Sink placement for our downstairs bathroom vanity

Thank you all for your feedback on my last post. I am leaning towards the tho long drawers option, but am still worried if 28.5cm on either side of the sink will be sufficient for a main bathroom...

The upstairs powder room is sorted, and it will just have two doors with a shelf inside.

But, there is still the downstairs bathroom which I am unsure about, and would love to hear your advice. The vanity is the first thing you see when you enter the bathroom and we've only got 1m to work with. There is a toilet on the left of the vanity and the wall is on the right... 

Below are the three sink placement options I've outlined in one of our existing vanities.

• Top: basin 10cm from the edge of the vanity on the left
• Middle: basin pushed far left - provides maximum bench space on the right, for placing hair drying/change of clothes, but will this cause splashing on the left?
• Bottom: basin centred - is symetric

PS. The "trial" plantation shutters for our home office/gym, and bedrooms 3 and 4 have now been installed and look fantastic. We are happy and will be ordering the rest very soon. YAY! Some progress at last :)

B

Plantation shutters and a NEW sofa!!!!

Some exciting stuff has happened around here lately.... Firstly, we placed a deposit for 3 plantation shutters (as a trial)... and a few days ago we placed a deposit on a custom made sofa for the family room.

The plantation shutters are for the study, and bedrooms 3 and 4. If they work out and we are happy with everything, we will order the rest (the arched windows and the more important rooms).

And after years of over thinking the new sofa, we decided to go with a black leather 3 seater. It will be made in Melbourne and we've chosen a lovely Italian leather. The seats will be made out of Dunlop Enduro foam,.Black Cat Webbing will be use, but we are yet to decide the exact seat and cushion firmness, and depth and height of the sofa.

Can you tell how excited I am? :)

B

Mixing and matching skirting board and architrave styles

Unfortunately we can't have the plantation shutter frames that match our skirting boards and architraves around the doors :(

Do you think it will look strange if we mix the styles? Below is a pic of our skirting board and architrave around the doors (left), and the plantation shutter option (right).

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Plantation shutters on colonial style windows. Yes or no?

My dear followers

You all know how much I love asking questions, and hearing all your advice and feedback. I hope you are ready for this post, because it is chock-full of questions. Eeeek!

Should we go with plantation shutters for our home? I like them, don't get me wrong, but I have some concerns. Here they are:

When looking from the street, do you think they would make our colonial style windows look too busy?

If you think they would NOT make our facade look too busy:

1. Would they look wrong with exposed power provision next to every single window? We got carried away during the electrical stage. I thought we would definitely go with sheers+curtains, and MrB wanted them motorised, or to eventually get them motorised. I guess it's not a big deal since they are white and don't stand out TOO much but still... it's  not perfect which is what I would like :(
2. We have a 20 meter long open living space downstairs. If we go with plantation shutters for our front windows, it would make sense to continue the same throughout the house, right? With our huge windows, and a sliding door to the alfresco, would there be too much of the plantation shutters? All our windows and obviously the sliding doors are 2.4m high. The sliding door is 3.6m wide, both meals and dining windows are 2.4m wide, and the one in the sitting room is 1.8m wide.
3. Although originally we were meant to have glass bi-fold doors separating the open living into two, I am thinking of possibly getting plantation shutter bi-fold doors to separate the two areas. But again, I am worried it might look too over the top?
4. Ideally, I would prefer 2 panel plantation shutters for all the windows, but with the colonial ones this obviously won't work, so we would have to have three panel ones. I guess this is not a biggie, and I am just over-exaggerating as usual, aren't I? *shy*
   

   

   Top: The facade. Please excuse our "temporary" window treatment in the form of masking paper *shy*
   Bottom: power provision next to every single window and sliding door *sigh*

 

20m long open living space

 

Our open living.
Left: looking towards the street facing window.
Right: looking away from the street facing window.

Three panel choices for the colonial windows.

B