How to equip a small bathroom with preservation of functionality and at the same time give it gloss and beauty? Most Russians and residents of the CIS countries cannot boast the opportunity to equip the bathroom in spacious and bright room. Features of the planning of apartments, especially in the houses of the old building, for example, in Khrushchev or in a wooden house, do not even assume a hint of free space.
With a competent approach, you can turn those read by the sq. Meters marked in terms of living space as a "bathroom", in a truly comfortable and functional room.
Planning the future interior
Before looking for an answer to the question of how to equip a small bathroom in Khrushchev or in a wooden house with your own hands, you need to decide on the necessary interior items to the future room, so that it orders square meters correctly. Not only sanitary household appliances should be taken into account, but also various accessories.
Special attention should be paid to the following factors:
- Bathroom location and the feasibility of its installation in principle . Mad rhythm of modern life excluded the adoption of bathroom from the life of many people. Many prefer to take a shower, and for these purposes as nothing else will suit the option with the shower. Moreover, the area occupied by the cab is an order of magnitude less than that of the cast iron or ceramic container.
- Washer. If for this miracle of engineering thought on ideological, practical or any other considerations, there was no place in the kitchen, nor in the corridor, nor anywhere else, then it is necessary to carefully consider the location of the device of this size in the bathroom. If the washing machine is set separately, then it will take too much without that deficient sq. Meters, and therefore the option remains only one - embed.
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- Sink. This subject of the interior does not necessarily have to take about 0.5 square meters. m. useful space. If you use a suspension design, you can install a functional cabinet under the sink or, for example, the same washing machine. In some cases, the sink can be abandoned at all, since the bath can also cope with its responsibilities. In the case of the shower, the sink is necessary.
- Bathroom furniture. Some things are difficult to find the storage location other than the bathroom. Therefore, it is worth providing special cabinets, tables, racks and drawers, since the excess of the open and shelves can reduce all efforts, make the interior of a small room cozy.
- Accessories . Perhaps for someone it will become a real discovery, but the basket for dirty linen can be stored, for example, in the corridor. This will save another 0.5 sq. M. meter of useful space. The same applies to other items used in everyday life.
- Wiring. Soviet builders and engineers probably did not occur that in the bathroom in Khrushchev or in a wooden house you can use electrical devices. To correct this injustice with your own hands, it is recommended to decide in advance with the placement of sockets. At the same time, it is important to comply with the safety requirements, since high humidity and alternating current are not the most successful combination. Outlets can be used to connect a hair dryer, an electric shaver or, for example, a shower cabin with illumination.
As soon as the highlights relating to the future interior in Khrushchev or in a wooden house will be clarified, you can proceed directly to work.
Bathroom arrangement
First of all, it is necessary to determine the location of the most overall interior items of the bathroom. Since to equip the bath in the constrained space in Khrushchev or in a wooden house, you can only along the wall, you should proceed from this particular feature.
To begin with, it is necessary to solve whether the bath is needed in general, because the lack of "squares" puts before choosing: either use the option with a shower, or install a bath.
If the choice is made in favor of the option with the shower, you can safely install it into one of the corners of the room. Such a device will take about 1-1.5 square meters. m. useful space. If preference is given to cast iron or ceramic tank, it is necessary to determine the appropriateness of the installation of the shell. As noted above, the sink may have a suspended design, which will allow you to establish some useful interior element under it: a wardrobe or washing machine. The mirror should hang over the sink. At the same time, the mirror surface can be a facade of a small suspended cabinet, in which you can store washbasins, electrical appliances of the hair dryer and electric shaver, as well as various accessories. If the installation of the cabinet for some reason is impossible, under the mirror or in its edges, you can equip a couple of shelves.
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The same bathroom itself does not necessarily have a rectangular shape. For the greatest efficiency of using space, you can purchase a not very large angular design, as in the case of a shower. Some baths provide free space from below, which can also be practical. You can, for example, close the side of the bathroom with a facade in the form of plastic panels with their own hands and make them swinging.
In some cases, it is advisable to equip a pair of low drawers with your own hands from below, you can store cleaning products, tools, gloves and other useful items.
For the storage of household chemicals, cosmetics, all these jacket-tubes are recommended to take a special cabinet or rack. For the first option, it is preferable because chaotic placed bottles can create the effect of climbing and without that small room. Little bathroom furnishings can be made by one of the two principles:
- Maximum use of square. Meters of useful space bathroom in Khrushchev or in a wooden house. In this case, the furniture must be represented by spacious outdoor and mounted cabinets that occupy as little space as possible on the floor and at the same time have the highest possible height corresponding to, for example, a shower cabin or an adult growth with an elongated hand up. The necessary, but infrequently used items can be stored on high shelves, when both things first or even the second necessity should be able to reach the hand.
- Using the top of the room. Here are meant all sorts of mezzanine and suspended cabinets that can be built with their own hands. The main purpose of this method to furnish the interior of the bathroom is to create a maximum functionality with minimal use of the useful space. At the same time, mounted cabinets can be located, for example, along the whole wall above the heated towel rail. A small depth of such furniture in combination with the doors of the type of coupe will keep a lot of different things without sacrificing square meters.
With a literate distribution of space, a sufficient amount of free sq will be in the bathroom. Meters that with the right choice of design and design will make it possible to create with their own hands, even in the most close Khrushchev or in a wooden house, a cozy and comfortable interior.
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