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.

I bet it looks fine ginger. what colour rugs and cushion

Bathroom sinks like an upside down contact lens. I have one. It is a pita ( and floods)

High-gloss kitchens, already completely naff, ditto granite and Corian worktops. Laminate floors. UPVC. Those 'floating' fires in a slit in the wall. Plantation shutters. Corner sofas.

What material is left for work tops then? Every material I can think of has been mentioned as passé on this thread.

Concrete and tarmac are not fashionable materials for roads, they are used because they work well and are economical. They worked well a hundred years ago and still work well. They were never chosen because they were fashionable, and they have not gone out of fashion.

Laminate worktops and stainless steel sinks work well. They worked well 60 years ago and they still work well now.

Ensuites! A full-sized bathroom all to myself? Lovely. Showering in a windowless cupboard so close to the bed that I can awake to the sound of DH moving his bowels? No thanks.
We are looking at houses at the moment - soooo many crap ensuites that people think you should pay 40 grand extra for.

We've just paid lots to have an en suite fitted! There was the basic plumbing etc there, so it was either refit it properly or get rid of the plumbing and electrics. We haven't lost anything in terms of room space. DH and I have a 'no poo' rule though, that's what the main loo is for.

So you've paid lots for a toilet you can't crap in? Each to his/her own

Well, never say never! To be honest, at 31 weeks pregnant I'm so pleased I won't have to be making the night trips across the house to go to the loo several times a night. And we had a second shower fitted which will definitely come in useful.

joey and the stick insect. brain made of wood!

sorry wrong thread

ensuite yy
A few years ago they build two new houses near me - 4 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms and a cloak ...how many bathrooms/toilets to clean? Even just to dust (and how many towels too ...SIX hand towels minimum)
Also (some) loft conversions - worst I've seen a three bed...to fit the stairs in they had lost one smallish bedroom, slightly reduced the size of another and ended up with a big landing - that couldn't be used for anything else. Attic room was just big enough for a double bed, two bedside cabinets and a row of low chest of drawers (they were using a hall cupboard (airing cupboard) as a wardrobe), so little height at the highest point they couldn't have a central light -but it did have an ensuite - elbow bashingly small shower, toilet, tiny hand basin - no space to have a door...
Actually they really had gone to town (watched too many property programs?)- downstairs they had gone open plan - kitchen, dining and living room - all looked lovely, real wood floor, patio doors to garden - except you had nowhere to store (hide) anything - one small understair cupboard for coats, shoes hoovers, ironing boards etc (and no attic space either!) - it did have a tiny utility (barely big enough for a washing machine and dryer). A 'surprise' selling point was a shed in the garden had been insulated/powered as an office space - just enforced that was the only place you could eg put a printer...less walls means less corners to tuck things away.
Was on the market for an age and sold at 20% less than valuation - I really felt sorry for them - must have spent a fortune and I'm sure it would be more liveable and saleable left as it was...

There are some new builds near us (about 10 years old) - all bedrooms with ensuites. Not my taste but at least they're properly sized bathrooms. Whereas I see so many period houses where someone has carved out half a bedroom leaving it an awkward shape, or removed all the storage space to create an ensuite that's neither use nor ornament. If you want to live in a modern house, just buy one - bigger and cheaper round our way.

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 ...

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.

Breakfast bars and bar stools!

DS is desperate for an L shaped sofa!

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.

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!

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)

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!

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.

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

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

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