Five ways to Futureproof Your Bathroom

The bathroom is one of the most disruptive rooms to decorate and yet it's the one that adds so much value, not only to the actual price of your house, but to the quality of your life while you are there. And these days many buyers expect at least two bathrooms in a family home, if not an en suite. The fact that they may very well rip them out and redo them to their own taste is irrelevant. A well designed, practical and clean bathroom will increase your chances of a sale and a good price.

Having left the bathroom to last in three of the four properties I have owned, I have come to the conclusion that the bathroom is absolutely the first room you should do when you move in. Not least because it's so important to your own well-being to be able to have somewhere where you can get clean at the end of the day. Somewhere you can wash the dishes when the kitchen is being done. Somewhere you can lock the door and hide from the builders while all around is chaos and mud. Now I am going to talk…