This was because as far as the bank was concerned she had turned a four bedroom house into a three bedroom one – the loft didn’t count as it doesn’t have a dormer extension. One other point that Laura made was that removing a bedroom to create a bathroom meant that the amount of money she was able to release from the mortgage (to free up more money for building works) was reduced. If you can’t be bothered with that – and Laura’s builder thought she was mad! – then you can buy these black and white ones but you don’t get the flowers unless you DIY. These are the Shapes Hexagon tiles from our sponsor Topps and Laura painstakingly cut out some of the white ones and replaced them with black to create flowers.
The result, though is fabulous.īefore we move round to the bedroom a word on the tiles in the loft. And it turns out that while they will come and polish the plaster for you they won’t build the frame, or fit the shower tray (needed to be cream to match the walls cue trip to Ireland) or do any plumbing. And it turned out there were only two people in the UK who do it. “Then I saw a picture of a shower I loved in a magazine and it was Moroccan or Spanish in style.”
“I hate enclosed spaces so the shower was going to have to be big enough to work without a door,” says Laura. If you want to create a similar look then Topps have finishing strips in this range and you could see if they went with these. The cabinet was £450 from ebay, which meant that there were some savings that could be used for the shower. The metro tiles are laid vertically with borders between (a look created by Linda Boronkay for Soho House) while the vintage bath (£500 from a vintage place in Devon instead of something similar from Water Monopoly for more than £5,000) sits under the vintage linen bistro curtains in the window.
Originally a small bedroom and loo, the couple knocked the space into one to create a large family bathroom. Laura’s main bathroom (pictured above and below) is a gorgeous space that shows how much time and effort has gone into making it right.
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