute job. Tap holes matter too — a top drilled for nothing means wall-mounted tapware, which is another set of pipes in another place.
Two: spout reach and height. Check the tapware against the basin you have chosen, not against the styled photo on the product page. A tall basin with a short spout means the water hits the rim instead of the bowl, and you only find out once it’s installed. You want the spout clearing the rim comfortably and the stream landing somewhere near the middle.
Three: lead free compliance. From 1 May 2026, all plumbing products in contact with drinking water in Australia have to meet the new lead-free requirements, so it’s worth checking that any tapware you buy is compliant — I’ve linked the details up at the Caroma Luna above. It applies to every tap and mixer in the room, not just the showy one.
What I’d skip
Matching accessory sets — the toilet roll holder, robe hook and towel ring all bought together in the same finish. They’re cheap, they’re tempting, and they’re the fastest way to make a bathroom look like a display suite. Buy the towel rail you’ll actually use and leave the rest. I’d also skip a very cheap unbranded vanity to save a few hundred dollars. Vanities take more abuse than anything else in the room, and the cheap ones fail at the drawer runners and the sealing around the basin, usually somewhere around year three.
Making the finishes talk to each other
You don’t need every metal in the room to match. You do need one finish that’s clearly in charge. Pick a dominant finish for the pieces you touch daily — the basin mixer, the shower set, the towel rail — say brushed brass, and then let a second finish appear only once or twice, in a mirror frame or a shower screen. Two finishes reads as considered. Four reads as accidental, because at four nobody can tell which one you meant.
The other thing worth knowing is that warm metals mix with each other far more easily than a warm metal mixes with chrome. Brass, bronze and aged gold all sit in the same family, so a slight mismatch between them reads as patina rather than error. Put brass next to chrome and it mostly reads as running out of budget halfway through the room.
If you’re only buying one thing
Spend on the vanity. It’s the largest object in the room, it’s the thing you touch every single day, and it’s the piece that dates a bathroom fastest when it’s wrong. Tapware you can change in an afternoon. A mirror you can swap for a hundred dollars. A vanity is a weekend, a plumber and a lot of swearing. Get that one right and the rest of the room has a lot of room to be ordinary.
One last practical note: The Blue Space runs brand-specific discount codes and free shipping thresholds fairly regularly, so it’s worth a quick look at what’s running before you check out. It’s often the difference between paying full freight and not.
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