When Kate and Alan Bailey total a two-storey extension, it enclosed a spacious, stylish lavatory with good water-saving features.
Fact file
The owners: Kate Bailey, a housewife, and her father Alan, who is a builder.
The property: A four-bedroom isolated residence built in a 1980s.
The location: Seaton, Devon.
What they spent: The devise cost around £13,500.
Alan and we were sleepy of a aged tiny lavatory after vital with it for 3 years,’ says Kate. ‘The equipment were dated, a walls were lonesome with ornate tiling and a assign wall distant a lavatory from a WC, that emphasised a close space.’
Kate and Alan were formulation a kitchen prolongation when they motionless to change their strange skeleton and pattern a two-storey prolongation to emanate a additional space they wanted for a upstairs bathroom.
‘We’re propitious that Alan is a builder, as we knew we’d save a lot of income by doing many of a building and designation work ourselves,’ says Kate. ‘The usually plea for Alan was anticipating time to do a work on a bathroom, that meant he had to give adult his weekends.’
Structurally, a devise was to hit down an aged lean-to on a belligerent building to make approach for their new two-storey extension. Working closely with an architect, a integrate performed formulation accede and a build went ahead.
The belligerent building kitchen prolongation was finished first, afterwards work started on a new bathroom. They knocked by a assign wall and incorporated a additional space from a extension.
‘As this is a four-bedroom house, we were means to minimise a intrusion while Alan was operative on a lavatory by relocating into a guest bedroom with a possess en suite,’ Kate explains.
‘We had already drawn adult a wish list, that enclosed a walk-in showering and eco features, so we visited a internal showroom, Ocean Bathrooms, and asked engineer Joe Muhl for his advice,’ she adds.
The integrate staid on Hansgrohe water-saving showering fittings. Alan chose an extra-large beyond showering and Kate opted for a physique showering with jets – ‘I don‘t like removing my hair soppy each day,’ she says. They also chose a water-saving dish mixer daub and a WC with a water-saving flush.
Getting a blueprint right was crucial. Alan knew a double walk-in showering would take adult a vast partial of a building space, though they also wanted to embody a bath.
‘Joe helped us fine-tune a skeleton on a mechanism so that we could see accurately how a showering and bath would fit in to a design,’ says Kate. ‘He also came adult with some good ideas for formulation a remaining space. For example, he suggested an integrated washbasin and WC section for storing towels and toiletries.
‘He also suggested us to implement a total filler and rubbish on a extra-large bath,’ she adds. ‘It’s a water-saving orifice in a side of a bathtub that allows a H2O upsurge to be tranquil around a push rather than required declaim taps.’
Although Kate and Alan wanted a uninformed contemporary demeanour in their new bathroom, they didn’t wish a space to demeanour too minimalist, so they chose a light ash bath row and bath approximate and teamed it with oak-effect laminate flooring.
‘It looks good and creates a clarity of regard and creates a good contrariety to a white fittings,’ says Kate.
They have selected an additional matter underline too. ‘While we were looking turn a showroom, Alan couldn’t conflict a mirror-screen TV, so we motionless to provide ourselves. It looks accurately like a mirror, and many people don’t realize that it’s a TV until we switch it on,’ laughs Kate.
The TV has been specifically designed with a watertight sign so it’s user-friendly for soppy areas and it has a hermetic section shade that helps strengthen it from dirt removing between a potion and a screen.
Although they were operative to a parsimonious budget, they could means to deposit in some peculiarity equipment and facilities as Alan had finished all a building prolongation work himself as good as a tiling.
‘We wanted to emanate an engaging outcome with a tiling, so we chose white tiles in dual opposite sizes, with a stylish chrome trim as a finishing hold that catches a sunlight,’ Kate explains.
By operative each weekend, Alan managed to get a lavatory finished in only 3 months.
‘It looks fabulous. It’s accurately a kind of oppulance spa-like space we had in mind when we initial designed a extension,’ says Kate. ‘It unequivocally is a many stress-relieving chill-out experience.
‘We had to wait 3 years, though we both determine it was value a wait – and value each penny,’ she adds.
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WORDS JANE BOWLES PHOTOGRAPHS COLIN POOLE
Featured in a Sep 2011 emanate of Real Homes
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