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Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Sounds FAB. Definitely a place for candles, soft music and peace.

Re heated towel rail, if it is chrome.....Please bear in mind they look great, do keep the bathroom warm, but need constant 'buffing'. I would still have them again though

Tilly x x

edinburgher

How do you buff yours Tilly (and other questions that don't sound odd)?

I think the chrome ones look far nicer than the white ones. You can get darker ones (closer to carbon), but I don't think that these would look very attractive in a bathroom with light stone tiles etc.

Forgot, bathroom mirror will need to be a fancy one with an LED surround, Mrs E fell in love with the one in our current flat!

Hollyboll

On Mrs Ed, might be worth seeing if you can find a voucher on a deal for some kind of treatment thingy (massage / facial ) - lastminute do some but you are a guru of deals so am sure you'll know other places. I know it's money out, but moving is so physically tiring as well as emotionally that it might be worth it. Or failing that, a lovely shower gel and facemask could use INOD's idea which is fab.

Bathroom - sounds amazing.
- I got my chrome heated towel rail on fleabay and LOVE it.
- I'm a bit scared to say this without a flak jacket, but have you ever looked at PVC panel thingies. I know they sound awful - it was first suggested to me when had to do bathroom wall quickly in btl and I turned up my nose immediately even for rental place. BUT I have since been converted and have them on my own bathrrom ceiling (plain white) and bits of walls with the left over from the rental (you can get mosaic, shimmer, allsorts). They are super cheap, look very smooth as tongue and groove, so easy to fit and supercheap on labour, have NO grout so no grotty cleaning / deterioating over time - few years on in heavy use rental they are spotless .. I'd never use anything else for a bathroom again (well unless I won the lottery and might get pure marble and daily cleaning ). I used decor cladding (all one word) whose service was fab they are so helpful and will chat you through and send you samples.

Please don't drum me off the board for poor taste ....:o:o

Good luck with last day and night in 'Old' place

edinburgher

We move on Friday, so still a couple of nights to go

Don't worry Hollyboll, not overly snobby here (like a good opera, but will eat a kebab if starving!) My parents have PVC cladding in their bathrooms and it looks perfectly reasonable (they even offered us some free leftovers). I suppose my one concern would be that it would be faffier to fit downlights through both the ceiling and the cladding/vs just the ceiling?

lulabelle1

The bathroom plans sound fantastic, great choices!

Hollyboll

edinburgher wrote: »

We move on Friday, so still a couple of nights to go

Don't worry Hollyboll, not overly snobby here (like a good opera, but will eat a kebab if starving!) My parents have PVC cladding in their bathrooms and it looks perfectly reasonable (they even offered us some free leftovers). I suppose my one concern would be that it would be faffier to fit downlights through both the ceiling and the cladding/vs just the ceiling?

Phew, thanks Ed. No, the lights are no problem - I have recessed moveable downlight thingies in my bathroom (only place I do) and it's literally cutting through 5mm with a stanley knife - I didn't do the lights but am not great at DIY, but I have cut other bits of the panels to fit round pictures / make a small stand / other bits etc. Btw, the place I used does 5mm and 8mm and no point in paying extra for 8mm - still as waterproof / looks identical from the front etc.

And re the offcuts - it's supposed to be like wallpaper ie batches may be very slightly different. That said, I did end up using some from BTL to patch in bits of my bathroom but the official advice is not risk it at least without checking the offcuts against a new bit (assuming offcuts themselves wouldn't be sufficient for whole room).

And having read your diary through, knowing some of your amazing cooking, find it hard to picture you with a kebab

turtlemoose

I love those baths with the square end, we are also doing a full bathroom at the moment. Unfortunately hubby does not like them so we will be getting a P or B shape instead

We are also having a chrome towel radiator, and a cupboard built in under the sink, and a vertical strip of mosaic tiles...however we are going for pearlescent rainbow colours for ours

edinburgher

And having read your diary through, knowing some of your amazing cooking, find it hard to picture you with a kebab

I am a walking contradiction at times HB!

however we are going for pearlescent rainbow colours for ours

Sounds lovely, I would have liked something brighter (say a slightly metallic racing green or similar), but Mrs E is winning out with what's probably the best long term choice on this occasion.

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Hi Mr E, I use a microfibre duster and it works brilliantly. Tend to do it 2-3 times a week.

Best wishes Tilly x x

hiddenshadow

Love the sound of the bathroom - we're still finishing ours (did the suite replacement a year ago but only installed the towel rail this month!). Downlighters sound quite nice, we went with a standard ceiling fixture.

Make sure you really like whatever tiles you choose - we ripped out floor-to-ceiling tiles in the bathroom and it was a very long, tiring day! Went with floor-to-ceiling tiles around the bath and opted for wood cladding along the other walls (as the paint colour on the walls above is much easier to change than tiles!). I like that it seems to open the space up a bit more than when it was all tiles.