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Downstairs toilet renovation - cost? Hints/tips?

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Shufflebumnessie · 07/08/2026 22:35

Has anyone recently redone their downstairs toilet? Would you mind sharing the rough cost & what you had done please?
The room is small at approx 1.9m (6'2) x 1.2m (3'9) & only has a has a toilet and corner sink. We can't fit anything else in there but definitely want under-sink storage.

If you have any hints and tips on what to include, anything you wish you'd included or anything you're so pleased you did?

Thanks in advance.

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Peakyblinder18 · 08/08/2026 02:43

You could get a loo that has a sink built into the cistern using the same plumbing system. Maybe storage or shelving above?

FuzzyPuffling · 08/08/2026 09:47

A shelf above the door, full room width. You hardly notice it, but its great for loo rolls!

Tortephant · 08/08/2026 10:09

Rotating wall soap, saves loads of space and mess, and lasts ages.
Agree shelf above the door. Also, if you did some panelling you can hide thin cupboards behind it, eg make it false doors.

www.frenchsoaps.co.uk/collections/chrome-rotating-wall-arms

KrankyKumquat · 08/08/2026 10:54

We're about to move into a new house (hopefully) and will be doing a similar job in a room of similar dimensions. Noticed current owner has glass shelf approx half way up the window which looked really nice and which I'll be keeping. It's a bit gloomy, so white walls and white fake wood panelling up to sink height, with no tiling, all the way round the room as it's v.tight for space so likely to get scuffed. Short wall has toilet so do a built in version with room for a cupboard hopefully, to hide plumbing, and sink in a narrow pedestal, again with a cupboard below. Some good ideas on Victorian Plumbing.

Chasingsquirrels · 08/08/2026 11:07

Does shelf above the door depend whether the door is on the long or short wall? I can see it being very useful if the door is on the short wall and want to do the same in my upstairs bathroom which has an internal coridor to the main bit.

My downstairs loo is 1.76m x 0.78m, so very small.
The door is at one end of a long wall, very small sink opposite door, radiator on the short wall bewteen door & sink, and loo on the short wall opposite the radiator.

It was installed about 27 years ago, so very basic but if I was redoing I'd put cabinetry behind the loo with double cupboard doors to the ceiling above (space less than the room width due to boxed in soil stack running down the narrow wall the loo is on.
I'd then have a floating small sink to minimise "things" within the room.

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