Bathroom Guide
Bathroom might be the smallest room in your home; however, it ranks high on the architectural and design perspective. Albeit designing a bathroom is very challenging, yet it offers you a great amount of versatility. If you design your bathroom with careful planning and individualized creativity, it can well become your personalized master suite.
The size of your family should be the most important consideration for bathroom design. Whether you stay alone or with your family, the composition of your family, their age groups are the major factors that you should keep in mind while deciding on the fixtures, storage space, flooring and décor of your bathroom.
Plan your bathroom structure based upon the usage pattern. If you want that more than one members of your family to use the bathroom simultaneously, you should go for a double basin structure and or a combination of shower and bath so that more than one member can use the bathroom conveniently. Select the fixtures accordingly if you have small kids or disabled persons in your family.
Space available for the bathroom is yet another factor that determines the design of your bathroom. Measure the bathroom along with the existing fixtures such as bath, wash basin and toilet because remodeling the bathroom altogether might involve expensive re-plumbing. However, if you have flexibility in your budget you can venture out for remodeling to carve out the additional space required for shower cubicle or any other fixture of your choice. Whatever be the size of your bathroom be careful to leave some room for moving around.
The storage space in your bathroom generally is of three types, which you can modify depending upon the size of your family and their respective needs. The bathroom should have open shelving for daily use toiletries, concealed storage space for the toiletries that you use occasionally and dry, aired cupboard for storing towels. You should be careful to keep the cupboards neatly organized and use appropriate fresheners to keep the bath towels fresh.
Lighting is another important feature of the bathroom design and you should plan the lighting from two perspectives; safety and convenience. The bathroom lighting should be adequate so that you can easily see the wet areas to avoid chances of slipping and secondly it should be adequate to facilitate proper grooming.
Tip: Design your bathroom depending upon the size of your family and space available and make adequate provisions for storage and lighting.
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