Kitchen & Bathroom renovation wish lists

lostinrates

Quooker or quoted equivalent.

Or, I like the idea of one of those taps that pushes right down so you can have a sink cover to conceal sink completely.


We did our bathroom last year (sort of, still not quite finished) and something that we put in was a much wider than normal sink. Having made careful evaluation of the situation it seems the reason men turn bathrooms into flood zones is because sinks are narrower than where their elbows srick out to when they are shaving.

We also had more than the average number of shaving sockets, with multiple toothbrushes etc it makes sense.

savingmummy

Storage - can never have enough - especially in the bathroom!
Our bathroom is tiny and we have 1 silly cupboard on the wall drives me mad!

tarkytarks

I know someone at work whose husband insisted they had no eye level cupboards, she hates it and wishes she had put her foot down to have them! I don't think I could do without mine.
We have recently done our kitchen and I echo the comments about pan drawers and lots of power sockets (we got 2 extra doubles put in). I'm also a convert to an induction hob. The one thing that my fitter friend kept banging on about was to think about lighting during the initial design stage and not as an afterthought; we got pelmet and plinth strip lighting put in and wired to the light switch on the wall (it's a 4 way to switch on the main lights in the kitchen, dinging room area, pelmet and plinth lights) and is really great.
Oh, and we splashed out on granite worktops with upstands and the window sill all the same, to save on having to tile.
We are also thinking about putting in some under floor heating into the main used area of the kitchen as we haven't sorted the floor out yet, have to save up for that first though :-)

Lunar_Eclipse

tarkytarks wrote: »

I know someone at work whose husband insisted they had no eye level cupboards, she hates it and wishes she had put her foot down to have them! I don't think I could do without mine.

Most people couldn't, because to get sufficient storage without having them, you need a very large kitchen.

Most standard family kitchens couldn't offer enough storage without them; I just love how spacious rooms look without cupboards on the walls. My preference is a wall of floor to ceiling 'barely there' cupboards: loads of storage, a clean and spacious look and an unkitcheny feel (which I like, but appreciate is personal preference.)

Interestingly, my husband is less sure, but such a fan of clean lines and minimalism that he has come round to the idea.

onlyroz

I've just added an ensuite bathroom and the most cool thing is the mirror which has embedded LED lights, and to turn them in you just have to wave your hand underneath them. Oh and also the soft-closing drawers and toilet seat.

Chaos_Monkey

In the shower, instead of tiles we have a what i believe is called a ‘wet wall’, essentially one sheet of plastic per wall, which means no grout to clean! Absolutely the best thing since sliced bread, as far as I’m concerned!!

I’d also agree with a PP about the larger sink (and possibly twin sinks) and what the Australians call a ‘vanity’, the sink/cupboard combo, with as much cupboard/bench top space as possible. Actually, I also like the Aus/NZ thing of having the loo, bath/shower and sink all separate (but with an extra sink in the loo, which they tend not t do here), but interconnected. Not sure I’m explaining it well, but it means the components of the bathroom can all be in use at the same time by different people, instead of one person hogging the lot.
I’d. Love a spa bath, with really good jets and generally well designed, a hotel we stayed in had one and it was heavenly! Oh, and a twin shower, with those massive ‘rain’ shower heads, and underfloor heating! And some sort of shampoo holder that won’t go hideously rusty would be ace.

Cor, I wish we had some money and a house of our own to be able to do these things!

traleegirl

Also go for a work surface that you can actually use. I used to have solid wood...you couldn't put anything hot on it and any paper/letters that you put on there sucked out the oil and ruined them.....my divorce papers look like they've been in a deep fat fryer!!
I've now got granite...roasting tin comes straight out of the oven and straight onto the surface...

Icey77

Many thanks for all your ideas, some we already have in place and will carry over to the new bathroom and kitchen but others have really caught my interest ... especially the led bathroom lights under the cupboard

I shall be having a mooch around some of the high end kitchen and bathroom shops soon to see what ideas I can adopt

lostinrates

Icey77 wrote: »

Many thanks for all your ideas, some we already have in place and will carry over to the new bathroom and kitchen but others have really caught my interest ... especially the led bathroom lights under the cupboard

I shall be having a mooch around some of the high end kitchen and bathroom shops soon to see what ideas I can adopt

When I started looking at 'high end kitchen shops' a few years ago they were amazed I didn't want two dishwashers.

Apparently this is the done thing now, you don't have cupboards for your normal use ages and cutlery, you have two dishwashers, the one that's clean and the one that's dirty. That I was buying my first ever dishwasher for my first ever kitchen stumped them. .

It wouldn't suit the way we use dishes at all, but it seems to suit many:D

Icey77

lostinrates wrote: »

When I started looking at 'high end kitchen shops' a few years ago they were amazed I didn't want two dishwashers.

Apparently this is the done thing now, you don't have cupboards for your normal use ages and cutlery, you have two dishwashers, the one that's clean and the one that's dirty. That I was buying my first ever dishwasher for my first ever kitchen stumped them. .

It wouldn't suit the way we use dishes at all, but it seems to suit many:D

OMG! Why not go the whole hog and just use paper plates and be done with it!! :rotfl:

Really!!??? Wow, I am astounded and really, really want to go to a high end kitchen shop now