hello. i have looked at your post and i feel that you are a little over whelmed with your project (i don't blame you as honestly bathrooms are a big fat head ache). My advise for design, selling and capitalising is one rule - keep it neat, simple, white or light tones and the best way is with open windows as one of your plans states.

Add your pop of colour with towels and accents and honestly do not over think it. Also wood looks beautiful but it is a pest in a bathroom so make sure who ever does it is super good at their job.

I live in a new home and my wood kitchen sink ledge is rotting away (should never have been put in).

Good luck with it all and hope my comments are of some help

Thanks Lesley. I do like how in the first picture you sent that they have used 3 colours..I was hoping to somehow achieve that...eg. white for most of walls, darker floor and a colour in between that for the feature tile behind vanity ..something like that...just need to find the right tiles.

Man, I don't know what to do with that window...it takes up 1.04 (including frame) of a 1.8m wall and does limit the design of the room. The wall to the left of the entry door only as a depth of 85cm and so not really suitable to put a shower in that position. Otherwise, I would have just put the vanity under the window..mmmm...oh, to win the lotto and just have a new house!

btw...thanks Nelson Interior Stylists and Lesley H for you advice...both are very helpful in different ways...

Hi there,

I agree with a lot of the comments above, you do seem to be letting this overwhelm you a bit. Personally i don't see a problem with the window. I would certainly not take it out as you need natural light and ventilation coming into your bathroom, otherwise it will just be a 'washing cave'.

What sort of condition is the window in? Perhaps consider replacing it with an aluminium double glazed window with frosted glass. If you stick to standard sizes (i think 900mm so that it runs to half way, but you could also go for 600mm) then it shouldn't be too expensive.

If you run all of the services along the side wall as you have indicated , which is roughly where they are now anyway, then that should keep the costs down too. Do you want a bath or just a shower room?

Why put a free standing bath beneath the window with a walk-in shower immediately alongside it? That way the bath can share the shower waste as an overflow and you just need a simple 2.1m high glazed screen for the shower. If you allow 900mm wide for the bath and the same for the shower you will still be left with plenty of room for the vanity and a decent sized mirror.

Finally, in terms of keeping costs down, consider tiling just the bath and shower areas and the splash back behind the vanity. You don't have to tile everywhere, especially if you are able to screen off the shower.

Hope this helps

Mark

Thanks Mark. Your opinion is appreciated. The window looks a bit shabby because it is hung casement 50 year old window. I am not going to have a bath, just the shower. I was looking a vertical louvred windows that are about 600mm wide and about 2m high but they are quite expensive.

The rest of the house has just timber white casement windows.

OK, well it is not ideal to have timber windows right next to the shower. If there was going to be a bath there and it wouldn't be constantly wet then you might have gotten away with a hardwood window.

If you get a white aluminium casement window you won't be able to tell the difference.

You might find it is quite a big space with just a shower in, you will have roughly 2.2m for the vanity (though it could feel quite luxourious). Personally i would add a bath as it adds a lot to resale value, especially if families are looking at it, but if course it is entirely up to you.

p.s the vertical louvred window would look pretty good too and would allow you to easily ventilate the space, however it will be single glazed and not well sealed (such is the nature of louvred windows) so could make the room a bit cold and drafty in the winter. Why not compromise and go for a full height fixed glass window or a sashless slider like this: http://aneetawindows.com.au/whatProd.asp

Thanks Guys. those sashless sliders are interesting. I have never seen them before. I don't have to worry about the cold because we don't really get a true winter in Brisbane. Girlguides do you have a picture that you could show me of your shower window please.

Your mockup scheme is similar to our master bathroom we just completed - photo below.

I know you mentioned storage being a concern - our mirrored cabinet has offered an amazing amount of storage in a very small space and also helps bounce light around. I was worried about black taps etc too so we kept chrome fixtures but added in a matte black candle and black potted orchid to create a similar effect which we can change out later on. Our floor tiles are dark but because they are semi-polished they actually bounce around a lot of light and don't make the room feel dark if that is a concern. We also have a huge fiddle leaf fig in the corner (not pictured) which adds a really nice feel to the space - a plant like that could help bring in the outside greenery in your bathroom.

Instead of the storage tower you have to the left of the vanity could you do say some floating wood shelving, possibly with baskets added for more hidden storage? You could also bring in the 60s theme with what you displayed on there eg. photos as you mentioned?

In regards to the window - a previous house we lived in had a window at about shoulder height in the shower - as well as letting in heaps of light it was amazing for storing toiletries etc!

Thanks minteddesignco. You came up with some ideas that I hadn't thought about. Would you be able to tell me what colour of semi-polished tiles you chose for the floor and where you got them from. Also, the grout that you used for the subway tiles. Are the subway tiles gloss or matt. They appear to be gloss in the photo but just checking. The open shelves and putting 1960's on it and the black candle is a great idea. I am not sure what to do re the window because at this stage I don't know the long term plan for the house and this may be where the house be extended one day...It will either be, go to the expense of putting in the vertical louvred window or just close it up altogether and put in one of those solar light things where you get light in the room whenever there is sunlight...ie. having the light switched on but it powered by solar energy for that one room. (apparently it can be a DYI option).

Hi Creativelychallenged. The tiles were from RAK Ceramics - I think you can purchase through these guys in Oz They were Surface Night Semi-Polished for the floors (300x600mm RAK 575) and White Gloss (100x300mm RAK017) Subway Tiles for the walls. Grout - unfortunately I didn't keep a record of what it was! It was our tilers suggestion though and ended up being the perfect colour to feature the tiles without them being too in your face. That window is definitely a tricky one!

Don’t want to confuse you further, but there are a lot of other tap options beyond black vs chrome. Some of the other metals are more subtle and less “cheap and shiny” looking.

we have louvres in our bathroom (shower room) and love them, they are frosted, seal well and can be more closed for privacy or open for air and outlook

Since this post is over three years old, it may have been completed.
I wonder what the final result was.