AIBU to ask to see your bathroom revamp pics

[DarceyDashwood]

Hello! Currently in early stages of planning bathroom revamp and looking for inspiration and ideas. ESP for bathrooms on the smaller size. Loved the bedroom thread that was on here recently so hoping for some nice bathroom pics to inspire me! I don’t really know where to start in terms of planning a new bathroom!

Thanks. They are crackle glazed so a bit different to standard metro tiles, I really love them.
The green herringbone is Astrea Fern Green from Topps Tiles, the white is Craquelure Cotton Tiles from Walls and Floors.

These are like bloody bathroom showrooms so far! Mine is on grotty public lav level in comparison 😭

@SoniaFouler

These are like bloody bathroom showrooms so far! Mine is on grotty public lav level in comparison 😭

Moving all the pipework, removing a chimney breast, putting up a studwall etc took quite a while to save for (& then I got stuck with a bare room for months due to lockdowns!) so I had a long time to plan and design it

My downstairs bathroom is grim, desperately needs doing but can't afford it yet.

Is yours a recent project you are disappointed with? Or is it an older bathroom that needs sprucing up?

Ours was beyond grotty when we moved in. Tiles blown, serious mould issues, no ventilation. Pipes and electrics were dangerous, stud wall built from a weird spongy wood which was sodden and had the texture of soaking wet fuzzy felt. We stripped back to brickwork and replaced the floor and ceiling entirely, including joists. It was a mammoth job which we did ourselves, apart from some electrics. It really was a labour of love.

OP, I'll find you a link to the flooring. Paint name I'll check. We have a spare tin in the garage for touching up.

A year ago, my bathroom looked like this!

@ShowOfHands well done, what a transformation!

This was ours on 1st March 2020, after the chimney breast was out & the stud wall up. Due to Covid we didn't actually finish it til February 2021

Mine is a very older bathroom that needs sprucing but I’m a renter and can’t make renovations to it (and without the security of it being my own home, am reluctant to spend money doing so)! So I’m just living vicariously at the thoughts of having a bath in the bathrooms seen in the pictures provided so far 😊

@SoniaFouler

Mine is a very older bathroom that needs sprucing but I’m a renter and can’t make renovations to it (and without the security of it being my own home, am reluctant to spend money doing so)! So I’m just living vicariously at the thoughts of having a bath in the bathrooms seen in the pictures provided so far 😊

I know the feeling - we rented a series of shared houses / grubby flats with some awful bathrooms. My personal favourite was the one with a huge corner bath, which had once been white but was now yellow. It had jets (that didn't work) which were full of black gunk, I spent ages cleaning it before I dared use it! My downstairs bath now isn't much better, you have to turn the overflow to pop up the plug but it came off in my hand last week - I had to take the whole side off to fix it.

Thanks to everyone who has shared so far! I bet you’re all amazing people who project managed it all yourself but just in case did anyone do a full on design/installation service from somewhere like B&Q or Victoria Plum?

I'll bookmark this, and post some "before" pictures tomorrow. The plumbers just started today, with a new boiler and water tank and reworking all the pipework, removing old radiators.

We have a lovely early 1990's fully tiled peach bathroom, with flowers (!), a revolting jacuzzi bath, tiny plastic shower, and ugly white cupboards. The en-suite is equally lovely, in grey tile, (with flowers), plastic shower, same ugly white cupboards.

Both have fake plastic "wooden" flooring.

Also taking out landing cupboard, to get extra room in the main bathroom, to accommodate a walk-in shower .

Can't wait. We have lived with it for 20 years, and finally, after sticking it together for some time, have bitten the bullet and are going for it.

Hope the upload works

I'm waiting for flooring. Bloody Brexit.

Well having seen everyone else's bathrooms, I wouldn't dream of putting pix of mine on here. I spent a mere £2,500 on retiling, decorating, new shower fitting and general freshening up. It looks very nice, but not 'showroom'.

That's lovely, @applesonthelawn

Our bathroom is tiny (2m*1.8m)so hard to get a decent photo

In progress photos
www.flickr.com/gp/ebygomm/2X00K7

I’m in the middle of getting quotes for a new bathroom. I’ve been to b&q, bathroom store and porcelanosa. The last one - I walked in and everything looked so posh and gorgeous. I literally couldn’t decide a single thing, I liked it all 😆 I need to decide something though so I can get a quote.

@FangsForTheMemory

Well having seen everyone else's bathrooms, I wouldn't dream of putting pix of mine on here. I spent a mere £2,500 on retiling, decorating, new shower fitting and general freshening up. It looks very nice, but not 'showroom'.

I spent less than that on my entire bathroom, stripped back to brickwork and starting from scratch. My toilet and sink were vintage, cost £13 on eBay (had to drive 100 miles mind!), bath was free, panel, shelves etc I made myself using pallet wood and reclaimed vintage steam train brackets, flooring on offer, shower was ex-showroom and so on. All work done ourselves bar the electrics. Cost us less than 2k. Took a year though due to Covid supply issues and inability to get hold of materials. There are cheaper ways of doing things and I love visiting reclaim places and shopping for quirky items but I've had to learn the skills over the years to do the work. Or DH has. I can't plaster or do plumbing, that's his job. And we do it around full time work so we live in a building site.

We've just bought an ex showroom kitchen for £1.5k and they wanted 2k near enough to fit it. We'll do it ourselves and adapt a few bits of it. The cost of things from showrooms blows my mind sometimes.

[quote tizwozliz]Our bathroom is tiny (2m*1.8m)so hard to get a decent photo

In progress photos
www.flickr.com/gp/ebygomm/2X00K7[/quote]
I would still take your bathroom over mine any day! Especially because it's all done out nicely and properly.
I am in a rental, so although I can make changes or improvements I would call it 😆 I don't have the money at the moment, and not many around who could help. I have a toilet which is not, to me level and straight, the top box part certainly isn't! Which means the little gap that would of at least been left between it and the wash basin, is not there. Very small wash basin, and bath is not a straight edge one, round but curved on inside too, which makes it narrow. And to top it off as it's a side bathroom the door opens towards the bath so slams in to it, as you then need to get in to the bathroom and it is a bit tight.

@showofhands I can't drive ans am single, retired and not good at diy, so saving money by doing stuff myself wasn't an option.

@DarceyDashwood

Thanks to everyone who has shared so far! I bet you’re all amazing people who project managed it all yourself but just in case did anyone do a full on design/installation service from somewhere like B&Q or Victoria Plum?

I got quotes from the big sheds (Homebase, B&Q and the like…) and even they told me to buy fixtures and fittings from them but get an independent fitter because their in house team would rip me off and keep me waiting months. B&Q quoted £9000 for a 4 sq m bathroom and said I’d have to wait from June until November. I paid £5000 all in in the end to the independent emergency plumber who came out during an England match this July when water started pouring down the stairs and we just couldn’t live with the old leaking bathroom anymore. Bathroom was finished two and a half weeks later, including repairing all the leak damage.

@ShowOfHands Crikey the bath was free! Sounds good! Where did you get it from. I would love to replace mine if I could find one free or cheap, that fits the space where current one is, and round but straight so wider inside the actual tub, to make showering etc more comfortable.