Can a luxury lavatory become the centrepiece of a home? A Portarlington homeowner hopes so after installing a golden toilet! SEE THE PICTURES

A Portarlington bathroom has proved that all that glitters is not gold.

But it might as well look just the same.

Michelle Zammit has just completed the most incredible bathroom renovation designed around the feature edifice, a golden toilet.

That’s right, it’s a golden throne.

Ms Zammit designed a regal platform to elevate the golden toilet, complete with golden trim and strip lighting to the wall and floor tiles.

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And there’s plenty more bling, with matching golden accessories such as the toilet roll holder, Versace-inspired toilet roll basket, a little chandelier and a gold patterned wallpaper.

Ms Zammit laments she’s still searching for gold toilet paper.

It continues in the bathroom, where taps in the basin and a shower above the brand new spa bath are golden, and bluetooth speakers help create the palatial feeling.

But why go to this length?

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It started out as a bit of a joke with her nephew, who was renovating a separate bathroom after moving in with his aunt.

“A guy named Alex from Monarch Kitchens did it for me kindly,” Ms Zammit said.

“We mastered it together. He did it and didn’t like the colour and the look and I said that’s okay and he said no, I’m redoing it.

“That gold is beautiful. Very luxe. I wanted the warm feeling when you walk into the bathroom.

“It took me about four months to choose tiles because I wanted the toilet to be the feature.

“All the boys that have been helping me with the trades have been going ‘holy moly, I don’t want to sit on this toilet’.

“Not only have you got this luxe bathroom, you’ve got this relaxing outlook.”

Ms Zammit, who is a crisis support worker with Lifeline, is preparing to sell the four-bedroom Reaby St residence with Neville Richards Real Estate agent Greg Campbell.

Proceeds from the sale will go to a project close to her heart, to buy land to establish a mental health farm near Geelong for men in crisis.

“It’s very important that we do this right because I want to do a mental health farm for men having difficulties in life and need that hit of a hand and ‘Michelle’s magic heart’,” she said.

“I’ll be using my funds of this property to make that happen.”

Mr Campbell isn’t sold on a gold toilet being a feature to sell the property, preferring to highlight the elevated position of the home which offers panoramic views across Corio Bay to the You Yangs.

“I’m quite happy to take people through,” he said.

“The gold toilet is a bonus to what else you get with this beautiful block of land and this lovely view.

“This is the ideal block of land for a developer to split it in half. You might get three townhouses on it, but you can get two. And that’s where maybe the buyer will come from

But this is a bonus,” he joked.

It’s not the first gold toilet installed in Australia, after Maryborough, Queensland, finished its Cistern Chapel renovation to its public toilets, which has become a tourist attraction.

Originally published as Golden throne: See Portarlington home’s luxury lavatory