What will be the Avocado bathroom of the future?

[Eastwickwitch]

I'm doing a whole house & am questioning my taste. I know opinions are subjective but could you help with your ideas?
So far I'm thinking

-not stone everywhere e.g. whole bathrooms full of Travertine
-not down lighters everywhere
-no feature walls I can't wallpaper anyway
Any ideas would be very welcome.

[alemci]

yes our laminate floor squeaks in places even though it is laid evenly, something to do with underlay. we also have ceramic tiles and they do chip in places but have been quite hardwearing and prefer them to lino etc.

[Rooners]

True about potential for breakage and injury - also I'm never, ever fitting ceramic over wood again! That was an experience.

But over concrete in a damp kitchen I think they are unbeatable because vinyl just rips or dents or discolours or goes mouldy underneath, and ceramic tiles are there properly for ever hopefully.

I did the entire floor before fitting anything on top so if the wooden cabinets ever disintegrate from the insidious damp, at least they can be replaced without taking the floor up/filling in tile gaps etc.

I love my kitchen floor. Self levelling compound was a bugger though.

[unlucky83]

(I'm so positive!!!)
Eyelet curtains/curtain rods with draughty windows are a no-no - close fitting ones are better for keeping draughts out...
(my new house had wooden pelmets over the windows - long since taken down, but I can't face throwing them away ...might even put them back -but they are solid wood, weigh a ton - so might replace/partially replace with something a bit lighter....painted white (ceiling colour) ...might not be too hideous???)

[unlucky83]

Ohhh rooners I wouldn't not have a glass shower screen ...hate shower curtains! Nasty horrible prone to mould things that are cold and uggh when they wrap themselves round you and stick to you, and you have to faff taking down and washing and putting back...give me something that can be swiped over with a vinegar cloth and window squeegee anyday
(Curved ones though ...probably not - can see if they ever needed replacing might be a pig to get one to fit)
I don't really like ceramic tiles on floors - cold (unless you have underfloor heating) and nothing bounces on it - guarantee to break crockery etc.
Have to clean the grouting.
Even my mum's supposedly anti-slip tiles are lethal when wet (but then so is laminate etc but at least it will give a bit if you fall on it - unlike solid ceramic - my DD1 got a really nasty bump running in to my DMs from the paddling pool )
And like you said a pain to get rid of and if on wooden floors need a thick board layer to stop them cracking (will raise your floor level might not match up with everywhere else) and access underneath...

[Rooners]

What is probably my pet hate decor wise is those horizontal striped panelled curtains with eyelet tops from Dunelm Mill. In teal, brown, beige, suede effect and 'wine'.

Does anyone actually like them or are they just 'fashionable'?

[Rooners]

Not sure but as a househunter at the moment I'm avoiding anything with a UPVC door, UPVC windows, 'neutral' tiles/'updated' kitchens and bathrooms, which look like they have been swiftly bunged into a buy to let for students - decking, laminate (though it is hard to avoid - only considering it in a flat that needs to be quieter than just the boards) and places that have had their fireplaces ripped out.

Also P shaped baths and curved shower screens etc in fact any glass shower screen,

built in appliances, chipboard units, etc etc. Except one day they can be ripped out in turn and replaced with something better.

Oh and awful, awful modern ceramic tiles on the floors - usually in a dark grey with pale grout or a pale beige, that sort of thing.

It is so boring and they are a bugger to get off.

[echt]

Interesting what pigletjohn said about laminate tops and steel sinks. Exactly what we've had put into our late70s/early80s Au wooden house. It looks good, cleans a treat, and doesn't look fashionable.

Unfortunately the laminate has lifted at the seam, which mean the fitters will have to put in a whole new top (happened in less than 10 weeks). The point of this narrative is the thoughtful tone of the the builder who's come to repair our balcony, also part of the kitchen/bathroom re-fit team. He stroked the lifted bit and remarked how he'd just had the same laminate fitted in his own kitchen, with the seam at the same point. This is of more moment to him as he's 70 next week. :o

Just stuff that happens, and I'm still in favour laminate. Or I will be when they replace it.

[RenterNomad]

...and you will just blow breathe life into him again! Don't do it!

[PigletJohn]

I've recently dragged a giant out of the sea. He's drowned, and wet. I need to dry the body....

[RenterNomad]

at giant body driers. Who would need one of those? Only a very, very hairy person, and rhe hair would just fly off and get into the machinery and all over the floor - how extremely horrid (original meaning of horrid being "bristling!)"

