Redesigning a bathroom is an excellent way to practice your interior design skills before moving on to a large living room or kitchen project. One of the most important decisions that you’re going to be making is deciding on your new bathroom suite. So, before you hit the bathroom showrooms, here are some things that you need to consider…
Make Sure it Fits…
Make sure that the bathroom suite you choose fits your bathroom, both in size and stylistically.
There is an awful lot of choice when it comes to bathroom suites, and it’s easy to get overwhelmed in the bathroom showroom, having a clear idea of what you want will help prevent that.
It’s a pretty good idea to have a scale plan of your bathroom to take shopping with you, that way you can get an idea of how a suite will look in your particular room.
Be Neutral…
Bathroom suites are an expensive purchase, which means that for most people they’re a long-term investment. The key to keeping your bathroom looking new and modern is choosing something that’s neutral. Plain colors, such as white, and clean lines make for a neutral bathroom suite. Remember that additions such as taps, vanity cupboards and tiling will all change the look of your bathroom, and will be easier to change and redesign over time. If you choose a neutral suite, you can keep the suite whilst changing around the vanities and tiles, for example, to give your bathroom a new look after a couple of years.
Separate or All in One…
Generally, buying a bathroom suite will be cheaper than buying the pieces individually, although this isn’t always the case. If you want something special, like a steel bath, for example, you’re probably going to find yourself having to buy each piece separately. The advantage to all in one buying is that you know everything matches, and a visit to a showroom will let you see how all the pieces look together. Buying things separately involves a little more guesswork.
How Do You Use Your Bathroom?
It’s a good idea to think about how your bathroom is used before you start thinking about buying a suite. If you always shower and never take baths, then you might want to skip buying a bath and instead have more space for a larger shower enclosure. It’s also important, even at this early stage, that you consider the kind of taps that you’re going to buy. The decision between mixer taps and two single taps will affect the kind of sink and bath that you can buy, since tap holes are usually pre drilled into both. And if you decide to go with more modern high taps, that are extremely fashionable nowadays, then you’re going to need a bigger sink in order to accommodate the splash back that comes from these taps. It’s never too early to start thinking about how everything will come together.
