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If you are installing a new cloakroom, you will very quickly find yourself wondering how on earth you ever managed without it.  If you are renovating an existing cloakroom, you already know what a useful addition to your home this usually very tiny room can be. Whichever of these categories you fall within, however, you might well find that there is now so much choice out there that you don’t know where to start.  The purpose of this article is to give you a push in the right direction.

How can it be so confusing, you ask, when all you’re really looking for is a washbasin and toilet?  You just wait and see!  Also, don’t forget that, if you have enough space, you can add to the value of your property by installing a shower and some storage facilities to the cloakroom too.

Before you think about extras, however, let’s get down to brass tacks and think about the basics.

The basics are, of course, budget and dimensions.  You can find cloakroom suites for rooms of almost any dimension but it won’t harm to abide by that old rule to ‘measure twice and cut once.’  When it comes to budget, don’t forget the cost of installation; if you can fit the cloakroom suite yourself, then you’ll just have that much more money to play with when it comes to choosing the suite itself.

Style is such a personal thing but the truth of the matter is that your choices really boil down to traditional or contemporary.  Whichever side of the traditionalist fence you fall, there will be something out there to suit.

If you’re a traditionalist, you will be drawn to bathroom furniture with curves and rounded edges.  Toilets and basins will be supported by pedestals and white or cream will probably be the order of the day.

Contemporary, modern styled cloakroom suites can be something of an eye-opener, and they can also be particularly useful where space is limited, which is probably why they sell so well. Toilets and hand basins forgo the pedestal and are hung from the wall, placed on existing surfaces, or on suitable pieces of furniture.  Taps are either lever style or also wall mounted.  Shapes tend towards the angular, although there are some beautiful cloakroom suites available that combine curves with minimalism to great effect.

Whatever your style choice, be it contemporary or strictly classical, the major point to remember is that the room you are styling must, above all, be functional.  This is the time to strive for that most elusive of blends – the combination of form with function.

Most new-build houses boast cloakrooms nowadays because they make a house more saleable, and this has led to builders fitting downstairs cloakrooms into some very small spaces!  Consequently, at Great Bathroom Ideas, we have spent some time searching for cloakroom sinks to fit the (sometimes tiny) bill. 

Oxford cloakroom sink

Enter the Oxford Cloakroom sink: perfect for the smaller cloakroom, these sinks have been hand-crafted in the Midlands from high quality ceramic.  Discreet and stylish, you can’t really go wrong with this one.  If you prefer to make more of a statement, then perhaps the Bauhaus Dalia Cloakroom sink is the choice for you; this basin can be placed on top of bathroom furniture or it can be wall mounted and it’s as stylish as it is practical.   In fact, all the Bauhaus cloakrooms simply overflow with style despite their compact size.

Bauhaus Dalia cloakroom sink

For something completely different, how about a bang-up-to-date variant of the old-fashioned washstand?

 This Maple Cloakroom Washstand is stylish and practical, with a space saving glass shelf and black marble effect worktop – and if maple’s not your thing, this cloakroom sink is also available in light oak.

Maple cloakroom washstand

Even if your cloakroom is little more than a cubby-hole, there will be something in our collection of cloakroom sinks that fits the space.

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