Planning a major renovation, you can choose which bathroom in the apartment to leave – combined or separate. Developing a design project for a new building or a private home, you should also think about the number of bathrooms. The final decision will be influenced by the area of the object, the number of family members and the technical possibility.
Bathroom in the cottage, private house, cottage:
If the house is all-season and has enough area or has two floors, it is better to do two bathrooms. At least it is logical to separate them by floors. On the first – a guest bathroom, where a toilet and a sink must necessarily stand. If possible – a small bath or shower. For the sake of space savings, you can make the guest bathroom combined.
Redevelopment of the bathroom of an older apartment:
In Khrushchev and panel houses there are two variants of bathroom layout. But that the combined, as well as separate do not differ sufficient area and convenience. Depending on the tasks and priorities, you can choose a solution – to combine or do separate. Sometimes you can sacrifice part of the corridor to increase the area of the restroom. When combining a separated bathroom and toilet, additional square meters can be freed up by removing the partition, as well as removing one door.
In many panel houses, the bathroom is a reinforced concrete module. It is strongly recommended to remove it during major repairs in houses built before the end of the 90s. At that time, asbestos was used in the manufacture of such units. There is a gap between the walls of such a module and the supporting walls. Therefore, when dismantling the area and height of the bathroom will increase by about 10 cm more. In the conditions of small bathrooms and the fashion for installations – even a small space gained through capital alterations can play an important role.
Bathrooms in a new building:
The area of the apartment in new buildings for a family of 4 people, parents and two children, allows you to allocate enough space for the bathroom. Already in the standard layout provides an opportunity to divide them into master and guest (or parent and child) and scattered on different sides of the apartment.
For the owners do compact combined bathroom, which is located or next to the bedroom or with an entrance directly from the bedroom. It should be a minimum – a toilet, sink, shower or bath. The second bathroom is considered a shared bathroom. It can be made as a separate or combined. It will be used by children, guests who come to the apartment, as well as the owners themselves, provided some of the family members are busy with the main bathroom.
Options for decoration and design:
When planning a bathroom, the customer is limited only by budget. A professional designer can bring any idea to life. In terms of bathroom interior design, there is more freedom, as here you can realize the most daring fantasies. Unlike living rooms in the bathroom or toilet man spends not so much time, so the finish is allowed in rich colors and sharp contrasts. Moreover, the market of modern finishing materials for bathrooms and bathrooms offers a lot of different solutions that suit even the most picky customers. An important role is played by different lighting scenarios, including LED lighting, which decorate the floor, walls, bathroom fixtures and furniture in the bathroom, achieving interesting effects.
An important point. Working with the single space combined bathroom, especially a limited area, it is necessary to isolate the area of the toilet. For toilet, urinal, bidet it is better to allocate its space, beat it with a partition, put it in a niche, allocate in any other way. In addition to beauty and aesthetics here is still important practical side of the issue: ease of cleaning and maintaining hygiene.