Toilets, Taps & Island Bench

The kitchen island benchtop was finally fitted after having to be remade from scratch because they'd made it 80mm too small originally. Geez!

Speaking of 80mm, that is the thickness of the bench. We really like the chunkiness of it.

The photos here don't show it very well - because it's been covered in cardboard to protect it from tradies and it was too hard to remove just for one photo. Will get a proper one later!

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The toilets and most of our internal mixer taps have been fitted now. Seeing them brings back some awful memories of making repeated visits to plumbing shops all those months ago, usually with the kids, trying to compare and match different items. We didn't want to have the same fixtures in all rooms, and in most cases we have mixed and matched different brands to get the style of tap we wanted, with a look that complements each area. Wasn't easy!

There's lots of dirt and unfinished business going on in these photos (including tiling behind toilets and painting etc not yet done), but you'll get the general idea.

 Kids' bathroom basin mixers

Kids' shower and bath mixers (can't show their rail shower yet, we're still waiting on that to be installed)

 Bath swivel spout

 

Kids' / guest powder room
 

 

Our shower drencher - with a swivel arm

 Our shower mixers

 Our rail shower - we like that it's all square, but the size of the shower head isn't great, so we'll be swapping it over with a bigger one. Having contacts in the plumbing industry has been handy!

Our basin mixers

 Our powder room

Outdoor toilet (cupboard door still missing - apparently it was accidentally scratched so is being re-made!)

Love, love, love this - 'Abey Tink' kitchen mixer.  Our favourite thing of all!  Forgot to take a photo of the groovy pull-out thingo on it.  Will show in a later post.

Double laundry sink - love this too - it's a fireclay ceramic one.  Swivel spout on wall not installed yet.