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Please help with my new bathroom design!

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karmi2010 · 05/05/2017 15:05

We have just moved into a new Edwardian house and the bathroom desperately needs doing - it hasn't been touched by 30 years at least, still has carpets on the floor and half-way up the walls!

We don't have much money left after the move, but I really want something nice and not just the standard modern bathroom (I had it in all my previous places).

I want to keep the existing bath which is an old but really beautiful freestanding roll top bath on bronze legs. I also have 1 very large and 1 large golden mirrors similar to this one www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LARGE-WOODEN-FRAMED-MIRROR-/201902407714?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=FyXUkEWDUMmjMHK%252BO8G%252F1BxZsq4%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

So I want to have the bathroom traditional/Victorian in style and to put the larger mirror above the bath and the smaller mirror above the vanity unit.

Now the question - what tiles shall I go for? At the moment I have 3 options in my mind:
1 - white marble-like tiles
2 - something beige like this www.tileexperience.co.uk/pamesa-la-maison-touch-arena-wall-316x600mm
3 - or similar one in grey www.tileexperience.co.uk/pamesa-la-maison-touch-plata-wall-316x600mm

Please, please, give me your opinions! And any other suggestions as well, as I am really at the very beginning...

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Kokusai · 05/05/2017 15:09

I think white marble like tiles will give the luxury Victorian eel with the roll top bath, whilst still feeling modern.

OlennasWimple · 05/05/2017 15:12

How big is the bathroom?

I wouldn't discount modern fixtures - personally I like the mix of modern and old (especially when it comes to toilets and showers - definitely modern is better) rather than trying to make it all olde worlde. But that's just my preference, and I know lots of people who have gone for more traditional styles in older houses as they feel it's more in keeping

If you have a free standing bath, patterned floor tiles look amazing (and make the room look bigger too). You then need plainer wall tiles to avoid over doing it

Think about storage! Can't have too much of it in the bathroom, particularly cupboards so you can store loo rolls, bottles of shampoo etc and still have nice clean lines

karmi2010 · 05/05/2017 15:23

Kokusai, OlennasWimple - thank you for your responses!

I was inclining towards the white marble-like tiles but then saw the grey tile above in the shop yesterday, and it looked really nice and "Victorian", but then may be I should indeed re-think if I actually want to keep everything traditional - to be completely honest, I hate pedestal basins and older-style toilets! Always thought I would do my next bathroom really modern with wall-hang basins etc. But at the same time I really want to keep the rolltop bath and the mirrors!
The bathroom is on a smaller side, but not tiny.

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Kokusai · 05/05/2017 15:30

I agree with OlennasWimple that if you mix modern with traditional it can be super. Takes a bit more care to do, but the results would be better (for me) than all traditional. If you want wall hung toilet and sink I think you can certainly do it! Think boutique hotel style.

I'd rather have a modern bathroom which has been styled thoughtfully with a nod to the traditional/timeless plus the statement bath - than a new bathroom styled to look old world.

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