Tiled Bathroom Niches

Our 300th Gold Coast Bathroom Renovation!

300 Gold Coast bathroom renovation is a significant milestone for the Armrock team. When you need your bathroom renovated, it’s important to work with an experienced company, and after 300 bathrooms, it is safe to say we know our way around a bathroom renovation. On this page we take a close look at our 300th renovation project – a suitably magnificent bathroom overlooking a Gold Coast golf course! If you would like to discuss your bathroom renovation with our team, please contact us for a free appraisal:

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Pre-Renovation Pictures

Before we arrived, this Gold Coast bathroom was looking pretty dated. With decor over 40 years old, it was definitely time for out with the old, in with the new.

New Bathroom Overview

As you can see, this is not just any bathroom. It’s appropriate that our 300th bathroom should be completed with a signature project. This renovation included the removal of a diving wall (to make one large bathroom), the addition of a new walkway to the walk-in wardrobe, a new window opening for natural light and golf course views (of course!), a wall-hung vanity in a new location, an in-wall cistern toilet, and 600x600mm concrete-look porcelain tiles. The centrepiece is the beautiful freestanding bath. What more could anyone ask for?

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Packed with Features, Built with Integrity

Integrity & Integration for renovation success.

This bathroom includes many of the features that Armrock Constructions is known for. A custom vanity unit featuring dual mixers and mounted round-cornered basins, floor-wall tiling and the maximisation of available space for an impactful effect. The integrity of the workmanship underpins all aspects of this beautiful Gold Coast bathroom renovation. We work with pride, and it is showcased in this project.

Exterior View – with a Golf Course!

Ok, so the really cool thing about this bathroom is that you can enjoy a nice bath while taking in some golf. This is really taking living to the next level! Discrete gardens ensure privacy from the links, ensuring bathroom activities do not distract anyone from attaining a birdie!

Freestanding bath with luxurious surrounds

Toilet & Shower

The in-wall cistern keeps things concise.

With beautiful concrete-look porcelain tiles wrapping all the way around this bathroom, it’s an immersive experience to enter and use the facilities. Check out the frameless shower and the way it creates an expansive sense of space in the room. This is multiplied by the in-wall cistern which enables the toilet to act minimally.

Double Custom Bathroom Vanity

This vanity features a timber-look laminate for a light, natural feel in the room. This type of laminate easily integrates with the concrete-look tiles, as well as a variety of other different finishes for floors and walls. In this bathroom, it directly receives the natural light via the large window and creates a relationship with the natural green tones happening outside. Meanwhile, with a stone benchtop and double basins, there is plenty of room for everyone when its time to brush your teeth!

Walk-in Wardrobe

In this photo you can see the walk-in wardrobe adjacent to the bathroom. We’ve matched the tiling throughout for a continuous look. This addition creates plenty of storeroom, conveniently located right next door to the bathroom.

Freestanding Bathtub

When it’s time for a soak.. this luxurious freestanding bathtub is a feature of this room. As natural light spills in, it’s like being transported to a resort in another country. Take note of the discrete tile-insert drain, which keeps the continuity of the wrap-around concrete-look tiles going through the room.

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It was a pleasure to work on this bathroom. On behalf of our team, thank you to all of our customers over the years. It has been a pleasure working with you to improve your bathrooms and homes, especially with this signature renovation. If you’re interested in learning more a about bathroom renovations with Armrock Constructions, please contact our team for a free appraisal and quote:

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Tiled Bathroom Niches

Armrock Constructions specialises in bathroom renovations on the Gold Coast QLD. A tiled niche is a great addition to a bathroom that adds functional value to the design. In our recent Gold Coast bathroom renovations, we’re finding tiled bathroom niches to be a popular addition. In this article we’re going to explore this option, with examples from our projects.

What is a “Niche”?

A ‘niche’, ‘cavity’ or ‘recess’ is a step into the wall that basically works as a shelf. In a shower, this shelf may hold common items like shampoo and soap. A niche is a built-in attribute that forms a sturdy and practical shelf on which to place items.

Advantages to a Bathroom Niche

Niches perform the function of storing items in bathroom walls, but they’re not the only solution. Other popular methods include:

Built-in niche
Built-in shelf
Removable holder / shelf

Niches have advantages over all of these. Unlike a shelf, niches don’t extrude – they’re set into the wall. Temporary solutions, on the other hand, are either hung or fixed with suction caps. Despite manufacturing promises, these plummet to the ground at the most inopportune moments, sending soap and shampoo flying – or coffee and beer, when misused by certain family members who insist on consuming these while showering.

LED Illumination

A popular trend is LED-illuminated niches, as can be seen from this recent bathroom project. These offer a designer-flavour to your Gold Coast bathroom and are a fantastic complement to Armrock’s tiled niches. Because our team includes all of the bathroom renovation trades, our builder-led team can handle your tiling, your tiled niche, and your LED illumination – as well as everything else too.

Types of Bathroom Niches

Bathroom niches come in three variants – prefabricated units, custom-made niches, and tiled bathroom niches. Prefabricated niches are purchased ready-made and come in a variety of designs. Custom-made niches are made to order. Tiled bathroom niches are a custom-made niche that’s made with tiles.

Tiled Bathroom Niche Design

First and foremost, the advantage of a tiled-bathroom niche is in the design. It’s an opportunity to create depth and interest in the bathroom. The niche itself makes a design contribution, which can be enhanced by the type of tiles used. These may be the same as the rest of the wall or a subtle, or significant contrast can be created.

There is also the opportunity to echo themes present elsewhere in the bathroom.

In the above example of our Gold Coast renovation work (Hexagonal Tiled Bathroom Niche) we’ve used hexagonal tiles within the niche which reflect the same pattern on the feature wall for repetition and continuity:

Tiled niches are fast becoming an Armrock signature. They’re a popular, practical option. A tiled niche creates a feature from an everyday item and because the niche is drawn from the same tiles as rest of the wall, an inherent compatibility is created so that the feature comes from the wall and is of the wall.

That means the niche looks like it was meant to be there, while at the same time giving more interest to the bathroom as a whole.

Niche Location Options

Tiled niches can be placed anywhere they are useful in the bathroom. We generally install them within the shower or next to the bath specifically for the purpose of holding shampoo, soaps, sponges and other bathing accessories.

Tiled Shower Niches

Tiled shower niches create interesting effects. Set into the grid created by the existing tiling, the result is three dimensional. Even when the same tiles are used, as is the case in this example, the tiled shower niche makes for a more visually interesting impression.

Bathroom Laundry Renovation

Often renovation projects extend beyond one room to a combination project. Tackling your renovation as a combination project has benefits, which we discuss on this page. In this particular job we renovated a combination bathroom & laundry which is a common undertaking for our team. This project achieved great results for our clients, who can now enjoy their amazing new bathroom and fabulous new laundry! Talk to our team about your bathroom renovation – we’re looking forward to hearing from you.

Project Highlights

In this bathroom and laundry renovation, highlights include the custom vanity, custom cabinetry, and LED lighting that transforms the room into something exceptional.

Benefits of Combination Renovations

There are two main benefits to tackling your renovations as combination projects. Firstly, you’re getting everything done in one go. Bathroom renovation can be intrusive, and successful planning means minimising how long the team needs to be on site for. Also, it’s more efficient to tackle two (or more) rooms at the same time, because the work can be streamlined much better than taking the work on separately.