How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Nice but £112 for a single 300mm shelf feels punchy

Ouch. With some clever prep and tiles ending up where you planned it you could just use a T profile in the right dimensions.
I can see where the price comes from though, laser cutting, extruding a special profile.

Given how manky the filters on my dishwasher get i always scrape and rinse. When I go away and the family are left to their own devices it starts to stink

Sorry for German link, but 1m, 10cm deep 5mm thick raw aluminium for 30€. You'd have to find someone that sells you the length you want though.
Drill some holes, bring to powdercoater, have fun.
https://www.aluscout.de/Aluminium-T-Profil-1000-x-600-x-50-mm-B-x-H-x-s-Oberflaeche-pressblank-roh-Verkaufseinheiten-in-Stangen-je-6-m

That's what I have in my rented poc bathroom, bought a length of 10cm deep powdercoated aluminium and installed it just where the tiles finish. This will not get any nicer while I live here, I did everything that makes sense doing.
Unless the stars align and the owners need to sell, we have the funds and I can do the big renovation of our dreams.

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No one here scrapes and rinses, but I know who cleans the filter all the time.

Thank you, nuggets I’d never have considered. Much appreciated.

Will move the bins next to the sink.

Washing machine in the corner might work, but will prevent the door from opening beyond 90deg, which is a compromise.

Island is already full of drawers, even more so now without bins.

Wondering what the IP rating is on the bathroom plug/socket…

At family dinners I sit closest to the dishwasher so the kids get a point by point instruction to complete

Nice - love all the drawers in mine

Wondering what the IP rating is on the bathroom plug/socket…

I think it's only the UK where we worry about ingress protection and residual current and earths and all that silliness. Everywhere else, people seem happy to place unprotected sockets in wet areas and just get on with life.*

*Or death, depending on the IP rating of the socket.

Sorting out bathroom design. Narrowed to two options. Option 1 left, shower cubicle, no raised floor, perhaps a bit busier as not so open. Option 2, raised floor 100mm and wet room, but more open and cleaner. Option 2 harder to build and a bit more expensive but I think is a nicer flow and looking.

Toilet needs to be on that wall, door opening is fixed location (pocket door). Bath modelled as rectangle but is curved so less imposing in reality.

Anyone want to chim in and tell me why it's wrong?

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It looks quite tight (option 1 between shower and bath, option 2 between toilet and bath).

Are you dead against merging the bath and shower?

That's a good point, the bath isn't actually rectangle but curved so will be used to 85cm spaced on either design, which I think is ok. But I couldn't find the curve radius on their drawing so drew rectangle.

Yes a free standing bath is no negotiable.

We've just realised that the worktops in our kitchen are going to be too dark. We're not having cupboards up top, just shelves. What should we look at as a solution? We could still get stuff hardwired in as plastering hasn't quite finished. But we'd have to be quick.

You’re going to find having to dry the bath down after a shower in 2 is going to get tired very quickly. But it does look nicer.

I'd just have enough wall outlets in a height that makes sense, spaced nicely, and switched of course
Then you have all the wall lamps to choose from.
Just two very different favourites of mine that are easily available:

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Or do the spots from ceiling thing.
Over work surfaces that's acceptable.

Or diffused LED strips under the shelves, plus any other wall lamps you like the look of.

Or those recessed / plastered in wall spots.

Yeah... I think the only thing going for that is humidity here is 45% generally so the current shower over bath dries itself. We will go with 2, but I'll make it an pannal side bath against wall which gives another 15cm away so it shouldn't be too bad.

Led stip light under some sort of coving?

dry the bath down after a shower

Do many people do that? I've never dried a bath or shower after use and haven't noticed terrible things happening. Am I doing it wrong?

I thought about this because we've got an Anglepoise wall lamp going in elsewhere. But I wasn't sure how they'd fit under shelves, and have the shelves still at a usable height. LED strips seem like another option but they all seemed to have a power pack and plug socket, and that seems messy.

People dry their bath tub after using it? Is this one of those 'some people stand up to wipe' things?

It's possible to wire them all in 24v (or 12v) from a transformer which can be out of sight. There are ready made channels that can be routed into the bottom of shelves or attached to the underside with a lip on the shelf. Plenty of examples out there. Ideally you will need to know your shelf layout at the plastering stage though.