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Not everyone can boast of a large bathroom. A lot of people huddle in old houses, and there all the technical rooms are frankly small. Therefore, it is difficult to make a 2-meter bathroom design: you need to install all the necessary plumbing and furniture, and all this should be comfortable and beautiful.
The main thing is color and light
When designing a bathroom with an area of 2-3 square meters, it is worth starting with choosing a color palette and developing a lighting scheme. After all, it is color and lighting that greatly affect our perception. To make a small room seem larger, it should be decorated in light colors. The color can be anything, but the shade is very light.
The most commonly used warm shades of white – creamy, creamy, etc. A very interesting effect is given by a tile with a metallic coating. The mother-of-pearl surface creates additional volume.
So that the bathroom does not look too sterile, the light color is diluted with bright elements. There are several options – a border of darker tiles, a dark lower part of the wall (approximately the lower third). If the lower part of the wall is dark, the floor is made in the same color or very close if it is not possible to find a tile of the same tone.
A more modern option is accents. You can make one wall dark, several vertical stripes of different widths, and they are distributed unevenly over the area, creating asymmetry. This technique will help straighten the non-ideal geometry, if any.
To further push the boundaries, there must be a lot of light. Following the latest trends, these are usually recessed ceiling lights. For such an area, according to the norms, one light bulb of medium power is required, but it is better to put two or even more, and also a backlight near the mirror.
The choice of plumbing and its placement
In a two-square-meter bathroom, non-standard and / or small-sized plumbing is usually installed. If there is room for furniture, then it is usually made to order. The sizes are very modest, and ready-made specimens cannot be found.
Shower cabin
First of all, you need to decide whether you need to design a 2-meter bathroom with a bath or shower. If you rarely take a bath, it is worth installing or making a shower cabin. In this case, it is better to do it, since the finished ones, even the smallest ones, are too bulky and take up most of the available space. A homemade shower cabin is a shower tray made of brick and finished with tiles (mosaic) or made of acrylic or steel, to which doors or just a shower curtain are attached.
Shower cabin doors can be easily installed folding plastic (accordion type). When closed, they take up almost no space. You can also install glass retractable, but this is an expensive option with complex installation. Glass hinged ones will cost less, but you need to calculate the dimensions well – so that they do not touch the walls and it is convenient to use them.
If you decide to install a finished shower cabin, then only a small corner one will fit into such a room. In the remaining free space, you can install only a small sink.
Bath
If you can’t do without a bath, there are several options. The first is to place the tub opposite the entrance, choosing a wall-to-wall dimension. There will be some free space in front of the bathroom. In this space, you can fit a small sink. Moreover, it can be installed so that it is completely or partially above the bath. If the sink is located in the area where the faucet is installed,
If the bathroom door is located asymmetrically – closer to one wall, you can find a bathroom of a non-standard shape and size that will fit into a wide wall. It can be narrower on one side and wider on the other. So the area will be rationally used without compromising the convenience of using the bathroom. With this arrangement, the sink and mirror are located opposite the door, which visually makes the room more spacious.
Another option is to install a sitz bath. They will not be able to stretch to their full height, but relaxation with a sitting position is also not bad. In this case, you can find a place to install a small washing machine – under the sink.
Toilet
The design of a 2 meter bathroom with a toilet is an even more extreme exercise. After all, you need to find a place to install another item, which is difficult on such an area. It is advisable to install toilets with installation (suspended), they do not look so cumbersome, although installation is somewhat more complicated and the price is higher. But they take up less space, which in this case is a priority.
One of the solutions in the photo above is to move the sink towards the bathtub, put a sanitary bowl in the vacant place. This option is suitable for narrow and long rooms. If the walls are approximately equal in length, they still put a small corner bath or shower in the corner, and a sink and toilet on the consolidated sections on the walls.
There are few options at all – just move from one corner to another and swap places, which is understandable with such dimensions.
Washing machine – looking for a place to install
We can no longer do without a washing machine, therefore, in any, even a very small apartment, we are looking for a place for it. Sometimes there is only one way out – to put in the bathroom, even if it is so small. For such purposes, there are even special sinks that are installed above the machine. Many are even sold in pairs so that you do not have to look for and select sizes.
Only in this embodiment, it is possible to fit both a typewriter, a toilet bowl, a bathtub with a sink into two squares of the area. Is it possible to find a model that is hung on the wall above the toilet, but this is an expensive exotic.
As an option, arrange a shelf on powerful holders above the same toilet bowl and install equipment on it. Save space, but you will need a model with good stabilization – so that it does not jump during the spin cycle.
The bathroom design is 2 meters without a toilet bowl, but with a washing machine it is not particularly different: a bathtub or a shower cabin, a washbasin and a washing machine on free patches. Well, at least the equipment is of different formats: narrow and high or shallow depth. In general, you can choose the size that you need.
Furniture
No matter how small the bathroom is, there is still at least some furniture in it: you need to store creams, shampoos, household chemicals somewhere. The most common option is a cabinet under the sink and a mirror with shelves on the sides. Often such a kit is enough to arrange everything you need.
There are other options. If you have found a place for a toilet or a washing machine, a good piece of space “walks” above them. It can be occupied by making a locker in size.
Another idea is shelves under the ceiling. They can be open or closed (with doors). You can store supplies of household chemicals, towels, etc. there.
Under the shelves, you can use even the smallest free spaces. There are never too many of them – anyway, there is something to put.
Design Tricks
When designing a 2 meter bathroom, you can apply some tricks that will visually make the room larger. You already know two principles – the abundance of light and the prevailing light shades.
The tile comes with two types of surface – matte and glossy. Glossy, due to the play of glare, makes the room lighter and more spacious, but may resemble an operating room. A room decorated with matte tiles or other materials looks more comfortable. Also, do not choose large tiles. Medium or small is better in this case, since large fragments will only emphasize small dimensions. In this regard, a mosaic with a shiny surface is ideal. Due to its texture, it looks very good.
You can visually increase the volume through the use of mirrors. It is advisable to place it opposite the door and stretch it over the entire or almost the entire wall. Then the effect will be maximum. Often it is from this that they are repelled when planning the interior of the bathroom: the mirror should be opposite the entrance, and then they arrange and select everything else.
If you decide to make shelves or install partitions enclosing a bath or shower, make them from tempered glass. They are almost invisible, but they perform their functions. Any other shelves and partitions will “load” the interior, turning a small room into a box.
Another way to “unload” the interior and give it a twist is to use a glass sink. It does not create the impression of massiveness, although they are the same size as porcelain and earthenware, and sometimes even larger.
Photos of interiors for inspiration
Sometimes in my head I can’t get a picture of how, in what color everything can be arranged. Due to the small area, the design of a bathroom of 2 meters is even more difficult – there are fewer options to correct an error with some kind of miscalculation. Only visualization can help in this “woe” – a visual image.