Frontline Bathrooms’ Aqua brand wins Best bathroom tap at the Ideal Home Awards 2026

Frontline Bathrooms’ Aqua brand has won Best bathroom tap at the Ideal Home Awards 2026 for its Mineral Flute brassware collection.

The award recognises Mineral Flute as a commercially relevant brassware range that combines a current fluted design detail with the practical specification requirements needed for bathroom retail, showroom and project environments.

The collection features an integrated fluted surface across a restrained contemporary profile, giving retailers a design-led tap option that responds to demand for textured finishes and more detailed brassware without moving into overly decorative styling.

Mineral Flute is available across basin mixers, wall-mounted mixers, bath fillers and floorstanding bath shower mixers, allowing the same design language to be specified throughout a bathroom scheme rather than limited to one fitting.

The collection is offered in a wide choice of finishes, including chrome, matt black, brushed brass, gunmetal and brushed bronze, giving retailers flexibility across both cooler contemporary bathrooms and warmer, more tonal schemes.

Aqua brassware is manufactured from solid brass and uses ceramic disc cartridges for reliable operation. The brassware body is backed by a lifetime guarantee, with a five-year guarantee on internal cartridges. Selected finishes also incorporate PVD technology to improve resistance to scratching and tarnishing, while many models carry WRAS approval, confirming compliance with UK water regulations.

The Ideal Home Awards recognise products across the homes and interiors market, with the Best bathroom tap category highlighting products that combine strong design appeal with practical use in real homes.

Darren Allison, Managing Director at Frontline Bathrooms, says: “We are delighted that Mineral Flute has been recognised by the Ideal Home Awards. For retailers and installers, brassware needs to offer more than a trend-led finish; it has to be well made, straightforward to specify and suitable across a range of bathroom projects. Mineral Flute gives customers the textured detail they are looking for, while still offering the performance, finish choice and product breadth needed for everyday bathroom specification.”