Bathroom furniture?

[gloria]

Hello. Does anyone know where I can buy simple, classic, non-shiny bathroom furniture? [i.e. like the Bathstore.co.uk].

Also, I need a bath that's deep - like a soaking tub. Does anyone have any advice about this too?!

Thanks

[marmite]

If you can't be bothered to put your location where you want to buy, you can't expect people to help you.

[gloria]

Well that's not very kind! I didn't intentionally not put my location, I just assumed everything could be done online.

I'm in Alpes de Haute Provence.

[andyh4]

Don't mind mr Grumpy, Gloria. He is however right that it is easier to give answers about buying things when we know where you live.

you can give this info in your personal details - look at the

edit your details -> Gloria | logout | settings

towards the top right of the page - but below the France Forum Join France Forum ....... header line.

If you put your location in there it will appear on every one of your posts, so no need to annotate anything.

Sorry I am not in a position to help on this one

[mint]

Also marmite is right in that your location might be known to someone who'd know where the best bathroom stuff is.

Do not assume that you can buy everything on line, particularly if you want something a bit out of the bog standard.

I don't know about bathrooms particularly but, if you are prepared to fork out, a specialist shop is nearly always the best.

[gloria]

Thanks Andy, good advice.

[gloria]

Thanks Mint, but I spend so much time walking my dog and trying to find socialisation for the little sweetie that I have little time to go either to Vitrolles [Marseille], Aix or Avignon which are all only an hour from me.

Leroy Merlin has bath tubs, but they're all hanging from the ceiling which makes it impossible to really get a good idea of how comfy they'd be!

Here in Provence, all bathrooms have little ceramic tiles, lovely though they be, they and the grout, can get disgusting.

Thanks for getting back to me!

[andyh4]

I was going to suggest a visit to Vitrolles - Castorama, Ikea and others - or Plan de Campagne between Aix and Marseille - huge commercial area with a wide range of stores.

Both however would probably need a whole day to really seek out what you are looking for.

Some previewing

http://www.plan-de-campagne.com/commerces/mobilier+ameublement-9/#commerces

http://www.plan-de-campagne.com/commerces/batiment+outillage-5/#commerces

To be honest I find the area to be too much of a zone commercial and somewhat overwhelming.

[gloria]

Thanks Andy. I agree with you and have decided to keep it simple. I've found a German site that will deliver within a week all the white goods while a joiner in the next village will make me a pine set of units which I will then F&B to death! I've become overwhelmed with choice, all too modern, all too shiny and too much driving around arguing with sat nav en route!

bye for now.

[Hereford]

Our bathroom white good are in pine units. What does F&B mean please? Sorry to be dim!!!

[gloria]

So sorry to be so obscure. I decided to have a local joiner make units out of pine which I will then paint using Farrow & Ball, UK paints. I used this paint in the UK after years of Dulux. The colours are just amazing and here, they reflect the light in a way that ordinary paints don't. Everyone on this site bemoans French paint so I brought my favourites with me last summer. However, I didn't have enough ceiling paint but the local SIMC copied my off-white swatch. When I asked them to copy 'borrowed light', the result wasn't nearly as good. But it works!

[Hereford]

Thank you Gloria - it will look splendid. 

I had visons of "flogging and bashing" ...

[gloria]

that's a hoot! you have a very creative imagination!

bye for now,

Gloria