How To Choose A Bathroom Design

2023 Author: Douglas Hoggarth | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-08-25 05:40

• Choosing a bathroom color palette
• Fashionable bathroom color combinations and cladding choices
• Plumbing from the future
• Contemporary bathroom light
• Conclusion

Being in the bathroom this often means taking planning, design and choice of functional elements seriously. This becomes especially important when almost the whole family accumulates in the bathroom in the morning.

Bathroom in popular cobalt shades of black and white

Bathroom design involves not only evaluating aesthetic qualities, but also using ergonomics and functionality. And you need to consider the type of bathroom. For example, the ensuite bathroom, which is intended to be used by bedroom owners, has one set of fittings, while family bathrooms or showers are different. Of course, when evaluating functionality and ergonomics, the aesthetic function does not lose its significance. Rather, it even mutates and evolves.

The modern bathroom combines bath and boudoir

The modern bathroom interior presupposes completely new principles, people's preferences have changed, and the attitude towards the bathroom has changed, which today is one of the most functional places in the house. For the bathroom, lighting is of great importance; a many-sided variety of sanitary ware is also offered, each type of which assumes a different functionality and purpose.

In order to decide on the design of the bathroom, you need to divide the task into several main components: firstly, to decide on the cladding and color palette, secondly to choose plumbing, thirdly, an important element is furniture and layout, and you also need to pay attention light. Let's look at a few principles.

Choosing a bathroom color palette

New collection of bathrooms "Slam" by Delfa company

Perhaps the choice of a color palette is the first and defining stage when you are engaged in an independent development of a bathroom project, because the renovation budget depends largely on the choice of color and cladding. To determine the color palette, the best way is to use an experienced color test. To do this, you need to take the colors you are interested in and apply paint to the walls, your subconscious mind will be able to adjust your preferences. In a few days, you will be able to tell exactly what works for you and what doesn't.

Delph's Glossy collection in a sophisticated burgundy and steel color scheme

If the color palette is considered from the point of view of psychological perception, then choosing, for example, a pink palette guarantees an excellent mood. However, the pink color scheme is emphatically feminine. A beautiful combination suitable for men and women is the palette that includes lavender, chocolate, pink and raspberry. This color scheme is able to charge with positive energy, and raspberry adds a sense of luxury.

Large crimson planes also look good in combination with blue, red, dark cobalt colors. Pink shades perfectly complement the interior, but on large surfaces this color can be tiresome. Pink will go well with turquoise, lime color and subtle gray. These combinations belong to the category of complex ones, such color palettes began to be used to decorate bathrooms quite recently, we note the new collection of Delfa bathrooms, made precisely in complex colors.

Red shades give the room a hyperactivity, but it can well be used in bathrooms with a large area, otherwise the color will "push out" the rest of the room. Red has a therapeutic effect on people who have developed an insolvency complex. Red in details can bring even the most boring interior to life. Moreover, it will be interesting to look red in several shades, so you can create a natural play of light. If we move away from the one-color design, but keep the room in tones as close to red as possible, then it is better to choose sienna, umber and ocher, which will go well with the color of the sand.

Nowadays, the bathroom is considered as a place of rest and relaxation, where color should help to achieve inner harmony of a person. For this purpose, orange can be chosen as a creative beginning with companion flowers: grapefruit, pomegranate and lemon. Orange is still recommended for large areas.

Classic complex natural colors

Large planes of nutmeg color are considered a good combination, it is excellent in its neutrality and complements the color accents of turquoise, pale blue, amber and honey-yellow. Traditional two-color and one-color bathroom interiors are also popular, in such cases the design idea is to create contrasting elements or work with the texture of the material.

Fashionable bathroom color combinations and cladding choices

If we consider fashionable combinations of popular bathroom projects, then in many ways classic bathrooms are in the lead. The owners today are not yet ripe for the choice of complex color schemes for the bathroom collections that are already on the market. In many ways, the choice of the classic option is associated with a limitation of the budget for repairs in general, and this significantly toughens the requirements and limits opportunities.

