Easy to clean bathroom

[Hobbes8]

I'm having my bathroom redone soon. I'm quite excited as it's currently a lime scale-encrusted peach and gilt wood-trimmed mess. I've been looking at tiles and suites online and realised that I don't really care what colour my floor is. All I want is something that's easy to clean. So no taps that water gathers behind and goes stagnant, no toilets that are a nightmare to clean behind, no shower screens with nooks and crannies for dirt to hide in.

You may gather I'm a slightly slutty housekeeper.

So I was hoping you more experienced home renovators could share your recommendations of bathroom fittings and fixtures with very clean lines that you can just wipe over and forget about. What about those acrylic wall panels instead of tiles? What sort of taps would work?

It's a fairly standard sized bathrooms. It currently has a bath, toilet, unit with a sink and a cupboard underneath and a single shower cubicle. The layout is fine and we're not planning on changing it, but everything is going, so we have something of a blank canvas.

Don't have very dark tiles on the floor - we have this in our rented house and the floor looks dirty all the time.

We got dark floor tiles which are very glossy, and discovered that hard water dries on them leaving really dirty looking marks. To make them look clean you have to treat them like a window or a mirror, they show streak marks even when they have just been cleaned! So don't get those.

I'd go for large white glossy tiles everywhere - the larger the tiles, the less grout to get grotty. A large bit of the wall in my bathroom is painted white with kitchen and bathroom paint, that's easy to clean and also easy to repaint if anything terrible happens to mark it or just in ten years time when it needs refreshing.

Think about water flow over the edges of sink, bath etc - there should be a little raised edge around the back of a sink so that water dripped on the back around the taps doesn't run down the side of the sink but is directed round into the sink. Getting one without this may seem to save you cleaning around the taps, but in fact just means longer spent cleaning the always-wet floor. Same with the bath.

Have a normal plug and plughole, not one with a little lever to pop the plug out - just means having to clean the little lever as well as the taps, and it's too easy to lose earrings and all sorts of things down the plughole as there is no grill over it.

Love my tapless bath. Nothing to wipe around,. Disc for water inlet, overflow and waste pop up. Control on wall which doubles with the shower. Added bonus that littlest one can not reach the control and nothing to bump when in the bath.m.youtube.com/watch?v=-AhpuNzt5L8

Thanks everyone - these are just the kind of tips I need. I've never even heard of a tapless bath! And I would never have thought dark tiles would look dirtier than white ones, although I generally don't like things that don't show the dirt - I prefer to know where it js so I can clean it!

I know it's a bit out of fashion but we chose to have a shower curtain rather than shower screen as I hated cleaning the shower screen. So long as you buy a couple of curtains and wash them every couple of weeks they aren't unhygeinic. Better than the scum in the screen seal!
If we had more room I'd have had a floating toilet to remove the need to try and clean round the back

Have the whole room tiled to the ceiling, floor different to the walls, though. You can then mop the walls!

Colour wise: not just white, definitely not dark! The best I have had was a natural, very slightly textured/marbled beige and a slightly textured/marbled blue with a slight white tinge (like line scale...). Matte rather than glossy.

Chrome taps, never lose their colour and shine.

I second the shower curtain idea. Glass walls always look manky.
I want a shower that is flush with the floor - one less edge/rim to worry about. Make sure the shower head rail thingy accommodates all heights. Dh is very tall and can't stand up in many showers.

Floating loo and basin, so that you can easily mop underneath.

We have large 18 x 12 inch floor tiles in matt light grey. They are ceramic but look like stone. We tiled the walls with them too and it looks fab. We used grey grouting, not white, which means dirtdoesn't show.

We are in a lime scale area and the tiles don't show up watermarks.

If second a wall mounted toilet with hidden cistern. We have a shower cubicle and separate bath which is freestanding so you cannot all found it.

Back to wall toilet

Fully tiled bathroom

Grey grout

Large tiles

We have a patterned floor which will also do a good job of hiding crap

And wall hung sink with a semi pedestal or a pedestal that goes against the wall

we have acrylic panels in the property we rent out - still look immaculate after a year and our tenant could not be described as house proud...

don't go for those silly round sink bowls that sit on top of cabinets, massive dirt and water trap. Ditto flashy round baths that aren't tiled in.

Tiled all round- with mould resistant grout.
Dark matt vinyl flooring-never looks dirty.
Sleek and simple bath, sink and toilet- some toilets have ridges round the back which are a nuisance to clean.
As large as you can fit storage for bathroom clutter.
Lots of bath mats so you can change them regularly.
Also small hand towels- one a day keeps things looking fresh.
Rubbish bin with a lid.
Laundry bin.