Bathroom Renovation Brookwater

A dated bathroom in Brookwater, in the Greater Springfield area of Ipswich, rebuilt on the same layout with a warmer, more modern finish. Soft stone-look porcelain from floor to ceiling, a timber vanity with a red stone-look vessel basin, a fluted glass shower screen framed in brushed brass and the spa bath set into a newly tiled hob.

Project Type: Bathroom Renovation
Project Status: Completed
Location: Brookwater, Ipswich

Finished Brookwater bathroom renovation with timber vanity, red stone-look vessel basin, fluted glass shower and spa bath

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4 weeks Strip-out 22 October to vanity, screen and fit-off 19 November 2025
Same layout New everything, from the frame out
Fluted glass Shower screen framed in brushed brass
Floor to ceiling Stone-look porcelain tiles, timber vanity and vessel basin

The bathroom

Same view, eight weeks apart

Drag the handle to compare. White tiles, a dark vanity and frosted glass made way for stone-look porcelain, warm timber, brushed brass and a fluted glass shower screen.

Original Brookwater bathroom with white tiles, dark vanity and frosted glass shower before the renovation

Before After

01 The starting point

A good layout with tired finishes

The original bathroom had white wall tiles, beige floor tiles, a dark two-tone vanity with a white basin and a frameless frosted glass shower. The spa bath sat in a tiled hob beneath the plantation shutters.

The layout already worked well, so the shower, vanity and spa bath stayed where they were and the finishes around them were completely renewed.

Original Brookwater bathroom vanity and spa bath beneath plantation shutters

02 Strip-out and rough-in, 22 October 2025

Back to the frame in a day

Work started on 22 October. The old tiles, vanity and shower screen came out and the wet walls were stripped back to the frame, with the spa bath left in place and the rest of the home protected with drop sheets.

The same day, the plumbing was roughed in for the new wall-mounted tapware, ready for new linings.

Brookwater bathroom stripped back to the frame with the spa bath left in place

Bathroom strip-out and plumbing rough-in in Brookwater, Ipswich

03 Sheeting, 23 October 2025

New linings and a framed shower bay

The next day the walls were sheeted in villaboard, a fibre cement board made for wet areas, and the spa bath hob was boxed in ready for waterproofing.

The shower bay was framed and lined at the same time, with a recessed niche built into the wall for storage.

New villaboard sheeting and framed shower bay in the Brookwater bathroom

Spa bath hob boxed in and walls sheeted ready for waterproofing in Brookwater

04 Waterproofing and tiling, to 14 November 2025

Stone-look porcelain, floor to ceiling

The floor, shower and bath hob were waterproofed, then large-format stone-look porcelain went down across the floor and up the walls to the ceiling. The same soft veining runs through the whole room, from the shower walls to the face of the bath hob.

New architraves went in around the doorways while the tiling progressed, and a fine brushed brass trim finishes the edge of the bath hob.

Stone-look porcelain tiling under way around the waterproofed bath hob in Brookwater

Wall tiling and new architraves going in at the Brookwater bathroom

05 Fit-off, 19 November to 17 December 2025

Brass, timber and a red stone-look basin

The timber vanity went in with a travertine-look top and a red stone-look vessel basin, along with an arched shaving cabinet, the fluted glass shower screen in a brushed brass frame and brushed brass tapware throughout. Inside the shower, a brass rain shower and a finger-tiled niche complete the look.

The toilet was installed and the new door hung on 17 December, rounding out a bathroom that feels calm, warm and made to last.