Bathroom Layout

If you are building your own home, you, of course, are in a position to design a bespoke bathroom to reflect your own tastes and lifestyle. You can research what is new on the market, what the current design trends are, what is the latest technology that can be incorporated into the bathroom and by dint of hard work and exposure to different ideas come up with a concept that should be your dream bathroom. If you get it wrong then you have nobody but yourself to blame.

If you are buying a new house in a new development you may have some input with the builder during the course of construction as to the layout of your bathroom within the limited parameters that the plan of the house will allow and of course the flexibility of the builder.
If you are buying an existing house, you are stuck with the confines of the existing bathroom, but you can replace the bath and the other fixtures with more modern designs should you feel it is necessary.
Most houses built in Ireland now have en-suites of the master bedroom (and in many cases a number, or all, of the bedrooms). In many cases, there is no stand-alone bathroom in modern homes. Where there is, this trend has given rise to the concept of viewing the bathroom as more of leisure and relaxation room, rather than one that serves a basic functional hygienic area of the home.