Luxe Inexperienced Tiled Rest room in Unused Attic Area – Earlier than and After Photographs

Residence Remedy has featured tons of renovations of attics and A-frame properties that present methods to make excessive angles and slanted ceilings work stylishly. (See: 11 A-frame cabins that’ll make you wish to escape to the woods, this attic-turned-office, and this attic-turned- bed room.) Right here’s one other sloped stunner so as to add to the record: Kimberley Hickman’s (@doing_up_the_doer_upper) attic renovation that gave her a beautiful new lavatory.

Benefiting from in any other case wasted sq. footage was a giant issue within the renovation. “We actually wished to utilize the roof area as a result of there was a lot,” Kimberley says, including that the renovation was a part of a whole-home renovation that occurred in 2021 and 2022. Whereas Kimberley employed out a contractor to finish the reno, she managed the mission on her personal.

A giant piece of the price was simply ending the naked attic. After the attic had been transformed and the room plastered, Kimberley says, the toilet price roughly £3,000 (about $3,578 USD). Kimberley says the removing of a chimney allowed for an enormous skylight within the lavatory, and her final imaginative and prescient for the area was a “luxurious-feeling, botanical area on a price range.”

As soon as the naked attic area had turn out to be an really completed, livable area, it was time to fill in all the remaining. Giant-format tiles in a grey tone give the room a impartial base, whereas a lightweight pink paint shade on the partitions provides some heat. Each assist to focus on the true star of this lavatory: the inexperienced tile within the bathe and above the self-importance, which Kimberley says is her favourite a part of the toilet. “I’m so happy we tiled the entire of the bathe with them, creating probably the most serene area,” she says. (A rain bathe actually helped with the spa-like really feel.)

Whereas a mission this large is bound to be dear, Kimberley saved cash in different small methods. The self-importance, as an illustration, is an upcycled piece that she already owned. “I used a unit that was as soon as in my youngsters’s nursery, eliminated the highest, and added basins,” she says, noting that she sourced the vessel sinks and fixtures from on-line retailers. The granite on prime was a free discover she scored from somebody who was renovating their very own kitchen; an area stonemason reduce it to measurement. However the look continues to be costly, thanks partly to brass touches within the taps and elongated mirror, which add “a contact of luxurious while being sincere in regards to the reality it’s a nonetheless a contemporary area,” she says.

A mission this large comes with a lot of learnings, and Kimberley’s greatest reno recommendation is to plan for setbacks. “I believe it’s actually vital to appreciate that there WILL be some errors made alongside the best way,” she says. For instance, in her reno, the tiler didn’t match the bathe flooring and unintentionally reduce by way of {the electrical} mat underfloor heating system, which took some time to repair. “We overcame every challenge alongside the best way (attempting to not scream, shout or cry!) and haven’t seemed again since!” Kimberley says.

Her different recommendation for a loo reno? “Loos love vegetation, and vegetation love loos. Get as many in there as can probably match!” Kimberley says. She completed off her area with each hanging and potted greenery that reap the benefits of the skylight.

That skylight is one other of Kimberley’s favourite options. “There’s something fantastic about seeing the moon and stars or perhaps a airplane flying over from the bathe!” she says. “The area is simply magical and serene.”

Along with a beautiful place to unwind, Kimberley’s dwelling now has added perform (and worth) instead of unused higher attic area. That’s a real win-win-win.