Bathroom before

A lovely sunny day here in Manchester, so I thought I'd take advantage of the rays to capture some "before" pictures of the bathroom/toilet prior to its forthcoming refurbishment.

So here's the loo as it is at the moment complete with high-level cistern with maidenhair fern growing out of it, Indian-inspired stencilling on the walls, seashell toilet seat and pissing-dog loo roll holder. These are all original features that we inherited with the house - for more detailed photos, see my flickr account.

The left wall will be removed during the refit and the toilet replaced with a low-level close coupled modern job. We've tried to maintain an authentic feel by choosing one in an Edwardian style, and kept a ceramic flush handle rather than one of those new-fangled push-button flushes.

The bathroom door will be blanked off giving us a landing that goes nowhere, where we intend to put a linen chest, and an extra bit of wall in the new bathroom where we're going to mount a heated towel rail - right outside the new shower cubicle.


...which is going to be positioned right here, at the end of where the bath is now. Work starts March 19, assuming we've chosen the tiles by then!

Meanwhile, our friends Phil and Vicky are on their way over for the weekend and we'll be taking the bus to town for a short shopping trip as soon as they arrive. I'm not a particularly big fan of shopping so Nikki has sweetened the pill by offering me half an hour in HMV :o)