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Browse 164 pictures of bathrooms and their fittings, sorted by part of the room; tap any one to go to the page that explains it. 128 are photographs, and any AI-generated picture carries a label.
The whole room
The floor
A diamond-pattern tiled floor with a cracked tile. Look at the crack: edges like that catch a toe and let water under the tile.
Plain beige matt tiles. The surface has no shine, and the grout lines are narrow and even.
One grey floor tile with a faint sheen. It is not mirror-glossy, but it is not fully matt either.
A showroom-style bathroom with a polished black and white chequered floor. It is staged for looks, not for grip.
Small hexagon mosaic tiles in a dark pattern, seen close up. There is a grout line around every hexagon.
A narrow toilet cubicle with small white mosaic floor tiles. It looks clean, and tight.
AI pictureA small bathroom with plain mid-grey safety vinyl that curves up the wall, slightly worn, with daylight from a frosted window.
A loose pink cotton rug on a bare floor, with the tips of bright slippers at its edge. Nothing holds the rug to the floor.
AI pictureA small cotton rug on a tiled floor with one corner curled up, like a ramp for the next foot.
A white foam bath mat on a slatted wooden floor, with rolled towels. A tidy picture, but a soft mat on slats can shift.
A folded black rubber mesh mat, shown as a product. Mesh lets water drain through and keeps feet from sitting in it.
AI pictureA white rubber mat with small suction cups in the bottom of an acrylic bath, one corner lifted away from the surface.
Glossy decorated ceramic floor tiles with a large plant pattern. Beautiful, and the glaze is smooth across every tile.
AI pictureA glossy white ceramic tile with a puddle of water beside a shower tray edge, with the window reflected in the surface.
AI pictureThe floor of a white bath with several clear textured strips stuck across it, water droplets on top.
A vintage pink and black tiled bathroom with a hexagon mosaic floor, a bath, basin and toilet.Rails and walls
A hand gripping one of three sample rails (one white, two steel) on a display board in a showroom in America. Compare diameter and finish.
A horizontal brass rail on the wall between a bath and a toilet, in a bathroom in America. One rail serves both fittings.
A bath with a vertical rail at the tap end and towels above it, toilet alongside. This is a hotel in America.
An angled grab rail on the wall inside a bath with a shower surround, again a hotel in America.
A toilet with heavy rails on two yellow walls and a white mosaic floor. The rails frame the toilet on two sides.
An older tiled room with a bath fixed along one side, a rail on the floor next to it and a bidet beside it. It looks continental.
AI pictureThe end of a white plastic-coated rail, its round flange screwed through white wall tiles, with screw caps over the heads.
A bath with rails on three walls, filled with water and a toy duck. It is on a preserved ship, not in a home, but it shows how many surfaces may need to carry load.
A toilet with steel rails on two walls, one painted and one tiled in dark green. A toilet roll holder is hung on one of the rails.
An accessible toilet at Harlow, Essex, with black fold-down rails, a dark seat on a white toilet and metro tiles. A public setting rather than a home.
AI pictureA tradesperson's hands holding a spirit level against a white rail on a tiled wall beside a bath, a drill on the floor on a dust sheet.
AI pictureA plastic grab handle held by two large lever suction cups on white wall tiles above a bath. Nothing is screwed in.
AI pictureA close view of a suction cup edge lying across a grout line on a white wall tile, with a small gap visible at the line.
A pink enamel bath seen from the side, with a high rim and a folded panel at one end. This is in America.
A bath with a ship-pattern shower curtain and shelves beside it, in America.The shower
A bathroom in an English house: quadrant shower enclosure, white bath, basin with separate hot and cold taps, door beyond.
A curbless roll-in shower in staff housing in a US national park: fold-down seat, hand shower, rails and a flush floor.
A level-access shower with a single glass panel, white wall tiles and a floor sloping to a corner, with no tray.
A white shower unit with rails on two sides and a low front lip, seen from a doorway.
A narrow tiled shower with a fixed head, a dark mosaic floor with a drain and a curtain. It looks like a shared or public shower rather than a home.
AI pictureA close view at floor level of the raised front edge of an older white shower tray, with a sliding door track along it.
