A bathroom can be anything from the all too familiar minimum of a bath, basin, and possibly WC, all grouped together in an alternately chilling and steamy confined space, to a room a good deal larger than many living rooms, lavishly equipped and luxuriously furnished to cater for every ablutionary need and many more besides […]
It is a common complaint of architects and designers that people go straight to a builder to get their houses built or altered. On the face of it, this complaint seems unworthy of the profession and yet another example of the conspiracy against the laity. Nevertheless, builders are in business to build, and not to […]
A builders merchant will be found in any sizeable town. The average builders merchant will be able to supply nearly anything that is currently available but not necessarily out of his stock. Generally, a restricted range of proprietary products is available over the counter, and standard builders and plumbers materials are of course always to […]
If the room has one window only, there shall be a minimum zone of open space outside the window such as to leave adjacent to the window an upright shaft of space wholly open to the sky, the base of the shaft being formed by a plane inclined upwards at an angle of 30 degrees […]
It is only fairly recently that much thought seems to have gone into the design of proprietary bathroom cabinets. We are all familiar with the old metal cabinet with a mirror on the door and strange little metal catches. Nowadays, however, melamine-faced wooden cabinets are readily available and, with the development of plastics, there are […]
Locks, door handles, window catches, hat and coat hooks are probably the most relevant ones to the planning of your bathroom storage. This is a trade where tradition and craftsmanship still play an important part; good locks are still largely handmade, while door handles vary from the cheapest aluminium or plastics to bronze or good […]
The ranges available are not so numerous that I can encourage you to be very selective in your purchase. But do aim for fittings which were palpably designed with the bathroom in mind and are not just a hasty adaptation of some firm’s kitchen range (there are several of those about). Amongst other things, they […]
Amongst accessories, I include towel rails, lavatory-roll holders, toothbrush holders, soap dishes and mirrors. They are available for the most part in one of three materials; wood, plastic or chromed metal, and happily, although there is a lot of junk around, there is at least one good-looking range available in each. The qualities to look […]
Bathrooms are often small rooms. Not all, of course. Some people can revel in the luxurious space of a room in an old house which has been converted to make a bathroom, and there is even the occasional modern house or flat where an unwanted amount of square footage has been lavished on the bathroom. […]
lt may be, though, that what you have in mind, indeed what your existing bathroom cabinets desperately needs, is some radical alteration, perhaps involving entirely new equipment. This is when you will want to investigate the existing plumbing and pipe runs in order to assess the possibilities. Anything is possible. It existing water pipes enter […]
