En-suite bathroom redesign

[Jojojojo55]

After years of en-suite not working we are finally getting a new one. I have no idea what to get. Need advice re what type of shower, ie electric or mixer?? Tiles, what colour style won’t date, or alternative to tiles so no discoloured grout. Any advice greatly received

Liked these tiles, any views

Type of shower will depend on your hot water system. Electric showers are always a bit low powered for my liking, I prefer a shower that's plumbed into the hot water system.

We have the Mira digital showers which have a separate pump that means you get a good strong shower and a digital controller so you set it to the temp you want and it stays there.

https://www.mirashowers.co.uk/showers/digital-showers/

In our main bathroom we also have a digital bath filler that is linked to the digital shower. Put in the plug, set you desired bath temp, press the button and it fills the bath to that temp. Bliss!

I disagree - I put an electric shower in one of the bathrooms in case there was a problem with the boiler - and it has saved us a couple times! Plus the pressure was just as good. I'm redoing a couple bathrooms now and I'll put an electric shower in one of them.
Subway tiles are so ubiquitous- a safe choice. But it's your house and there are literally thousands of tiles out there! Go for porcelain rather than, say marble or cement as both of those need sealing.
If you are wary of colour get tiles in a hexagonal or other shape, or have the subway tiles laid in a herringbone or other pattern - look at Pinterest for ideas.
I personally like off white grout or whatever matches the main colour of your tiles.
This is marble effect hexagonal tiles in my bathroom - it's small so have used them on walls and floor. But I only use them on the wet walls and behind sink up to mirror - I dislike totally tiled bathrooms unless they are tiny.

Agree that subject to pressure etc, having one electric shower in the house is good. We've been without hot water mid extension and having an electric shower has been great.

I'd say use the same tiles on walls and floor which gives the appearance of seamless (bigger) space. Wall hung basin and concealed cistern / back to wall or wall hung toilet, again so you see more floorspace and it appears bigger.

I don't like metro tiles personally, I think they're a bit dated and I think you'd regret white grout. Personally I think large format tiles work better (i think ours are 80cm x 40cm) so walls don't seem as busy, and have the benefit of less grout.

What type of water do you have? IME if you have hard water, glossy tiles like that are much worse at showing water marks and the bevelled edges mean you can't even use a squeegee to get the water off very well.

Don't get me wrong, I love that sort of tile, but I wouldn't use them in a shower in a hard water area. (OK elsewhere, but I wouldn't want two sorts on tile in one bathroom so I wouldn't have them at all).

Having wall hung loo and vanity unit op is really nice from cleaning and feeling of space viewpoint.

We’ve got metro tiles, but no bevel, the local pub chain used bevel metro in all of its toilets so that put ne off.

Grey grout less cleaning.

Shower with a digital setting that tells you when it’s ready and low profile shower tray with big screen. Really like it.

Friends used shower board….I just find it a bit caravan.