Toilet conversion in to Bathroom with Shower

The room started out as a worn small bathroom with peeling wallpaper, a cracked basin and a floor that had come to the end of its life. Everything came out and the walls were taken back to the original brick and lime plaster, with the floorboards lifted so the joists, old waste and buried pipework could be seen and dealt with properly.

With the room open, the layout was reworked in timber stud: a new door opening framed off the hall and a short partition set in to give a separate toilet area alongside the shower. Hot and cold feeds were run in copper on the brick wall, waste was reset for the shower tray, and cables were pulled through the lifted hall floor for the lighting and the mirror. Once first fix was signed off the studwork and ceiling were boarded and skimmed ready for finishing.

The walls were then lined in large-format marble-effect panelling, cut around the window reveal and taken full height, with a low-profile tray set into the shower end. The floor was laid in wood-effect plank tiles on levelling clips, then a brushed brass heated towel rail, round vanity unit with countertop basin, illuminated circular mirror, recessed ceiling downlight and glass shower screen went in to finish it. It is the sort of small-room rebuild we take on across Glasgow, where the joinery, electrics, plumbing and tiling all have to be worked in the same tight space.