Review of the market of modern furniture for bathrooms. Different styles, colors, materials - what preferred? Recommendations of specialists.
Standard bathroom area is small, the struggle goes for each centimeter. What objects of furniture are needed here, and from which you can, fasten the heart, refuse? How to put the selected furniture by making it use practical and convenient? And finally, what color solutions prefer to be in the bathroom it was nice?
Find a successful layout for a small bathroom - the same thing to solve a puzzle. The only correct planning solution is largely depends on the location of the sewage riser. Smella and accessories, in many respects defining the entire style of the bathroom interior, everything is not so unequivocal. Their choice in our market is quite large, they are diverse on design and materials used, so it's easily there are models for every taste and wallet. The main thing is not to get carried away and do not buy extra, otherwise the room will become too close and cluttered.
Economical geography. Russian manufacturers of furniture for bathrooms are represented by Aquaton, Aqua Mate (previously "Econova"), X-Wood (Laguna trademark), "AquaForm". They produce low-cost medium products. Models of these manufacturers are more or less similar to each other. A white color is proposed white with blue inserts, material - chipboard in combination with MDF panels. From this production, products of the factory "Two Aquarius" created from the array are different. In the past year, cabinet furniture for the bathroom appeared at Mr.Doors. This line AQUA is called and unites 3 series developed by Russian designers. We also have joint ventures, such as the Russian-Spanish company "Opadiris".
The "purebred" furniture with the pyrenees of the average price range is Metalkris, Italika, Sonia. Northern Europe personifies democratic at IKEA prices (Sweden) and more expensive IDO (Finland).
Fastening of suspended furniture
The method of fastening of suspended furniture depends on the type of walls. On the capital panel or brick partition "Moydodyr" is hanging with dowels or anchors. For a drywall or asbotic partition, metal anchors like "Butterfly" or "Molly" are needed (read about them in the article
"Workers of the invisible front."). Puzzle gypsum blocks or plaster partitions strongly crumble, so it takes a fastening through the bolt, nut and a large flat washer.
The choice of furniture of the highest class is most wide. The price that sometimes seems transcendentally, is justified by interesting design and impeccable quality. Italian companies here are most, here are just some: Klessessidra, Arte Linea, Globo, Novello, Tulli Zucari, Telma, Oasis, Ceramica Dolomite. Remove the German factories, the names of which are now many for hearing. This is Duravit, Villeroy Boch, Keramag, Ideal Standard. Some manufacturers of luxury furniture and plumbers offer a comprehensive solution to the interior of the bathroom. So act, for example, Laufen (Switzerland) and Joop! (Italy). They produce a series united by a common name. The bath includes shells, toilet bowls, baths, suitable in style furniture, accessories, and sometimes tiles and textiles. The wider the model range, the easier it is to withstand the room in one style. Vitoga increases the cost of each subject, but the time spent on the selection of components is reduced.
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Architect Alexey Kleschievnikov, company "Boomerang RS"
In residential rooms, the interior stylist is determined by furniture and various accessories: curtains, carpets, lamps, vases ... Walls for all these items are only background, soft and unobtrusive. Swimmed by the opposite, the wall design plays a crucial role. Getting Started, we, first of all, choose their color gamut. Then we think what plumbing devices will be able to fit. We look at how they can be placed in the best possible, given the wiring of water supply and sewage. And only after that we appeal to the furniture. For her, as a rule, it remains not so much space. It comes from something to refuse, limited to the most necessary. Lack of area in the bathroom is the main problem. You can deal with this with the help of decorative techniques. For example, avoid abundance of saturated paints, otherwise the room will seem less than it really is. Let only the parts, and the plumbing, traditionally white, furnished, light, in pastel colors.
The furnishings for the bathroom can be bought in stores and salons selling plumbing equipment, in furniture stores and branded stores selling goods of one brand.
The lineup. The composition of the sets for the bathroom has the same companies. These are the cabinets and stands under the sink (the so-called "MoidOdra"); Countertops Furoving Sink; bedside tables and low lockers; high column cabinets; mirrors with shelves and backlit; Stool bedside tables. But in this standard for all factories in the list, many variations are possible.
Moidodyr is a closed cabinet with a seal with a sink, equipped with boxes, shelves, and sometimes also a basket for linen. As a rule, sold along with the sink. Furniture manufacturers either themselves also produce plumbers (for example, Laufen, Globo, IDO), or constantly cooperate with certain factories. An attempt to pick up the sink independently, most likely will end in failure: the gaps will inevitably remain, the sink will be fixed unstable.
