Advice for staying in home during bathroom refit (we have a second bathroom)

BarelySentientAI

I had both bathrooms and the under stairs cloakroom changed all at the same time.

Did not change my day to day routine at all through the process.

Cairnpapple

Thanks again everyone. Bathroom fitting is finished today so reporting back to this thread. 

- Noise was completely fine,  definitely noisy but less bad than next door's extension. 

- Fitter was very clean and tidy and bathroom is beside front door, so just a bit of an increase in general dust, there was a fair bit of plastering from moving the wall.  

- Good to be there to decide on shower position, grab bars (which I hadn't seen in advance but are lovely and chunky and contemporary and don't look like a nursing home, so a good result there), and some detail of e.g. how they were boxing in pipes. 

- A good thing that we didn't plan to move out because while the work started one day late than planned, it finished 8 days later than planned (on a 5 day job). I felt like we had a new housemate. Endless. I suspect that if we hadn't pushed on the fact that we have a decorator coming on Tuesday it could have dragged on even longer.

I guess on the cheap/fast/ good matrix we got reasonably priced and good but not fast. 

I have to say it has put me off getting the upstairs bathroom done for now just because it was so very tedious. So I'm trying to figure out what I can do decor wise to tone down some monstrous fleshy pink tiles from 2006. I guess doing a repaint and repair rather than a refit would be both moneysaving and environmentally friendly!

victor2

Well done @Cairnpapple! Nice to hear some feedback. 

FreeBear

Cairnpapple said: So I'm trying to figure out what I can do decor wise to tone down some monstrous fleshy pink tiles from 2006.

Thought pink was the "in" colour - Embrace it and add a few highlights (dark red goes quite well with pink).

Cairnpapple

FreeBear said:

Cairnpapple said: So I'm trying to figure out what I can do decor wise to tone down some monstrous fleshy pink tiles from 2006.

Thought pink was the "in" colour - Embrace it and add a few highlights (dark red goes quite well with pink).

These are nasty cloudy peachy pinks. In fact the floor tile has more yellow-peach tones and the wall tile is pinker (thank goodness it's only tiled halfway up!) But you're right that pink being in style means there's plenty of inspo around! At the moment I'm thinking to put some storage furniture in front of the most egregious run of wall tile then do cream walls with wood and gold accessories, a nice calm coordinating blind and plenty of plants. At the moment the wall is a pale yellow (previous owners painted yellow throughout) and it's having a fight with the tile. 

twopenny

Plants may be a good idea. Cover the wall with them

Sounds much like the kitchen I inherited. Brown cupboards, grey and brown tiles and the matching worktop and floor a mix of brown, grey, blue and pink. Just like a cat's been sick  

But it's all good condition and quality, just depressing.

Could you put the bathroom boarding over the tiles?