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At BATHLINE, we always love to provide elegant solutions which make bathrooms beautiful and in this blog we look at Multipanel and how their bathroom products can revolutionise your bathroom.

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Multipanel offer luxurious and sophisticated waterproof bathroom panelling to provide a solution which is quick and easy to install and low maintenance. With no need to grout, a 15 year warranty, easy to wipe down and the ability for retrofit on existing tiles, Multipanel are an excellent choice for any bathroom project. Their vast portfolio of exquisite colours and textures will cater for your individual design style and opens up a whole host of design possibilities allowing you to reinvent your home.

The Collections

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Classic Collection

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Multipanel’s Classic Collection is crafted to complement the widest range of interiors and is guaranteed to bring sophistication and elegance to your home. Choose from the Classic’s range of magnificent colours, textures and finishes to achieve a sense of décor that perfectly matches your own design vision.

You can also combine feature walls with another range to create enduring colours and finishes. Gloss and textured finishes include natural and precious stone, marble and earth effects.

Heritage Collection

Multipanel’s Heritage Collection offers a world of elegance and colours which exudes calm and serenity allowing you to create your own bathroom style and atmosphere. The collection will enhance and transform any space, providing you with an elegant and timeless bathroom that you will admire for years to come.

Heritage also comes with the added option of Hydrolock, Multipanel’s innovative watertight panel connection providing a virtually seamless finish to your design.

Tile Range

The Multipanel Tile range offers a beautiful tile effect without the hassle of grout. These Tile effect wall panels offer the beautiful, high-end look of real tiles but without the installation and maintenance issues.

A quick wipe down is all that is needed to ensure surfaces will continue to look as new as the day they were installed. The Tile range provides an affordable alternative to ceramic tiles and despite being only 3mm thick, these waterproof panels are perfect for a simple and effective interior refresh. They are are easy to install throughout the bathroom and can be fitted over existing tiles. The range is available in a variety of carefully selected finishes, to make the most of any space.

Reflect Range

The Multipanel Reflect Range offers a glass alternative for a modern twist, refreshing your bathroom with a beautiful and hard-wearing faux glass. The Reflect Range provides a sleek look which creates a stunning depth and illusion of real glass.

Made from a tough dual layered acrylic, these 4mm thick highly reflective panels are easy to cut and install, creating a beautiful bespoke design enduring for years to come. Available in a hand-picked collection of colours, including a striking blue or red, the Reflect Range is the perfect choice for a stunning design statement in your bathroom.

The Economy Range

The Multipanel Economy Range is a practical, simple and stylish wall panel which is the perfect wall panel for any budget. Providing simplicity and uncompromising quality, the Economy Range is quick and easy to fit thanks to the innovative tongue and groove design feature.

To complete your bathroom, these sleek and practical PVC wall panels are available in a choice of eight attractive designs.

The Linda Barker Collection

The Linda Barker Collection is an exclusive collection designed by Linda Barker which offers you a quick and cost-effective way of transforming your bathroom from a work-a-day functional space into one that is truly special.

Choose between authentic looks from the natural world in the Elements, Stone and Wood panel designs which work brilliantly on their own or combined to give you even more possibilities.

The 11mm thick waterproof wall panel consisting of bonded high pressure laminates and 9mm water resistant hardwood plywood provides an effective waterproof seal. The collection is available in a discreet connection using Multipanel’s Hydrolock joint or with Unlipped or Hydrolock panels with loose, laminate edging strips to match.

Effective, simple installation

Multipanel waterproof panels are specially designed for easy installation and maintenance. The panels can be bonded directly to almost any surface using Multipanel High Grab Adhesive for flexibility and a clean look.

Multipanel Seal is an innovative and stylish two part shower tray and bath sealing system comprising a PVC strip and a high performance white silicone. The ‘movement joint’ expands and contracts to offer a sophisticated and reliable bottom seal for each of their ranges to ensure your design is finished beautifully.

For more information on Multipanel, please contact your local BATHLINE bathroom showroom or visit in-store to view the wide range of options available to you. Why not Book an Appointment with a design team member at your local BATHLINE showroom?

