Bathroom Inspiration Needed!!

sugarwalsh

Oooh - I forgot to mention, to make our bathroom feel larger we turned the door around. It now opens out into the hall instead of into the bathroom. It worked instantly.
Megan

fluffpot

Finally got round to taking some pics of my new bathroom - hope it inspires!



Walk in shower with niche built in for shampoo etc



Mirror with light - (it's the Astro Fuji 950mm wide)



Finally the sink, which has tonnes of storage space and I fitted LED lights underneath so that you can just put these on at night when you get up for a wee (old age!) instead of the main lights which are quite bright.



All the lighting in the bathroom is low energy, with LED or florescent.

Floor tiles are very dark grey and wall tiles, light /dove grey. Underfloor heating is very welcome as the floor tiles are pretty cold.

Never use the other bathroom now, except for the odd bath!

Fluff

lindos90

Oh fluffpot, love the niche Would be lovely to have one in our ensuite! I hate those chrome baskets for keeping shampoo in, the bottles never stand up straight, and also hate bottles just standing on the shower base!

Hows that done then? Do you loose the depth from the bathroom, or do you chop into the wall (without coming out th other side making a very odd 'soap serving hatch!'):rotfl:

Like sugarwalshes idea too, ive got many a door rehung left to right or from in to out, the feel and size of a room can be very different depending how you enter a it.

fluffpot

The new bathroom is in a loft extension, so all the walls are studwork (ie timber posts with plasterboard) and thus there is a void between the inside and outside walls that the niche could be built into. So it really depends on the construction of the walls - you'd not really get a niche in brickwork!

However you could, if you sacrificed some space, create a false inside wall (even if just for the length of the shower) and put the niche into that.

Also the tile on the bottom of the niche needs to slope 'out' slightly to make sure you don't get a load of smelly water hanging around the bottom of your shampoo bottles!

lindos90

fluffpot wrote: »

The new bathroom is in a loft extension, so all the walls are studwork (ie timber posts with plasterboard) and thus there is a void between the inside and outside walls that the niche could be built into. So it really depends on the construction of the walls - you'd not really get a niche in brickwork!

However you could, if you sacrificed some space, create a false inside wall (even if just for the length of the shower) and put the niche into that.

Also the tile on the bottom of the niche needs to slope 'out' slightly to make sure you don't get a load of smelly water hanging around the bottom of your shampoo bottles!

Ah thanks, yep we have a stud wall where I want the shower, so could do it without loosing any space in the room...my next question was if the niche needed a slope..you read my mind:T

Like the idea of feature tiles in the niche too, that could perhaps be repeated in a different area, perhaps a vertical line or around a mirror.