Today’s bathrooms are lathering and lounging spaces - or at least they should be. Gabrielle Fagan taps into three contemporary styles, offering inspiration that’s bound to wash off.

THERE may be a recession still rolling across the valleys, but by gum my compatriots, we are not surrendering our bathrooms.

AS the introduction of domestic water charges looms, a new survey has found nine out of 10 people have no idea how much water they use on a daily basis.