The en-suite

September 2014


When we moved to the house the only "bathroom" was a shower room off the kitchen where you could reach out from the shower cubicle and turn the mains electric on and off. Somehow we managed with this for 2 years! However once on our own we had a bit of a crisis when we developed an electric fault (turned out to be the outside light) which caused the electrics to keep tripping off. Of course no electrician would touch our electrics in the bathroom so we had to go without lights for 4 days until our builder was able to sort the problem out. I decided that we needed a bathroom as an emergency so decided to fit a bathroom in the empty storeroom off my bedroom. This would mean the old "shower room" could be removed so any further problems could be tackled by an electrician and meant that the "shower room" could be lined up as a boiler room to improve the heating and hot water supply for the house.

This was the old shower room off the kitchen. The mains electrics are just above the toilet along with the fuse boxes etc.

The was the empty store room off my bedroom. 2 walls were lime green and 2 were peach with an orange ceiling. I lime-washed the walls (4 coats) to keep the space breathable.

The bath arrives

Finally get to use the old toilet cistern I've lugged around for years.

Floor tiles go down

Ta da! An en-suite to be proud of!

I used my mums old hall mirror

I wanted to use dark grout so it wouldn't go all gunky and grey!

Perfection!