Is it possible to bend wood?

[LadyInThisDress]

The 400 wide panels are ill-thought out at present. Each one would be attached to the wall at one end, to help to stop water egress when the shower above the bath is used, and make the bath cosy, and one side (at the bottom) will be attached to a 400 deep worktop.

 

[MikeG.]

Fabric could be made to work (just) on the outside of the curve, but the inside would look awful.

You've got a viable plan.........stick to it! Post your work-in-progress pictures tomorrow, and the finished items by the week end.

Mike

 

[PAC1]

You could stick fabric to the hardboard then the inside would not be a saggy mess?

 

[LadyInThisDress]

You could stick fabric to the hardboard then the inside would not be a saggy mess?

Yes, that is clever, and we have come a full circle back to my idea of anaglypta type paper then painted to match the room walls.

How do you like my amateur drawings?

 

[9fingers]

Seeing the drawing, I wonder if making the two 400 mm panels flat and mounting them at 90 degrees to the wall would be both easier and look better from the outside?

Bob

 

[LadyInThisDress]

Seeing the drawing, I wonder if making the two 400 mm panels flat and mounting them at 90 degrees to the wall would be both easier and look better from the outside?

Bob

Oh Bob I would LOVE to make them flat! But would it work?

Making them straight would mean that to make them touch on the side furthest away from the wall, they won't touch the edge of the bath at the point nearest the wall. There would be a hole!

THere are other problems: there is only 3cm from the edge of the bath until we hot the side of the window.

I don't think on the right hand side, it would look bad since the countertop can also be curved to fit around the side panel. It would look rather chic!

 

[9fingers]

Seeing the drawing, I wonder if making the two 400 mm panels flat and mounting them at 90 degrees to the wall would be both easier and look better from the outside?

Bob

Oh Bob I would LOVE to make them flat! But would it work?

Making them straight would mean that to make them touch on the side furthest away from the wall, they won't touch the edge of the bath at the point nearest the wall. There would be a hole!

Yes but you could fit a horizontal infill panel on the inside, under the bath rim.
This could for example have the same tiles on it that you 'might' have on the wall and sealed with silicone sealer.

A further idea:
Make the central curved panel split horizontally at bath rim level. Fix the lower part as a bath panel and hinge the top section almost as a door.

The sort of construction you are homing in on should be light enough to support on two or three hinges.

Bob

 

[LadyInThisDress]

Hope this makes it clearer - the blank canvas!

As you can see, Bob, because of the curvature of the bath, there doesn't seem to be any way to make the side panels straight. At the top left of the pic, there is only 3cm of wall before we come to the window.

Thanks for the horizontal idea, but I won't be going with that, for a number of reasons, no need to list them

 

[LadyInThisDress]

! Post your work-in-progress pictures tomorrow, and the finished items by the week end.
Mike

Oh Lordy! I won't even have finished the drawings till the weekend!

 

[9fingers]

Ah! I see your problem.

I might be tempted by a two stage flat panel suitably mitred towards the window. However with only basic tools this could be more complex than your original curved idea.

Bob

 

[LadyInThisDress]

Ah! I see your problem.

a two stage flat panel suitably mitred towards the window
Bob

Where is the emoticon for "baffled lady bewildered"?

Oh Bob if only you were here you could make it all for me lol

 

[9fingers]

If I were nearer then I'd happily help you.

I've uploaded a picture of what I meant but Photobucket does not want to play at the moment.

I'll edit in a link when it is feeling better. :lol:

edit:

Bob

 

[LadyInThisDress]

Oooh very clever Bob!

Only problem is, the panels will have to go down to the ground.

Also, I am going to build a sort of pelmet across the top, also curved of course.... across the corner bath, following the lines of the bath.

 

[Jake]

I suggest you work out how you are going to do the ones that need to be waterproof first.

The others will (I assume) need to look the same or much the same as those, but it is easier to take away the waterproofness from a waterproof design, than to add waterproofness to a hardboard skinned panel.

The wallpaper is not going to survive as a shower/bath panel for a start.

 

[LadyInThisDress]

I suggest you work out how you are going to do the ones that need to be waterproof first....The wallpaper is not going to survive as a shower/bath panel for a start.

Hi Jake

There was never any intention to use wallpaper as a shower panel LOL.

The insides of the side panels (not the triptych screen) would be covered with mosaic tiles, as they can go round a curve.

Nothing else needs waterproofing.

Love,

Lady x

 

[Jake]

OK, what about the outside, is that going to be totally different as well?

 

[LadyInThisDress]

OK, what about the outside, is that going to be totally different as well?

The outside of the panels that are attached to the bath will be painted to match the walls.

The freestanding triptych screen will be wallpapered and painted. It never gets wet.

 

[Jake]

I thought you said the wallpaper effect was to match the walls?

Don't you think it will look odd if you have a wall with anaglypta, a curved panel without anaglypta and then a screen with it?

Anyway I'm out. Have fun and go for it!

 

[LadyInThisDress]

I thought you said the wallpaper effect was to match the walls?

Don't you think it will look odd if you have a wall with anaglypta, a curved panel without anaglypta and then a screen with it?

Anyway I'm out. Have fun and go for it!

The colour of the anaglypta will match the walls of the room. Only the colour, there is no paper on the walls.

Only the screen will have anaglypta, nothing else will. But it will be the same colour as the walls, just a different texture -- a sort of hessian effect.

 

[LadyInThisDress]

I was at my desk till midnight last night trying to simplify the design and have completely changed it -- hopefully now it will be much simpler to construct and be much stronger and less work. I still need to bend something flexible around a wooden former, though, so the thread has been very helpful.


Half of the arc of the bath would be covered with a floor-to-ceiling panel - 1250mm wide and 2970 high. There would be a false ceiling about 300mm beneath the real one, into which there would be a (zone 1) light fitting.

The false ceiling would be hidden by a curved pelmet, removeable to access the light for maintenance.

The part of the arc of the bath not covered by the large panel would be covered with another curved panel, again removeable to access the plumbing for maintenance. (The taps would be fitted on the ledge just behind the right hand large panel.)

There would be left a "doorway" 1250mm wide and 2100 mm high, to get into the bath enclosure.

Lastly, I would fit a pair of voile curtains across the doorway to the bath and a grab handle to assist with getting in and out.

Lady ITD