Long narrow bathroom with high ceiling - possible lowering of ceiling

ns are troubling me. It's got a ceiling that's 3 metres high and the room i s not much more than the width of a bath plus a wash basin. The length of t he room is about that of a bath plus a metre.

ight it feels very cold and far too high for its size. I'm considering lowe ring the ceiling.

ome recessed lights and covering the fact that it used to be two rooms, I o nly lost about six inches of room height in that case. It was done with a w ooden framework and plasterboard which I had skimmed.

ering if I should just do the same thing or does anyone have any other idea s?

afaik it's either wood or metal frame

have some kind of sloped arrangement where my new ceiling meets the window reveals (and the walls are 22 inches thick!)

gonna look crap.

NT

Seems a shame to waste what could be storage space which in flats is normally at a premium. Could you do some mezzanine like arrangement leaving access at one end. Fix some rungs or a small wooden ladder onto the wall for access which could double up as towel hangers. Using reasonable quality storage boxes like the Really Useful range you would have quite a few litres of storage.

G.Harman

I've just done a suspended ceiling and found it extremely easy, much to my surprise.

You can do sloping bits for windows.

Bill

You might only have to go up or down to where there is an existing horizontal division in the window (sash windows?)

If you are going to have an inset into the ceiling to go up to full window height consider fitting rope operators to the upper sash to make opening it easier.

Owain