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DeeKie

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All the threads I can find are old. Has anyone any interior designers who they would recommend? Interested to know rough costs, what to look out for and if it’s better to use one of the bathroom services offered by the bathroom retailers.

We are renovating and expanding our house. I need help with three bedrooms, an office, an office / spare bedroom, family bathroom and shower room.
 
Can’t help with suppliers I’m afraid but an interesting design feature that I’m sorry I wasn’t aware of years ago is the idea of having a concealed toilet within an en-suite (example below).

Suffice to say it would have been very useful when two people are trying to get ready to get out every morning!
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The benefit of bathroom services is they can help with design and usually have a partner who can coordinate spark and plumber and tiler. Coordinating trades is almost impossible to do given demand at the moment. Unfortunately the premium for that labour coordination/one stop shop service will make your eyes bleed.

Not sure how much you feel the need for an interior designer for the other rooms, however there are some people that will do consultations on paint colours and lighting, and that honestly can be a huge value add compared to full blown design.
 
I spoke to a designer yesterday. €195 to do a proposal about how sheep and deliver the work. I asked lots of questions about the price of the project but she said she just wouldn’t be able to say. Tough to give a job to someone who gives you no idea of price.
Speaking to another one on Monday.

For bathrooms heading to Davies in Sallynoggin for some design advice today
 
DeeKie said:
Tough to give a job to someone who gives you no idea of price.
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I know where you're coming from and would agree they should be able to give you a ball park figure
But to be fair to the designer if they gave a rough estimate, most people would try to hold them to that if the actual quote was more

Haven't used them in donkey years but if your in the area, Waterloo in Dun Laoghaire might be worth a visit for the bathrooms
 
Thank you. It’s hard to pick one. But hopefully they’d save me a bit of trouble, time and money!
 
Cervelo said:
Haven't used them in donkey years but if your in the area, Waterloo in Dun Laoghaire might be worth a visit for the bathrooms
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I visited them earlier in the year and left with a headache. The person I was dealing with never stopped talking.

I left with this thought in my head.

They sell the bathroom furniture. Somebody else does the work.

Their bathroom furniture I was told was the "best", no sense in buying cheap.

I didn't want cheap and I didn't want expensive. I also would have preferred to have the person who sold the furniture also doing the installing rather than outsourcing the job to someone on a list that might become available.
 
It’s an interesting market. I met someone on a call last Friday. 10 minutes late for a half an hour meeting - they had scheduled it and picked the duration. They then rushed the call and finished before the end as they were running towards another meeting. The main thing they said they were good at was managing the project
 
Odea said:
I visited them earlier in the year and left with a headache.
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It's one of those things though isn't it,
Two people can have a completely different experience or interaction with the same business/shop/tradesman,
and if it's a bad one you leave wondering how the hell are these guys in business for x amount of years??
But the good thing about these situations is your not generally restricted to dealing with just the one

I just remembered something about my experience of retrofitting our bathrooms that people might not think of
I had picked out a very particular toilet, a Starck 1 by Duravit, simply because I thought it looked good
Brought Mrs C down to Waterloo to see what she thought of it and she did something so simple that I'd never thought of doing,
She sat down on the toilet and then said to me "sit down there and tell me what you think"
I ended up going with a different Duravit toilet as it was one of the most uncomfortable toilets I'd ever sat on
You don't have to do a full Dom Jolly on it and do the same with a bath if your getting one of those as well
 
I was talking to a plumbing company that actually does bathrooms also. Bathrooms are secondary on their website.

I phoned them late last year and I was told that before anything....the labour would be €8000.
 
Wowser. And there are people who will pay that. Another call today. Apparently three months is not a long enough time.
 
I’m trying to compare prices for LABOUR alone.
Standard small apartment type bathrooms.
Remove and skip all old stuff. Prepare walls and retile.

Main bathroom: 16sqm wall tiles, 4 sq metre floor. Install bath, shower over bath, shower screen, toilet sink unit, new radiator, new mirrored unit.

En-suite: 14 sq metre wall tiles, 4 sq m floor. New shower tray, enclosure, sink unit, mirrored unit, toilet and radiator.

What price should I expect? I m guessing it’s about 7 days work for 3 guys.
 
I employed a builder and he sourced the fittings. I ordered and paid for tiles and he collected them. Total strip out of old incl cast iron bath and replace with walkin shower but not a wet room. Shower has glass wall one side but no door. Extra insulation to outer wall and some coving to ceiling. I think it came to c 12k and took a week and a half of two working full time.
 
12k sounds like the ball park figure. Friends who had a full bathroom revamp paid 13k including disposal of old stuff.
 
Just wondering if any other people have been doing bathroom makeovers. I had a quote for 14 k for all the fittings, excluding tiles. So the labour quote is next. If it’s in the region of 10 k it makes it a very expensive outlay for 2 small bathrooms. Will be over 25 k is that to be expected ?
 
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