Toilet - Master Bathroom

Before





After the kitchen, this toilet was the next in line that made us spent many agonising hours.   Ignoring the pipes, the space was limited and I wanted so much to have a proper shower area with shower screen and a wash basin area for our items.

Special thanks to ifp!  

ifp is a fellow Renotalk member who has the similar layout and showed us what they had done.  On the 3D drawing, it looked cramped.  But, seeing that it was possible, on 3D drawing, we went ahead to execute it.  

Previous shower area was divided into two.  Wide on each side was 750mm, which was good enough.
We put in a 4inch ledge so that all the bottles and tubes can go onto it.  This was something we did before in our previous house and we loved it.  Never thought that it would create some problems here.



First was quite major.  As I had written before, the ledge took up space for the wash basin area.  The result was that we had to cancel our orders and scrambled to find a smaller basin to fit.  

Second was that we had to stand a little closer to the shower tap because the rain shower mounted on top was now 10cm in recess.

Installation of toilet bowl and shower screen.

Was glad that our ID had given us a thicker glass with metal support on top.  What we usually see in magazines are thin and frameless.  Since we planned to use it for a long time, better go with one that is sturdier.

And then, it was another two weeks before we could use this bathroom, because the plumber cracked the tiles while trying to install the basin.  We had to wait for the tiler to come and fix the tiles.  On hearing our plight with the plumber, our carpenter volunteered to bring back the sink and customised the cabinet so that the sink can sit on it instead of mounting to the wall.




Another few days for the guys to come in and complete the quartz table top.


With this configuration, there are now enough space for daily functions and enough storage (actually, lots of storage!).

Very happy with the result. 

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