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When I posted earlier this week about  light bright and glamorous bathrooms I had only the shell of a room for myself, a working toilet, raw walls, pipes sticking out at odd angles and an awful lot of tools lying around. Today as I type my builders are up against the umpteenth and final deadline set for completion and I simply cannot wait to have my home back from the endless dust, noise and headaches the whole process has caused. So fingers crossed I'll be able to share pictures of the finished product pretty soon, but in the mean time here are some more inspiring images which I collected during the course of my research for the renovation. This time around  it's about those extra details which take a room from so so to wow. 1. I can only dream of having the kind of budget which would allow such a wild use of mosaic tile, I'm a big fan on monochrome schemes at home anyway but the scattered black and white tile offset with citrus t...

Let me tell you about the state of my bathroom until a week ago. My flat was built in 1954, and the bathroom more or less unchanged since bore many scars of many decades of use. Cramped design, chipped enamel, pathetic water pressure, permanently dirty grout, tangled visible pipework, in a word - hideous. Of course over the years we've tried various things to update the place, tiles, flooring, a lick of paint here and there, jaunty accessories -all very well but frankly not cutting the mustard. So after several years of scrimping and saving, a great deal of mind numbing research and interviewing various builders I'm currently in the dusty midst of a big old renovation job, ripping out and replacing everything. I won't pretend its all going perfectly to plan as anyone who's entered into any type of job like this knows that's simply not the way things roll. But, fingers crossed by the end of the week I should have sparkling new bathroom so I thought I'd share a se...

images via plush palate & heyhome A mirror ball for an impromptu disco!

via boligmagasin I'm usually not a fan of multicoloured styling, bit too playschool for me but this floor quite simply *rocks*

I feel like I've been re designing my bathroom for about a year now to finally replace the frankly skanky 1950's suite with what will hopefully be a sleek modern shower room with a few glamorous touches. I came across these gloriously pattered tiles by Tex-Tiles recently, They specialise in creating patterns based on traditional and contemporary fabrics and carpets, taking inspiration from around the world. I'm loving the Umayyid black and white geometric tiles pictured in Homes & Gardens below, a perfect way to introduce a little Moorish style in a modern way.