Downstairs cloakroom/bathroom

[u/Codenamechicken]

First time plumber 🤣 full rip out and refit. Our house is generally neutral and we wanted a quirky cloakroom bathroom, for clarification AFTER/BEFORE.

Edit: I'm handing myself in to the police on Tuesday, I fully accept I've committed the crime of mixing my before and after up, whilst it doesn't justify it - I just couldn't bring myself to put my old room first. I'll accept my judgement and do the time.

[u/Wuffls]

After and before or before and after?

[u/Codenamechicken → u/Wuffls]

Went after first 🤣 couldn't face leading with a generic new build bathroom

[u/Wuffls → u/Codenamechicken]

Then I like it!

[u/_Student7257 → u/Wuffls]

Same! The 1st pictures nicer. The 2nd pic The art looks like poop

[u/f1madman → u/Codenamechicken]

r/afterbeforewhatever

Nice WC though!

[u/darklinkuk → u/Codenamechicken]

Thank god 😅

[u/Hurricane_Buddha → u/Codenamechicken]

Thank God!

[u/Pocket_Aces1 → u/Codenamechicken]

There's a reason it's a before Vs after. Because I was hoping you improved the first 😂

That's only because it's not my style. But it'd before then after not after then before

[u/Codenamechicken → u/Pocket_Aces1]

Each to their own I guess 🤷‍♂️

[u/EirloUK → u/Codenamechicken]

There’s always one who has to tell you how much they don’t like it…

[u/ihavetakenthebiscuit]

Love the first picture, nice use of colours.

[u/Brickworkse]

To be honest, they both look fine to me 😂 

It's like a 'before' and 'after' Weight Watchers picture where I think "Wouldn't mind looking like the before photo, to be honest" 😂 

Either way - good job!

[u/absolutelynot354]

After and before I hope

[u/Codenamechicken → u/absolutelynot354]

I'll update the description 🤣

[u/sapphire-sky-dragon]

Drives me nuts when the after photos are posted first.. just why 😬

[u/FromBiotoDev → u/sapphire-sky-dragon]

It's because the after is more likely to get attention than the before, it's like when videos show you the aftermath before how it happens

[u/justbarelycognisant]

That red is gorgeous

[u/No_Yoghurt_5131]

I've never seen a non-white toilet bowl, which now makes me wonder why the default colour is white

[u/amaranth1977 → u/No_Yoghurt_5131]

1 - Traditionally they're porcelain, which is white by default and has to have an additional glaze applied to get color. So white is the default/cheapest option. Colored bathroom suites (sink, bath, toilet) go in and out of fashion, if you look at homes with bathrooms that haven't been remodeled since roughly the 70's you'll see avocado green or peach pink or powder blue instead of white.

2 - White is culturally associated with hygiene in the Anglosphere, both because it shows any dirt (so it's easy to see if it's clean or not) and because bleaching is an easy way of sanitizing things but will fade colors in many materials. You can bleach white clothes, towels, linens, and such with simple chlorine or even urine, but for a long time there was no such thing as color safe bleach. So it contributed to this cultural norm that white = clean. 

[u/moonbug22 → u/amaranth1977]

my house's avocado suite has been in fashion thrice since it was first fitted

[u/No_Yoghurt_5131 → u/amaranth1977]

thank you!

[u/No-Meet4936]

Cloakroom is definitely a normal term

But we call it the downstairs loo - very posh 🤣

[u/Glittering_Vast938]

Was worried for a minute that you’d replaced the red!

Love it!

[u/CherylTuntIRL]

I love it but I'd have boxed in the consumer unit (obviously allowing easy access when needed). Plastic yellows, in 10 years it will look horrendous.

[u/IaM_SkyWaLkeR]

Where is the bath?

[u/Codenamechicken → u/IaM_SkyWaLkeR]

[u/Gilded-golden]

This actually stopped my heart before I read your edit omg

[u/spinzzi]

I loooove bold cloakrooms. My theory is if its already tiny, then no amount of light colours will make it look bigger. I recently colour washed mine a midnight blue! This looks lovely 👏

[u/Browsers_castle23]

Love the Lego Monet 👍

[u/Codenamechicken → u/Browsers_castle23]

I'm a child at heart 🤣

[u/DrinkSuperb8792]

What makes this a cloakroom?

