Bathroom stripped to brick and rebuilt in marble tile

The room started out with a bath under acrylic sparkle wall panels, white and black wall tiles with a border, a timber-clad ceiling and a vanity basin and close-coupled toilet crowded into the corner. Everything came out: panels, tiles, sanitaryware, floor covering and ceiling lining, back to the original brick and stone on the outside wall.

With the room stripped, new timber studwork was built off the walls, giving a run of framing to take the new pipework and cabling. The soil stack and waste runs were boxed into a duct, the floor was re-laid in ply, and the first fix electrics went in for ceiling downlights, extractor and mirror supply. Walls were then boarded and the wet areas tanked before the bath was set and its front boarded ready for tile.

Large-format marble-effect porcelain went on the floor first, then the walls, with a darker stone-look tile used on the vanity and mirror wall to break it up. A dropped ceiling section with concealed LED lighting was formed above the bath, with more strip lighting under the bath panel and vanity. It finished with a bath screen, wall-hung vanity unit with counter-top basin, back-to-wall toilet, illuminated mirror and a brassware set to match, all completed by our own electrical, joinery and tiling teams in Glasgow.