Bathtubs have become an important necessity of our daily life for many reasons. Who hasn't enjoyed the comfort of soaking in a nice, hot tub at the end of a particularly hard day. They give washrooms a bathrooms a complete look; after all without them they look vacant.

A few decades ago most families only bathed once a week, in a tin bath, in front of the fire. That was the extent of their comfort - how times have changed!!

Now, most of us enjoy lovely warm homes with a fitted bathroom, sometimes two. The expectations that we have of our bathroom is completely different today, we could almost be accused of turning decadent, bathing every day - often twice. Sometimes two showers, one to wake up and one before the night out. Often it is a quick bath in the morning and a long soak in the evening, in a bubble bath driven by air or pumped water to wash away the stresses of the day. The bath which could be made from pressed steel, composite resin or sheet acrylic are available in a huge number of styles and colours.

Today's expectations is to have a bathroom fully designed, using designer named products to match our personal lifestyle - it is a lot different to the days of once a week in front of the fire whether we needed it or not. The way we use our bathroom today has changed probably more than any other room in the home, bathrooms are becoming very desirable. Buying a bathroom a few decades ago was much easier - it came from the plumber or the builders merchant, with little or no choice and the most imaginative thing anyone did was to knock down the wall which divided the bath from the WC.

Today we cannot only buy our bathrooms from plumbers and builders merchants but also from dedicated Bathroom Studios, local and national chains of building hardware suppliers, the Internet and DIY stores, each of which offer a huge variety in service and price.