Easy Small Bathroom Designs
Posted: Monday, October 15, 2007
by manoloK
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Most of the modern homes have very limited bathroom space, leaving restricted options for customizing the way you want. However, the small bathroom designs are the crafty way of utilizing the available space to its maximum and giving the best look, one can really ask for.
No matter what you do. Rebuild the old bathroom or give shape to a new one, you should definitely follow these significant tips on small bathroom designs.
- If your bathroom is small, it is best that you have a small and deep bathtub. This will both serve your purpose as well as avoid occupying too much space.
- In small bathroom designs, you find enough space for storage and thus you can well avoid unfavorable cluttering and heaping of things. For this, the bathroom designs should include scopes for providing space to shelves and several cabinets for storing things.
- Do you want to keep the floor of your bathroom vacant? If so then you can arrange for pedestals or wall-mounted sinks and basins.
- Utilize the space of an alcove for placing the toilet. This is because if there is a wall space above you can make use of that area for fixing open shelves.
- When talking about cabinets, you can have floating and recessed cabinets to make your bathroom look more spacious and bright.
- Most people prefer having sliding doors, which you can aptly use to slide well into wall cabinets. You can also go for a hinged door because such a door gives you the opportunity to install a towel rack for keeping towels and other things of daily use.
- If your bathroom is small, then arrange for the windows somewhere above and close to the ceiling. This keeps the wall empty where you can think of installing storage cabinets for things of daily use.
What small bathroom designs you are to opt for, depends a lot on the area or zone of the house where you choose to have your bathroom. For this, you need to consider certain designs including dimension parameters. At times, it so happens that when you look inside your bathroom you find it quite spacious even if there is not enough space. The credit goes to optical illusion tricks that create a sense or illusion of space.
Making use of light and mirrors
When you want the space inside your bathroom to look large, you can take the help of lights and mirrors. Try to make use of natural lights, which would surely make your bathroom look more bright and large, generating a sense of comfy. You can also try adding skylights and windows. This is indeed a great idea. However, when thinking to make use of electric lighting, you can arrange for the source of the light just below where the shelves have been installed.
When you place a mirror inside the bathroom, it helps in proper distribution of light and this seems to extend the overall dimension of the space. Such a strategy makes your small bathroom look effectively illuminated and it gives way to visual expansiveness.
Make use of tricky designs
Introduce vertical lines on the upper edges of the walls of your bathroom. This helps in creating height illusion. You can also have tiles installed on the walls of your bathroom and edge the top lining with designed border tiles to make things look more magical and impressive.
This is the way you should make use of the floor area of your bathroom and the type of tiles you choose to use for your bathroom should well compliment all sorts of small bathroom designs. No matter what you are going for - floor tiles or wall tiles they should be having identical shapes and light colored shades.
Making use of color to create illusions
Color is the best way of creating space illusions. Choose softer, lighter tones like pastel shades, neutrals or whites - these colors are sure to make your bathroom look as if having enough space and dimension. Such colors also help in proper light distribution. Again, if you are planning to cover the walls of your bathroom with wallpapers then make sure to select plain and simple designs.
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)You did a fantastic job on suggesting a variety of ways to utilize this small space, and the article kept on target and did not wander. But, I don't see how clear shower screens help in saving space, you might have written that they give the appearance of a more open room, or the appearance of more space. The article doesn't flow smoothly. The statements are choppy and incomplete.
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