A Bathroom without a plan is a disaster
I was trying to think how to explain how important a plan (preferably done by one of our designers) is for your new bathroom.
Not for the look so much (you will have a good idea on style and look) but for the practical elements that make it functional as well as pretty.
I then realised i was using a bathroom for 3 days a week that is just about the worst planned bathroom i have ever seen. It is a shame because the house is lovely. I didn`t take pictures of everything but you will get an idea from the ones i did take(which you can see below).
The first thing is that the bathroom is the size of a small aircraft carrier but does not have a separate shower. It does however have so much cupboard space for towels that you could have a small hotel attached to the house and they could use the cupboards for their towel storage needs.
They have fitted a huge toilet from an obscure French brand, that a replacement toilet seat costs £200 for. Toilets seats will need replacing at some point so this should be factored in when choosing your loo.
Now the basin you can see below is fine (apart from needing a good clean), but the taps are truly awful. For starters they are the wrong way round.
Hot taps should always be on the left, this is a British standard. They have to be like this so that if young children or vulnerable adults are using them then they don`t have to read the indice (on top of the tap) to know which one could burn you. This is why when you go to any public loo then all the hot water taps are on the left hand side.
The bottom picture then shows you that they chose short nose traditional basin taps for use on a massive basin, with the results that you cannot get your hands underneath to wash them properly. Short nose traditional basin pillar taps or mini modern/ contemporary mono mixer taps should only be used on very small cloakroom basins. This basin need a pair of long nose (same tap just a long spout) basin pillar taps.
But the piece de resistance is reserved for the bath with showering attachment (as seen in the picture below)
In a huge room the fitters decided to make a false ceiling above the bath and then make it even smaller by adding bulbous lights.
Now i am a big bloke of 6`4 and i realise you cannot design bathrooms for all sizes but even if you were 6 foot, having a light right above your head when standing in the bath to shower is not ideal. Seeing that this is the guests bathroom you cannot presume that every guest you have will be just over 5 foot. Also If you ever wanted to sell the property, anyone tallish would think they would need to redo the bathroom immediately and knock 10K off the price straight away. Also we would never recommend non downlight lights(which have to rateable to fit near to water/steam) so close where water might splash up on them.
They also have a shower curtain, which we don`t sell as they only have two positions and they are clinging to your body or hanging over the side of the bath getting your floor wet.
So even if you are an interior designer the above shows why practical and technical help is needed when choosing your bathroom.
We don`t want to enforce a certain style on you, you have to live with the design you have chosen, but we want it to be functional for you and your guests to use and enjoy and not have to kneel whilst trying to wash as i do now three days a week.
You can have a go at planning your own bathroom with our bathroom planner in the link below.
https://bathroomsatsource.designatweb.cloud/3DPlanerWeb/cloud/BATHSTUDIO/?ts=1761727605843&vs=1761727605843#start
