Would you want a rainforest bathroom? New TV show Dream Kitchens and Bathrooms sees DIY SOS builder Mark Millar help families with their home makeovers
- Dream Kitchens and Bathrooms is a new Channel 5 show hosted by Mark Millar
- Mark Millar is best known for his role as one of the builders on TV’s DIY SOS
- He helps a couple in Birmingham with their new rainforest-themed bathroom
Part of a wall covered in moss, a ceiling painted black and an upcycled vanity unit all feature in a bathroom makeover in a new Channel 5 show.
Dream Kitchens and Bathrooms is the new series presented by Mark Millar, who is best known for his role as one of the builders on the long-running TV show DIY SOS.
In the first episode, he helps a couple living in a three-bedroom semi-detached property in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, with their new rainforest-themed bathroom.
Mark Millar helps a couple in Birmingham with their new rainforest-themed bathroom in the new Channel 5 show
The couple – Sam and Akil – have two children and need to install a new functional family bathroom with their budget of £5,000.
They opt for a plant-heavy design that takes inspiration from Akil’s job as an aquarium designer, and combine it with their desire for the rainforest-themed room.
The couple bought the property last year for £284,000 and have been renovating it ever since, showcasing their progress on their Instagram. Producers saw their posts and invited them on the programme.
Mark Millar said: ‘Just as important as kitchens are bathrooms. But sometimes I can find they can get overlooked.’
He added: Kitchens and bathrooms cost the most money and add the most value, but they can also be the trickiest rooms to get right.’
A total makeover: Sam and Akil had a budget of £5,000 for their new bathroom, which included £540 spent on black taps and a shower head
Akil explains in the programme, being shown this evening on Channel 5 at 7pm, that he wants to fill the new bathroom with nature.
He says: ‘My whole fixation with nature in the bathroom area definitely calls back to the work I do.’
And when Mark asks him to provide an idea of what he wants to inject into the bathroom, he added: ‘We are going to inject a rainforest theme, we are going to have some living plants on the ceilings and walls.’
Samina adds: ‘There will also be one long wall of black, which will be quite dramatic.’
![Akil is an aquarium designer and wanted to fill the new bathroom with nature (Sam pictured right)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/04/23/11/42119414-9500527-image-a-9_1619172046491.jpg)
Akil is an aquarium designer and wanted to fill the new bathroom with nature (Sam pictured right)
The finished bathroom includes black taps and a shower head costing £540, a black ceiling and a chest of drawers bought for £25, which was transformed into a stylish vanity unit.
MailOnline Property spoke exclusively to the couple about their completed new bathroom ahead of the programme this evening.
Sam said: ‘I really love it. There is not much that I don’t like about the bathroom. The only thing we have changed is to add a sensory light switch outside of the airing cupboard – where the switch was before – for the light above the vanity unit.
‘I love the black ceiling and the storage drawers. The only thing I don’t like now is how dirty the bathroom gets as it is used so much.’
And Akil said: ‘It is totally different to anything I have seen. It includes a moss wall to help fill the space as much as possible with plants,’ with Sam going on to explain that it was ‘more like a picture frame full of moss’.
- Dream Kitchens and Bathrooms with Mark Millar begins tonight on Channel 5 at 7pm and runs every Tuesday for six weeks