acacia ridge

This small Acacia Ridge property was in great need of an overhaul to accommodate the needs of a growing family.

Cramped, dated, cheap,and ill-designed are not great adjectives to describe a bathroom. The only ‘wow’ in this bathroom is the great natural light streaming through the louvres which offered very friendly street views.

The cheapest solution would have been to keep the existing placement of the shower and the vanity. However, this was not going to provide the best outcome. As the house is high set, it is not a significant cost difference to relocate the fixtures.

No external consultants were required. All walls and windows remained in their current locations. The only external change was removing the louvres and changing to an awning. An awning window was chosen instead of louvres due to cost saving measures.

Due to the existing conditions of the site, being a cramped small room with wonky walls full of asbestos, great care had to be taken to prepare the space before we could start to watch the much anticipated space take shape.

The existing walls were straightened, a handy little nib wall was built in the shower to offer a bit of convenient and stylish shelving, and the space was starting to look like a bathroom.

The most exciting part of the process was each day seeing the tiler place those beautiful tiles on the wall. It was a week-long process as the tiler matched the grain on the tiles to create a calmly considered pattern across the side wall of the shower.