Bathroom Styles by UK City: The Regional Data

Bathroom style across British cities is shaped by the age of the housing rather than by local taste, and our analysis finds that property type explains almost everything a regional comparison appears to show. Cities built largely of Victorian and Edwardian terraces contend with bathrooms converted from small rear rooms, where the standard 170cm bath either fits wall to wall or does not fit at all, while cities with substantial new build and apartment stock produce planned bathrooms, en suites and windowless internal rooms with no airing cupboard. Furniture in Fashion finds that wall-hung vanity units became standard in period properties for a practical reason rather than a decorative one, that storage capacity matters more than slim profiles in homes without linen cupboards, and that ventilation problems are frequently misdiagnosed as furniture faults. The report sets out fixture dimensions and clearances, and declines to rank cities where no verified data exists....