Learn about this week’s featured Student Design Competition winner. By Loren Kessell
The NKBA Student Design Competition gives student members the opportunity to flex their creative muscles and create spaces that are both beautiful and functional. The 2020-2021 competition, sponsored by Fisher & Paykel, featured the challenge of blending cultures in an Upstate New York cottage for a fictional couple named Owen and Deepa. Each week we’ll highlight one of the winners.
Holli Jacobsen, a student at Weber State University, embraced the peacock inspiration for the bathroom with dramatic colors and patterns. This included using colorful tile, cabinetry and bohemian-style peacock wallpaper.
Submissions for this year’s Student Design Competition are open through Monday, June 6. Click here to submit >
The space was converted from a home library into a fully accessible main floor bathroom for Deepa’s mother, and it has a 60” turn radius, grab bars, shower benches, storage within reach and levered switches and controls.
Deepa wanted to retain a sense of luxury, so Jacobsen included LEED-certified calcutta marble porcelain slabs for the shower benches, antique brass fixtures and SmartGlass windows that change from opaque to transparent. Sustainability was the other critical request, so to fulfill this request the bathroom features a tankless water heater, low-flow fixtures, low-VOC paint and High-R Value Insulation.
Submissions for the 2021-2022 Student Design Competition are open, and students must submit their projects here by Monday, June 6.
