A Wattle Grove Bathroom Renovation in Babylon Villa B and Symphony Mossy Meadow

When Janine Parker of Wattle Grove, Western Australia began her main bathroom renovation, the brief was confident — she wanted texture, scale and a feature wall that would do all the design heavy lifting on its own. The completed bathroom is a textbook example of how three large-format COCO tiles, used in clearly defined zones, can deliver a luxurious, considered space without a single decorative inset or busy mosaic.

Three Tiles, Three Zones

This bathroom uses three COCO tiles, each placed strategically. Behind the floating timber vanity sits the room's hero: the Babylon Series Villa B Embossed Matte 500x1200mm Ceramic Tile, a stone-look ceramic with a subtle three-dimensional embossed pattern that catches the bathroom lighting and turns the wall into a quiet sculptural piece. Across the rest of the wet area walls, Janine has installed the Babylon White Embossed companion tile in the same series, which keeps the embossed texture language consistent across the room while letting the Villa B feature wall do the talking. On the floor, the deep, dramatic Symphony Mossy Meadow 600x1200mm Porcelain Tile in a moody charcoal-green stone-look porcelain anchors the entire room.

Why the Babylon Embossed Range Works for Modern Bathrooms

Embossed wall tiles are having a moment in Australian bathroom design, and the Babylon series shows why. Unlike printed pattern tiles, an embossed tile creates a true three-dimensional shadow line — the pattern visibly changes throughout the day as the natural and artificial light hits it from different angles. Used on a single feature wall (as Janine has done behind the vanity), the effect is closer to limewash plaster or hand-finished concrete than traditional tile, but with all the durability and waterproofing of a glazed ceramic. The 500×1200 mm format also minimises grout lines, which is exactly what you want when you are showcasing a textured surface.

Why Symphony Mossy Meadow Was the Right Floor

Specifying a moody floor tile in a small-to-medium bathroom can feel risky, but it is one of the most reliable ways to ground a room with light walls. The Symphony Mossy Meadow porcelain reads as deep stone — almost slate-like — with subtle natural variation across each large 600×1200 mm tile. By keeping the floor dark and the walls light and textured, Janine has created a bathroom that feels much larger than its footprint, while still delivering that hotel-suite sense of layered materiality. The matte porcelain finish is also slip-rated and stain-resistant, ticking the practical boxes that wet-area floors demand.

Get the Look in Your Own Renovation

If you are planning a bathroom renovation and love the discipline of this Wattle Grove project, start with the Babylon Collection for embossed wall feature options, and the Symphony Collection for large-format stone-look floors that ground the room. Together, they form one of COCO's most balanced "feature plus field" combinations.

Featured tiles: Babylon Villa B Embossed (vanity feature), Babylon White Embossed (field walls) and Symphony Mossy Meadow (floor)

Customer: Janine Parker

Location: Wattle Grove, WA

Project type: Private residence — full bathroom renovation

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