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SHEET L — LOCATION PLAN
Service Areas: St Kilda & Nearby Suburbs
Bathroom Renovation St Kilda works from one small patch of bayside Melbourne. St Kilda VIC comes first, and the neighbouring suburbs share its buildings: walk-up flats, terrace houses and Art Deco blocks. Bathrooms in these buildings tend to be tight and oddly shaped, so we plan each one on paper before any tile is chosen.
PRIMARY AREA
St Kilda VIC
NEARBY SUBURBS
Eight suburbs close to St Kilda, listed below
TYPICAL BUILDINGS
Apartments, terraces, Art Deco flats
SHEET L1 — SUBURB REGISTER
St Kilda first, then its neighbours
We keep this as a single page rather than a separate page for each suburb. The advice holds across the area: work out where water can go, what’s inside the wall, and how the finished room looks from the doorway.
PRIMARY
St Kilda VIC
Apartment blocks, Art Deco flats and terrace houses, where bathrooms are often compact and the layout needs planning first. See small bathroom renovations.
St Kilda East
Walk-up flats and older houses, where bathrooms and laundries often share a wall.
St Kilda West
Period homes and flats close to the foreshore.
Elwood
Known for Art Deco and interwar flats with narrow, galley-style bathrooms.
Balaclava
Compact flats and cottages, where a shower over the bath is often reconsidered.
Windsor
Terraces and apartments, often with an ensuite added to a main bathroom.
Prahran
Narrow-fronted terraces and newer apartment buildings.
Albert Park
Victorian terraces, where the bathroom usually sits at the rear of the house.
Middle Park
Period terraces and cottages with long, narrow floor plans.
TYPE 1 — APARTMENTS & FLATS
Every centimetre is doing a job
In apartment bathrooms the door swing, the vanity depth and the shower glass all compete for the same wall. Swapping a bath for a walk-in shower or fitting a slimmer vanity can make the room feel wider.
TYPE 2 — TERRACES
Long rooms at the back of the house
Terrace bathrooms are often long and narrow, with the laundry close by. Many owners plan both rooms together, with a complete bathroom renovation, a laundry renovation and sometimes a new ensuite.
TYPE 3 — ART DECO FLATS
Character worth keeping in view
Interwar bathrooms suit tiles and proportions that respect the building. Bathroom design and careful bathroom tiling can keep that character while the plumbing and wet areas are brought up to date.
Reference: a compact shower with a recessed shelf built into the tiled wall
SHEET L2 — SHARED BUILDINGS
When there's a flat below yours
Most of the bathrooms in this area sit above another home. A shower that has failed in a first-floor flat won’t just damage your own room. It can stain the ceiling below and cause a problem with the neighbours.
That’s why waterproofing is part of every wet area we plan. If water is already escaping, leaking shower repairs and shower renovations deal with the cause, not only the grout you can see. For background, read the Bathroom Waterproofing Guide or the Bathroom Layouts Guide.
SHEET L3 — NEXT STEP
In St Kilda or next door?
Tell us your suburb and a little about the room, and we’ll start on the plan. Photos taken from the doorway, of the shower and of any damp or loose tiles help us understand the space quickly. If you have a general question, use the contact page.