Author Topic: Pimp my bathroom (Read 40637 times)

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #200 on:** 24 April, 2018, 06:39:19 pm »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 23 April, 2018, 09:46:07 pm

Holy crap, modern tiles are booooring!

Apart from these, obv, and they don't seem tremendously practical. https://www.marrakechdesign.se/en/product-category/contemporary-tiles/dandelion/

There are some quite nice tiles on that site. But at €150 m^-2 + international shipping I'd want to see them first!

Fired Earth had some interesting tiles at a very reasonable £24.95. Until I realised that was £24.95 *per* *tile* which comes out at £675 m^-2.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #201 on:** 24 April, 2018, 06:47:19 pm »

Oh, now we're talking! Fired Earth....
Probably need to just hand over all my credit cards though. Still, it's not a big area to tile.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #202 on:** 24 April, 2018, 07:27:49 pm »

So the ones I like are a mere 400 squids/m2. Yes, it is known I have expensive tastes.

rr · « **Reply #203 on:** 24 April, 2018, 11:54:03 pm »

Printed acrylic sheet? https://www.splashacrylic.com/product-category/bathrooms/printed-acrylic-shower-panels/?product_tag=dolphins

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Kim · « **Reply #204 on:** 25 April, 2018, 12:02:00 am »

Quote from: rr on 24 April, 2018, 11:54:03 pm

Printed acrylic sheet? https://www.splashacrylic.com/product-category/bathrooms/printed-acrylic-shower-panels/?product_tag=dolphins

Needs an Antarctic theme...

rr · « **Reply #205 on:** 25 April, 2018, 12:15:00 am »

Quote from: Kim on 25 April, 2018, 12:02:00 am

Quote from: rr on 24 April, 2018, 11:54:03 pm
Printed acrylic sheet? https://www.splashacrylic.com/product-category/bathrooms/printed-acrylic-shower-panels/?product_tag=dolphins

Needs an Antarctic theme...

They'll print your own design

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ian · « **Reply #206 on:** 25 April, 2018, 09:17:11 am »

Strangely, when I offered up the printed acrylic (and glass) with my designs, much like the technotoilet, my idea was again summarily dismissed.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #207 on:** 25 April, 2018, 09:27:40 pm »

Come on then, what was your design?

ian · « **Reply #208 on:** 25 April, 2018, 10:07:34 pm »

I hadn't decided. She just fears the things that happen in my head escaping for some reason.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #209 on:** 28 April, 2018, 01:57:20 pm »

The best tiles I've seen so far are lovely geometric Fired Earth ones. The problem being that they are mosaic. I have a bad feeling about keeping all that grout clean (they're only going round the sink and lav area, but still).
Been on another fruitless quest to 2 more tile shops. So much dullness it almost makes you wish you were dead.

I can see me ending up with the ubiquitous metro tiles at this rate. They might be on the way to naffness but at least they're inoffensive.

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #210 on:** 28 April, 2018, 07:57:53 pm »

I know what you mean about the tile shops, everything is so dreary. These people seem to have a few interesting tiles: https://www.porcelainsuperstore.co.uk

Modern grouts (epoxy-based/water-repelling) seem to work quite well and don't need regular scrubbing as long as you can keep humidity low enough to avoid the dreaded black mould. We had mosaic tiles in a previous place and they were fine.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #211 on:** 04 May, 2018, 06:24:51 pm »

Thought I'd found some ok tiles. Look up the prices and they only come in 25x50cm. That's possibly going to look fairly ridiculous in our tiny bathroom

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #212 on:** 15 August, 2018, 07:03:47 pm »

Well, about 18 months later than I hoped, but fingers crossed when I get back from holiday I'll have most of a sparkly new bathroom (apart from vinyl floor & painting).

Before (including the plaster that fell off the wall with the wallpaper):

IMG_8950_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Jurek · « **Reply #213 on:** 15 August, 2018, 07:18:02 pm »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 15 August, 2018, 07:03:47 pm

Well, about 18 months later than I hoped, but fingers crossed when I get back from holiday I'll have most of a sparkly new bathroom (apart from vinyl floor & painting).

Before (including the plaster that fell off the wall with the wallpaper):
IMG_8950_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Oh, that looks pretty cool!

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #214 on:** 15 August, 2018, 07:25:37 pm »

That's the 'old' bathroom, BTW.

Kim · « **Reply #215 on:** 15 August, 2018, 07:43:16 pm »

Don't mind Jurek, he lives in That London...

Jurek · « **Reply #216 on:** 15 August, 2018, 07:45:21 pm »

Doh!

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #217 on:** 15 August, 2018, 07:59:55 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 15 August, 2018, 07:43:16 pm

Don't mind Jurek, he lives in That London...

It's also a very wide angle lens

ian · « **Reply #218 on:** 15 August, 2018, 08:51:10 pm »

In London that would be the entire flat.

Aunt Maud · « **Reply #219 on:** 15 August, 2018, 09:01:34 pm »

Quote from: Jurek on 15 August, 2018, 07:45:21 pm

Doh!

Poly Hive · « **Reply #220 on:** 15 August, 2018, 10:11:36 pm »

Buy tiles and buy a job for life. Not for us ta.

We installed a wet room in the guest house and 8 years later after near constant use the panels looked immaculate. When the bathrooms in the cottage here need doing up the tiles are coming out and the panels are going in. Keep it simple.

PH

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #221 on:** 23 August, 2018, 05:21:15 pm »

Bit empty

bathroom_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Aunt Maud · « **Reply #222 on:** 24 August, 2018, 07:59:11 am »

You've got lovely lath, Mrs P.

Oscar's dad · « **Reply #223 on:** 24 August, 2018, 10:13:46 am »

We're very pleased with the new bathroom and downstairs loo which were finished in May. We even have a self filling bath

I was blissfully unaware such a thing was possible (now I know why my life seemed so empty

). It was a no cost upgrade as the self filling gubbins was the same cost as a set of bath taps.

Little Jim · « **Reply #224 on:** 24 August, 2018, 10:25:10 am »

"Self filling"? Does that just mean that Mrs OD runs the bath for you?

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