With the abundance of vintage goods and items on sale in small antique shops, second-hand shops and mainstream department stores, it is easier than ever to create an original and unique look for the rooms in your house.
If you are lucky enough to live in a tall, imposing Victorian town house or a small Victorian worker’s cottage in a village in the countryside, then you may be interested in creating a bathroom in keeping with the time that your house was built. The irony is, of course, that unless you were affluent in Victorian times, it was unlikely that you would have had the luxury of a bathroom in your house!
There are plenty of places where you can buy cast iron roll top baths. For the Victorian look, you will need to find one with claw feet and large chrome old fashioned taps. Consider fitting a toilet with a wooden seat and, if you have the wall space, a high level cast iron cistern. Have a look in reclamation yards or second hand shops for a heavy Victorian radiator. Look online for suppliers of Victorian black and white floor tiles and also wall tiles and ceramic mouldings in traditional colours. Second-hand shops and vintage stores are an ideal place to find the final finishing touches to your bathroom – a floral jug and matching basin, a ceramic soap dish or an ornate brass towel rail, for instance.