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As partial of a residence restoration project, Teresa and Gareth Williams incited a feeble designed lavatory blueprint into a splendid contemporary space.
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The owners: Gareth and Teresa Williams (right), who are both teachers
The property: A four-bedroom isolated residence built in a 1930s
The location: Charmouth, Dorset
What they spent: The integrate have spent around £9,300 on their lavatory project
When we relocated here from Essex, we motionless to buy a residence that was in need of renovation, meaningful that we could buy a bigger skill for a money,’ says Teresa. ‘We shortly found a ideal residence with overwhelming sea views, nearby Lyme Regis. It indispensable a lot of work throughout, including a bathroom.’
The décor was an uninspiring brew of 1980s wallpaper and tiling with a propitious runner – and a bath was dark behind a low section wall. However, Teresa and her father Gareth could see that a easily proportioned space with a vast window and high roof could be incited into a stylish bathroom.
‘We visited a showrooms during internal lavatory dilettante Ocean Bathrooms (oceanbathrooms.com), where we talked by a ideas with a conduct designer, Joe Muhl,’ says Teresa. ‘He took a room measure and devised a blueprint regulating computer-aided graphics.’
As a integrate had endless restoration work to do via a house, they set a despotic check of £10,000 for a lavatory project, that would embody installation. ‘We wanted a complicated nonetheless classical look, with purify lines, contemporary apparatus and natural-style marble tiling,’ says Teresa. ‘Joe positive us he could emanate accurately what we wanted within a budget, so we motionless to go forward and finalise a pattern and start selecting a fittings.’
To keep down a plumbing bill, Joe suggested withdrawal a existent pipework. He combined a new demeanour by relocating a apparatus – a bath would be changed to where a aged dish stood, with a walk-in showering in a bath’s strange position, so there would be no need for additional plumbing.
Teresa and Gareth were not wholly convinced, however, as Teresa explains: ‘We suspicion a freestanding bath in a centre of a room would be ideal since of a vast proportions of a space.’
Joe swayed a integrate that a contemporary bath-tub they had set their heart on would indeed demeanour improved placed along one wall, with a taps in a centre.
‘He was right,’ Teresa admits. ‘He had also come adult with a good new blueprint that paved a approach for a oppulance wetroom-style showering along a confronting wall. We gave a go-ahead for a fitting.’
The couple’s new lavatory was commissioned by fitters who tackled a whole devise from start to finish, including ripping out a aged bathroom, laying a flooring, tiling a showering and decorating a walls.
‘It positively took a highlight out of doing a decorating ourselves,’ says Teresa. Once a work was underneath way, a fitters suggested them to have a somewhat lifted showering cubicle, rather than a flush walk-in option.
‘They pronounced it would keep down plumbing costs in a destiny as it would make it easier to entrance a plumbing,’ Teresa explains.
As a integrate were penetrating on formulating an eco-friendly bathroom, they chose an energy-saving Hansgrohe Ecostat showering for their wetroom-style enclosing and a water-saving Hansgrohe Puravida mixer daub for a dish opposite, that is housed above a vast wooden-style self-centredness section with low drawers for additional storage.
With an eye to gripping costs down, they had a square of mirrored potion cut to fit a space above a dish instead of shopping a some-more costly off-the-shelf option.
Teresa was anxious when she sourced a marble tiles for a dish splashback from a retailer in Taunton.
‘They’re roughly an accurate compare for a building tiles that were granted by Ocean Bathrooms,’ she says. ‘I do adore a marble flooring – it’s usually like stepping into a lush sauna room.’
Everything went according to devise until a cold Dec continue kicked in usually a few days before a couple’s lavatory was due to be completed.
‘Ocean’s vans couldn’t make it adult a nation lane, that was iced over, so a remaining apparatus had to be brought to a residence in wheelbarrows,’ Teresa explains. ‘Amazingly, a two-week lavatory re-fit was usually a day over report – and all within check too.’
Knowing that a residence restoration would be a stressful experience, Teresa and Gareth are anxious to shelter to their new bathroom.
‘It’s a splendidly relaxing space where we can shun for a small “me time” amid all a upheaval,’ says Teresa.
WORDS JANE BOWLES PHOTOGRAPHS COLIN POOLE
Featured in a Nov 2011 emanate of Real Homes
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