Bathroom notions: top tips

Countrystyle bathrooms

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A traditional-style roll-top bath lets you adapt the look of the room from old-fashioned luxury to a simpler, utilitarian feel. Positioned right beneath the window (so that the sill provides a bath shelf), the one shown is acrylic, which makes it lightweight enough for flats and upstairs bathrooms, and has central tap and plug fixings so you can bathe from either end.

Walls in House White modern emulsion, £30.50/2.5 litres; MDF panels in House White oil eggshell, £14/750ml: both Farrow & Ball.  Idealcast bath with castiron legs, £1,388, Ideal Standard; painted in House White oil eggshell, £14/750ml, Farrow & Ball. Fringed white bath sheet, £75, The Conran Shop. Antique caned stool, £150, Josephine Ryan Antiques. Hare on the Beach painting on canvas by Claire Fletcher, £250, Made in Hastings. Vintage white enamel bucket, £15, Pimpernel & Partners. Happy D chromed metal consol with 650 basin, £376, Colourwash.

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