The Bathrooms
4 bathrooms for a 300m2 house... we had our work cut out.
For our guests, we chose to create a distinctive look, always relying on materials sourced from Europe, and if possible antique furniture.
Initially, there were 2 functional but outdated bathrooms - none of them were ready to welcome our future guests, especially as either of them were connected to the adjoining bedrooms.
Stéphane had a blast demolishing everything, not that much removing the rubble...
The plumber loved planning water conduits and piping on a 19th century floor and stone walls as wide as.... 80cm.
Meanwhile, Catherine and Stéphane find new topic of conversation: reclaimed tiles, French tiles, terracotta or wooden floor? And then what paint, what furniture?
The choices are made... It will be:
- Decorative tiles, because they have to please the eye, but Italian because more affordable than French, and we could not find what we wanted in second hand.
- A French acrylic paint - the traffic in the bathroom prevented us from using a recipe found on a blog from the Nordic countries for an environmentally-friendly paint.
- Recycled furniture (old dressing tables repainted and transformed into vanity units).
- The toilets deserves their own section (to come) special publication as they were THE hot topic for the bathrooms... And we found the perfect solution!
Check out the finished bathrooms in the room descriptions.