Bathrooms
A selection from our portfolio of bathrooms
10 days – new accessible Shower Room … no pressure!
Day 1 – a perfectly normal shower room in a bungalow. Sadly – due to mobility issues – unsafe and unusable for the owner
Day 2 – the challenge of loving the toilet begins with seeking out the soil pipe connection and re-designing it. Oh, and yes, a little plastering too
Day 3 – excavations continue but we have made connection now! Connections are also installed for the low level waste for the 40mm high shower tray to make easy access for our client who couldn’t manage the step up in the old bathroom
Day 4 – careful setting out and installation of the low level shower tray and installing the pipework
Day 5 – installing and sealing the Hardie Backerboard before tiling commences
Day 6 – now that the tray is in we can plaster the last wall and also prepare the rather uneven sub-floor to take a new, easy to clean Karndean finish
Day 7 – tiling commences …..
Day 8 – as we have used the most appropriate adhesives and grout, the new shower can be installed (the pipework was all run into the wall and tested earlier – forgot to mention that!)
Day 9 – grouted and installed … nearly there
Day 10 – the new accessible entrance to the shower along with it’s secure grab rail and easily accessible towel warmer
Finding headroom and bringing a shower room into a new era
It’s amazing what you can fit into a small space if you really try !
This shower room in a lovely old cottage in Steeple Bumpstead was not meeting the needs of its owners. When the children were small it was a useful upstairs facility – but as they grew, graduated and started to return to visit, the space needed not only updating, but taking upwards. They needed not only a feeling of, but also real headroom.
To give real space in a severely restricted building, the only way was “Up” into the loft space above. The new shower has powered extraction through the loft to the outside and the new shower enclosure has lots of headroom.
We worked closely with our Client to choose fittings, tiles, paint and flooring to make the very best use of the space and give a light, airy but sympathetic tone – bearing in mind the age of the cottage and the lovely restful feel of their home. We ‘planted’ old timbers from another village property (ours!) into the new room to add back in more timber features to compliment the building.
Once again, we dealt with every aspect of the project including all decorating and finishing – to leave our Client with a fully finished Shower Room to enjoy.
Heating is from a towel rail and the tricky angled boxing needed to house the slope from the stairwell below was tiled to offer a robust but beautiful shelf – carefully angled to save scrapes
Simple, stylish and relaxing bathrooms
Few bathrooms are particularly spacious and therefore the challenge is to make them special and enjoyable spaces for the families who live there. With a family growing up, this simple but stylish scheme replaced an exhausted family bathroom with a beautiful room for a relaxing soak (as well as a place three boys could get through quickly for a shower …..)
The soft tones of this Karndean flooring can be seen in several of our bathrooms (and in our own home too) – warm, hard-wearing and easy to keep clean its very wide range of styles, finishes and colour-ways mean it is a popular choice … my collection of samples grows by the week!
Again, having a shower over a bath is a necessity in small spaces. However use of larger tiles makes the space seem more generous – with the added benefit of being easy to clean. Here a neat shower screen ( one small fixed panel and one moving) makes the whole space accessible
Built in cabinets are very popular but modern free-standing porcelain can give a more individual look …. keeping all pipework hidden as far as possible is another obsession of ours (along with the obliteration of ‘Artex’)
Gerberit wall hung toilet system
Gerberit wall hung toilet system installed to keep the floor space in this small en-suite shower room as clear as possible. We buried the radiator pipework and all the sink plumbing in the walls before re-plastering and painting.
Our client took time and thought to select their fixtures and fittings for this lovely en suite shower room from their master bedroom – we provided the expertise to make the changes necessary to install it all complete with the lovely bi-fold shower doors and digital mixer just out of shot in this compact space
Not the best angled photograph I admit, but we wanted to show those lovely folding doors in a contemporary en suite shower room complete with its Shower Panels – which make keeping the shower area clean even easier
Historic shower room refit
Completely re-fitted shower room in historic building
Cloakroom sink
Neat and compact sink with hidden pipework in small downstairs cloakroom.
The "floating" bath
A free standing bath with all pipework seamlessly hidden away to create a stunning look.
Double shower enclosure fitted within the constrains of an eco house