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Adding an en-suite, bathroom or extra toilet to your home is often an attractive proposition: it would mean that no one ever had to wait to use the bathroom and make the home more desirable to sellers. However, it is often that there isn’t room for a conventional bathroom. This doesn’t mean there is no hope of having a bathroom; just that components have to be carefully chosen.

By selecting the right configuration of components and desired functionality initially, you can make sure you concentrate on a solution that adds the most value and functionality to your home. Although an additional bath and shower would be ideal, there may just be room for a basin and toilet. This is actually still a great scenario: by being able to have a separate toilet you reduce the need to use the main bathroom and often can have the toilet more conveniently located than the bathroom.

Cloakroom suites combine toilets with basins to best match the design of each of these items as well as such considerations as colour and dimensions. Often the most cost effective way to purchase a toilet and basin together is to buy one of these suites as it will offer you a wide range of options while keeping your costs down. They’re a very economical way of making your home more practical and increasing its value. They offer great value and functionality and make the whole process of adding a cloakroom easier.

Cloakroom suites come with many different options, and you can find one that fits the space you have perfectly. If you have a larger space then you can get pretty much any combination of toilet and basin and it will fit perfectly. However, if you are looking at a smaller space (and people buying a cloakroom suite often are) then consider suites that have space saving features that allow you to maximise functionality in a small area.

The basin within the cloakroom suite can come in a wide range of different styles. It may be a corner basin, which are usually wall mounted and designed for rooms where space really is at a premium. It may be a more conventional wall mounted basin, which don’t have to fit into a corner but still come in a wide range of beautiful designs to fit into nearly any space. Some of these barely protrude from the wall whereas other take up very little space on the wall but have quite a large projection. You can also get the more traditional pedestal basin which tends to be larger and even the vanity unit if you want to add some additional storage below your basin. Which basin you choose will depend on personal taste as well as the space available.

Cloakroom suite toilets also have a great number of options. There is what we consider the traditional toilet, where the pan is supported by the floor and the cistern goes up against the wall. There are other, more innovative, toilets available too. You can get the hidden cistern toilet, where the toilet’s cistern is either hidden away in the wall of the room or within a piece of furniture (this option is most often seen in tandem with a vanity unit). Other designs include corner toilets for when space is really at a premium. There are even off the wall toilets that hang from the wall and don’t touch the floor at all.

Considering the above factors, you can see why the cloakroom suite would allow you to put a toilet and basin in your available space, even if your available space may not allow you to fit in a full sized toilet and bath. You can make sure the pieces match one another, benefit from a host of modern designs and innovations and even add extra storage. They make for a great option to add value and function to any home.

Interior design expert Emma Cubrick writes on a range of subjects. Here she advises how to select compact cloakroom suites.