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7 Traditional Bathroom Ideas

1. Traditional Bathroom Suite
2. Freestanding Baths
3. Traditional Bathroom Furniture
4. Traditional Showers

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The timeless appeal and enduring charm of traditional bathrooms means they are as popular today as they have ever been. Perfect for older properties; a traditional bathroom will help you to retain the authenticity and character of your home.

What’s great about the traditional style is that you can either choose to incorporate lots of traditional elements in your bathroom or instead combine your favourite traditional and contemporary bathroom fixtures together. There are so many beautiful traditional bathroom fixtures and fittings to choose from you will find it hard not to fall for the charm of a traditional bathroom.

In this expert guide from online bathrooms specialist Victorian Plumbing we share our favourite traditional bathroom ideas. We take a closer look at the individual features of traditional bathroom designs and mix it up a little by adding a few modern traditional bathroom ideas too.

1. Traditional Bathroom Suite

A great starting point when planning a traditional bathroom is to take a look at our selection of traditional bathroom suites. A traditional suite will typically consist of a toilet, a basin and a bath. For smaller bathrooms; traditional cloakroom suites include a toilet and basin set.
Legend Traditional Bathroom Suite
Traditional toilets typically come in either the compact close-coupled style (with the cistern right above the pan) or you can choose a high level toilet where the cistern is positioned on the wall above the toilet and held in place by ornate supporting brackets. Traditional basins are available in the ceramic pedestal style, as a vanity unit (where the basin is fitted into the top of a storage cupboard) or as a console basin that has a ceramic pan on top of a chrome console frame. Traditional baths can either be in the standard rectangular style or as a freestanding bath that sits on four supporting legs.

Newbury Traditional Bathroom Suite With Freestanding Bath
Choosing a traditional bathroom suite is a clever way of making sure that the main fixtures in your bathroom all match up because bathroom suites are carefully chosen to make sure each element complements each other.

2. Freestanding Baths

Freestanding baths are one of the standout features in any traditional bathroom design; if space permits, we strongly recommend adding one to your new bathroom. Traditional freestanding baths are available in a good selection of eye catching designs so our advice when choosing one is to take your time and pick out a bath that matches the style of your bathroom and home.

Duke Double Ended Traditional Freestanding Bath
A single ended freestanding bath, for example, is designed so the taps are positioned at one end of the bath whereas double ended freestanding baths are arranged to have the taps sat in the middle. A slipper style freestanding bath has one or both sides of the bath raised up (like a slipper). Slipper style baths can have the taps positioned either at the end or in the middle of the bath.

Earl Grey Painted Traditional Freestanding Bath
The other option to consider when buying a traditional freestanding bath is what colour would you like? White is still the most popular bath colour however in recent times the popularity of painted freestanding baths has been on the rise. These visually stunning painted designs are available in a multitude of colours that include grey, blue and even black.

3. Traditional Bathroom Furniture

Traditional bathroom furniture is a beautiful way of adding a graceful authenticity to your bathroom design. Traditional furniture pieces are all about attention to detail and quality materials. Traditional cabinets (referred to on our website as vanity units) in particular have become really popular, the universal nature of their style has led to us seeing them being used more in modern bathroom designs.

Downton Abbey Traditional Bathroom Furniture
Two traditional bathroom furniture ranges that could be perfect for your new room are our Chatsworth and Downton Abbey collections. The Downton Abbey collection is exclusive to Victorian Plumbing and includes furniture pieces and traditional bathroom mirrors inspired by the world famous ITV television series.

4. Traditional Showers

Traditional showers that match up well with a period bathroom include rigid shower sets with beautiful exposed valves and showers with concealed valves and a fixed shower head. Circular fixed shower heads really complement a traditional setting and apron shower heads in particular look beautiful.

Trafalgar Exposed Valve Traditional Shower
As mentioned above you can choose to buy a complete traditional shower (sold as a set) or the other option is to individually pick the parts of the shower yourself. Two traditional showers that have proven very popular with Victorian Plumbing customers are the Trafalgar exposed valve shower and the Astoria traditional shower set.