‘Bold colour has transformed this space'

Rotten floorboards and an awkward curved bath meant Hannah Hooper’s bathroom needed a sleek renovation to make it work for her young family

- Jane Crittenden

THE HOMEOWNER I’m Hannah Hooper, 34, a beauty therapist, and I live here with my husband, Berran, 36, a design engineer, and our children, Ivy, six, and Grace, three.

THE HOUSE A detached five-bedroom 1970s house in Wantage, Oxfordshire. We moved here in March 2019 and we’re renovating the whole property. I share my updates @oldandtired_ to_chicandinspired.

THE PROBLEM The door opened the wrong way, and we took up the floor tiles and discovered the floorboards were soaked and rotten. There was a curved bath in the corner with an awkward gap we couldn’t get into, and I was also desperate for storage.

THE SOLUTION We rehung the door, gutted the room and replaced the floorboards. We also added a black shower and stylish slimline storage.

Changing the bathroom became the number-one job for Hannah and Berran when renovating their 1970s detatched house. Due to problems in the property chain, they moved in uncomfortably close to the due date of their second daughter, so Hannah had to hit the ground running. A builder arrived the following day to change the boiler and radiators, but the bathroom itself was in desperate need of attention, too. ‘We knew it was going to be awful as there were no photos online,’ she says. ‘As well as the smell and the awkward curved blue bath, it had a shower with no head, so we had to do something fast.’