Note: This post was written by Eric Cain, a member of PLOS’ Production Team. This is the second installment in a “Format for Success” series from this team. The first post was about Formatting figures

Communicating scientific findings often requires images, charts, graphs, and more to support results and conclusions. When multiple visualizations all relate to one core aspect, it may be useful to include two or more panels to demonstrate this relationship and further distinguish your findings.

To help you submit a figure image that includes multiple panels and strengthens the presentation of your work, consider these steps to combine individual parts and still meet PLOS requirements, helping to get you on your way to a published, visually-appealing journal article.

Decide: Evaluate the implications of combining related pieces into a greater whole

If you have two or more images of individual parts demonstrating a larger concept, you may want to include them as a single figure image, rather than submitting the images as two or more separate figures, each with their own titles and captions.

Align: Choose a presentation that conveys the desired arrangement

You first want to decide the alignment of the panels in the figure image. We recommend you consider the size and shape of individual panels and what type of relationship between them that you wish to demonstrate, then determine the arrangement. Here are a few examples of common arrangements we see:

Combine: Import and edit each of your panels using an image editing software

To create a multi-panel figure, use a presentation program such as Microsoft PowerPoint, OpenOffice Impress, GIMP, or Keynote for Mac. Here, let’s consider how GIMP can combine panels into a single figure:

  1. Navigate to File > Open as Layers…
  2. Select each of the files containing your desired panels and click Open.
  3. Each file will open as a separate layer, one on top of the next. From the Image menu, select Canvas size… in order to resize the background layer to expand the working space for all the layers in your new figure once you have rearranged them.
  4. Choose an approximate size for the canvas, considering your desired alignment. Use the Width and Height selection boxes to set a new size for your background canvas and then click Resize.
  5. Select the first layer you wish to arrange and use the Move Tool to reposition the layer in the area of your background canvas. Click on the layer and drag it into intended location. Continue to arrange each layer as needed.
  6. Next, use the Text Tool to add labels (eg. A, B, C or 1, 2, 3). Click in the area intended for text, drag diagonally to reserve space for a text box, release, and then click inside the new text box to type in labels. Letters are recommended, as they easily distinguish between panels and avoid confusion between figure numbers that exist elsewhere.
  7. When all layers of images and text are complete, then select Crop Tool to cut out unnecessary space from your figure edges. Click in a corner at the desired edge of your figure, hold and drag the cursor to the opposite corner of the desired edge of your figure, then release. Hit Enter to crop to the selected surface area.
  8. Navigate to Image > Flatten Image to combine all layers into a single, flat image.
  9. Scale your image to fit page size and resolution requirements. Select Image > Scale Image… and use the Width and Height image size boxes to set a print size, while also considering a resolution between 300 and 600 DPI. Note that as resolution increases, print size decreases unless the image is scaled larger, and vice versa. When ready, click Scale.
  10. Lastly, export your new figure image to your computer by choosing File > Export As… and adding in the corresponding name for your new file (eg. Fig1.tif or Fig2.tif). Click Export. When prompted, choose LZW as compression type and select Export.

Congratulations! You now have combined panels into a single image.

A few considerations while combining panels: If your figures have numerous pictures, charts, or small text, they will render best at a resolution of 600dpi. It is preferable to scale each panel to a uniform resolution before combining, so that some panels do not appear blurry and others clear. You may also export your new figure as another file type and use PACE to convert your files to TIF. Finally, if you do not wish to combine multiple panels into a single image file, then you must break them apart into separate figures. If you proceed in this direction, renumber all figures and in-text citations accordingly so that new figure numbers and labels correspond correctly. The PLOS publishing platform and community databases such as PMC only allow for one figure file per designated figure in the article text.

Presentation software like PowerPoint or GIMP may be new to some authors who have not previously compiled multi-panel figures for use. In order to assist working in these programs, use the steps above and also check out tutorials for GIMP, if you have further needs for special modification.

Combining multiple, related panels into a single figure image improves the visual organization of scientific concepts that cannot fit into a single panel. This post offers insight on figure presentation options and includes a simple guide to help you to create the most effective figure image possible for your PLOS journal article.