Designer: Martina Landhed - PDF document

Designer: Martina Landhed E: martina@instil - design.co.uk M: 07788 477645 Bathroom Designer of the Year - project cost up to £10k Sum up of my client brief: house, was very dated and colorful. They wanted a modern, fresh clean practical family bathroom for their teenage kids. The bathroom is positioned on the top floor close to the kids’ bedrooms and it was important that it was light, easy to maintain and clean . Also b e fully tiled, floor heating. Product budget £9K The total project cost paid to us by the client was : £9, 292.00 incl . VAT excl . installation. (Purchased during Ripples* January Sale 2012, installed in April 2012) . This figure includes: VAT, Sanitaryware, Brassware, Shower, Bath, Furniture, Wall and Floor tiles, Lighting, Wet tray and B espoke Glass Brands included in the design : Sanitaryware: Cifial and NoCode , Concealed cistern and flush plate : Geberit , Brassware: Cifial and HansGrohe, Furniture: Dansani, Shower: Bespoke glass from loca l supplier, Duckaboard wet tray from Trimline, Bath: Jacuzzi, Tiles: Saloni – walls, Grespania – floor, Lighting: Astro Lighting. What be spoke elements are in this project? For the size of the room £9k is a modest budget to work with. I wanted to achieve one area that had a wow factor – this was achieved by creat ing a bespoke large shower area with a tiled wet and a tile d dry seating area, one recessed box with light ( for convenient hide away storage of shampoo/shower gel bottles etc. ) all on a raised w et tray with 4 plinth LED lights and bespoke 10mm glass screens . * I work ed as Senior Designer/Manager for Ripples in Oxford, until they closed in December 2012. Now I run my own company InStil Design Ltd. Designer: Martina Landhed E: martina@instil - design.co.uk M: 07788 477645 3. Two poles 5. Sloping ceiling and a beam 4. Boxes What difficulties did you have to overcome? 1. Uneven walls and floors – No surfaces were straight/even in this lovely six bedroom Victorian house . 2. Floor step/joint - The bathroom had a step/joint all along the floor on the left hand side wall . Because of the structure of the building this could not be removed. The way to overcome this issue was to build a new narrow stud wall all along this wall. This new wall also hid the concealed cistern while the soil pipe runs into the adjoining attic and out to the external pipe , it also me a nt that a new full size door could be fitted into the attic. 3. Two poles - The old bathroom had two poles on each side of the bath. These had to be removed to make the best use of the space. Until the installation sta rted we did not know if these poles supported the roof or not . However i t turned out that they supported the ceiling in the client’s bedroom below. The installer had a solution to resolve this problem, al lowing the installation to continue with the original design . 4. Boxes - The old bathroom had a lot of boxing in to hide pipes/wastes. I always aim to get rid of any boxes. The reason the old bathroom had a lot of boxes was that the floor joints are running left to the right . B ut also the WC soil pipe/vent was boxed in , in the left hand corner of the bathroom. The WC soil stuck/vent pipe was moved into adjoining attic – that resolved the WC pipe being boxed in the new bathroom. Along the right hand side new stud walls (di fferent depths) wer e built and a raised tiled wet tray was created. All pipes to and from the shower and bath run inside these walls . T he walls are also used for creating the bespoke features in the bathroom - behind the bath a recessed box with LED light and the seats in th e s hower area. 5. Sloping ceiling and a beam – The bathroom is located in a loft conversion with different ceiling slopes on each side and a beam running along the right hand side. I designed to keep the beam covered but a couple of days into the installation some changes were done to the design when a lovely old oak beam was exposed . We then decided to keep the beam expose d but stain i t dark to match the wood on the countertop. It was also decided to add two Ve lux roof windows to let more light into the bathroom. These changes did not affect the floor plan, neither the product supply. 2. Floor step/joint Designer: Martina Landhed E: martina@instil - design.co.uk M: 07788 477645 Old floor plan Bef ore Designer: Martina Landhed E: martina@instil - design.co.uk M: 07788 477645 Design Crisp glossy oblong white wall tiles (75x25cm) , with forgivable grey floor tiles (45x45cm), was chosen to give the client the bright and easy to maintain bathroom they wanted . Large r, 45x90cm , grey tiles (from same range as the floor tiles) was used to create a splash back by the vanity units, and to clad the recessed box by the bath to reduce grout lines = easier to keep clean. A bespoke combination of 3 wall mounted units with dark wood carca sses and white high gloss fronts with a dark countertop with sit on basin, gave the client sufficient storage space . The wood add ed warmth to the color scheme . In the left hand unit a shaver socket was fitted so electrical toothbrus hes can be charged hidde n away. A large cut to size mirror was fitted in the exact space between the two narrow windows with a n up/ down light fitt ed above. To keep within budget a low cost white towel radiator was selected and a back to wall WC was chosen instead of a wall mounted toilet. Interesting lighting was added in the recessed box by the bath, in the step to the shower and in the recessed box by the w et seat in the bespoke shower area. A fixed shower head on a ceiling arm was installed but also to make cleaning easier a hand shower on a wall bracket with combined outlet was spec ified . The shower valve was located so that you can turn on the ceili ng shower without getting wet. New floor plan Designer: Martina Landhed E: martina@instil - design.co.uk M: 07788 477645 Installation phase Designer: Martina Landhed E: martina@instil - design.co.uk M: 07788 477645 After