Small Bathroom Ideas – Saving Space

There are few rooms in the home that are expected to offer as much functionality as the bathroom.

The kitchen is the nearest rival when it comes to fitting so many practical things inside such a small space, but even they are more than usually larger in size.

Smart bathroom design is vital if you wish to fit in all the desirable fixtures with plenty of storage space for your toothbrushes, razors and whatever else you need in the bathroom (rubber duck, maybe?).

It isn’t easy to plan a new bathroom, but there are plenty of bathroom design ideas out there to help you on your way.

Basins

Most traditional bathrooms contain pedestal basins, but these can take up a lot of space.  There are plenty of stylish basin options for small bathrooms that can help to free up some  room and give your bathroom some space to breathe.

Counter top basins are one such example. These feature a stylish basin bowl on top of a cupboard that houses the piping, but many designs have additional room and shelving for the myriad bottles and sponges you will inevitably collect over time.

Heating

You might not immediately think that switching out your heating units could help you to save space, but you’d be wrong.

Nowadays there are a range of modern radiator styles that are created to successfully heat your rooms but take up less space as they do it. Column radiators are much taller and narrower than their traditional cousins and take up little horizontal wall space at ground level. Instead, they fit to the upper portions of the wall which are normally under-utilised.

Heated towel rails are another option but provide the added benefit of being shaped specifically to hold a number of clothes and towels. Unlike older designs that can protrude a little further into the room than you might like, towel rails hug the wall much closer, again saving a few precious millimetres.

Tubs and Showers

If you’ve saved as much space as you can but you still don’t have enough room for that stylish freestanding bathtub you had your eye on, corner baths are a great compromise. These bathtubs, as you might imagine, fit snugly into any corner of your bathroom and free up straight sections of walls for other less flexible bathroom fittings.

However, if a shower is your top priority, that same corner could be ideal for a quadrant shower enclosure. These cubicles are smooth and rounded to avoid sharp edges sticking out into the room and have a spacious interior so you can shower in comfort.

Finding it hard to choose between having a bathtub or a shower? Then why not combine the two? A shower bath can give you the efficiency and convenience of a shower with all the luxury of a bathtub within a single unit.

Please find the small bathroom ideas mentioned in the article below.