Creating an en suite bathroom

Converting a spare bedroom into an en suite bathroom has given Charlotte and Euan Steen a spectacular new, hotel-style private space.

The problem

‘The house needed a total renovation throughout and one of our top priorities was to create a new en suite to go with the master bedroom. The difficult part was deciding how much space we should give this new room, because it would mean sacrificing something else.

‘The house is set over four floors. The top floor had four bedrooms and a family bathroom, so this was the logical place for the children’s rooms, plus one for guests. That left us with the floor below, made up of three more rooms. We could either create another guest room here or really go to town and have our master suite taking up a lot of the space. It was while the initial sale was going through that we tried to come up with the ideal remodelling plan.’

What we did

‘We drew up lots of different plans, which included blocking off doorways, putting in French doors and chopping a room in half. Eventually, though, we came to the realisation that the best use of the space would be to create one large master bedroom suite for us, including a big en suite and a dressing room.