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Bathroom design ideas for busy families!

Collaborative Post¦ One of the busiest zones in the home, family bathrooms need to be both functional and practical, as well as snazzy. A lot of the drama happens in the bathroom and many of us just need features that aren’t going to cause us any extra stress. Here are some ideas to help inspire you!

While many modern homes enjoy a luxurious en-suite, many family friendly bathrooms need to cater for all ages and be accessible to everyone in the household. Think durable and easy to maintain work surfaces, easy to use baths and showers with no dangerous sharp edges and toilets with soft-close seats! With so many practical and stylish fixtures to choose from, we can certainly have a bit of fun picking and choosing what we want.

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Review: UltraHeat Radiator from PlumbNation

We’ve finally got around to fitting a new UltraHeat radiator in our living room recently. As you may have read in older blog posts,  I am desperately trying to get our living room decorated. My husband and I were lucky to get onto the property ladder at 20. Rather than getting a flat in good condition, we opted to buy a house in not as good a condition. Fast forward five years and the living room is still almost entirely in the state the previous owners (who had the house repossessed) left it in with bad paintwork, shoddy woodwork and laminate flooring in a terrible condition.

We’d probably have sorted it out by now if we hadn’t have got married or had a child, but I didn’t want plans for these important life experiences to be delayed by a room. Losing a few relatives made me realise that those were things I wanted to do sooner rather than later and that decorating could wait. However, we are trying to do things slowly, as time and money allow. One embarrassment has always been the large radiator leaning forwards off of its brackets underneath our windowsill. Not only that, but it was a nightmare to clean and things kept getting stuck down it. 

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