How to retrofit your en-suite bathroom and boost your home's value

Be highly strategic when choosing and laying out a suite to optimise its comfortable performance 

Good planning to the millimetre will help your installer get it right first time. Picture: iStock

Our national obsession with the all-singing-and-dancing, dedicated en-suite shower room or bathroom for every bedroom endures. 

Still, unless you can enjoy it without slinking through, core braced, all but oiled up, I would think again. The "room" refers to centimetres on the tape. Chic lighting, reflective surfaces or expansive colour will not conjure elbow room. No hotel with one trembling star rating will ignore room to manoeuvre and drifting mammalian scents.