Bathroom and kitchen advice
What works in a real British house, what only works in photographs, and the decisions worth making before anybody quotes you. Written by the people who fit them.
Bathrooms
Bathroom design ideas, judged by what survives five years
Anyone can collect pictures. The useful question is which of these ideas still look right after five years of a family using the room every morning.
Read itBuying and fitting
You have bought the kitchen. What does fitting it actually involve?
Buying the kitchen and hiring the fitting separately is a perfectly good way to do it. These are the parts that catch people out, mostly before anybody turns up.
Read itKitchens
Kitchen island ideas, and whether your room can take one
An island is the most requested thing in kitchen design and the one most often squeezed into a room that cannot take it. The test is clearance, and it is easy to run yourself.
Read itBathrooms
Small bathroom ideas that actually work in a British house
Most small-bathroom advice is written for rooms that are not small. This is about the 1.7m by 2m box at the top of the stairs in half the houses in Britain.
Read itKitchens
Small kitchen ideas that survive actual cooking
In a small kitchen every decision is a trade. The useful skill is knowing which trades are worth making and which just move the problem.
Read itBathrooms
Walk-in shower or keep the bath
It is the most common single change people ask about, and the decision usually turns on two things nobody mentions in the showroom: the floor, and the next owner.
Read itGet a real number, then watch it not move
Tell us what you want doing and where you are. We come out within 48 hours and put a full written price in front of you within 48 of that. No showroom visit, no sales appointment, no discount that expires at midnight.