Our Bathroom Makeover… (Our Old House)
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We have been living in our house for five years now, it’s not our forever home or our dream home, but it’s perfect for our family now. We were thinking about moving next year, but we have decided now to stay put for a couple of years and just enjoy our little home, and not to push ourselves financially with moving costs and a bigger mortgage. We are finally getting it how we want it, and I love buying bits and pieces for it.
Pretty much since the day we moved in, I have been wanting to renovate the bathroom. Our old bathroom was horrible- dodgy pipes, ugly tiles, a little mouldy and above all just really plain. It wasn’t my style at all, but bathrooms are expensive, and at the time we just didn’t have the money to rip it all out and start again.
Just to give you an idea, this is how it used to look- bleugh!
Finally after some saving, and some luck in the fact Mr E has taken on a big freelance contract, we were finally able to renovate our bathroom. To say I was excited, is a BIG understatement, I was straight on pinterest pinning ideas for our new room.
Here is our new bathroom in photos…
The first thing we did was get rid of the horrible tiles. I adore subway tiles so just had to get these, and we asked the tiler for dark grey grout instead of white. We were really lucky that Homebase had a half price deal on these when we purchased them, because we had to get a LOT of them!
We went for a black, white and grey theme, but with a tiny hint of turquoise. Love our stripy shower curtain.
Most of the bare bones of our bathroom suite came from a company called Crosswater. We found each other after they followed me on twitter and they were amazing from start to finish, happy to help and collaborate with me on my blog. Such fantastic customer service, and we visited our nearest show room where the team helped us figure out exactly what we needed. Our soap dispenser and tumbler came from there, as part of their Wisp collection.
We chose a vanity unit as because the bathroom is quite a small space, we needed all the storage we can get!
Our shiny taps are from Kelly Hoppen, we really liked the contemporary, sleek design. Is it weird to be in love with a tap?!
We bought quite a plain, bogstandard, square bath from Victoria Plumb, instead making the taps more of a feature than the bath itself. Again these taps are from Kelly Hoppen, it’s her KH Zero 6 Range.
I love our shower, we opted for a square style fixed one from Victoria Plumb. After years of having a horrible electric shower that sounded like it was about to take off, I absolutely love this.
Our old mirror and cabinet was tiny so we decided to go for a huge mirrored cabinet, it has so much space we don’t have enough toiletries to fill the space- I love it although I am already obsessed with fingerprints!
The whole room is such a dramatic change, but I think one of the biggest ones for me has to be our toilet. In our old bathroom, all the pipes were exposed at the back and so ugly, but our plumber boxed it all in (giving us a shelf too- woo hoo!) and we bought a concealed cistern back to wall toilet. We replaced our brown floor tiles with some luxury vinyl from CarpetRight, we were advised on vinyl by the company who carried out all the work for us and although dubious at first, we are thrilled with how it has turned out. I couldn’t get a photo of it, but it’s a sparkly grey colour.
We previously had floating shelves but we changed the colour to white, I adore all the knick knacks we put on. Our new towels and wire basket came from H and M Home and the big lantern came from Tesco.
Got to have lots of candles for all those nice relaxing baths.
Myself and Mr E argued about the stags head for ages as he wasn’t keen on it but in the end I won, (obviously) we bought him from Homebase. The two little plants are from good old Ikea.
Love the lantern from Tesco, and my trusy Jo Malone candle that we got as a wedding present but I have never had the heart to light has made it’s way on the shelf too.
We got the monochrome prints from This Modern Life.
The two outer prints are by Seventy Tree and the middle one is Eef Lillemor.
Other things we did was add some really cool and bright LED lights, and a new chrome towel rail too, as well as add a new blind from Dunelm. The whole bathroom has been redecorated, including removing the artex and replastering the ceiling- hooray!
Overall I am absolutely thrilled with how our bathroom has turned out. It was definitely worth the 5 years of moaning, saving and planning! We are both so pleased with it and nice relaxing soaks in the bath are definitely a million times better now. Now I am happy with every room in our house, although I have plans to redecorate here and there. Here’s on to my next project!
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