Tiling, bathrooms and kitchens in Corby

Corby was designated a New Town in 1950, built around the steelworks that drew families from across the UK — famously from Scotland. Much of the town's housing dates from those post-war decades: practical, well-built homes whose bathrooms and kitchens have usually been through a refit or two, and are often ready for another.

Since then the town has kept growing. Oakley Vale, Little Stanion, Priors Hall Park and the developments around Weldon have added thousands of newer homes, many finished with simple white tiling that owners now want to replace with something more personal — a stone-effect shower, a patterned floor or a full-height feature wall.

Around the town, older villages such as Weldon, Gretton, Cottingham and Great Oakley have stone cottages with quirks of their own: solid floors, thick walls and very few true right angles. Tiling rooms like these well means planning the layout around what's actually there.