Hello! I’ve been busy moving into my new house and need to spruce up a few rooms until we get around to redecorating.
The bathroom has a ‘space saving bath’ 1500mm long. It was poorly installed with a weird wood and fabric bath panel and the sides were gummed up with moldy silicone laid ontop of kitchen towels stuffed down the 4cm gap which took me ages to strip out and replace with a more engineered solution. We also laid a nicer looking vinyl floor down for now.
I’m looking at making a panel for the bath with some access to the space for storing cleaning products etc. There seem to be off the shelf solutions for full size bath but not a mini bath.
I was initially thinking a sliding drawer with push to open/soft close runners ala:
I used an IKEA drawer unit cut down to fit under the sloping end of the bath, and then neodymium magnets to hold an access panel on the rest of the length of the bath.
What could be neat (assuming there’s space), is using push catches like these mounted to a frame, so they’re fully extended when the panel’s closed. So then, you could click the panel in, slide it to one side, but still have it flush and somewhat hidden when you’re not using it.
People do weird things to houses. Our kitchen floor tiles were laid on top of two layers of old Lino which are now disintegrating, so all the floor tiles are breaking & coming loose.
The long panel is just held on with Neodymium magnets and the small panel is a cut down cupboard front. It’s held closed by the soft close mechanism on the drawer runners.
