Real reveal: Bathroom and bedroom
I was waiting to have hung the perfect shower curtain before unveiling the big bathroom renovation project (with tagged on bedroom paint job), but that might take me all year. And so here it is, my bathroom/bedroom/dressing room. I’m going to walk you through it as though you were here, so we’ll start in the bedroom – it used to be grey and is now dark green – and then enter the bathroom, which tidily ties together nude-pink and black with diagonal flooring and a Superstudio-esq grid on the walls surrounding wet areas. You ready?
The Green Smoke colour was a worry at first, I think I mentioned that. But not now, it’s so soothing! It also looks pretty brilliant with pink and orange. I didn’t even think I really liked orange. Behind the swan is where the wallpaper used to be and I have to say the room feels a lot calmer without pattern on the wall.
Ok next, we’re going to walk through the door by my bedside and into the bathroom where you’ll start to feel the joys of underfloor heating. Underfloor heating is the best thing I know of that exits in the world. It makes you want to go for a lie down on the floor and that’s basically all the cat does now, everyday. My kids take their clothes in there to get dressed every morning and I’ve thought about watching films in there on a saturday night. There’s now nothing in this house better than the underfloor heating in the bathroom.
So I still need a doorknob on the door, but getting past that…
…look how the green door sits agains the pink wall (Pink Ground with Setting Plaster skirtings). Sigh. There is also an actual place to put my shoes now in that dressing area. Plus about two pairs of my husbands. Did I really ask for that new laundry bin for Christmas to go with my tiled shower wall? I sure did.
So the dressing room is quite squeezed, but on the other hand it is a dressing room! Marvellous. You can just make out a small pegboard area on the wall on the right (left pic). That whole wall was originally going to be completely mirrored, but expense dictated otherwise. I’m kind of glad it did. We hung two lengths of copper piping onto the pegboard before fixing it to the wall so there’s a place to hang tomorrow’s clothes, some of my husbands ties and the ironing in theory (I never iron). We also used copper piping to make the shower curtain rail on the other side of that partition, which looks great with the brass fittings.
Some invaluable advice about black walls. We (I say we…) painted it matt to begin with, then the lovely builders cleaned the place after they finished and left big water marks on the newly finished walls. Tiny bit gloss, that’s what you want. It doesn’t show such marks so easily and also, makes it feel less flat and lifeless. I’m a bit of a gloss convert. I’m liking a life with a bit of shine.
Ready your eyes now for some pink and grid together in close up with all the brassy brasssware.
My architect friend Peter worked out the tiling and grout joins so that the grid, the way it goes around the corner and the way it relates to the tap fittings and where it meets the floor, is all perfect. I now fully understand the value of architects from this one seemingly simple task.
The fireplace is opposite this and is painted Setting Plaster to match the skirting boards – i.e. just a touch darker than the walls. That whole area is a lot more pink in real life and it’s pretty delicious. The print perfectly matches the walls and might just stay where it is, though the original intention was to hang it.
It’s been a pure lucky joy to have this done. It’s the best room in the house. Feel free to hit me with any questions you have about tiles, grout, mathematics, colours and brass taps. (Maybe not the mathematics).
It is a thing of disco wonder! You should have a DJ there on a Friday night! I completely love it. The brass and the pink really works, pink and black always work, I proclaim it magnificent! 10/10.
Oh my! Great choices. Where did you get your brass bathroom fittings?!
Well that’s all pretty sweet! Love the brass! Is the underfloor heating gas or electric? How are the running costs?
Love it! Makes a refreshing change from the subway tile. Where did you get the tiles from?
Swoon. Love it. You’re clever, so too your architect mate!
Actually I’d love to know where the brass taps came from – am planning a bathroom renovation for next year, and am pondering the brass tap trend… It is so very pretty!
It’s beautiful!
Super hot. Loving the grid tiles and SO jel of your delicious brass taps. Looks absolutely brilliant.
Bravo! I love the green, pink & black. Also love the print & fireplace, perfect together. It all works and looks great, great touch having the floor tiles on the diagonal. We have underfloor (water) heating on our ground floor and LOVE it. So fab having warm feet and so much better & cheaper then rads!
It looks gorgeous! I would also love to know where you got the brass taps and shower – I am supposed to be making decisions about new taps etc tomorrow and I couldn’t find any brass ones in the UK – this could change everything!
Thanks for all the very nice comments! The taps are from Vola and so were eye watering. However, a much savvier friend did something very clever with her taps. She bought Vola lookalikes online and then had them plated in copper at a Brixton workshop that normally plates car parts. It looks amazing and was much better economically. The rest of the bathroom was far more budgetary. Tiles were just simple white squares by Porcelanosa I think. From World’s End Tiles.
If I have to be honest this isn’t a direction where I’d normally go but I absolutely love it 🙂 so note to self – experiment more often
Ooh, your friend is clever! Won’t copper go all green though? How will she stop that? I am seriously tempted to try that, there’s a place near me that would be able to do it, but the quote I had for my shower (set up similar to yours with big shower head and a hand-held shower, but with a water outlet for the bath too) is already about £800 and it seems loads of money as it is without risking ruining the warranty by doing plating, and I worry that if I got really cheap ones off the internet that they would fall apart. With your shower rail, how did you attach it to the wall and how will you stop it getting verdigrised? Is it waxed?
Thanks!
I love the duck egg blue on the walls. That is my new favourite colour this week 🙂
Hi
Any bathroom lights?
Just getting to the good but in my place after having bathroom ripped out
Can’t find any nice lights for bathrooms
Hi Jamie, do you mean the ceiling lights/ I just bought very boring down lights that were suitable for wet rooms but also the one above the bathroom cabinet is a Heal’s own brand light, and it looks nice on the black wall and wasn’t too expensive compared to a lot of them. It wasn’t a specific bathroom light. Hope that helps a bit. If you like the bare bulb look then try http://www.dykeanddean.com/pages/lighting-two – they’re not too expensive.
Ps your bathroom looks lovely! I just checked out your blog, love the floor tiles.
Good ‘bit’ even! Excuse typo
Love what you’ve done. It looks really stylish and chic.
Love this! Where are the shower head and controls from? I feel like I’ve searched the entire internet for nice brass bathroom fittings, to no avail.
That Fireplace is amazing, seriously, where can I get one?