For customers with small bathrooms, the design process can often feel challenging. With a limitation on room size, creating a space that not only looks good but is also highly functional requires a bit more planning. Yet, by utilising a variety of small bathroom ideas, a small bathroom can both look and feel instantly more spacious. All it takes are several clever design tricks to create the illusion of space.
Here The Bathroom Showroom offers some valuable tips for making the most of a small bathroom, to help your customers design and create a more enjoyable environment.
Valuable Tips For How to Make a Small Bathroom Look Bigger
The key to organising a small bathroom to make it appear bigger is to work on it in zones.
The most common bathroom zones are the toilet area, the basin area, and the shower or bath area. By sectioning these areas off in the designing process, customers are able to define these spaces and thus create zones to help the room appear more spacious.
hoose big tiles, keep to one light colour, stay away from patterned tiles, and be mindful of horizontal and vertical lines when laying tiles.
Small tile choices emphasise grout lines, thus contributing to making a room look small. Yet large tiles, like Space, Ground, and Arkety choices use fewer grout lines, thus promoting a seamless effect that helps create that illusion of space.
Patterned tiles can look overly fussy and therefore too busy when used in a small room so steering clear of patterns and opting for the same light-coloured tile, can keep this space uniformed and naturally open up the room. Finally, horizontally placed tiles will widen a narrow bathroom while vertically positioned tiles will increase this room's height.
Choose the right light choices for the bathroom and position them where they can derive maximum effect. This is crucial in those small bathrooms with no windows.
Where possible, utilising any natural light that the bathroom offers will open up a small space instantly. Strategically placing mirrors to enable the natural light to bounce off their surface will instantly open up this room. Yet, placing mirrors near enough to light fittings will also help increase the light output around this room.
The lighting choice placed at the centre of a small bathroom should be the main focal piece, like stunning chandeliers from the Spa range, including Spa Vela, Spa Orlando, and Spa Belle. These choices should give off plentiful light to open up the entire bathroom.
From here on, you can complement the main lightning with choices such as bathroom mirror and bathroom cabinet lighting, over-mirror lights, spotlights to light up dark corners, pictures, and decorative features, downlights over the shower and bath area, and even flooring lighting to highlighting some of those darker parts of the room.
Opt for bathroom suites that offer wall-hung furniture solutions.
Wall-hung furniture, including toilets, basins, and units, is a fantastic streamlined solution that works perfectly in small bathroom designs as it can open up the space, creating the illusion of a bigger room.
With stunning choices of this furniture available from iflo Serino, iflo Rhea, iflo Galene, and iflo Trapani, light passes freely under wall-hung furniture, meaning an uninterrupted flow.
Ultimately, wall-hung bathroom suites take all the furniture off the floor and allow the eye to see the entire floor, thus enhancing the floor and indeed room space visually. Wall-hung furniture also looks cleaner and sleeker, while the floor beneath it can be kept clean as it’s easily accessible.
Make the Most of a Small Bathroom Layout
Though a small bathroom may seem problematic initially, it still has the potential to look both fabulous and larger than it really is. All it takes is a different approach, clever design tricks, and an understanding of fixtures and fittings that can really open up this room and create the illusion of more space.
If you're looking to help your customers design a bigger-looking bathroom, speak to us at the bathroom showroom. With over 280 showrooms and a renowned history of working with the trade, we're the experts in all things bathrooms.