[Eastwickwitch]

I think hot tubs.

[fairisleknitter]

I am a convert to granite worktops and would install them in the future, practical as you can put hot pans on them.

I'm totally against breakfast bars.

I reckon light oak is about to look dated as I've just done my living room out in it!

[OnePlanOnHouzz]

Such a fab thread ! I love it !!! And so many good 'bad ideas!'...
I would like to add that for expensive items, you can't go wrong with classics that suit the age and style of your home .(eg flagstone floors in an old cottage are fine - in a 70's semi they may look odd ) And for easily changed, less expensive items, a bit of frivolity or going for the latest trend won't hurt as long as you factor in that you will tire of it and want the next latest thing in a few years ! Life is for living ! Live it and enjoy it !!! We are all guilty of following the latest fad somewhere in our lives !! There's nothing wrong with it at all !!!

[struggling100]

Tiles that feel like sand! With that and a mirror on which I could check Facebook, I might never leave the bathroom.

[Eastwickwitch]

Yes to a giant body drier.
Hope you're reading Mr Dyson!

[Halsall123]

Check out this image I found online this week. It's a bathroom of the future: www.premierbathrooms.co.uk/news/item/1-the-bathroom-of-the-future

[EeyoreIsh]

we have a room that sits between the corridor and the kitchen. It has no doors on it. It's a pain of a room (it's an original part of the victorian house), and sometimes gets referred to as the corridor room it's ridiculous having no bloody doors, what the previous owners were thinking I don't know. We're hopefully getting some doors on it shortly, budget permitting.

[FayeKorgasm]

Open plan living has another vote here.

I'm having doors fitting today to the snug that the previous owners thought should be open to the hall. It was like sitting in a corridor. As a result we had a room we didn't use.

I like doors!

[unlucky83]

loopy That's why I got a relatively modern house - 1970s - my parents house (200 yrs old) is a hell of a lot of work to maintain - things like getting someone to re-lined the stone gutters at the front - cost a fortune and not that many companies do it...
And to the breakfast bar stools - this house had that when we moved in - (really needed a new kitchen). There was no room for a kitchen table (and the 'dining room' was filled with boxes we hadn't got round to unpacking (moved in when I was 8 months pregnant, back to work full time when DD1 was 3 months and partner worked full-time too).
Various small accidents, then one day DD1 really fell off one of the stools - there was blood in her knickers. Took to A&E and all the trauma of having a doc look at her bottom (it wasn't her hymen) and checking she hadn't fractured her hips etc. When I got home I took my electric saw to the breakfast bar... binned the stools and got a table (and spent another 3+ years looking at the raw edge of the worktop before we had kitchen replaced)

[Loopytiles]

Period properties cost a fortune to maintain, we had a lovely victorian flat but was all crumbly and wooden sash windows cost a fortune.

Now have a 1950s house, last decorated in about 1980, trying to persuade DH that formica would be fab for the kitchen!

I dislike kitchen islands and high stools. My neighbour has this and small DC are drawn to them like moths, can never enjoy coffee there as constantly trying to stop them cracking heads open!

[NotCitrus]

Jenijena - yes to those strips or walls of shiny square mosaic tiles.

We used them in our bathroom in early 2006, and within months were seeing them everywhere - it became a joke when we went out as one of us would go to the loo and return saying "Yes." (ie it had the tiles...)

Once the rest of the house is done, will re-grout the bathroom, but the blue tile strip does look good. In a family bathroom under 5x8 foot there's a limit to how much decoration you want.

Kitchen islands. If your room is so huge that it needs it, OK. In your average semi, it just gets in the way. And those criss-cross wine rack shelves are hideous.

[RenterNomad]

DS is desperate for an L shaped sofa!

[williaminajetfighter]

Breakfast bars and bar stools!

[Jenijena]

I remember as a kid we had a brown leather possibly plastic sofa that felt old fashioned. I still think that way yet everyone has frigging brown stuff with beige walls. Shades of poo! So I think that brown/gold/cream/red scheme will date and look like 70s brown soon ish.

But we're all influenced by trends. Not pretending that my teal coloured curtains won't look just as garish and old fashioned soon enough!

Metro tiles - definitely - and probably those feature strips of very tiny ties which I'm just having out in my bathroom as I write will look very 2010ish soon enough.

[SchnitzelVonKrumm]

DH and I used to joke when all those property programmes were on that some of the people featured seemed never to have lived in a house, let alone developed one, and boy do you see some weird choices ...