Designing a Hotel-Inspired Bathroom for a Luxurious Experience
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- Modern Luxury
- HDB (BTO)
- ~1,000 sqft
- 3 br
- Couple Living with Kids
Hello everyone, it is @chanceuponchanshome today, sharing with you our bathroom design and layout. We’ve drawn inspiration for our bathroom design from our staycations over the years, carefully noting the features we loved and the ones we didn’t. This personal experience has allowed us to create a space that truly feels like a retreat, yet suitable for daily use and maintenance! Tip: take pictures of hotel bathrooms for your future toilet Reno 🤭 We allocated a significant portion of our renovation costs to this 2.8m by 1.4m space because the Mr. believes in designing a stylish/pretty/nice space especially since we use it every day, and spend so much time in here. (Honestly this is good advice LOL) With that, we made the hefty decision to overlay the whole toilet with thoughts of having an in-built bathtub. The bathtub didn’t come true, but we replaced the bathtub idea with the full height wall idea - AND WE LOVE IT! 
We deliberated between a bathtub, shower glass and full height wall, and finally decided against a bathtub due to practicality. The full height wall comes with two niches - one beside the toilet bowl for toilet paper, and one at the wet area for shampoo and soap bottles. We also included a shower drop instead of shower kerb to elevate the whole luxurious bathroom experience. 
Before purchasing any furnishings, it is important to have your tiles and laminates (if any) decided already, so you can buy things to match your toilet instead of finding tiles to match your items! We long decided to have this tile as our feature wall because of how it exudes class with its gentle white lines, and a "moon face" texture. With lighting, the texture comes up perfectly and creates a natural and comfortable shower experience. When deciding on our tiles, we were caught between contrast tiles (grey and black) and similar (grey and grey) ones. Ultimately, we went for similar tiles because we think it creates a much seamless and minimalist look! We ended up with 4 different grey tiles (instead of 3) in the master bathroom… 
Top left: Wet wall Top right: Dry wall Bottom left: Wet floor Bottom left: Dry floor The flooring was supposed to be same for the whole toilet but our ID suggested to have something with more grip for the wet area, meaning higher slip resistance rating, so we just picked one from our current selection that is the roughest. 😂 We could have just stuck to our dry floor selection too, but our ID commented "You might wanna have something rougher since you have a kid", and it changed our entire perspective. :/ Our dry wall tile that had gotten a lot of compliments!!! Especially with the LED mirror lighting it looks even better, right?! P.s. we also love how our mirror subtly reflects our full louvre door and unique decision to have a towel dryer rack. Moving on from tiles, this is a guaranteed view when you enter our toilet - our grey taobao basin, grey sintered stone countertop, grey vanity cabinet, and our LED mirror. Our LED mirror comes with motion sensor lights, which lights up when it detects motion. That is why having it near the door was a perfect choice because we don't have to fumble for the light switch at night, and it will automatically turn on when we enter the toilet! Why we love it: It is bright enough for a quick pee in the middle of the night and the light goes off 30 seconds after washing hands. Our countertop vintage wash basin that is rough in texture, yet a soft fish scale design. We love how it matches perfectly with our tiles and laminates, and is huge! Usually when you buy basins from Taobao it comes with black or white taps. We opted out of it and purchased our gunmetal swan neck tap separately. A closer look at our sintered stone countertop. We did not realise until the tiles and carpentry were all installed that our countertop and floor tiles look so similar. We customised the vanity cabinet from our ID and it saved us a lot of time and effort; gave us a lot of flexibilty when it comes to deciding the size, height and placement of basin too. We highly recommend to customise your vanity cabinet if budget allows! Note: We customised our countertop (55cm depth) and changed our HDB toilet doors to slide and swing, hence allowing us to have a huge basin. Otherwise, we could only have 47cm depth for countertop, if not the doors would start hitting the vanity! 
Right next to the vanity cabinet, you will see our wall-hung toilet bowl. We were pretty insistent to have a wall-hung toilet bowl in both our toilets because it is suspended and makes cleaning a lot easier! Yes, it costs us quite a bit to build the half wall as well as limited our choices when it comes to toilet bowl selection. You will also have to decide whether you want a top or front-press button. Installing a suspended toilet bowl means you also have to decide whether or not you want a tiled-up wall, or a wall with opening at the top. (We decided to tile it up because having a sintered stone opening at the top means $$$$) More on this on our Instagram post! At this point, you might have realised all our accessories are gunmetal in colour, including our toilet bowl which is grey in colour! It is intentional and to create a cohesive design. Gunmetal accessories are a whole lot easier to maintain as compared to black ones. We have shifted in for 4 months+ and never had issue with seeing fingerprints on our gunmetal accessories! 
Top-press buttons. In black. This is the only accessory that is black because the options were black or silver. It is sleek and matches well with the other accessories. (Just need to clean it more frequently because black attracts fingerprints) Our bathroom has two downlights that are tri-tone and adjustable. We deliberately pointed the lights at an angle to reduce glare and create a cozy ambience for showering. Tip: we don't need bright lights for showering. LED lights are good but dangerous for wet area. Thus, having a lower watt bulb can do the trick, and pointing it away from the body can prevent harsh shadows. Ours is 12 watts! This is the only white accessory we have, to create a seamless look with the ceiling! Our shower area with the big niche we designed! (This picture was taken before we shifted in and adjusted the light angle; you can see harsher shadows here!) 
Exiting the shower area you will see our towel dryer rack. We wanted concealed wires but figured it is not that bad to have a socket too (since it is hidden behind the door). This was actually a miscommunication between our ID and us, but fortunately not bad enough to become a reno regret because... We bought a socket that comes with USB, so on rare occasions we charge our devices while showering. :/ This is kinda all we have to introduce our master bathroom to you. Please feel free to comment/DM me for anything you are curious about! :)
- 23 November
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