 Yes, please. It's time for Winner Home on Afternoon Express. Welcome back. This is the show where we follow three talented young designers as they transform three empty properties at Valdivia State into dream homes using finishes provided by Caesar Stone and Plaskon and at the end of it all we're giving away one of those completed apartments to you worth over three million rand. Now a bathroom is a space in the house where we get to unwind and relax. Well it is for me anyway and if such a space is beautifully designed and elegantly brought together the experience is that much more enjoyable. After a long, long day at work there is nothing like soaking in a bubble bath, not for me though, or taking a refreshing shower to get you started off for the day. More like me though. This afternoon we have Caesar Stone's marketing director Trevor King with us in the loft to share with us some of the latest trends when it comes to repairing your bathroom. Trevor, welcome to the loft. Thank you Danela, it's great to be here. I always love chatting with you because you've got some great pearls of wisdom beneath all your years working at Caesar Stone. It's been an incredible experience learning from you. Hopefully I'm going to be redoing my bathroom soon and incorporating all of your great products that you've created. So let's cut straight to the chase. I'm ADD. What are the trends for bathrooms in 2016? Well I think bathrooms in 2016, the bathroom is no longer the space behind that door. It's a clinical space that you've got to get cleaned in. It's now a place that you've got to refresh in, to rejuvenate in. And it's a moody place that relaxes you and it's good to go to and exciting to be in. So one thing that I realised the other day, I walked into the bathroom and we had a power outage and I tried to flip the switch and nothing happened. And I realised in that moment how much lighting affects the mood in those bathrooms. How much lighting can affect the experience in a bathroom. In your wisdom, what effect does lighting have on bathrooms and how can we incorporate great lighting into good bathrooms? Well having just been to Salon del Mobile in Milan, the bathroom lighting has changed a lot. It's not just a functional lighting anymore, it's now a moody lighting. It's providing the atmosphere, it's bringing the mood and it's very intentional and it's really great. It's a great element into the bathroom design. It definitely does. I mean some of the things you guys are seeing on screen right now are very exciting to see with the sort of darks that are thrown in there. And one thing I've also realised as you've mentioned the sort of white walls and the really clinical experience of the bathroom, which I think most places generically are, until I walked into a few of the hotels who are trying to experiment with this space and they've used really different colouring. What effect does colour have on trends for this year and what are some of those trends? I think you're right. I think the bathroom is no longer this room that's painted white and there's white tiles. There's a lot of colour in bathrooms now, especially muted tones, light pastels with flat off-whats and blacks. And quite a bit of wood mixed in with the colour. It creates an interesting space that's exciting that you can experiment in and that no two bathrooms have to look the same anymore. Absolutely. I think it's so funny because when we're looking for property, I think the first place we go into a house is always going to be the bathroom because it's one of the places you can experiment with. Is this place innovative? Is this place really thinking beyond just the bedroom and maybe the living room? Are they thinking about that bathroom, which I'm excited about? And I'm not much of a bathing person, but I promise you, if I walk into a hotel that's got an incredible bath or a guest house that's got an incredible bath, I will bath. What are some of the trends in terms of baths and basins for this year? Well, the baths that we saw are almost uniquely freestanding. No more built-in. They're curved and rounded and comfortable and soft. Often matte finishes. You know, comfortable baths to get into. And freestanding also seems to be one of those big trends with those baths. Everyone's trying to make their baths kind of freestanding. And if I'm not mistaken, I think some of our winter home contestants are working with those freestanding baths. So I'm excited to see how they are going with those baths. I think they're only in day three at the moment, so a lot of work still to be done. And one of the briefs that they've got for this bathroom is to incorporate caesar stone in there. And they were very excited about this because it's such a versatile product. How do you suggest incorporating something like caesar stone into a bathroom if you are renovating or building? Well, caesar stone is a great product to use in a bathroom because you can use it with such confidence, knowing that you can always clean it. It doesn't stain, it doesn't chip, it doesn't mark. It's great to build the vanity top out of. Oh, good advice. Absolutely. It's great to build floating shelves with. It's great on the floor. And to put full sheets on the walls behind the shower and just on the walls as a feature wall. It's a great product to use. We've got great marble-inspired colours. So you can do great things with caesar stone in a bathroom in particular. Yeah, exactly. And hopefully our contestants will be able to show that off when they complete their bathrooms in their main bedroom. It's always honour speaking to you on Afternoon Express. Thanks for joining us and sharing all your wisdom. Thank you so much for having me. It's great to be here. It's always such a pleasure. Now, pay some extra attention to the bathroom, guys. If I really can give you any advice, it would be that. And it can become the calming sanctuary where you can be at peace and obviously start your day off surrounded by breath and taking aesthetics or relax in a modern, particularly simplistic design. Remember that today is your last chance to vote for your favourite guest bedroom on privateproperty.co.za and stand a chance of winning paint from Plaskon to the value of 5,000 rand. You will also automatically be placed into the grand prize draw where you could win one of the completed apartments worth more than 3 million rand. Also, don't forget that entries for caesar stone's Kitchen of the Year 2016 is still open and will be open until the end of July. So if you have a beautifully designed kitchen, for instance, and it incorporates caesar stone that was installed any time between I think the 1st of January 2015 and the 31st of July this year, this can be your opportunity to win really, really big. Simply log on to caesarstone.co.za where you can enter and find more details as well as get all the Ts and Cs. Winner Home is proudly brought to you by privateproperty in association with Netbank. We'll be right back.