Great Bathroom Ideas

Archive for November, 2009

Bidets are hot!  At last the British seem to have come to terms with this piece of bathroom furniture – or perhaps we have just learned how to use them?  First encountered in the early days of the package holiday and often used as a foot bath the bidet has come to stay.

The term bidet comes from the French for pony, and gives some clue as to how it should be used.  One sits astride the bidet as if it were, indeed, a pony.  They are especially useful for people with disabilities that may prevent them from bathing or showering. 

There are two different types of bidet: some come with one tap (or a mixer tap) that pours water into the basin.  The bidet is fitted with a plughole, so it can be filled and emptied just like a wash basin.  The other type of bidet is fitted with a nozzle that propels an arc of water up into the air. 

Our selection of bidets at Great Bathroom Ideas includes wall-mounted and floor standing bidets in a range of styles from traditional to modern.  Also included are several choices of bidet tap, some that come with a pop-up waste.

A bidet refreshes the parts that other bathroom furniture can’t reach – and there really is no reason why you can’t wash your feet in it.

If there isn’t a saying along the lines of the bathroom taps maketh the bathroom, well, there should be.  There would be little point in installing a to die for bathroom suite and then just choosing taps that are almost right. Great Bathroom Ideas have put together a thirteen-page selection of bathroom taps to ensure you to find something that is exactly right for your bathroom. 

From the sheer uber-elegance of the Crosswater Kai Tall Basin monobloc, with its swivel spout, through to the more prosaic but no less stylish Home of Ultra Beaumont Basin Taps, we have every angle (and every washbasin) covered. 

For stylish decadence, Crosswater have done it again with their Square Wall Mounted Bath Filler or, if your purse is rather less well-filled, how about the Milano Antigua Bath Filler, with its rather more curvaceous styling?  You will be walling in Romanesque opulence with either of these beautifully designed bathroom taps. 

If you’re just after a simple tap pack, something that provides both basin taps and bath taps in one package, we have two pages of those too. 

See how we spoil you?

If you are in the UK and looking to remodel your bathroom then there is a high chance you will put into Google ‘ bathroom suites UK’ as your search term. This is a great starting point but the volume of results you get is huge with a lot being irrelevant to bathroom suites.

Entering bathroom suites UK into Google’s search engine has just thrown up 3.5 million results! The majority of those results will be of little interest to you because the search term you have used is far too wide. You will be confronted with every page on the web that contains the words ‘bathroom,’ ’suites,’ and ‘UK.’ And those pages won’t necessarily be talking about bathroom fixtures and fittings!

Let’s take a look at how you can search for bathroom suites but get much better results on the screen.

The most important and the first thing you should do is think about each word you put into Google. The second most important thing is to bear in mind that the more specific you are the better the search results you get back.

And the third thing to remember is that, if you want the browser to keep the words you enter together, you have to tell it that; after all, it is only a machine!

Right lets track back to what we are looking to purchase a bathroom suite. We originally searched for bathroom ’suites UK’ a simple way of narrowing down the search results is to put the phrase into quotes when you punch it into Google. This will then tell Google that you only want it to show websites that have the phrase ‘ bathroom suites UK’ displayed within their text. This should narrow things down a bit and have good relevancy to you.

Now lets be even more specific. You want a bathroom suite but you must have some idea of the style or type you are looking for so if you are looking for a shower bath bathroom suite then put the phrase ’shower bath bathroom suite in quotes and you will see the number of results becomes even smaller meaning the websites that are relevant are becoming more apparent.

Ok so you want to go even deeper with your search, try adding the colour of the manufacturer that you want. This should give you a list of results that are highly targeted to your search needs and allow you to look through relevant websites and buy the bathroom suite of your dreams.