Twickenham: Full Bathroom Renovation

The before image shows what was there. A bath taking up the majority of the floor. A floor-mounted toilet and basin eating into the space around it. A tile scheme that dated the room. The bathroom was not small. It was just badly arranged and full of objects that were fixed to the floor when they did not need to be. The brief was to replace the bath with a walk-in shower, move the toilet and basin off the floor and onto the wall, and create a continuous tiled surface running through the whole room without any step or level change at the shower threshold.
That meant stripping everything out first. A stud wall was built to house the concealed cistern for the wall-hung toilet. New plaster went on the walls first, then the waterproofing membrane was applied over it. Underfloor heating was laid across the full floor area including inside the shower zone, with the linear drain set in position before any tile went down. The process image shows the room at that stage. Everything resolved before the tiling started so nothing had to be undone later.

The floor is a 300 x 600mm grey stone-effect porcelain, laid continuously from the shower through to the rest of the bathroom with the linear drain flush with the surface. The shower feature wall is ocean blue gloss metro tiles at 65 x 250mm, laid in herringbone at 90 degrees. The shift between the blue herringbone in the shower and the warm grey large-format tiles on the remaining walls gives the room two distinct zones without breaking the flow. The recessed niche above the toilet was set out carefully so full tiles land on every surface inside the recess, the back face and both sides cutting cleanly where they meet. An access panel was integrated into the wall tiling for maintenance access to the pipework behind, sitting cleanly within the tile layout with no visible break.
All external corners were finished with grey tile trims matched to the wall tiles. It is a detail that is easy to skip and immediately visible when it is. Raw cut tile edges at corners let a bathroom scheme down at close inspection. The trims, the continuous floor level, the flush drain, the wall-hung fittings and the access panel all work toward the same result: a bathroom that feels larger than it is and more considered than its size might suggest. Three weeks from strip-out to finished room.