Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Increased optical size of the bathroom

Get a room a very small bathroom functional and aesthetically pleasing is a complex job, but not impossible. Often the arrangement of health is suggested by the designer, who knows perfectly the space needed for their use and therefore can help you find the most appropriate solution. Once this phase, then the customer usually prefers to choose for themselves the finishes and furnishings to suit your taste. When we are dealing with small bathrooms but we must be aware of the final effect of the choices we make. In fact, the risk is to accentuate the effect of confined space or any proportions unpleasant from the outset.

Mirrors in the bathroom

All know that the use of large mirrored surfaces on the walls produces the expansion of a local optical. This effect is certainly true, but to get a good result it is useful to follow some precautions. It is not always easy to put in place a large mirror, especially if we have to go into a small room by performing various maneuvers to place it where you want it. In case of large mirrored surfaces then becomes necessary to break them down into more parts . Interrupting a mirror given by the connecting line between the various plates side by side will not be a cosmetic problem.



However, it is important that these lines are not then to correspond with the height of the eyes or cutting through our figure while we reflect. So if we decide to play a stretch of wall with mirrors that go from the floor to the ceiling, will no doubt be avoid a division into two horizontal plates that have their line of conjunction height of 1.50 m from the floor, which is precisely in the area where they can be annoying while we reflect. Having to opt for a subdivision of the plates in horizontal, suggest, instead of 2 plates, the use of 3 plates , which could be organized in this way: a central plate of greater height of the other that is able to contain our figure at least from the head until the entire torso and 2 plates of equal size but smaller than the central position from above and below. 

In this way, the jointing lines of the plates will not give us discomfort when we reflect. Another suggestion concerns the mirrors placed on walls in the vicinity of the ' angle of conjunction of another wall placed at 90 °. Also in this case the mirror will help to create the optical effect of the enlargement of the room reflecting wall placed at 90 °. However before proceeding with this choice is important to evaluate the angle between the two walls.


If the walls are exactly 90 ° , the mirror will reflect correctly the horizontal joints of the tiles, really creating the optical illusion of prolongation of the room. If the angle is less than 90 °, the lines of flight of the tiles will appear broken at the vertex of the room and where begins the mirror, doing completely invalidate the optical illusion desired. Where are present in the bath of acute angles , a solution to the problem could be to avoid the use of tiles on the wall to reflect and opt instead for continuous coating solutions, such as resins or Venetian stucco.

Floors in the bathroom

In the choice of the floor is important to evaluate carefully color , shape and arrangement . In a small bathroom is always good thing to use the same color of the tiles for both the floor and the walls, so as to camouflage the more possible the perimeter of the room. the contrary, if we choose clear tiles for the walls and dark tiles for the floor , the result would be an emphasis on the visual perception of the size of the floor and then will highlight the small size of the room. trick known to give more space and dynamism of the room is to place the tiles diagonally . When instead we have a bathroom with a significantly smaller of the two dimensions, to correct the imbalance becomes advantageous to choose tiles rectangular and arrange with the long side parallel to the short side of the room.

Lining the walls in the bathroom


In small rooms are always inadvisable dark colors, which reinforce any feeling of tightness in the room. Better then to prefer light colors, like white or pastel colors. Personally, I think interesting to work on textures rather than all the colorful decorations of the walls. We see here an example of a tile texture with damask line Stonevision of Marazzi . Or this other tile motif diamond-shaped line Matter of Fap Ceramiche . A rough texture or reflective in a small bathroom helps to better spread the light and therefore helps to visually increase the size.

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