How would you describe your perfect bathroom?

Question

I'm looking for some inspiration :)

Answer 1

it would have to be a wetroom. I love showers and am not that keen on baths. I would have something very Grecian with small mosaic tiles all over the walls in swirls and whirls to look very random but calming.

The floor would have to be heated and I would have water jets from the wall as well as a giant showerhead from the ceiling.

Colours would be browns and seagreens which are both very calming and the ceiling would be wooden slats with recessed lighting that could be dimmed if wanted.

I would also have a built in music system or at least the speakers so I could listen to soothing music whilst in there.

EDIT...If you do this in your bathroom can I come round and test it out LOL!

Answer 2

There is no such thing as a perfect bathroom. All things in this life are not perfect leading us to have hope for the future.

A master bathroom that is simple, yet with a few nice features

http://www.homeplansforfree.com/Free-Bat... is a bathroom layout that works well. Medicine Cabinet Pictures from the home plan shown. http://www.homeplansforfree.com/Free-Bat...

Personally - I am very fond of the corner whirlpool bathtubs - and in the if they are installed in the right corner of the home to catch the sunlight - the southwest corner... are an awesome addition to a home design bathroom'a area. We have a corner whirlpool bathtub in our home and use it all the time.

Great Question - Hope this helps!

Answer 3

Not a direct answer to your question, but here's some tips:

Large, light-coloured wall tiles (30x60cm or bigger), laid horizontally, make a room look bigger.

An off-the-floor WC with a concealed cistern is both very modern and very practical, and fashionable. In fact, you should ideally keep as much off the floor as possible (wc, basin, towel rail, etc), to open up the floor space and make the place hygienic and easy to clean.

Free-standing baths are great, but can be expensive. An inset bath (ie tiled in) looks just as good, but is cheaper.

Walk-in, wet-room style showers look great, add value to a property, and again make the room look bigger. They're not necessarily more expensive than standard shower enclosures either.

Patterned, wallpaper-style wall tiles make a bold statement, and are very in vogue right now. On the other hand if you want the room to look classy and nice without being too in-your-face (best for resale) then use light, natural tones, with a lighter colour on the wall and a darker contrasting colour on the floor.

Don't tile the place out in white. It's really boring.

A border tile running around the room is a dated look. Far better to have a vertical feature strip, perhaps behind the basin.

Underfloor heating is a good idea. The proper, plumbed in stuff is expensive and difficult to install, however. More practical is the electric matt which is laid down before tiling. This will only cost a couple of hundred pounds, but it is only intended to make the tiles nice to walk on, you'll still need another source of heat in the room.

Avoid corner WCs, corner basins and corner baths. They're almost always pointless, and often waste more space than they save (especially corner baths).

EDIT: And another thing... If possible, get a pressurised hot water system (often called a Megaflo, after one of the main brands), rather than a combi boiler or a gravity-fed system. These give you an amazing, high-pressure shower, far better than any other system, and will compensate for pressure variations (so the shower doesn't suddenly change temperature when someone turns on the kitchen tap!). The downside is they're a touch pricey.