Our Six Point Guide to a Rejuvenated Bathroom

February 28, 2009

Along with Kitchens, we often equate Bathroom improvement as being costly and in these times of financial restraint, we are all looking at ways of saving both money and time. Fear not, in this article entitled how to improve your home, we will consider six imaginative ways of improving your bathroom without having to go to the costly expense of ripping it out and starting again.

Our first tip is don't despair. In most cases, a degree of imagination and inspiration will help rejuvenate that space. Setting aside the sanitary ware, which can often be costly, think about those elements, which can be replaced fairly readily and easily. By these, we mean the lights, taps, tiles, bath panel and colour scheme together with your toot paste holder and towels for example.

Our six-point guide to a rejuvenated bathroom:

  1. Flooring: - If your floor covering is unattractive, have you thought about removing it and painting the floorboards or concrete which sit below?
  2. Taps: - An instant success is to replace the basin and bath taps together with the toilet flush handle. There are some many styles to choose from that you will quite literally be spoilt for choice. If you want to go for a contemporary look, the vogue is for brushed steel. If you live in a period property for example, why not visit your local architectural salvage yard. You will be surprised what bargains you can find there!
  3. Bath panels: - A bespoke bath panel can often set your bathroom apart from the rest. In choosing the next generation of panel, be sure to choose one that is not painted MDF (will often not stand up to repeated splashing) and that can be removed easily in order access any pipe work hidden behind it.
  4. Mirror: - As we have done in our bathroom, how about completely mirroring one wall? This instantly creates a sense of space, light and openness. If you do opt for a full width mirror, do pay the extra fitting fee a glazier will charge as believe you me, screwing a 6 foot mirror to a tiled wall is not fun (particularly if you really don't know what you are doing). If you can't afford a new mirror or indeed are looking for something out of the ordinary, do visit your local second-hand shops or flea markets.
  5. Tiles: - Tiling the entire bathroom may be too expensive and therefore not an option. In that case, how about tiling small wall areas in order to provide visual contrast?
  6. Accessories: - Once the hard work is over, let your imaginative side take control and go for those colour co-ordinate accessories. Good quality towels in sophisticated colours can in their own way make the space. Add to this a few candles together with an unusual towel rail and you have created your very own sanctuary. One you will be proud of and be completed in time for the locusts!
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10/5/2011 6:18:55 AM, London Building Contractors says:

The points you discussed are good ones.

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