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Small Bathrooms, A Malvern Case Study
Our client has a family thats growing older and her small bathrooms just not coping!
Not only does she have a small bathroom, its also long and narrow making it more difficult to use than she liked. For example, to use the toilet, she had to squeeze past the shower cubicle and vanity.
Also, the décor had aged and she wanted her small bathrooms renovation to bring the room into a more current era. Plus extra light!
Effectively, her brief was to make a small bathrooms feel much larger and more modern by re-arranging the layout of the room, employing crisp, clean lines and open white spaces to give a sense of room.
After understanding her brief, we re-designed her little bathroom to improve its floor plan but also to deliver additional visual space.
We did this by creating a sunken walk in shower plus bath that sat behind a frameless shower screen. The bath hob tiles matched the white wall tiles, while the floor tiles were a mid-grey/brown colour.
These design choices and colours reduced the visual punctuation throughout the room, tricking the eye into believing her small bathrooms more spacious than the floor plan would suggest.
We also placed a large shaving cabinet over the vanity using mirrors to create reflective space and lighten up the area.
On the practical side, some frame straightening was required after demolition to ensure such a small bathrooms lines were clean and sharp for the finished product.
The Budget?: $31k
What The Client Said
The new bathroom design has totally changed our bathroom and the way we use it. Even though its not a large bathroom, it feels much more open, more light and more usable. Its just what we needed. Thanks!
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Richard Armstrong is a Director of Melbourne firm The Makeover Group. Educated in interior design, he is a Registered Building Practitioner. Richard has undertaken post graduate property valuation research to identify the renovations that add the most value to homes in specific Melbourne suburbs. Over the last decade, he has helped hundreds of inner metro Melbourne clients undertake renovations to update their homes and create a new, fresh and modern look all while growing the value of their property. See testimonials.
