There are plenty of resources online, including websites like Instagram, Facebook, or Pinterest, that can give you design ideas. Looking for ‘small bathrooms ideas’ on Google can give you a lot of results, since most bathrooms in the UK are very small compared to other parts of the world.
If you go to our past bathroom bathrooms, you might find some inspiration there as well. That’s usually very useful since it’s something that we can easily undertake and almost always it’s for a small bathroom.
After fitting many, many bathroom, we would do the following if the quality instead of design is what you’re looking for:
- Use tiles, which are stronger and longer lasting than panels. Use Epoxy Grout if the budget allows it.
- Don’t use any MDF products. This means a ceramic sink without storage, toilet with a ceramic cistern
- Keep a single light. Many bathroom downlights are not user-replaceable.
- Use a very good extractor fan.
- If the budget allows it, use taps/showers + cistern (if it’s a concealed cistern) from companies like Grohe or Hansgrohe.
- Don’t use concealed showers or wall mounted taps if possible.
- Don’t use waterfall taps since they’re overspraying everywhere.
- Use a simple mirror. The LED mirrors are overly complex and fail often.
- Use a walk in shower instead of a shower enclosure (since there are almost no movable parts with that).
- Try to avoid a bathtub with a glass screen and/or MDF panel. If you can live with it, a shower curtain will keep the water better inside. If you really want a glass, consider a P shaped bathtub instead.
- If you have a bathtub with a standard bath screen, try to use a tiled version of the panel (which is still removable)
- Avoid soft close toilet seats. They will inevitably fail, sometimes in a matter of months, even if you buy a premium one. Moulded wood, non-soft close toilet seats last the longest.
The above might not win a popularity contest, but they mean a bathroom that would probably last 30-40 years. For example, most commercial spaces (including hotels) fit the above description.
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