bathroom ideas?
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We are thinking of redoing our main bathroom.
We will also be either selling or renting our house out next year so, our main critera is it must appeal to a wide range of people, which is why I am asking you lot for suggestions
I installed the original suite 11 years ago in a traditional ivory colour style.
The house is also very traditional (built in 1920) with loads of original features, fireplaces, etc. It's a 3 bed house with 2 ensuites, market value about £600k in what was a very desirable area (until we moved in!)
I can't decide if a modern look would be the way to go? Thinking of a mosaic type ceramic floor and def have the suite in white. How about jacuzzi type bath?
Any ideas welcome!
Cheers
We will also be either selling or renting our house out next year so, our main critera is it must appeal to a wide range of people, which is why I am asking you lot for suggestions
I installed the original suite 11 years ago in a traditional ivory colour style.
The house is also very traditional (built in 1920) with loads of original features, fireplaces, etc. It's a 3 bed house with 2 ensuites, market value about £600k in what was a very desirable area (until we moved in!)
I can't decide if a modern look would be the way to go? Thinking of a mosaic type ceramic floor and def have the suite in white. How about jacuzzi type bath?
Any ideas welcome!
Cheers
Get a double ended bath with the taps at the side so no-one sit with the taps in their back. If you are fitting the shower over the bath, put the shower rose on the long side so you don't touch elbows on anything.
If you want space saving ideas, Ideal Standard are a good place to start.
If you want space saving ideas, Ideal Standard are a good place to start.
henrycrun said:
Get a double ended bath with the taps at the side so no-one sit with the taps in their back. If you are fitting the shower over the bath, put the shower rose on the long side so you don't touch elbows on anything.
If you want space saving ideas, Ideal Standard are a good place to start.
This is good advice IMHO. Absolutely go for a white suite, chrome taps, modern but not ultra-modern. Neutral tiles. Neutral floor. Also I would personally fit a sIf you want space saving ideas, Ideal Standard are a good place to start.
tter with a hidden cistern (i.e. a back to wall pan). Never quite understood why people tolerate whacking great soil pipes being visible when it's not necessary. It's really no more expensive to hide it all, especially if you're doing the whole room anyway. Decent towel rail. Underfloor heating would be nice I guess. 
Television, DVD player integrated with a control system linked to an electronic fawcet with additive injection and lighting.
Up to 5 presets, for different members of the family with up to 5 additives in the flow from a medical grade metering system.
Press a button on the touchscreen, bath fills to pre-defined height you like your bath at, with a choice of additives, at your specific temperature. When bath is full DVD starts, lights dim. When DVD finishes bath drains, lights come up, when bath is drained television switches off.
You owe yourself the little luxuries in life I think.
Up to 5 presets, for different members of the family with up to 5 additives in the flow from a medical grade metering system.
Press a button on the touchscreen, bath fills to pre-defined height you like your bath at, with a choice of additives, at your specific temperature. When bath is full DVD starts, lights dim. When DVD finishes bath drains, lights come up, when bath is drained television switches off.
You owe yourself the little luxuries in life I think.
Here's my 50p worth.
I recommend either:
Period/art deco sanitaryware and furniture such as Imperial Bathrooms Westminster or Astoria Deco with a freestanding BC Designs Deco bath, or if you must have jets then a tiled in Carron carronite Britannia super deep bath. Imperial also have some lovely taps too such as the Crystal 3-hole mixer. You can make the bathroom look a little more classical without being olde worlde!
OR
Modern-Laufen living W.C and basin with a Carron carronite Sigma whirlpool bath. When designing bathrooms for your type of house and the client doesnt want period items I normally try to select something modern that still retains a little elegance or beauty. For brassware have a look at Gessi and Crosswater. IMHO the Living range from Laufen is one of the more timeless ranges, modern but elegant and not too chunky, angular or 'way out'. For bathroom furniture try DECOTEC who have some quirky French designed pieces.
Tiles can make a massive difference too. Have a look at ABK Incanto tiles - they can suit modern and early 20th century settings with a good range of tiles and listellos.
All these items are readily available and are towards the higher end of the market but definitely not silly money items.
I recommend either:
Period/art deco sanitaryware and furniture such as Imperial Bathrooms Westminster or Astoria Deco with a freestanding BC Designs Deco bath, or if you must have jets then a tiled in Carron carronite Britannia super deep bath. Imperial also have some lovely taps too such as the Crystal 3-hole mixer. You can make the bathroom look a little more classical without being olde worlde!
OR
Modern-Laufen living W.C and basin with a Carron carronite Sigma whirlpool bath. When designing bathrooms for your type of house and the client doesnt want period items I normally try to select something modern that still retains a little elegance or beauty. For brassware have a look at Gessi and Crosswater. IMHO the Living range from Laufen is one of the more timeless ranges, modern but elegant and not too chunky, angular or 'way out'. For bathroom furniture try DECOTEC who have some quirky French designed pieces.
