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monziejoinery

bathroom help needed for turreted gatehouse

Monzie Joinery
7 years ago

looking for ideas for bathroom in a special building. Budgets are tight and I'd like to keep it to Gothic Revival but struggling to find inspiration. Help.

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  • minnie101
    7 years ago

    Hi. Is the sanitary ware already chosen? If not, claw foot bath with some animal, gargoyle type thing feet. If the towel rail can be moved then would create a vanity from an ornate, carved console. Either panelling or perhaps a rich feature wallpaper, you could look at emerald green, Inky blue, black, ruby, gold etc. Or you could just go for paint and add some suitable art as a feature. Draped curtains would be good but I assume the window is small?! If there's the ceiling height a black wrought iron chandelier, an elaborate mirror etc. Perhaps a dark oak floor. Do you have a picture and can you confirm whether sanitary ware has been bought?

    Comments (11)

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      Sabbini & Co.
      7 years ago

      Interesting looking project! Would love to help, drop me an email and we can discuss. damien@sabbini.com

      Monzie Joinery thanked Sabbini & Co.
    • Stephen Edwards
      7 years ago
      last modified: 7 years ago

      If the sanitary ware has already been chosen then your options will be more limited. I would have suggested plain white with a wall mounted cistern with brass joining pipe and black or dark wood loo seat. The basin built into a marble topped console and a plain white bath with mahogany surround. If the budget is really tight I would suggest picking Pugin colours and possibly stecilling the patterns onto the walls. A good source of interior inspiration for the style would be Castell Coch.

      https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=castell+coch&client=firefox-b-ab&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGodzZyPjOAhWEvhQKHYgaCOYQ7AkIPA&biw=1366&bih=657#tbm=isch&q=castell+coch+interior]


      It sounds like a very interesting project.

      Monzie Joinery thanked Stephen Edwards
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      Monzie Joinery
      Original Author
      7 years ago

      Sanitary ware has not been chosen yet, this is what I'm struggling with! The window is about the same size as the windows in the photo on the right hand side and is latticed. We have original cast iron bath, which I was thinking of having re-enamelled, but worried it might be freezing cold, has anyone any experience with this? Thank you!

    • minnie101
      7 years ago

      I've got one (with gargoyle feet!) and although I admit I don't use it very often I find it retains the heat well

    • Carolina
      7 years ago
      Would it be possible to only have a glass shower screen between the shower and the sink? So you'll basically have that part of the bathroom as a wet room?
      Ignore the style of the bathroom, but I mean something like in this photo
      Hamilton House · More Info
    • Carolina
      7 years ago
      You could do panelling around the rest of the walls, maybe make it with a Gothic arch detail.
      Croxted Road - Dulwich · More Info
    • Carolina
      7 years ago
      Panelling more like this, but perhaps with gothic arched tops?
      Mylands Colours of London Blues & Greens · More Info
    • Carolina
      7 years ago
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    • temple274
      7 years ago
      Is it too late to change the plumbing layout? I think it would be more in keeping with the period feel to only have the bath and washbasin visible, and hide the loo and shower. If you had a partial partition across the room you could position a freestanding bath in front of it so that was the focal point as you entered from the bedroom, and hide the loo and shower behind, accessing one from one side of the bath and one from the other. They would still be in roughly the same position as your current plan. Then put a washbasin or vanity unit that looks gothic on the wall backing onto your bedroom. If rearranging causes problems with plumbing then raising the bath shower and loo section so you stepped up to it would give plenty of room to play with under a raised floor. If you panelled the partition you would add to the gothic feel.
    • temple274
      7 years ago
      Sorry, looking at it again the room seems a little narrow for my suggestion, unless you use a short bath?
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