With regards to choosing new bathrooms, Manchester has several excellent bathroom showrooms which can serve as a useful way as of inspiring you to reconsider the way your bathroom is furnished and organised, your bathroom storage problems solved, and your choice of bathroom furniture decided upon.

If you have been thinking about looking at a variety of examples of new bathrooms, Manchester is certainly a place to visit if you're in the area, because the range of bathrooms available demonstrates clearly that bathroom designers have been busy over the last few years coming up with a variety of solutions to those everyday problems which have become almost the accepted norm.

One of the biggest problems for most people when it comes to thinking about redesigning their bathroom is actually escaping from the bathroom as it currently exists. If you have been used to the way your bathroom looks, the way it is organised and the way it is laid out, then it can be very hard to visualise anything else. Often one of the mistakes people make when renovating their bathroom is to simply replace old with new, removing items of furniture such as the bath, toilet and basin, and simply replacing them with new models in exactly the same place.

But this is seriously missing a trick, because there are so many more options available. The fact is that until fairly recently most bathrooms fitted in by the original designer of the home were squashed into a small room almost as an excuse. Little consideration was given to the aesthetic qualities of the room, the ease of organisation, or even the use of space. Everything was crowned together in order to take-up as little room as possible, so that more room could be available elsewhere in the house.

So it is worth giving serious thought to several fundamental factors before you start looking at designer bathrooms. Manchester-based showrooms will certainly show you a variety of new bathroom furniture, and the showrooms will also show you different ways in which the furniture could be laid out. What is important to try to do is to see how these different arrangements could work within the existing space which you have in your bathroom, irrespective of whether that comes close to the existing layout and arrangement.

One of the fundamental questions which you could consider is whether in fact the room you currently call your bathroom has to necessarily remain so. Is there perhaps another room in the house which could be used as a bathroom, and which provides a better shape or a larger amount of space? It may not be the case for every home, but in many instances moving the bathroom to a different room altogether is in fact a viable option, yet one which is not often considered.

What about extending your bathroom? If the problem relates to the use of space, or just the sheer amount of space which you have, then is there any creative way in which you could possibly extend your bathroom? It doesn't necessarily have to involve building an extension, because in some cases it might simply mean moving or repositioning an internal dividing wall, which is actually a fairly quick and affordable job that can be carried out by most builders. The difference is not only going to enable you to enjoy your bathroom much more in future, but could very well add significantly to the value of your home.

What you can do is to measure out the actual room itself, ignoring whatever happens to be in your bathroom, and then taking this plan with you as you explore the showroom bathrooms Manchester has to offer. Once you are faced with possible layouts and alternative bathroom furniture, and only the physical space mapped out in front of you rather than your existing bathroom, you may find that you are inspired to view your bathroom in a completely different way.