Slat walls, fluted panels, full-height wall boards and in-wall bathroom televisions. Panelling is what turns a tiled box into a room with a focal point, and it is only convincing when the setting out is right, the joints are symmetrical and the lighting is planned to graze it.
Set out from the centre of the wall so the cuts land at the edges and the room reads symmetrical. Battened off the wall where it needs ventilation, and finished into the ceiling and skirting properly rather than stopped short with a trim.
Large format panels for shower walls where you want the look without grout lines. Fast to fit, easy to keep clean, and jointed with the seams planned to fall away from the eye line rather than wherever the sheet ran out.
A properly rated waterproof screen recessed into the stud, with the power and the aerial or HDMI run at first fix and everything sealed. Set at the height for where you actually sit, which is usually lower than people guess.
Bath surrounds, boxed pipework and duct panels built to be removable where a valve or a stopcock sits behind them. Boxing that has to be destroyed to get at a leak is not boxing, it is a future problem.
Panelling lives or dies on how light hits it. A cove above a fluted wall picks out every rib, and the same wall under a flat ceiling light looks like nothing at all. The lighting and the panelling are designed together, in one go.
Sprayed and finished to a colour, or a walnut or oak veneer where the room wants warmth against the stone and the brass. Either way it is sealed for a bathroom environment rather than treated like a living room wall.
It does when it is the right material, ventilated behind, sealed at the edges and the room is extracted properly. Moisture-resistant boards and a proper finish handle a family bathroom without any trouble. What fails is untreated softwood panelling in a room with a token extractor fan.
Yes, using a screen built for wet environments with a sealed front and the electrics kept outside the wet zone. It is recessed into the stud so it sits flush with the tiles, and the cabling is run at first fix. A normal television in a bathroom is not a safe or legal substitute.
Not necessarily, and it is not really the reason to do it. Panels can be faster than a large format tile job, but a fluted or slatted feature wall done well is joinery and takes time. The reason to do it is that it makes the room feel designed rather than tiled.
Behind a freestanding bath, behind a wall-hung vanity, or as the full-height wall the shower faces. It wants to be the wall you see when you walk in, and it wants light on it. Panelling every wall in a small room closes it in.
Sometimes, if the tiles are sound and flat and the extra thickness does not foul the door or the sanitaryware. More often we take them off, because it lets us check what is behind and it keeps the wall build-up honest. Which one applies gets decided on the first visit.
Fluted and slatted panels are supplied as boards and then cut, set out, battened and finished on site, which is where the skill actually is. Bath panels, boxing and duct work are built on site to fit the room.
Based in Glasgow and out across the city and the surrounding towns most days, so a look at your room is rarely more than a couple of days away. Further afield in Scotland is no problem for the right job.
Send a couple of photos of your current bathroom and we will come back with ideas and a free quote.