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*Kat*

We just bought our first flat!! YAY!!

So this is the bathroom at the moment



This bathroom is the same size, you can see that it looks soooo small with a full length bath



I'm not too fussed about a bath to be honest, but if it will add value to the property I would consider putting it in. The bathroom is the only room in the flat that needs work so we can afford to do it.

I was considering either a walk in shower, a nice one, like a rain one. OR a half bath and walk in shower? What do you think? I just htink that the full length bath looks a little too small, and we don't really want to be playing with the walls and stuff

browneyedbazzi

What sort of buyer would be looking at your flat?

Baths are an essential for most buyers with children, but other types of buyers will be less bothered. If I didn't have/want children then I would rather have a nicely done shower room than a bath that's been shoe-horned in.

*Kat*

browneyedbazzi wrote: »

What sort of buyer would be looking at your flat?

Baths are an essential for most buyers with children, but other types of buyers will be less bothered. If I didn't have/want children then I would rather have a nicely done shower room than a bath that's been shoe-horned in.

It's a 2 bed 1st floor flat with a shared garden, in a decent area. I was thinking that a bath would be good for people with kids, but I'm not sure if that's the target market?

Ugh, it's a toughie!!

Crinkmeister

Congrats on the new flat. I thought you had two toilets for a minute! Unless you are only 2 feet tall, I don't like your current shower - sorry. A proper shower enclosure on the wall opposite the window would be much better.

abankerbutnotafatcat

What about this sort of thing?
http://www.bathstore.com/products/showercube-1700-bath-left-hand-2190.html

adandem

I'm not sure people with children who are young enough to require a bath would be your target market.
If you really wanted one, you can get compact baths.

*Kat*

abankerbutnotafatcat wrote: »

What about this sort of thing?
http://www.bathstore.com/products/showercube-1700-bath-left-hand-2190.html

Oh my gosh!! That looks perfect!! I'll make some measurements and see if I can work it out

Jonesya

Ask a daft question but you've just bought your flat (congrats!) and you're happy with the bathroom (it looks nice and relatively new!), so unless you're already planning to sell it or rent it out, why are you worrying about changing the bathroom?

Frankly, even if i were selling it I probably wouldn't change the bathroom, after all how can I second guess who will be buying it and what they want/like?

Anything you do now will be wearing, getting older and shabbier so probably won't add that much value several years down the line, you won't get your money back from it plus you'll be throwing out a perfectly good bathroom suite, so if you like the bathroom as it is, what's the point?

If it were me I'd keep the money in the bank and then if the property does need freshening up several years down the line, spend the money then.

melb

You could do as we did with a similarly shaped bathroom (ours is only about 1000 cm wide. We put an offset corner bath (without seat) taking up the full width at the far end of the bathroom and then it tapers round quite sharply at the front end so you have a nice circular area for drying yourself. We then put the sink (short projection with mirrored storage cupboard underneath from Bathstore) immediately on LHS as you enter bathroom with WC next to it. Not ideal as it is hard to clean the bath as you have to get in it to clean the far side. The one we got had a showerscreen on the curved side and we have an electric shower mounted on the wall opposite. If you do do this don't do what we did and have the mixer tap on the side up against the wall as there is no access now other than removing an external brick!

suziqqq

As you have just purchased so will presumably not be selling any time soon put in what you would like in your bathroom , not to suit others.

Auntie-Dolly

Personally, I'd put in what I wanted (a decent shower) and worry about it again if you have problems selling, presumably later down the line.