An open tiled wet washroom in a sports hall in Germany: wall showers, basins and a dark floor. Institutional, not a home.
A white tiled shower with a curtain on a curved pole and a wall valve. The floor is out of shot.
A white tiled wet room with a grey floor drain in the corner and a wall-hung toilet.
A broken tiled shower floor opened up, showing the drain pipe and a rotten base beneath.
A plain white modern bathroom with a bath, toilet and heated towel ladder. This is an ordinary bathroom, not a wet room.
A padded shower seat with a back and armrests, on an adjustable steel frame, in a tiled shower.
A white wheeled shower chair with a slatted seat, standing on a green vinyl floor rather than in a shower.
A tiled bathroom in a nursing home in Germany: a mobile shower-toilet chair, a wall-hung toilet, rails and a red pull cord.
AI pictureA white fold-down padded shower seat on a tiled wall in a level-access shower, with a hand shower on a rail next to it.
AI pictureA simple white plastic shower stool with four rubber-tipped legs standing in a tiled shower area.
A white shower tray with a low lip and a patterned curtain, a basin close by.
A small beige tiled bathroom with a bath and hand shower, a toilet and basin close together.
An old cream shower tray with grime and mould along its seams and a ridged floor.
An older narrow shower with a raised tray, curtain and diamond-patterned tiles.
A long narrow older bathroom with the bath at the far end, a basin on the right and a patterned lino floor.The bath
A bathroom photographed in Mulhouse, France, so not a UK home: a tiled bath with a hand shower, a small basin and the toilet all within arm's reach. In a room this size, any bath aid has to leave space to move.
An older bathroom with a roll-top bath at the back and tiles to the walls. Look at how far a person would have to lift a leg over the side, and what there is to hold.
AI pictureA plain white plastic bath board resting across the rim of an ordinary white bath, with tiles and a towel behind.
AI pictureA plain white plastic bath seat on brackets hanging just below the rim, with a board above it.
A hotel bathroom: a curved rail overhead carries the curtain, and a separate angled grab rail is fixed to the back wall of the bath. The toilet is next to it, on a wood-effect floor.
A white bath with a mixer tap and a hand shower on a sliding rail above, against plain walls.
AI pictureA plain white battery-powered reclining bath lift in an ordinary white bath, with the seat lowered and its side flaps resting on the bath floor. Notice how much of the bath floor it covers.
AI pictureAn older person's hand holding a plain white waterproof handset with a push button, beside a bath lift chair in a bath.
A yellow-tiled bathroom in 1950s style with a square pedestal basin and towel rails. No bath lift here: the picture is about how little room an older bathroom may leave.
A hotel bathroom with a glass shower cubicle, a long grab rail along its inside wall, and a bath alongside.
An American bathroom, not a British one: a walk-in bath with a hinged door in its side, carpet underfoot and a wall rail beyond. Carpet near a bath is worth thinking about wherever the room is.
A product photograph of a walk-in bath with its door open, showing the seat and the jets inside. It is not a photograph of a home.
A product photograph of a walk-in bath from the side, showing the outline of the door and its frame.
A product photograph looking down into a walk-in bath, with the seat and the door visible.The toilet
A hotel toilet with long grab rails on the side wall and the rear wall and plenty of floor space around it. Few homes have this much room, but the idea of something firm on two sides carries over.
A toilet from the front, with the black seat lifted and a rail beside it against a brick wall. A public toilet in Australia, not a home. A seat that contrasts with the bowl is what RNIB recommends.
AI pictureA plain white plastic raised seat, with no lid, fitted to an ordinary white toilet.
An institutional toilet, not a home, with a tall vertical rail fixed to one wall beside the pan.
A wall-hung toilet with a fold-up rail and a vertical rail, set against white and grey tiles, in a public building in Europe.
An accessible toilet at Charlecote Park, Warwickshire, a public place and not a home, with red grab rails and a wood-effect floor. The red rails stand out, which RNIB recommends.
A hand lifting a white fold-up support rail that is fixed beside a close-coupled toilet.
An accessible toilet in a public building: long dark steel grab rails on white walls above a dark floor.
An accessible toilet and basin in a public building, with white rails round both.
A wall-hung toilet with a vertical support rail folded up beside it, against white tiles.
