How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

I have Lusso in my kitchen and it’s fine. Wears to brass underneath.

That’s pretty much me.

lil Chrissy timberlake

Need a kitchen tap to match this quooker thats patinated brass https://www.quooker.co.uk/fusion-round-fusionround.html

Really struggling to find out a brass pull out tap to match it.

Cabinets sold to us by an independent place in Bristol but made by Masterclass Kitchens.

Sink is Blanco Metra.

Fitter is great but not in London sadly.

Yeah who knows. It is something we thought about. We were trying to avoid an extractor fan because they are ugly and noisy and I rarely bother switching them on. Plus aiming for the general look of a kitchen that doesn't look too kitcheny.

Baller option would have been a hob with downdraft extraction.

We are putting a shower in the loft bathroom and keeping a bath on the first floor (I would say "main" bathroom, but both are tiny). ms_com is saying she wants the bath to have no shower over it. I reckon it would be handy to keep it. Especially if we get the shower pump sorted to service both rooms. Currently, with the bath on the same floor as the hot water tank and no pump, it takes about 15 min to run a toddler depth bath.

Also, our hot water smells a bit like feet. Is that just an old HW tank problem?

Cheers!

mostly likely so, does your cold water smell?
if not look to drain the hot water tank and see if that helps

Is that just an old HW tank problem?

If you can add a pump, that would indicate that indicates that you've got a feed tank and a hot water tank? Check the feed tank for dead mice and other horrors.

does your cold water smell?

Nope. Will drain when it's not being heated and see if that improves it. It's not super bad. Only get a feint whiff when running a bath. Doesn't make us or any of our stuff smell (to my knowledge).

If you can add a pump, that would indicate that indicates that you've got a feed tank and a hot water tank? Check the feed tank for dead mice and other horrors.

Good point. The feed tank is in the eaves space of the loft conversion. And I'm too big/scared of spiders to get a proper look. I'll ask the builder to take a gander when next here.

Wet rooms are not the cheapest solution

Also;

Live South East London.

Happy to be disproved by loads of anecdotes to the contrary, but in my limited experience wet rooms in the UK don't work well. Wet rooms in old housing stock work even less well.

There usually just isn't enough space, and then you throw in low ambient heat and high moisture levels - and that is before you turn a hot tap on. Plus you've got the white splashes of limescale residue covering everything. And if you have a job which requires a start time, then you've got to factor in 5-10min cleaning up in the morning, plus working out a neat way to store your massive flat mop.

You can obviously mitigate this to some extent with quality underfloor heating permanently cranked up to max under the correct flooring, combined with a powerful extractor fan. A water softener and getting a cleaner/upping their hours will deal with the limescale. An additional bathroom also helps to reduce use.

Not trying to be overly negative. But imo it's the wrong choice for that space.

So next up is creating a downstairs loo out of what used to be a cupboard.

Going to be pretty cheap, no reason to go fancy on a toilet or small sink I don't think.

Floor will be blue rubber using the leftovers from the bathroom.

Think we are going to do jazzy wallpaper, no other decisions made yet.

The builder reckons we should have the sink at the reduced height end and toilet at the full height end by the door. 'So you don't hit your head standing up from the loo'. This seems a bit nuts to me though, and I'm pretty sure there's plenty enough space for this not to be a problem.

Any thoughts on this or on decor decisions? Also need a small clearance light that I won't hit my head on - not keen on downlighters.

Are bathrooms available in any other colours apart from Pink?
Our loo is in the reduced height part of the room because no one stands directly over a toilet. I think the sink part is nearly the only full height part of the loo. Lights are motion activated because switches are for barbarians.

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That is very nice, what paint?

Think it might be a bit too stylish for us though. Probs gonna go for something a bit more LLL like:
https://www.miltonandking.com/uk/product/pond-pattern-wallpaper/

Oh also what are the lights then, and are the motion sensors included or separate

Everyone goes funky with downstairs toilets. Everyone.

I feel sorry for anyone not living #bathlife

We will temporarily not have one in our new place. Sad.

no one stands directly over a toilet.

Please don't start that again.

We have motion activated lights in our bathroom. Great idea in toilets and bathrooms.

https://theweek.com/articles/801590/what-does-ghost-smell-like

what colour hand towel tho - black !?

Errrrrrrrrrrrrr Little Greene Carmine maybe, looks like they need to work on how the display their colours digitally though.

Not sure about lights, they were customised by the Architects, but sensor is bog standard 40 quid one that you prob get in public loos yet for some reason no one specs them at home.

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What did I start?!
Yeah motion activated lights in toilet for sure but I'd be worried I would be soo busy relaxing in a bath the lights would go off so went for external dimmers.
Although that's got me thinking I could convert them to smart ones with sensors pretty easy.

Yeah course.