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Charlotte and Euan Carlisle have converted one of a 9 bedsits that creatively done upi their Victorian home into a loose though superb en apartment bathroom.
Fact file
The owners: Charlotte Carlisle, a full-time mum, and her father Euan, who is a skill consultant, live here with their children, Joe, 23, Archie, 20, and Talullah,18
The property: A five-bedroom semi-detached Victorian residence
The location: South-west London
What they spent: The devise cost around £12,000
‘When Euan and we bought a Victorian home in 2010 we knew we were holding on utterly a plea as it was divided into 9 bedsits, that were organised over 5 floors,’ says Charlotte.
The integrate designed to spin a once grand skill behind into an superb family home. They had copiousness of range to reconfigure a existent layout, generally when it came to selecting a floors for a bedrooms and bathrooms.
Charlotte and Euan wanted their possess private space on a initial floor, that would embody a master bedroom, an en apartment and a sauce room.
‘You can suppose there’s a lot of entrance and going in a residence with 3 grown-up children, so we indispensable a possess retreat,’ says Charlotte. ‘As a residence was carrying a sum refit, it was a ideal opportunity.’
The integrate rented a residence circuitously for a year during a restoration work. They had already selected one of a former bedsits for their en suite. It was a vast room, with simple plumbing in a dilemma for a kitchen penetrate as a strange showering room was in a apart space off a hallway.
As it was such a vast space, Charlotte and Euan motionless to sequence it in dual with a timber assign wall and emanate a sauce room with entrance from a bathroom. However, a usually problem tying their new devise was a doorway into a en apartment from a adjacent bedroom and a one in a centre of a conflicting wall heading into a sauce space.
‘It was apparent that a bath indispensable to fit along a longest wall, while a showering apartment would be built opposite a wall confronting a window,’ says Charlotte. ‘But where could we put a WC? we didn’t wish to see it directly from a bedroom, though we wasn’t penetrating on squeezing it subsequent to a self-centredness unit.’
That left them with usually one genuine option, that was to put a WC subsequent to a bath, so a builders assembled a fake wall assign to shade it off. They also built another assign wall in sequence to residence a wetroom-style shower.
With a constructional work complete, Charlotte and Euan could start selecting their new lavatory fittings.
‘As we were renting a residence nearby, we project-managed a build, visiting a site many days,’ says Charlotte. ‘I would move samples and reason them opposite a walls, or plead their bearing with a builders.’
The integrate staid on contemporary white equipment and chrome brassware. The usually problem was either there would be adequate storage space, generally as Charlotte didn’t wish anything on a walls other than a embellished shelf and a self-centredness unit. The resolution was a self-centredness section with dual large, low drawers.
‘I wanted it to be a focal point, so we was anxious when we speckled a black self-centredness section done from rubber – it was ideal for a en apartment as we wanted to make a character statement,’ says Charlotte.
She wasn’t penetrating on a neutral shade, such as beige or white, for a tiles, since of a en suite’s vast proportions.
‘I suspicion we could go for something bolder as it wouldn’t make a space seem too small,’ she says. ‘On a other hand, we didn’t wish floor-to-ceiling tiles as that would have been overwhelming.’
A ideal concede was achieved with a building and half a walls tiled in grey/brown/black marble-effect travertine tiles, with neutral walls above a tiles. Although Charlotte is a good fan of a colour pink, she was aware that a en apartment would be a common space.
‘I didn’t select anything girly that Euan would hate, so a en apartment is superb with a black, brownish-red and cream tones,’ she says. Their lavatory devise took around 3 weeks, but any vital problems.
‘We adore a new en suite,’ says Charlotte. ‘It was a refuge while a rest of a building work progressed – and it’s still a ideal place to retreat.’
WORDS STEPHANIE SMITH PHOTOGRAPHS COLIN POOLE
Featured in a Feb 2012 emanate of Real Homes