A close view looking down onto a toilet, with a dark fold-down rail beside it and a tiled floor.Hot water and taps
A chrome thermostatic bath mixer fixed to the wall, with a flexible hose, photographed in Spain. The dial on the front is where the water temperature is chosen.
A thermostatic bath-shower mixer on a tiled wall above a bath, with a patterned tile border. The dial and the hose are the parts a bather touches.
AI pictureCold water running from a chrome bath tap into an empty white bath with the plug in.
AI pictureA plumber's hands with a spanner fitting a small brass thermostatic mixing valve on pipework behind a removed bath panel.
A thermostatic bar shower with a rigid riser and a rain-style head, on stone-effect tiles.
An electric water cylinder fixed high on a tiled wall, with a flexible hose running down to the taps, photographed in Austria. The bath is out of shot.
A chrome thermostatic bar valve on white tiles with a flexible hose, and a red mark on the dial. What the mark means depends on the maker.
A close, angled view of a thermostatic bath mixer with a spout and a diverter.
A chrome thermostatic valve set on small mosaic tiles.
An older chrome thermostatic valve with limescale and wear on the tiles around it.
An older mixer with a central round dial between two cross handles.
A close view of a metal fixed shower head with worn nozzles.
A single lever mixer tap on a white basin, with decorative soap shapes beside it. One lever sets both flow and temperature.
A long lever mixer tap on a steel sink in a hospital or care-style setting, not a home.
Twin stainless basins with tall spouts and long wrist-lever handles, most likely in a non-domestic setting.
A pedestal basin with a cross-head mixer tap, each handle a four-armed cross.
A small wall-hung basin with a two-lever mixer, a mirror and a paper towel holder on plain walls, in a washroom rather than a home.
A worn white basin with a single-lever tap, with visible wear.
A preserved room, not a working installation: an old copper water heater on a bracket above a roll-top bath. The picture does not show the fuel, and an old appliance cannot be judged by its look. An engineer can.
A wall-hung white gas water heater with its pipes running out of the bottom, photographed in Europe.
A white wall-hung gas boiler with its controls at the foot of the casing. The flue is out of shot.
A square white wall-hung gas appliance with its control panel at the foot of the casing.
A very old black cast-iron gas water heater in a cellar, preserved as a historic piece.
A round white carbon monoxide alarm on a wooden surface. No maker's name can be read.Door and light
A door in a public building, not a home. Notice the long pull handle, which can be used with a forearm or a loose grip, and how close the basin sits to the door.
AI pictureThe hallway side of a bathroom door. The small round plate with a slot is an emergency release, so that someone outside can open a locked door. Find yours before you need it, and check the maker's instructions for what turns it.
AI pictureThe room side of a door: a plain chrome thumb-turn that needs a thumb and finger to work.
AI pictureA bathroom door that opens out into the hall, part of the bathroom visible beyond it.
AI pictureSeen from the hall: the door has opened part way and stopped, held by a bath mat on the floor behind it.
A pine panel door beside a tall white heated towel rail. The photograph is not necessarily of a British home.
A product photograph, not a room. It shows the idea: a small light that senses movement and switches itself on. This one has a European plug, so a UK buyer needs one made for UK sockets.
A plug-in night light glowing in an American wall socket.
AI pictureA dim landing with a low light glowing near the skirting board, and the bathroom door left ajar at the end.
A small light low on a plaster wall, glowing in the dark. The wall catches the light and spreads it.
A flush ceiling light with a closed cover, in a plain room of an institutional building. Not a bathroom, but it shows the shape.
A strip light over a mirror above a small basin, white tiles, in an institutional building.Air and electrics
A small square vent set high on a bathroom wall beside a window. Notice that it sits near the ceiling, where warm damp air collects, and that the window is a second way to let steam out.
AI pictureA ceiling pull-cord light switch with its cord and small plastic end hanging down.
AI pictureAn illustration of where a shaver unit often sits, beside a mirror and basin. Real units vary, so don't use this picture to identify your own.
A white ladder-style towel radiator with towels over it, against pink tiles.
AI pictureAn electrician's hands with a test instrument at an open ceiling light fitting, on a white ladder.
