Jaxen Jennings
Join our newsletter Name: Your Email Address Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Thank you for signing up to Realhomes. But how do you get them clean and sweet smelling without carrying them through the house to reach the garden hose or have them scratching up your bath? House-proud Zoe Marquis has come up with a neat solution to cleaning her two dirty pups, and we think its just brilliant! She has turned part of the garage of her house in Windsor, Berkshire, into a spa for for the dogs, complete with bijoux shower, and it only cost £500 to do.
Keep reading: Garage conversion ideas - 21 ways to marry style and function Zoe, a PA, captured their makeover adventures on her instagram @homestuffonly (opens in new tab).
But after they installed a beautiful new bathroom, Zoe was reluctant to use it for cleaning her dogs, Martell and Henny, when they got grubby. ‘I love to take my two dogs on walks in the local fields whatever the weather, and them coming home muddy is inevitable so showering them is a regular occurrence.
'We finished off the smaller jobs ourselves like grouting the tiles and silicone sealing the dog shower instead of hiring a mastic man.' 'But with something crazy like 33 per cent of UK households including a dog, I highly doubt that will be the case.
Leading bathroom suppliers Drench (opens in new tab) agree that this inspired solution for a sticky/smelly/filthy problem is a winning idea: ‘A walk-in shower is perfect for animals, but one built specifically for your pet washing is genius,’ says Dominic Lees-Bell, bathroom expert at Drench.co.uk (opens in new tab). For anyone looking to do the same, we recommend purchasing a removable handset shower too, as it makes it a lot easier to get all of the shampoo out of their fur.’
