**** getting that up the stairs

 

Steve, it is personal taste mate.

I actually think the tub JB has linked to looks gorgeous and if my decor was a bit different I'd love to have one. Actually it may look good as a contrast to my decor anyway, but I'd have to be brave to give it a go.

These sorts of tubs are actually all the rage especially in modernised period properties. They add value to the right kind of property.

 

Very similar baths are being fitted to the Georgian house re-furbs I'm working on.
Along with reproduction cornicing, skirts, doors etc, there's lots of contemporary fittings going in.
Will all blend in well.

(Proper 18th Century houses, not faux ones)

 

I work on the buildings and all you have said is exactly what I have said being marmite, "its personal taste" Yes you think it looks the part but in reality it doesn't as it has more down falls than how it looks in a brochure.

But what do I know when two doctors think its right

 

They look nice to me Ding. Steve, caution noted, but it is a Victorian stone farm building and can carry off a mix of styles well.

 

Don't fake it!


http://www.catchpoleandrye.com/produ...copper-bateau/

 

Its personal taste and I take it Ding is doing on a property? as why would you ask advice on your own personal bathroom? no one would!


Its a very dated look and its not a selling point, also how can you go from asking about whirlpool to next minute having a plasltic Victorian bath

I think the fixtures and storage make the bathroom also with the correct wall and floor tiles.

Why put a small stand alone bath in a big bath room when a 1500x1500 bath with large steam room and wall units would make a similar price?

But what do I know I have no idea on what people would like in a bathroom

 

**** it, if you want authenticity at an affordable price.....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-ti...p2054897.l5660

 

I'm very interested in this as i'm planing a huge master bedroom possibly with a large en-suite bath/shower room all in should be somewhere around 6x8m. I really fancy one of these whirlpool jobbies because as I get older i'm starting to see the value of just relaxing in the bath and getting a free massage, i'm also tempted to push the boat out and make a dedicated jacuzzi room and have one of those big *** multi-jet shower cubicles in the en-suite and keep the rest of the space for a walk in wardrobe, decisions decisions.

So i'd be interested to know other peoples experiences of all three as i'm sure my fellow capitalist bourgeois junglist ding would too.

 

A whirlpool bath is surely just as marmite as a freestanding bath? I have never seen a whirlpool bath I would say is not off putting, but so far I have installed white minimalist baths in two small bathrooms, but see inspiration in larger bathrooms with freestanding baths. Whirlpool is not where I am getting my inspiration, they look tacky to my eyes.

 

dpb, I really like that!

 

What you say is excellent and very true but in realaity peoples opinions change.

I have no doubt 99% of the public would love your bathroom idea when walked into the right home.

But the realality is 99% of the public would hate your bath room when walked into a used hosue!


I'm not saying your bath choice is bad I'm saying from experience its a bad selling point.


again how I can I know better than two doctors that have made their mind up its a good idea


Keep away from brochures and go to real world

Show me real world pictures of those bathrooms 6 months on!

 

I have just thought about that and we have a 1930's house and we just got this bath up the staircase, if I bought the 1500x1500 model I could never get it in my house without structural mods as the bath is a proper enclosed structural unit with frame.

I would of definitely needed to take the window out from the main bedroom and due to weight maybe forks or a crane.


Quite common in new houses as I know lots of times we have to pull windows out and get the forks to lift a settee in

 

The controversy a bath can cause!

Steve, it is actually for my own home not a refurb project. Perhaps I've confused the issue? Basically I thought you could have a bath that looked something like this (for example) but would also give me a hydro massage.

http://www.cphart.co.uk/bathrooms/ba..._standing_bath

It was my ignorance that these sorts of baths don't actually exist.

Personally I don't think traditional whirlpool baths look as bad as JB does, but only if sunk into the floor (which I can't do). Like this

http://www.bathroomvillage.com/brand...pool-bath.html


Anyway, I'd be very interested to know why you feel all free standing baths end up looking rubbish after six months.

Thanks

 

6x8? Are you serious? I'd put in a swimming pool if I had that much space

I have built space for walk in wardrobes, I'll send you some pics when it's finished if you like.

Big up yer chest!

 

http://vandabaths.com/en/europe/product/barcelona/


Looks nice, bit exposed maybe..

Thought they'd be massively heavy but they're not

 

Well I already have the swimming pool (hole only at the min though)

I want the storage more than anything as my needs are quite simple and i'm not flash but I do like my comforts. As i'm starting with a blank piece of paper I think it would be rude not to.

