“Tub, shower, bathroom, sink”: It is the mantra of bathrooms. However, even in the event that you’ve got all of them and more (two sinks!)) , you might be missing some critical bathroom amenities. Add these top 10 to get in your way to the perfect bathroom for your house.

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1. Thermostatic valves. Shower valves have either one manage which controls both temperature and volume using a twist, or different controls for temperature and volume.

A thermostatic valve controls the temperature and quantity, giving you the opportunity to have a trickle of warm water or a full shower of chilly. If you wish to get special about the quantity and temperature of the water coming from your showerhead, a thermostatic valve would be the way to go.

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2. Electric floor warmth. Tile is a trendy surface — literally! If your toes shrink at the thought of crossing your frigid tile floor, make sure your tile setter installs an electrical heating mat prior to putting in the tile. The mats are as custom self-contained mats or as cable strung between plastic pegs (known as a RPM system).

Conscientious tile setters will attach a “loudmouth” for their heating system whilst installing vinyl, so that in case the electrical connection is broken, the loudmouth makes noise. Installing two detectors to the thermostat is a fantastic idea too, so if one breaks, another still works. When you plan the thermostat to go on at 5 a.m., you will be rewarded with hot feet at 6, which is worth every penny of the price tag.

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3. Hidden outlets. The scourge of bathrooms is your clambering masses of electronics that demand a socket and adjacent counter space: hair dryers, electric toothbrushes, electric razors and curling irons. Don’t you wish they would all vamoose to where you can not see them? That might be a real chance if you install outlets inside medication cabinets and drawers. Out of sight, out of mind until you want them.

4. Humidistat fan. It used to be that exhaust fans in bathrooms had two choices for controllers — the on-off switch and the timer. The choices have escalated, with motion sensor and humidistat fans. My favourite is your humidistat — you put it to some humidity level that you deem fair, and it’ll operate if the humidity moves over that amount, and keep running until the humidity falls to under your set amount. It will not address all the reasons you may run a lover in a tub, but it will manage the one which can create a mess of paint and other finishes: rust.

J.Banks Design Group

5. Hard-wired makeup mirror. Once just for film stars, the lighted makeup mirror made its way into luxury hotel rooms within the last ten years. It is actually a surprisingly inexpensive fixture to set up. The one thing you’ll have difficulty with is determining how high to hang it and that will get to use it.

6. Dimmer switches. A dimmer is your best friend of kitchens and bathrooms equally. If you want good light, you need it. When you do not want it, the dimmer is there to help. Basic dimmers add around $25 to the cost of a switch, though a few of the nicer switching systems may cost quite a bit more. Having the capacity to control the quantity of light in the bathroom, though, is priceless.

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7. Shower niche as footrest. Shaving legs in the shower is a continuous conundrum for women. The water melts washes away the soap until you can get the razor there, and there’s nowhere to place your leg from the water’s way. An elegant and low-key solution is the shower niche — not for shampoos and soaps, but as a footrest roughly 18 inches away from the shower floor. Another solution would be corner shelves inset in the tile — a couple for shampoo and one as a footrest. They can be made from the remnants of your counter rock to tie the shower in visually to your vanity. Simple and functional.

Winder Gibson Architects

8. Fancy commodes. There’s a growing market for bidet-style toilets and urinals in residential bathrooms. Toilets arrive with accoutrements like heated seats (do not forget you’ll need electricity for this), multiple configurations for water (including the alternative for warm water) and chairs that open and close for you. If you’re really considering a urinal, look closely in the water source requirements and local plumbing codes. It could require a larger source line than is currently in your bathroom.

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9. Handheld showerhead. If you’re still mulling over your showerhead options, do not leave out the ones that are handheld. While they may be a bit unwieldy with their hoses and pivoting heads, they have a distinct advantage over their fixed-in-place cousins: They make it easy to clean the shower stall. The showerhead that comes from the ceiling? Supercool, but decent fortune washing the walls of your shower with it. Same thing with showerheads on the wall. A wonderful compromise between the two, if you can afford it, would be to receive one of each having a diverter. Which will allow you to use the main showerhead the majority of the time, the handheld one for cleaning and both at the same time if you would like a spa experience.

10. Epoxy grout. It is more expensive, unwieldy to work with and stinks. But epoxy grout has a big benefit over its sanded and nonsanded cousins: This makes it hard for mould to grow, and liquids have difficulty penetrating it. We have been installing it regularly in master showers and in kitchen backsplashes (where meals and dirt can splatter) with fantastic results.

Inform us : Do you have other things beyond these 10 you can not live without in your bathroom?

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