My one finished bathroom featured a sink so small I could only wash one hand in it at a time, as water spilled over the edge.
‘For heaven’s sake!’ I exclaimed, while I stood in the newly installed en suite to the main bedroom, which had somehow got smaller since it was renovated while I was away on a trip.

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