RANGE REVIEW: DECORATING & BATHROOMS
INCREDIBLE BATHROOM RENOVATIONS ON INSTAGRAM
BEFORE & AFTER
Mira Showers has trawled through Instagram to find the most incredible bathroom transformations. Experts including TV personality and interior designer, Linda Barker, explain what makes these renovations so effective.
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here is something undeniably satisfying about transformational renovations, and now Mira Showers has rounded up some of the most impressive before and after photos of bathroom overhauls on Instagram. By monitoring relevant hashtags including #bathroomrenovation, #bathroombeforeandafter, #bathroomreno,
#diybathroomremodel and #diybathroom, experts at Mira Showers hand- picked a selection of inspiring bathroom revamps and displayed them in interactive image sliders to show the transformations in all their glory. From FaceTime sessions with self-isolating plumbers, to overcoming the challenges of renovating a bathroom as a single parent while home- schooling two children, here’s the best of the bunch and the stories behind some of them.
Before this bathroom lacked light and style before its total overhaul. After, an impressive skylight, marble-effect tiling, navy blue ceiling and introducing plants has transformed this bathroom into a stylish space (@thehalfdonehouse).
In Kelso (Scottish Borders), 38-year-old Ailsa Burn-Murdoch is the homeowner behind a bathroom renovation that completely transformed the space from an outdated pink and pine bathroom suite to a stylish look including a freestanding bathtub raised on a platform. Before, an outdated pink and pine bathroom suit. After, stunning free-standing bath raised on a plinth and grey subway tiles (@
ailsa.bm). This renovation took seven weeks to complete. Ailsa and her husband DIY’d most of the bathroom, including the overall design, sourcing materials, stripping down the “awful 80’s puffy wallpaper”, removing all the fixtures and joinery to build a platform for the bath and to box in the pipes, decorating and fitting the blind themselves. They even did the plumbing and electrics. Ailsa credits their DIY skills to the fact that she and her husband are “naturally handy.” She added: “We’re not taught and we’re not professionals. We didn’t use instruction videos or articles, we just researched the products and used each other as a sounding board and learned on the job.” Overall, the bathroom renovation cost around £2,250.
In Somerset, Eleanor Whitlam’s bathroom renovation took nine months because of Covid-19; eight months longer than she’d normally expect for a transformation of this scale. It cost approximately £4,000, and design inspiration came from Pinterest, Instagram and magazines. Before, this sage green suite paired with a dusky rose carpet has since been totally transformed. After, the homeowner has dramatically changed the layout to include this spectacular double shower (@compton_randle). Eleanor said: “We work with an ace team of tradespeople who
have renovated three properties with us over the years, and they’re great with letting us muck in. We ‘helped’ with the removal of toilets and showers – on one memorable occasion, our plumber who had Covid-19 used FaceTime from his quarantine to oversee us removing the toilet before the flooring fitters came!”
20 DIY WEEK FEBRUARY 2021
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