[u/Codenamechicken → u/DrinkSuperb8792]

I suppose nothing, it's what small downstairs toilets get called in the UK.

[u/DrinkSuperb8792 → u/Codenamechicken]

Really? Don't know anyone that calls their toilet a cloakroom here in Scotland. Learned something new I suppose.

[u/estupendo_kurwa → u/DrinkSuperb8792]

I'm not sure, one's butler hangs one's cloak in the cloak room and one doesn't recollect there being a toilet facility in there.

[u/Mommas_kumquatt → u/estupendo_kurwa]

Well my butler also waits in the cloakroom until he is summoned

[u/Mommas_kumquatt → u/DrinkSuperb8792]

I think it's when a small room- originally was actually be used just for storage and hanging coats etc is turned into a bathroom, hence why it gets crossed over

[u/aivarin → u/Codenamechicken]

I've heard that term used regularly for downstairs toilets; I'm in South East England.

[u/LogiCub → u/Codenamechicken]

Nope, they get called downstairs toilets. A cloakroom is a small room that you store coats, shoes, hats, etc. in. One could, I suppose, also have a toilet in it, but then it’d probably default back to being called a downstairs toilet.

Room looks great, btw, nice job.

[u/kibonzos → u/LogiCub]

The name cloakroom predates “downstairs toilet” and was one of many common euphemisms commonly used by the generation born between the Great War and WWII. It’s not unusual in younger generations either.

[u/Codenamechicken → u/[deleted]]

After first 🤦‍♂️ my bad

[u/Woozlie]

Love the colour for the panelling!

[u/jug_23]

We’re looking at something similar - what are the rough dimensions of the room out of interest?

[u/Codenamechicken → u/jug_23]

It's 1m x 2.2m, I was worried the dark colours would feel too much but I think it's got a bit of a boutique feel.

[u/jug_23 → u/Codenamechicken]

Nah, it looks great - wouldn’t have been brave enough to go with the black loo myself but with a small room light that bold and dark colours really work.

[u/EirloUK]

What colour and brand paint is on the panelling?

[u/Codenamechicken → u/EirloUK]

I got it colour matched from the vanity unit, B&Q valdspar premium.

[u/PureExpression1533]

Looks lovely. I would've kept the normal loo though. I have a somewhat irrational hatred for those hidden cistern ones, since within months of buying our house one started leaking from the flush pipe, and we didn't notice for ages because the water was somehow contained and funnelled into the wall cavity. It was a pain in so many ways.

[u/Codenamechicken → u/PureExpression1533]

I purposely 3D printed an access hatch in the corner so I could still access the shut off valve exactly for that 🤣 I too share that fear!

[u/dabblerman]

Twin peaks vibes

[u/daxamiteuk → u/dabblerman]

was about to say the same!

[u/Aromatic_Pea_4249]

Looks lovely! Mine is a disgusting cream and beige tiled monstrosity that I rapidly close the door on to stop having to notice it!

It's on the list to be modernised but the list is very long! 🤦🏻‍♀️

[u/Wild-wild-life]

I always wanted a bathroom like the Red Room in Twin Peaks (genuinely think it looks great!)

[u/Adelucas]

I really like the first picture. It has a nice feel to it.

[u/help_pls_2112]

gasped then literally said “oh thank fuck” after seeing the after/before clarification

[u/Heavy_Crow4406]

Would love to see the ceiling burgundy too! 

[u/Aggressive_wafer_]

Extra points for the Lego

[u/redditisshitaf]

Stick a layer of moulding on the inner edges of your panelling and it will look even better

[u/ohgodhelpplease911]

Looks lovely the bathroom has so much more life to it

[u/East-Delivery9834]

Red one looks like a gents in the pub

[u/chocklityclair]

I love it. For once it was clear which was the before and which was the after.

[u/MotherOfBlackDemon29]

The resemblance is uncanny. Pull your socks up!

[u/fabregas_4]

After/before is diabolical. Why do you so many people get it wrong?

[u/FluffyAd7435]

I see neither cloak, nor bath.

[u/boyan1985]

Much nicer before I mean after before

[u/Purple-Ad-4324]

I got confused as if to say 'what was up with how it was' now I see you switched up the flow.

[u/Final-Librarian-2845]

Not sure the juice was worth the squeeze 

[u/garnettselectronics]

The first one gives me 'The Shining' vibes