I have a space of 13m x 6m for this 2 storey apartment/extension on the back of the house and the master bedroom will be all of the 1st floor along with a big balcony (due to the placement of a window) which may have a jacuzzi on it. I'm not a bath person but I have missed one over the past few years, as I get older I like to soak my bones occasionally.

Not too sure which way I want to go with it at the moment, after looking at the prices of a proper jacuzzi I though I may be able to kill two birds with one stone in the form of a whirlpool bath as I won't be sharing with 6 people. Along with the initial purchase price as well as the cost and hassle of up keep, for the amount of times i'll use it in a year a jacuzzi is a bit over kill so this thread is a timely one.

Shake your body.

 

I could only afford 2x2.4 . . , did it all myself though Inc plastering

 

Those ones do look better Deep. I have a sunken area by accident as the farmer just built the floors and roof sloping following the 7% hill so the lower part has a step down where the floors were then levelled, some good ideas.

 

He could just put artificial floor going up away from entrance in steps

 

..or at least try something similar IRL before you buy it. I love the look of free-standing baths but some of them are definitely style over substance.

Victorian 'slipper' baths with the high back and low sides - I thought these looked good in period properties but found that you can't fill them deep enough to have a really good soak because the sides are too low. So you end up sitting upright in a half-filled bath.

Some of the others, similar to what's been posted above, are just too deep. You need to be 7ft tall to lie down in them without drowning. Also unless you have decent water pressure by the time they have filled up the hot water has already started to go cold.

Same with showers, the large rose-head fixed type look stylish but unless there's a separate hand-held to go with it they are not practical.

The way I have found this out is by staying in various hotels, it's a good way to gauge if you're really going to like a certain kind of bath without buying it.

 

Swimming pool? Now I'm jealous.

Yes storage is very important. When I was designing how to use the space in my new bedroom (new extension) walk in wardrobes were high on the wish list. I didn't want to see any clutter in the bedroom, especially all 'her' lotions, potions, hairdryer etc. So I've even left a space in the walk in wardrobes for her dressing table so I can basically lock her in there

 

I thought of that, however to look right the entire tub then needs to be built into a surround and tiled. This will take up too much space as I want a very large shower (as that's what would be used 99% of the time)

 

I couldn't agree more. The ones that look the best (ie the ones JB and dpb have linked to) are often the least practical.

The ones that are most practical and comfortable do as JB puts it look like a lorry full of collanders has crashed into a Comet store

 

I'd be intrigued to learn if that actually works, I mean the curtailing spread of warpaint / etc

Not the locking her up

 

If its for your own home and you want a good soak I would buy something like this since you have the space Now that would be a centre piece for a bathroom most people would like.
http://www.cphart.co.uk/bathrooms/ba...waterfall_bath


Where the stand alone baths start to look bad in homes is the long chrome taps tarnish quickly and due to the size they tend to move/ swivel. When they are against a wall the junk I have seen underneath them as well


We had this type of bath before and it was 2mx1m but they take loads of water to fill and the bath used to drop 10mm along the tile line when full, it was a cracking bath but just not practical since I wanted a stand alone shower.

http://www.cphart.co.uk/bathrooms/ba...aths_free_bath

 

Sounds fantastic, sex slave locked in the wardrobe.

Forgot to mention in my previous post, I'd be very interested in seeing what you've done so please do send me some pics when you've finished it, always good to see what others have done with their space. I'll not be starting for another year as i'm currently busy doing the front stairs, entrance, party room and kitchen diner.

 

My dad was a plumber for 50 years, and I fitted a fair few, I also lived with my mate for a few years and we had one fit for when we wanted to impress the bitches. Anyway my advice is don't get one, unless cleaned they start to leave soap scum in the pipes, and to be honest when the novelty has worn off it becomes a ballache, brown **** floating on the top of the water, not really great. Well unless u don't use any of the low bubble bath stuff, just use water it's ok. I'd spend money on a fancy shower array, one that blast water all over, even up ya starfish LOL

Ted

 

The whole baths actually in Bedrooms thing that seem to be the rage on Home Decorating type programs lately is the one that baffles me...

I mean a bath IN your bedroom - wouldn't it get a bit damp & steamy in there....???
Cold damp bedsheets - lovely!

 

suppose it depends on how big your room is and how much condensation you see. In my house 5 of us it tends to be heavy condensation.

I remember once as a final blow out me and my mate went to the moon Palace in Mexico and they have whirlpools at the bottom of ya bed.

Great if your with the wife, but not great if your 2 lads. Not sort of thing I wanna see is my mates hairy *** at the end of my bed HAHA.

Nice hotel though highly recommended, in fact the best ive even been to.