Project: bathe in glory

What we have

Our bathroom is a bit of a disaster area. Whoever did the tiling tried their best but the sellotape doesn't inspire confidence.

There's two windows as presumably the bath and toilet were separate at some point. The larger of the two looks into the garage. Handy, if you want to wave to someone whilst having a shower. 

There's also quite a large shower. Great if you want a quick shower. Less great if you're a small person who doesn't like water on your head.

What we want

It's our only bathroom so we need to choose products that will last. I want it to feel spacious, clean and uncluttered.

• A bath with shower over 
• Storage - a sink with drawers underneath
• Heated towel rail 
• Exposed water pipes boxing in 
• The large window blocked up

We've yet to decide on colours but I'm told large tiles are in and we're considering some wet wall panels around the bath. 

Budding Picassos' art gallery

Image: Penguin Books

When he got to Paris he painted many pictures. He liked blue so he decided to paint pictures all blue. "You can't paint all blue pictures", they said. "No! no! no! Picasso!". But Picasso said "Yes!".

Picasso's Trousers by Nicholas Allan is one of our kids' favourite books. They find it really funny. I like it because it encourages them to believe in themselves and look at the world a bit differently.





There's only so much space on the fridge (what with the magnetic letters, holiday magnets and random photos), for all the kids' artwork so we needed another display area.

The IKEA Dignitet Curtain Wire can be mounted on a wall and set to any length. The little curtain clips can then be used to hold any number of art pieces.

It's quite tricky to get enough tension in the wire and you need to ensure that it's level or you'll find that everything starts slipping down. Once up, it can hold quite a bit of weight and is the perfect mini gallery.