Partial wall cladding is in vogue

Note that when renovating a bathroom, planes covered with ceramics tend to a functional minimum; in many respects, ceramics are used on "working" surfaces where moisture can get. So the walls of shower rooms are completely covered with ceramics, it is no longer customary to combine bathrooms with a shower. Very often, tiles are laid only on the walls near the bathroom, washbasin, and plaster coated with moisture-resistant paint is used on the rest of the bathroom. When using partial cladding, you can opt for a more expensive finish - marble.

Two- and one-color bathroom solutions with contrasting white sanitary ware

The classic common design in bathrooms is based on contrast, the most common solutions are two-tone. Accents on contrasting details are also very popular among designers. In general, these are the most budgetary design techniques that will not go out of fashion for a long time.

An example of bathroom design based on contrast

Another fashionable and frequently used technique is a one-color solution and texture. These options include tiling with tiles imitating natural stone, as well as solutions in white and milk tones.

Bathroom design with imitation natural cladding and white cladding

In single-color solutions, or rather, solutions with almost equivalent colors, which are designed to emphasize texture, great importance is attached to plumbing, chrome-plated elements, finishing with impact-resistant glass and light.

Textured and optical interior of the Delfa company bathroom, Glossy collection

In textured interiors, the techniques of op-art and optical art can be applied. In the optical textured interiors of bathrooms, light is of great importance, which creates an additional effect in the presence of reflective and reflective objects. New trends in bathroom furnishings underscore the trend away from lighting as an add-on. In bathrooms, more and more decoration is used, characteristic of a residential interior - large mirrors of complex shapes or in artistic frames, chandeliers that migrated from living rooms, armchairs, flowers, tables and even paintings. A bathroom is no longer a technical room, but a full-fledged living unit, which is treated with due attention.

Contemporary bathroom with residential decor

Plumbing from the future

It is impossible to resist the desire to acquire stunning bathroom fixtures that are no longer just a functional unit, but have become a design item. Literally two or three such elements in the bathroom transform it in a perfect way. The perfection of forms, harmony in the style of minimalism, where there is nothing superfluous, but only the essence, the play of light, all this can fill even the most trivial bathroom interior with life. In this case, the design element is also water that pours from a tap or shower, its amazing illusion of light under the influence of LED-backlighting. Of course, conceptual plumbing has already become a reality in the past and is available for installation even with the most budgetary repairs.

For any bathroom, the trendy waterfall mixer is an ideal choice; it is available in chrome and transparent durable plastic with LED backlighting. The original supplier cost for such mixers is from $ 100.

Also, solutions for the execution of a washbasin and a tap in the same style using glass are proposed. These washbasins are a simultaneous re-installation of a porcelain wash basin from the past with a projection into the future. Of course, such plumbing is more fragile, although it is made of impact-resistant glass. Washbasins in the form of a bowl with a textured glass finish and LED lighting look especially interesting.

Popular waterfall models are offered not only for washbasins, but also as bathroom faucets. Noteworthy are interesting shower faucets in emphatically simple shapes, which are given a special touch by lighting in various colors. In some cases, the backlight color may change depending on the water temperature.

Contemporary bathroom light

The search for new shapes is also going on for various lamps. A modern lamp is not only a way of lighting, it is a decorative item that has an exclusive shape, and also “works” with light in a specific way. Half hints, penumbra, directional spotlights, ambient light fixtures are also excellent design tools. It is in the bathroom that it is advisable to think over not only the overall design, but also to create light compositions suitable for certain life situations. The light can be morning, afternoon, evening, as well as for romantic meetings. Modern lamps make it possible to design "multidimensional" interiors in a color, textured and optical context.

In the bathroom, floor, wall, table, ceiling lamps, sconces and chandeliers can be used that reflect certain ideas of the designer.

From left to right, top to bottom: Richard Abbey Chandelier, Robert Kovacs Lamp, Egloe Ceiling Lamp, Minka-Lavery Paradox Collection

Conclusion

The modern minimalist spirit has also entered the bathrooms. If earlier the bathroom looked more like a technical closet, now its area is expanding, and the furnishings are becoming more luxurious. However, there are no uniform design standards. There are ample opportunities for both luxurious interior design and generally accepted budget repairs. Moreover, the variety of fittings, plumbing fixtures, lamps, and the variety of ceramics gives a huge space for imagination.