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DREAM BATHROOM

1 LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

If yours is a terraced house of a certain era, there is a chance your bathroom is downstairs, accessed through the kitchen. Are you tired of semi-clad people dashing through while someone’s cooking? Would you sacrifice part of or a whole bedroom to move the bathroom upstairs? According to research by insurer Direct Line, two bathrooms to every three bedrooms is the ideal ratio. So, if you’re adding onto your house, you need easy access to a bath or shower room on at least two levels.

2 Bathroom blues

Begin with the cons of your bathroom; the loathe list that you are desperate to change. Is it the tiny plastic tub that you can’t relax in? The no-power shower that’s just a tepid trickle enclosed

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