Bathrooms

Home improvements whatever they are is all about choice, building and designing new or improving the old, the bathroom home improvement is all about choosing the appropriate fixtures and fittings. Choose the style which fits your taste, your needs, your space and most importantly your budget.

Bathroom styles have a tendency to mirror the fashions of contemporary kitchens, leaning toward modern-looking, built-in fixtures, or lurching back to Victorian or Edwardian times.

As with any home improvement of course, the more money you spend, the more styles you'll have to choose from. You'll find a fair range at major UK producers such as Armitage Shanks, Ideal Standard, Shires and Twyfords. However, if you want something different, then look at brand names like Roca, Crosswater and Avante who offer delightful sanitary ware such as glass sinks and a whole range tap designs.

Plan your room so that all the members of your family will enjoy it. Keep the safety of your children in mind when choosing your flooring and lighting.

Remember, where possible retain existing lighting and plumbing points when re-designing and planning your bathroom as rewiring and re-plumbing will take a lot of time and money.

Plan a range of different types of storage. Shelving to accommodate products for every day use, cupboards for occasionally used items and towels, and laundry baskets. If you have children then space for children's accessories and toys is a must.

Decide whether you have the space to install a separate shower enclosure or a shower above the bath. A separate shower will take more space, but this will utilize the bathroom more as two people can use the room at the same time.

Period Bathrooms

In the past people have stripped out period porcelain and replaced it with plastic, recent trends have reverted back to this type of bathroom and sanitary ware. The return to fashion of white or off-white style has been the one big success story for sanitary ware producers in the last few years and now most manufacturers make products to fit this period. However the Victorians never had modern bath panels nor glazed shower screens which we use today.

To get the full period effect in any home improvement, attention must be paid to total detailing throughout the room.

Modern Bathrooms

The modern bathroom features curvy, white porcelain styling. Taps are minimalist and lavatory cisterns streamlined and sometimes concealed. Basins and vanity units were common but are being replaced by more contemporary washstands featuring combinations of glass, ceramic, wood and chrome.

Accessories

There is a vast range of accessories on the market to match the many different types of bathroom suites including; shelves, soap holders, toilet roll holders, toothbrush holders, toilet brush holders, towel rails, cabinets and mirrors both illuminated and unilluminated.

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