Downstairs Bathroom Flooring

To follow up from my last post on the new bathroom I thought I'd show you the layout of the downstairs bathroom.  The plan above is the layout of the bathroom when we bought the house.  Excuse my crude scribbles, it's roughly drawn!  As you know from the last post we ripped out the corner shower unit and redid the layout.  We moved the toilet to where the shower had been and placed the new bath under the window.  I much prefer the new room, it's a very small space - just 9' x 6' 8" - but that makes it cosy!  Below is the new layout after we did our recent renovation,

I forgot to mention the floor tiles in the last post.  These were another great bargain buy . . .

I bought the porcelain 12" x 12" tiles at Budget Tiles, Kinsale Road Roundabout, Cork for just over €1 per sq ft or €10 per sq metre!!   I bought 7 sq m - that's €70 for ALL the tiles.  I like them because they have a similar colouring to marble.  Needless to say the floors weren't level!  We also wanted to take out the wooden 'saddle' between the tiles in the bathroom and the wooden floor in the hall.  

This is a saddle between the kitchen and back hall.   (Darcy getting in on the action . . . )

To do this we needed to raise the bathroom floor a good inch to level it with the hall floor.  Despite saving money on the tiles, we spent a small fortune on levelling compound.  It also meant alot of drying time but at least now there's a seamless flow between the two areas.  

We're actually taking out all the saddles throughout the downstairs to make a seamless flow from room to room.  Criostoir, our baby, has special needs (he's 3 but because he can't walk - yet - he's still my baby : )  His special high chair has wheels and keeps getting caught on the saddles.  So they're all coming out.  Even though we had to get rid of them I much prefer the downstairs without saddles, much better flow between rooms.  Criostoir is also getting too heavy to carry upstairs so we're moving him to the downstairs bedroom.  His new bedroom is nearly finished, so more photos to come soon.