In the small bathroom you can taste everything you need. The main thing - to think about the location of plumbing, furniture, color solution and use several visual tricks.
Tips for designing a small bathroom in an apartment
The functional and aesthetic arrangement of small apartments is a creative challenge for lovers of comfortable housing. Here are some classic tips for visual expansion of the bathroom and proper use of space:
- Choose a shower stall if you rarely dial a bath. So you save a lot of space. Doors prefer transparent - they look very easy and stylish.
- Use hanging furniture and plumbing. A shelf for hygiene items over the bathroom, towel drying on the wall, a mirror cabinet will allow you to place more useful items in the bathroom and make cleaning easier.
- Combine the sink and cabinet. Place under the sink is useful for storing towels, detergents, washing powder.
- Try to build a niche and hide shelves in it. This design will merge with the walls, and hide the savings objects, not at all "eating" the size of the room. Such a solution looks more neat than the classic, hinged shelves.
- To make the space larger, a bathroom is combined with a toilet, if the rooms themselves are nearby. Having broken the wall between the rooms, they get more space for creativity.
The color of the bathroom is most often chosen light or play on contrasts. This question is very important and several paragraphs will be devoted to it a little lower.
How to visually enlarge a miniature bathroom
In addition to the correct location of furniture and plumbing, space increase visually, due to optical illusions, work with color and light.
- Mirrors double the space and lighting. Use mirror furniture or install a mirror on the entire wall. Corner mirrors are used as decoration, they create spectacular maze of reflections.
- Use bright accents. The space is zoned using colored tiles, highlighting a section of the wall, a zone above a washbasin or a bathroom.
- There are also entire walls - this extends the room. For such purposes, choose the tile that attracts attention - with a complex pattern, under a tree, stone or leather.
- Large drawings also expand the space - it can be a tile pattern or a bright curtain over the bathroom.
- Buy light solid towels. The abundance of small colored textiles looks like children's toys scattered in the room. This way the effect of carelessness is achieved.
- Take care of the lighting. Lamps should be small and give a diffused light that will be reflected in the mirrors.
- Visually expands the space tile with horizontal lines.
A little imagination and a sense of beauty, and even a room 3 by 3 meters can be turned into a bright, spacious, functional room.
The color solution of the bathroom in a small apartment
It is generally recognized that the space expands the white color and the game contrasting with it. Leave the walls white, dull the "sterility effect" with colored flooring or tile patterns. In addition, the colors affect the human psyche and there is a list of solutions that will help to relax, unwind.
- Blue and turquoise are associated with water and are great for the bathroom. Cold shade invigorates, refreshes thoughts, calms.
- Blue has hypertrophied blue properties. This color is oceanic power, cosmic calm. Very happy and looks beautiful in the interior.
- Orange is the color of fun and joy, it relieves melancholy, helps to get rid of trouble.
- Green - invigorates. This is the color of spring, life, nature, positive energy.
- Violet soothes and looks elegant, spring-like.
- Gray neutralizes the negative, looks very stylish and balanced.
- Black color is depressing, but it looks very impressive in various zoning options. It is not used independently, only as a supplement.
Be careful with some color solutions. Red, for example, activates energy centers and the thirst for action. Associated with the themes of love and passion, but annoying impulsive people and suppresses the timid. For a small bathroom, the yellow color does not fit - it distorts the perspective, and in addition excites, sometimes excessively, to a state of nervousness.
The choice of furniture and plumbing
Corner plumbing frees the center of the room and fully performs its functions. In the corner of a small bathroom you can fit everything: toilet, sink, shower. The corner sedentary bathtubs look originally, but they cannot be lying in, which is obvious from the name.
Also compact are classic rectangular baths.
Take care when placing your washing machine. It can be placed in a tiny bathroom, but front-loading machines are somewhat unstable in Spin mode.
Stylish accessories for a small bathroom
Anyone, even the most stylish and functional design needs decoration. Otherwise, the strict bathroom will look like a fragment from a hotel room. Jewelry and accessories can be useful, as well as create mood, comfort and serve to give the master a bathroom.
In the interior use:
- Holder for towels and soap. This element is made of plastic and metal, performed in different colors.
- Towel holder. Ordinary hooks for textiles make a variety of shapes and colors: metallic strict lines, in the shape of butterflies and colors, on panels, on suckers, mounted into the wall.
- Holders for toilet paper can also be made in the style of metal minimalism. On sale there are closed holders of plastic and ceramic, hiding the contents.
- Ceramic soap dishes and cups for toothbrushes will decorate the sink. These elements are often made sets of ceramics, matte materials, plastic, metal.
- The most common accessory is a mirror - a simple or unusual shape, with engraving, pattern, stained glass, with or without a frame.
- Stylish and functional use of woven or plastic laundry baskets and towels.
- Towel dryer can also be a decorative element. For ease of use, chrome dryers with simple lines are chosen, they are placed on the wall and on them you can also keep straightened beautiful towels.
- Lamps let out an inconceivable variety. Beautifully look clusters of lamps, descending in front of a mirror, spotlights in the form of flowers, placed on the ceiling, walls and mirrors. Ceramic ceiling decorated with paintings and reliefs.
Whatever elements you choose for your bathroom, remember that no one thing should be random. Details should not clutter the space - their goal is to please the eye and perform some useful function.
Design styles for a small bathroom
Any interior looks advantageous and attractive if it is based on an aesthetic idea. The bathroom is thematically connected with water, life and cleansing. These themes can be clearly reflected in the design.
- Marine design is a classic. The room is performed in blue, blue tones with white and sand blotches. Water drawings, fish images, a curtain over a bathtub with dolphins or shells, a transparent soap dish and a toothbrush holder with imitation of the bottom of the sea are used.
- Monochrome minimalism looks very stylish. No decorations, all in gray and white colors - white plumbing, gray floor tiles, black towels.
- Country style looks extravagant. The design uses materials and wood decoration, curtains instead of doors covering the shelves, images with rural landscapes.
- Functional and elegant style of spa. The interior uses flavors in jars and bottles, massage mats, wooden elements. Terry towels are used, including, as a decor - they can be stored on a shelf or on a washing machine, folded in a pile.
Even a tiny bathroom is a space for a flight of fantasy. Whatever design of a small bathroom in an apartment you choose, the main thing is to be nice to be in it, take a shower and wash in the morning.
In the next video - some more options for the designs of a small bathroom.
