Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Small Bath Tubs For Small Bathrooms
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
Remodeling Small Bathrooms How To Find A Bathroom Contractor

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Making the Most of a Small Bathroom
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Monday, March 9, 2009
Pamper Yourself, Pamper Your Bathroom
Pampering yourself in the bathroom is about lifting your mood. Locking the door and concentrating on you. Spending time with all the bathroom has to offer so that when you emerge your skin, hair, muscles, feet, eyes and even mind are invigorated, lifted, better. So is it possible to pamper your bathroom in return? To spend time and thought on it, re-invigorating and lifting the entire room? Of course it is with the added bonus that small changes in the bathroom can be amazingly cost effective.
The pampering can be as little or as much as you like. Taking a couple of durable bath pillows and placing them at either end of the bath can turn the plainest of baths into the height of double ended pleasure. Add in a couple of wall mounted candleholders and an over-bath book rest and you'll never want to leave.
Swapping existing fixtures and fittings will make even the most dated bathroom feel brand new. Tarnished gold taps, wastes and showers can easily be replaced with modern strong chrome brassware. Even accessories play a part in the overall feel of the room, a co-ordinated set of toilet roll holders, soap dishes, towel rails and shower tidies will immediately tie the bathroom together in an eye catching display.
The innovations in designer bathroom lighting over the past few years now means that boring dull ceiling lights can be a thing of the past. Setting and changing the mood in your bathroom has never been easier than with Chromotherapy lighting. L.E.D's, spotlights and down lighters, all fully waterproof can now be fitted in the ceiling, walls, floor and anywhere else in between to elevate your bathroom to a whole new level of luxury. The remote colour changing options allow you to bathe your room in any combination of colours to reflect or reshape your mood.
Every makeover show around can tell you that sticking a mirror somewhere in a room will make it feel bigger and in most British bathrooms we all know space is of a premium, but mirrors don't need to be afterthoughts or thrown in to give the illusion of space. There are some truly fantastic bathroom mirrors currently on the market that incorporate strong design, long term guarantees and the best ones come with demista technology and lighting. The heated demista pads behind the glass make sure that no matter how steamy your room gets the glass remains pristine and clean, no wet finger marks when you are trying to see yourself. With the striking illuminated sections of the mirrors you can feel like you're in one of the world's most luxury bathrooms in your own home.Perhaps the most gorgeous and yet one of the simplest ways put some of the wow factor into your bathroom is to swap your existing radiator with a stunning towel warmer. Running off the exact same pipe-work as your current radiator, towel warmers come in a huge range of styles, colours and prices to suit everyone. Serving the dual purpose of heating the room and warming your towels they provide any bathroom with a real feeling of decadence.
Pampering your bathroom is easy, in-expensive and good fun. The stress and cost of a full refit are eliminated and little by little you can achieve your dream look. So pamper your bathroom and benefit from the changes the every time you decide to pamper yourself.
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Types of Showers - Enclosures and Doors
If you’re redesigning your bathroom, you have a lot of choices when it comes to your new shower. Sure, you can go with the common shower-and-bath combination with a shower curtain. But your shower can be more than just a practical place to wash up: it can also be a showpiece.
Here’s a breakdown of your options: the types of shower doors and enclosures available, and the spaces in which they work best.
Shower Enclosures: Shapes and Sizes
Showers often dominate the bathroom space. Even with a small bathroom, you can make a dramatic statement with a unique-looking shower enclosure. Here are the most typical types you’ll find on the market.
Square showers. A square shower is a great space-saver in a small bathroom. It will fit in a niche with only one side exposed, a corner with two sides exposed, or it can be exposed on three sides. The corner and niche positions are the most common, however; most people with enough space to leave a square shower exposed on three or four sides usually opt for a bigger enclosure.
A glass door is an excellent choice for a square shower. In a small space, the glass makes the bathroom look larger than it would with an opaque shower enclosure. Glass showers also look stylish and luxurious, giving a smaller bathroom a more exclusive feel.
Rectangular showers. The rectangular shower is often paired with a bath to make a shower-bath combination. Many people don’t have room for a separate shower and bath, so they opt for the shower-bath combination instead. If you prefer showers to baths, however, a rectangular enclosure can still be a great choice. It gives you enough space for a shower for two—try doing that in a square shower.
Quadrant showers. Quadrant showers have two squared ends that fit perfectly into a square corner. The part of the shower that faces the room is rounded instead of square. This design gives you a more efficient use of space than a square enclosure in the same corner position, as you don’t have a corner that juts into the room. The curved surface of the glass looks dramatic, and you save space in a small bathroom as well.
D-shaped showers. The shape of this enclosure resembles a capital D, with the curved part of the letter facing the room and the straight part against the wall. You’ll need a bit more room with a D-shaped shower than you would with a quadrant, as you’ll need to allow three sides of the enclosure to be exposed and uncluttered by sinks and toilets.
A D-shaped shower is dramatic and stylish, but it’s not a common choice. That’s because these are usually smaller, one-person showers. Most people who have the space opt for a larger rectangular design. Those with a smaller bathroom usually choose a square or quadrant shower to make better use of their space.
Types of Shower Doors
Glass shower doors come in several different designs, and each suits a different type of space. Here are the most common options on the market.
Pivot doors. These doors swing outward into the room. They’re often used in recessed showers, but they can also be used in combination with stationary side panels in rectangular enclosures, or in other combinations. They give a wide door opening, but they do need some clearance in the room to swing open.
In-fold doors. These consist of two panels hinged in the middle that fold into the shower space to provide an opening. They’re a good choice in bathrooms where space is an issue and you don’t want a door that swings out into the room.
Frameless doors. Frameless shower doors are a bit more solid than pivot doors; they also swing out into a room, and require some space to do it. They provide a wide opening and are usually made of a single pane of glass.
Sliding doors. These are usually installed on rectangular, D-shaped or quadrant enclosures. They’re preferred because they make a wide opening without swinging out into the bathroom or into the shower enclosure. You don’t need a lot of space to accommodate them, but they aren’t effective on small square enclosures.There are plenty of shower enclosures and doors to suit every bathroom layout. No matter your plans for your redesign project, you’re sure to find a shower that complements it perfectly.
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