Tiles can make a massive difference too. Have a look at ABK Incanto tiles - they can suit modern and early 20th century settings with a good range of tiles and listellos.
All these items are readily available and are towards the higher end of the market but definitely not silly money items.
Simpo Two said:
I've looked round a few wedding venues and ultra modern bathrooms go very well in any house regardless of period or status. The 'wow' factor is based on travertine, and plenty of it 
Just take a wander round a few bathroom showrooms.
I'm sick of bloody travertine -it's so boring! Nowadays there are leathergrain and metallic tiles not to mention those that replicate wallpaper patterns, which don't have to look tacky if well chosen. Bookmatched marble? OOOOH yes please!I know what you mean though, clean crisp designs, large format rectified tiles, work really well and the tile choice can make or break a design.Just take a wander round a few bathroom showrooms.
Red Kite said:
Villeroy & Boch
Nice but it's too easy an answer. Inda Progetto, Flaminia, Antonio Lupi, Laufen, Catalano can all make sanitaryware and furniture to match and exceed the quality and style of V&B. These companies do not have such a well established name to rely upon so their products must do the business instead.[quote=Plotloss]Television, DVD player integrated with a control system linked to an electronic fawcet with additive injection and lighting.
Do you have any advice on either sound or visual systems for a bathroom? I am thinking of putting a speaker in as a minimum. Idea would be to have it conected to by sky so I could listen to what ever I was watching or put music channel on.
Alternatives would be a speaker/radio.
And depending on cost a small tv?
Thoughts?
Thanks
P
Do you have any advice on either sound or visual systems for a bathroom? I am thinking of putting a speaker in as a minimum. Idea would be to have it conected to by sky so I could listen to what ever I was watching or put music channel on.
Alternatives would be a speaker/radio.
And depending on cost a small tv?
Thoughts?
Thanks
P
gtr-gaz said:
The house is also very traditional (built in 1920) with loads of original features, fireplaces, etc.
in that case keep the bathroom as traditional as you can - a modern bathroom will date but will also be at odds with the rest of the housealso try and use as little as glass as possible - it looks crap after a couple of weeks with limescale build up and stream
Plotloss said:
Television, DVD player integrated with a control system linked to an electronic fawcet with additive injection and lighting.
Up to 5 presets, for different members of the family with up to 5 additives in the flow from a medical grade metering system.
Press a button on the touchscreen, bath fills to pre-defined height you like your bath at, with a choice of additives, at your specific temperature. When bath is full DVD starts, lights dim. When DVD finishes bath drains, lights come up, when bath is drained television switches off.
You owe yourself the little luxuries in life I think.
This is what I currently have designed into my new bathroom. I have a touchscreen LCD mounted in a false wall made of light oak. A Kingsized Whirlpool bath which has had the onboard electronics bypassed and is now controlled by a Siemens S7 212 PLC, with code I wrote myself. I can send a text message to my bath and it will fill to the corrent level and keep the temperature to + or - 3 degrees using a Drayton controller with hysteresis function. I can add bubble bath depending on what text I send, and I am commisioning the 'on time' of the jacuzi pumps so that it doesnt turn the bathroom into a huge foam party like it did first time I tried it Up to 5 presets, for different members of the family with up to 5 additives in the flow from a medical grade metering system.
Press a button on the touchscreen, bath fills to pre-defined height you like your bath at, with a choice of additives, at your specific temperature. When bath is full DVD starts, lights dim. When DVD finishes bath drains, lights come up, when bath is drained television switches off.
You owe yourself the little luxuries in life I think.
The bath itself has inbuilt FM radio, cd input (which is connected to my audio setup) and telephone pickup via a phone-pair for one of the landlines. I stream CCTV to the monitor via a HTML page and I interface the Home Automation via a PLC-X10 interface. I can unlock the front door after seeing who is there on the touchscreen, or I can stream music or HDDVD media from my Windows Home Server which is downstairs. I have access to 8TB of film and 1TB of music and the bathroom has its own sound system which is currently going in at the moment which is all based on premium JBL car audio for speakers which are going to be sunk into the wall (cos they are waterproof) and they are giving them away. The amps are from the same company at £27 each
and I have two of them which will be running four pairs.. These are powered by a big PC PSU Oh the electronics fawcet is crap (well mine are, and I have a few different types) they look good but don't work well. I am going back to waterfall taps which I can control better with discrete PIR's or laser machine guards so they are invisible. I am, amongst other things an automation engineer, so I am used to building high tech gadgets for the rich and famous.
Oh, and I fast becoming a prune
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