Freestanding Baths Add Instant Bathroom Style6676340
A stunning addition to your home, a freestanding bath will fit in nearly anyplace. With traditional and modern roll top designs abounding, they are having some thing of a revival. And they don't have to be confined to the bathroom: you could place your new addition in your bedroom for a touch of boutique hotel chic.
Traditional roll top baths have graced stately homes for centuries. Whilst your own bathroom may be a little more humble than that in a listed manor house, you can choose to have one of these striking features grace your period home - and it needn't cost the earth! Purchasing a second-hand cast iron bath is one way of establishing your green credentials in the bathroom as well as saving money you can then clean it up and repaint the outside, or get it professionally re enamelled, to give the old bath a new lease of life. As the centrepiece of a refitted bathroom, this could look simply stunning.
If your home is much more 21st century than Victorian era, although, you will find a wide variety of modern freestanding baths available from a range of manufacturers using modern supplies and design methods, they are able to diverge from the conventional shape and do some thing a small bit various.
Whether or not your style is conventional or modern, you will need to know your terminology before you go shopping. Freestanding baths come in two primary lengths and several basic styles. The classic roll top is a generously sized bath, while the slipper is a small shorter, becoming raised at one end to support your back and neck as you soak. Either of these designs can be either single or double ended: a single ended bath has the taps at one end, and a double ended bath has the taps in the middle, so that the bath can comfortably accommodate two.
If you are brief of space, and a slipper bath isn't right for your room, a 'back-to-wall' style provides you the look of a freestanding bath but with a straight edge which fits up against the wall, saving you important inches. Alternatively, a corner style will make still much better use of space by fitting up neatly against two walls.
A variety of supplies are available as well: from traditional cast iron through to modern acrylic or stone resin. Bear in mind, although, that a bath will be extremely heavy once it's filled with water, and the use of heavier materials will compound this problem: make sure that the joists of your bathroom floor are strong sufficient to support the type of bath you favour.
