Please help me design bathroom. Budget £9k

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Single mum, busy, need to do up bathroom, secured much-coveted local builder but he only has very limited availability.

Toilet and basin remaining.

So, I need....
New flooring
Tiling
Shower
Shower encasement
Paint

Turn of the century, traditional property.

I need to future proof it so I’m prepared to pay for a very good shower so that it lasts. Not digital though.

Please help. Design flair is most definitely NOT my forte.

Thanks v much

Watching thread in case someone suggests the board alternative to tiles that I want but can't remember the name of.

My suggestion is to make sure your shower screen gets the coating on it that means you won't need to clean it.

What’s this coating you speak of?!

Do you have experience of it?

Ideally I’d like a mumsnetter to design the whole bloody thing!

I had it in my last house, it was fantastic! No water marks or soap scum to clean ever! There's loads of different brands, I can't remember the one we had but shower guard is one.

We are putting the coating on our windows when it's drier, going to use rain X which is for car windscreens.

The boards instead of tiles are apparently so much easier to keep clean and just require a quick wipe, I really want them.

Bushboard by Nuance is one of the best of the showerwall boards. I have two showers done with this, one has been up about 5 years, has been neglected by teenage DS and still looks like new. Wonderful stuff and worth every penny.
I have a Merlyn shower with the coating on which is already showing hard water stains after 6 months though. Despite blading and e-clothing after every use. This is a particularly hard water area though.

Do you remember what brand coating you had? I also live in a hard water area but ours worked brilliantly and I miss it, haven't got around to it here yet due to dc1 being born a few months after move in and currently awaiting dc2 arrival with dc1 not yet 2.

I’m not a fan of the boards. That’s pretty much my only decisive view on bathrooms.

I love tiles.

Sadly floor tiles not an option. So think amtico, as love that in ensure, it simar premium flooring.

Oh and I’m sold on aqualisa shower.

It’s the asthetics I’m struggling with. The colours, the paint, the tiles.

And decisions need to be made quickly!

Do you want

A walk in shower
Shower bath
Bath

Walk in shower.

Ok

You will need a shower screen to help keep the water in AND under floor heating pad - helps dry the floor in winter and quite cheap.

Hang on I'll show you some tiles

I would go for the largest tiles I liked, then there's less grout to get grubby. I quite like grey grout with marble tiles and a darkish paint colour.

We had dragonfly bathroom paint by dulux in our last bathroom. Dulux was a bit rubbish but I love the colour. Bright white skirting and coving to go with it.

What type of flooring pattern do you like the look of?

Yes yes yes please to tile suggestion!

I love traditional Victorian patterns.

There will be tongue and groove panneling running alongside the bottom half of the walls.

www.tilemountain.co.uk/p/tones-linear-steam-mix-wall-tile.html

www.amtico.com/flooring/products/laying-patterns/designers-choice/muralist/

Here

Like this.

Currently white. Happy to go for a different colour if you think would work

Stunning and exactly what I love but the signature range is laughably expensive. I’ve already priced it up. Out of the question.

The deco geo is my dream. I have a sample on my floor atm!

£101 square metre. Plus my floor needs plywood base to be installed

I’ll be back
Just going to put children to bed

Thanks so much

Metro tiles are very Victorian and ageless. I live the crackle glaze ones. Do a dark grout so it doesn't get dirty/ stained in the shower.

Where's the £9k going? It's a huge budget for a bathroom

Do you have a floor plan

It’s not really.
I’m in the south east
Just had ensuite done. Smaller. £7k

Love the crackle glaze tiles!

What colour?

No idea. Choose flooring first as probably harder to get something to go with it. sites Does bathroom have lots of natural light? What colors make you happy? Duck egg blue is beautiful and serene, off white quite classic. I would look at some pictures online and see which ones please you the most. Look on pinterest for crackle glaze tiles or traditional bathrooms. Loads of ideas.

My bathroom pleases me as it's cream, grey grout and paint, with reddish wood (door and cabinet) but the best bit for me is lots and lots of plants. I had to do it cheap (no crackle glaze for me, alas!) But I love the plants.