Proper layout of the room is always important. It is especially necessary to pay attention to this if the room is not large in size, but somehow need to be accommodated there. This also applies to bathrooms, including those combined with a bathroom.
The subtleties of planning
Before combining a bathroom and a toilet, you need to make sure that it will be convenient. So, if your family consists of a large number of people who need to get together somewhere in the morning, then do not make a combined bathroom. This will simply increase the time spent.
If the family is not too big, then combining the bath and toilet will help to solve a number of problems with accommodation.
Also, the design of the bath with a toilet is 5 square meters. m is not only its advantages, but also disadvantages. The combination of bath and toilet will free up additional space in the apartment due to the destruction of the wall, which often takes up a lot of space with its width. When replanning, often there is an additional place that can be attached to the corridor, kitchen or other rooms - depending on where the unnecessary wall was located. The combination of the bathroom increases the area of the bathroom, which will allow you to show more imagination, use more design solutions and tricks.
The disadvantages of the combined unit are that it is necessary to take into account the functionality of two similar, but at the same time different rooms in one - separate toilet and bathroom. So, it is desirable that the distance between the toilet and the place for receiving water procedures is at least 30 cm. The combined bathroom should be ventilated over two rooms, so the installation of an additional ventilation system may be required.
Before starting the repair, you need to decide what is preferable for you - a shower or bath. It will not work to install both. But there is a good option - a shower cabin with high sides. If desired, it can be used as a bathtub, or you can hold a shower hose to the bathtub, hiding extra pipes behind panels or other wall coverings. Do not forget about the wash basin - it is perfect for daily morning or evening hygiene procedures.
You should also think about choosing a toilet model in advance. This is one of the most important things, but, unfortunately, many models are very bulky and take up a huge amount of space that can be used with much greater benefit. You can try to find the smallest toilet bowl of the existing ones, or you can pay attention to the hanging models, whose tank is hidden behind special panels.
Another item that has every right to be in the bathroom is a washing machine. Many factors speak in favor of this.
- Firstly, according to the established unspoken rule, all the funds necessary for washing are located in the bathroom, so the desire to place the washing machine in the same place is dictated primarily by convenience.
- Secondly, a combined bathroom with a washing machine reduces the risk of flood and flooding of the lower floors, as often in the bathroom provides increased waterproofing.
The ventilation system for the bathroom, in turn, is designed to get rid of excess moisture, which is also useful if there is a washing machine in the room.
Well and finally when installing the washing machine in the bathroom, it will be possible to store items that require washing in the machine itself or in nearby containers. Often in the bathroom a lot of little things are stored. These are cosmetics, for washing and cleaning, bath and shower. All these things are usually located on all accessible surfaces, littering and "eating" an already small space. To avoid this, it is necessary to clean all small items in special lockers that can be purchased at any home store. Hanging boxes will fit in well, which will not take up much space, but will retain the appearance of free space.
The most successful placement of the bathroom, as the largest subject in the room, at the far wall opposite the front door.
Design and Design
The joint bathroom project must be developed in advance. To make the bathroom comfortable and pleasant to be, you should listen to the recommendations of specialists.
- Designers advise using light colors in small rooms - they visually make the room wider. If you want bright colors, you can emphasize some detail of the interior, making it contrasting with the main environment. Or, on the contrary, you can highlight some part of the color scheme of the walls without affecting the plumbing.
- Very popular color for the bathroom - blue, blue, sea wave and all shades associated with water. When using them, you should take care that the bathroom does not look too cold and lifeless. All shades of the color of light summer greens will look good - they will refresh the space and will look appropriate in combination with floral prints.
You can use black and white shades as the main ones, but they need to be diluted with something bright. For example, a shower curtain or a foot mat.
- Calm shades of gray they won’t give the coldness that white can give, but they will also look good with bright accents. So, the combination of gray and orange, gray with green, gray with red and other saturated colors will help make the design of the bathroom closer to the modern style.
- If you do not like the feeling of sterility and cold, then pay attention to warm shades: light brown, coffee with milk, sand and others.A bathroom in these colors goes well with standard white fixtures. You can supplement it with natural or artificial flowers in white pots.
- Do not get involved in drawings on the tiles - there may be a feeling of something screaming and fussy, which will prevent you from relaxing and feeling comfortable. The same goes for mosaic. She needs to devote some specific area to the wall, framing with another, monophonic tile. Also, a mosaic wall can, like a mirror, make the bathroom space visually wider.
- A good solution would be use of a glass wall or screenprotecting the shower or bath from the rest of the room. This will help to avoid unwanted splashes and reduce the time for cleaning the bathroom. In addition, such zoning will create more options in order to beat the space with various design solutions. If your bathroom already has various niches and partitions, then do not get rid of them.
These interior details can be used to give the bathroom even more originality. For example, install a toilet bowl behind a small partition, and place additional shelves on top for all sorts of little things.
Interior Options
Thinking through the design of the room, you can embody your ideas or build on existing examples.
- The interior of this bathroom is made in warm brown tones, but the bathroom does not seem too dark due to the bright green accent on the shower curtain. The niche above the toilet was used favorably - not only the necessary hygiene products, but also decor elements were located on the glass shelves. Wall covering is not continuous and not monophonic. Mosaic with light patches and different shades of panels near the wall near the bathroom create a feeling of spaciousness and freshness.
- In this version, a corner bath is used, which looks very modern. The interior is cream brown. The possible rigor of such a combination of colors is minimized thanks to accents on pink flowers and decorative stickers on the bathtub.
- A bathroom in blue is one of the most common options. Excessive coldness of the combination of white and blue is reduced due to mosaic on the wall and decorative colors on the pedestal. Originally solved the problem with the placement of the washing machine.
On the ideal layout of the combined bathroom, see below.