A tall white towel radiator on a tiled wall.
Black mould along the join between tiles and a ledge. Joins and corners are where damp sits longest, so they show mould first. Not necessarily a British home.
Black mould across a ceiling corner and around a small extractor fan.
AI pictureA plain white extractor fan high on a tiled bathroom wall, with a window to one side.
Dark specks on a shower curtain, close up.
Heavy drops of condensation on a window pane. Not necessarily a bathroom, but the same process.
A close view of a bumpy white textured ceiling coating. A picture cannot tell you what a coating contains, and looking at it does not settle the question either.
AI pictureA hard white swirled textured coating on an older bathroom ceiling, seen from below, with a plain light fitting and old tiles on the walls.
A painted textured ceiling over a stairwell, with a blurred ceiling fitting in the background.
A rough textured coating, close up. Walls can carry textured finishes as well as ceilings.
A painted stippled textured coating, close up.Slips and falls
A small inn bathroom in California, not a British home. Notice the loose rugs on a mosaic floor. The NHS advises removing loose rugs, because they can slide or catch a foot.
A small hotel bathroom in Paris: toilet, basin, a stool and the bath edge squeezed into one corner.
A 1980s-style pink-tiled bathroom in Portugal, with a floral shower curtain, a toilet and a bidet.
A folding walking frame with soft ball feet, on a speckled hard floor.
A basin crowded with bottles and a razor around a single-lever tap.An older parent's bathroom
A plain accessible bathroom in a cabin at a US state park, not a British home: a rail by the toilet, a small basin, a window and shelves. Nothing here looks clinical, and that is often what an adapted bathroom is.
A small brick bungalow in England: an outside view, not a bathroom.
A hospital bathroom in France: a toilet with a fold-down rail and a mobile shower chair parked beside it.
A walking stick, a crutch and a folding walking frame leaning against a wall.
A chrome ladder towel radiator beside a shower screen, in a bright room.Young children
A grey baby bath on a folding stand, in a bedroom, with no child in the picture. A small tub is no reason to step away: children can drown in very small amounts of water.
An empty white plastic baby bath on a speckled floor.
AI pictureAn adult's elbow testing shallow bath water, with a plastic duck floating beside it. No child is in the picture.
Two yellow rubber ducks, close up.
A white bath with a mesh bath support stretched across it and rubber ducks. No child is shown.
A blue plastic bath toy on a cork floor.Poor sight or memory
A public toilet in Australia, not a home. Notice how the black seat stands out against the white bowl. RNIB and Alzheimer's Society both advise seats that contrast.
AI pictureA dark blue seat and lid on a white toilet, seat up, against white walls and a pale floor.
A public accessible toilet in a community hall in Australia, not a home: rails on the wall and a red band round the floor edge.
A white bowl basin on a dark surface, a handwash basin in Horsham, West Sussex.
AI pictureA white bathroom door with a plain picture of a toilet on a card fixed a little below eye level.Cost and who to ask
Terraced houses in Liverpool: an outside view, not a bathroom. A grant is for a particular home and person, and the applicant can be an owner, a tenant or a landlord.
AI pictureNotes and a folder of paperwork at a kitchen table, with a leaflet on home adaptations and a mug of tea.
A large adapted bathroom in a public building, not a home: open floor, a basin and a wall-mounted toilet with rails.
A long terrace in Saltash, Cornwall, with cars parked along the front.
A brick bungalow with hedges, in England: an outside view. The photographs on this page are of houses in England and do not show Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, though the rules below cover all four.
A row of 1960s-style bungalows in England.
A brick bungalow behind hedges, in England.
A small wall basin with worn taps, a torn cloth and a stained wall. Not necessarily a UK home.
A brick bungalow in England: an outside view, not a bathroom. VAT relief follows the person and the job, not the type of house.
AI pictureAn occupational therapist measuring the height of a toilet while the person watches from the doorway. Measurements are taken for the person as well as the room, which is why no rail or seat heights are given here.
AI pictureA conversation at a kitchen table, with a notebook.
A person in a hospital gown with a walking frame beside a hospital bed. A hospital, not a home.
AI pictureA plumber at work under a basin, seen from behind. Pipework, taps and valves are plumbers' work.