Design Plans: The Bathroom

Part 3. All of my ideas and plans for the bathroom our new Victorian terraced home, from colours and textures through to vintage finds and window dressings.

Of all the rooms that I am planning for our new home, the bathrooms have caused me the most concern. I am not a natural bathroom planner. I am not one who lusts after a super glamorous bathroom; my favourite bathrooms are super simple and unfussy and, also, easy to keep clean. Conversely, alongside this I also yearn for elements of texture and juxtaposition - a clinical space wouldn’t work for me either. So yes, I’ve found planning these spaces extremely hard due to my inability to really even know what I like. What a quandary.

There are two in the house - the first is on the top floor and will belong mostly to Leo. It’s a shower room and our aim is to reuse all of what is in there due to the fact that there’s a macerator there and taking it all out and replacing it would be SUPER costly and a massive pain in the neck. No one has time or money for that, especially when there is - mostly - pretty much nothing wrong with what’s there. So we’re going to adapt to it, but more of that another time. The second bathroom is the one that we’re going to talk about today and that’s the one on the first floor which will be used by Joe and I, plus Max until he leaves home in October to start his first job.

In my entire life, I have only ever swapped up two bathrooms. The first one was tiny in a thirties semi in Caversham where upon removal of the tiles, the entire plaster fell off and it turned into a three month job. The second one was the family bathroom in our old home which I absolutely LOVED. It had penny tiles on the floor and a double vanity and it never failed to make me happy (you can read about it here). This bathroom was for the kids as Joe and I had an ensuite which I actively hated. I have ranted about it before - it was a brilliant sized room, but was fully tiled from ceiling to floor in large grey tiles. It was too big a job to tackle so we lived with it, but I swore that the next house we lived in that I, too, would get a bathroom that I loved.

Anyway, here’s the layout to remind you of how it currently looks. Excuse the fact it looks a little blurred, the more I blow it up the blurrier it gets, ha.

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