@torchreaderA graph paper plan is only a starting point - mock up ALL your fixtures in 3D
YES! I'm a homeowner, not a designer, but I've learned the same lesson by using a computer floorplan designer (there are lots to choose from). When you come up with a floorplan you like, that (you think) works, wait until you do a virtual 3D walkthrough! Suddenly, you realize that what looked generous on paper is actually too cramped. Suddenly, you see that what looked like an elegant solution to X problem is, in reality, clunky, clumsy, and crowded.
I've done this enough times now to have learned that what I thought I wanted is not going to make me happy until I've come up with the 20th iteration--no hyperbole. Highly, highly recommend.
Further to my post (18 months ago?) about our own bathroom reno challenges, it turned out even better than I'd hoped and had the calm 'zen spa' quality I was after. The 'ageing in place' shower with no fiddly door to clean, a seamless floor plus overhead and hand held shower was not long finished when our son was knocked off his pushbike by a driver who fell asleep at the wheel. Once he was out of hospital he came to us for a couple of months, still in a wheelchair, and that shower proved to be absolutely ideal, being big enough for a wheeled shower chair, and with no door to negotiate.
We used Wet Wall panels - pricey, but well worth it as they're so simple to keep clean, plus they add an extra layer of insulation to the walls. The ceiling we clad with some lovely tiles which look like wave ripples on sand and beautifully bounce points of light from the fairy lights under our hanging greenery. Having a bath with just these lights on is magical.
The Ikea wall cupboard fitted into an old window space, which was superfluous because of an existing skylight and a 3 way extractor/light with 4 heat globes. Vanity was from Ikea, the counter top was made from a bamboo Ikea tabletop finished with layers of varnish. Finding brass bamboo handles was a bonus. Underfloor heating is supplemented by a heated towel rail.
So happy with how it turned out. Very easy clean. The only mistake we made was not continuing the underfloor heating into the shower recess, thinking it was unnecessary when tiles don't stay cold under a hot shower. So it means keeping an eye on potential mould growth where the wall meets the floor.
Photos are not brilliant without a wide angle lens, but below gives an idea, including the work in progress - always chaos to begin with, but one must hold one's nerve!
Sorry I doubled up on one but I can't figure out how to fix that. Bidet power point was not fully installed when these were taken, but subsequently was installed out of sight.
@torchreader A graph paper plan is only a starting point - mock up ALL your fixtures in 3D
YES! I'm a homeowner, not a designer, but I've learned the same lesson by using a computer floorplan designer (there are lots to choose from). When you come up with a floorplan you like, that (you think) works, wait until you do a virtual 3D walkthrough! Suddenly, you realize that what looked generous on paper is actually too cramped. Suddenly, you see that what looked like an elegant solution to X problem is, in reality, clunky, clumsy, and crowded.
I've done this enough times now to have learned that what I thought I wanted is not going to make me happy until I've come up with the 20th iteration--no hyperbole. Highly, highly recommend.
@Lisa B.
Further to my post (18 months ago?) about our own bathroom reno challenges, it turned out even better than I'd hoped and had the calm 'zen spa' quality I was after. The 'ageing in place' shower with no fiddly door to clean, a seamless floor plus overhead and hand held shower was not long finished when our son was knocked off his pushbike by a driver who fell asleep at the wheel. Once he was out of hospital he came to us for a couple of months, still in a wheelchair, and that shower proved to be absolutely ideal, being big enough for a wheeled shower chair, and with no door to negotiate.
We used Wet Wall panels - pricey, but well worth it as they're so simple to keep clean, plus they add an extra layer of insulation to the walls. The ceiling we clad with some lovely tiles which look like wave ripples on sand and beautifully bounce points of light from the fairy lights under our hanging greenery. Having a bath with just these lights on is magical.
The Ikea wall cupboard fitted into an old window space, which was superfluous because of an existing skylight and a 3 way extractor/light with 4 heat globes. Vanity was from Ikea, the counter top was made from a bamboo Ikea tabletop finished with layers of varnish. Finding brass bamboo handles was a bonus. Underfloor heating is supplemented by a heated towel rail.
So happy with how it turned out. Very easy clean. The only mistake we made was not continuing the underfloor heating into the shower recess, thinking it was unnecessary when tiles don't stay cold under a hot shower. So it means keeping an eye on potential mould growth where the wall meets the floor.
Photos are not brilliant without a wide angle lens, but below gives an idea, including the work in progress - always chaos to begin with, but one must hold one's nerve!
Sorry I doubled up on one but I can't figure out how to fix that. Bidet power point was not fully installed when these were taken, but subsequently was installed out of sight.
out of immediate view)