1
Family house
3
Bathrooms
2
Months
SW2
Hertfordshire
£18,000
Budget
What the space was like
The bathrooms felt unfinished. They worked, but they didn’t settle. Storage was improvised. Finishes didn’t relate to each other. Nothing invited you to pause. For rooms used every morning and night, that disconnect was impossible to ignore.
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It always felt like we’d moved in but never quite finished.”
Temporary feel
1st Priority
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It didn’t cope with how the three of us actually use the space.”
Lack of storage
2nd Priority
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Nothing was bad. It just didn’t feel like us."
Lack of personality
3rd Priority
Danielle wasn’t excited about renovating. She was realistic.
Having seen enough projects that drag on, Danielle knew - bathrooms are meant to be small jobs, but they rarely stay that way.
She was weighing up a few things:
- Spending money without fixing the problem
- Months of planning and second-guessing
- Nicer bathrooms that still felt wrong
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The remedy she was looking for
What Danielle wanted was simpler:
- Clear scope, without scope creep
- A budget that didn’t quietly expand
- Fewer decisions, made with confidence
Beams stepped in by structuring the work before it started. Clarifying priorities. Selecting materials together. Attaching costs early.
The result was a process that felt contained. And bathrooms that finally felt intentional.
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How Danielle moved from idea to build
The aim was to take uncertainty out of the process early, so decisions didn’t pile up later.
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1. Planning
Danielle wanted bathrooms that felt finished. Calm. Thought-through. Not another round of temporary fixes.
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2. Meeting trusted builders
Once the plan was clear, the focus shifted from ideas to execution.
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3. Renovating with confidence
With the big decisions made, the rest of the process felt surprisingly calm.
Where real life intervened
Renovation plans have a habit of colliding with the calendar. With Christmas approaching, a few decisions took longer than expected. Life got busy. The finish line shifted slightly. Danielle and her builder Viktor agreed to wait. The work was picked up straight after the holidays and completed without fuss. No pressure. No loose ends.
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Viktor said he’d come on the 24th if we wanted. I was genuinely moved by that. It told me everything I needed to know about the kind of person we were working with."
Danielle
about her builder
Where it started to feel intentional
With the hard decisions behind, attention shifted to the details that would shape how the bathrooms were actually used. It was about choosing better. Fewer elements, considered carefully, so the spaces felt settled rather than styled.
The kind of decisions you notice in daily use, not all at once.
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Vanity for Her and Him
Beams Original
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Feature tile backslash
Mandarin Stone
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Timeless fixtures
Corston
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Thoughtful storage
American walnut
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A mirror to get lost in
Daas
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Life at home after
The bathrooms don’t demand attention anymore. They reward it. Which, for a busy home, is exactly right. Mornings run more smoothly. Evenings feel calmer.
‘Getting ready, bath time, winding down. It finally feels like part of our life, not something in the way’, - Danielle says.
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