It’s time to do the bathroom for the flat and full discloser:
I have never designed, plumbed or fitted a bathroom before. So if you think
this turns out terrible, that’s why, (and if you think it good…. double
credit?)
Its actually a quite large room as bathrooms go, so we have
room for a bath and separate shower etc. Ive always liked bathrooms where the
shower is behind a wall and enclosed, rather than a glass cubical, so as you
can see above I started with some stud walling.
The bath was a bit of an Ebay bargain, it is brand new but
the overflow does not work, so we just need to make sure we don’t overfill (its
huge – we wont) and we’ve got a bath for about 20% of it full price – win!
After doing all the first fix plumbing for the concealed
shower controls and waste in floor I ply lined the shower area rather than
plasterboard. My logic being, if there are any small leaks around the enclose
in the future the ply will stand up to this perfectly fine
First fix pipework and plaster boarded out for toilet and
sink. The room is an odd shape and there is a void behind the toilet, so it
made sense to get a concealed toilet cistern to go in there.
Now to start the fit out:
This room has no windows as it is in the centre of the building,
not a big problem, but it does mean no natural light. The normal rule of thumb
in the interior design world for this situation is to use bright and airy
colours to give the illusion of light – im going to do the opposite! We’re going to have ourselves a dark and
moody bathroom: yea! ‘High end grunge’ is the look im going for.
To that end I made the bold decision of going for dark
grey/black walls…
What we’re actually using is a product called ‘Microcrete’.
It goes on similar to a skim coat of plaster (but 2 coats rather than 1) and
once finished is supposed to look like poured or cast concrete.
Picture above shows the ceiling with first coat applied and
picture below shows with second coat and a PU sealer applied.
Next comes the tiling around the toilet and sink area
I ‘shower boarded’ the shower area out rather than tiles. This
seems to be the thing to do now: easier to clean and more hardwearing
(waterproof) than tiles and grouting.
Turns out no one makes black or dark grey bathroom extractors,
who knew? So I sprayed a white one black with an aerosol can from Halfords:
jobs a good un.
Right finished shots then:
(Above) View from door towards toilet and basin
(Above) Bath with wall mounted tap and small oak shelves (for wine!)
(Above) 3/4 high dividing wall for shower
(Above) Shower area
(Above) Basin/sink area on floating Oak worktop