"Moydodyra" are three types: on the base, on legs and suspended. The model on the base is placed directly to the floor. For the bathroom, where water is inevitably bottled, this option is not particularly convenient, since the furniture refers to the contact with moisture. Therefore, the "MoidOders" suspended are more common. They, as can be understood from the name, are suspended on the wall. In order for the product to be secure, it is better to entrust it with a specialist. "Moidodyr" on the legs also necessarily attached to the wall. The legs (sometimes only two of them) most often perform a decorative function.
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Architect Lydia Elkin, repair and construction company "Domostroy"It seems to me that the bathroom needs to do up as a full room, creating a living home atmosphere with her. From the sterility of typical bathrooms it's time to refuse. To transform the interior, you need a tile for walls with a pattern under wallpaper and floor tiles, imitating parquet. Doors are not white, but the same as in the rest of the rooms. Plus the mirror in a wooden frame and more drapes. Now for wet premises, a tissue with a special impregnation. From such a matter, you can sew a chart for the bathroom, so as not to fly splashes from the shower. Blinds are better to close the niches with shelves. When choosing furniture, the main thing is to consider the situation in the whole house. The style should be one. If there is not enough space for a column or an additional locker, accessories will help: towel holders, cups for toothbrushes, soaps, hooks. They will love part of the items. But keep in mind, all accessories are worth buying at the same time, better in one set. In such a small room, like a bathroom, any little things are very important, even the color of the towel. Just imagine: on the background of light green wall-carrot towels. Horror! Therefore, proceed carefully.
Manufacturers offer from compact options "MoidOdov" (50cm wide) to gigantic (200cm). The depth varies from 30 to 65 cm. There is also "Moidodyr" -Maituka with a width of 45cm ("Aquaton"). Russian manufacturers, given the layout of our apartments, make a bet on small models. The choice of the size of the shell and Moydodyra should ideally depend on such nuances as physical dimensions of a person and the composition of the family living in the apartment. In practice, the choice is most often determined by the area of the room. It is clear that in typical housing rarely accommodate the cabins wider than 80cm. Many companies (Mr.Doors, model Diva Corner; Aquaton, Telma, Globo) produce corner models, comfortable for pasty baths.
Usually, along with Mojdodyr, a mirror is offered or a mirror shelf with a mirror facade of lines and a common style make these two furniture objects with a set. In many of these models, a special socket is provided, which can be used in a wet room - turn on tongs, hairdryer or electric razor. Electrical equipment Mirrors must have a security class not lower than IP-44, providing trouble-free operation in conditions of high humidity. For convenience, the socket can be placed on the right or on the left, because it should be maximally removed from the shower. Hospital, cheap mirrors ($ 20-100) often fog. To see its reflection after bathing, it will be guaranteed only in more expensive copies. So, in the AQUA line from Mr.Doors, all mirrors are equipped with a SteamFree system that prevents the appearance of condensate (the price is from $ 250 to $ 450, depending on the configuration). Buying a mirror, think in advance the local lighting around it. Lamps can be embedded in mirrors visor or autonomous.
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Architect Natalia Shmelev, Architectural and construction firm "Levele-Artis"
If you wish in the bathroom you can do without finished furniture. It is not difficult at all, it will take only a little fantasy. I will explain on the example. Around the shell make an extensive countertop on which various little things will stand. To do this, it is necessary to weld the frame from the metal, put it with moisture-resistant plasterboard, and then bold tiles. A small washing machine or a laundry basket will fit under the tabletop (to choose from: wicker or plastic). In old houses we use any niches, building the shelves in them. In the new, where there are no niches, equip the storage system from brick or drywall and wave all the same tiles. The lower part of the resulting design can be removed under the washing machine, and the top-under the shelves for towels. We use space with maximum benefit: we look with a tile side of the bath, make doors. Behind them can be stored cleaning products. All listed works will spend, having received the necessary explanations, builders who perform a general repair. As a result, the interior will be truly individual and storage will be enough.
The countertop is not a real piece of furniture, but sometimes it is successfully replaced by Moydodyr. It serves as a comfortable stand for washbasins. A dup of her sides often feature metal handrails for towels. Sometimes the tabletop constitutes a single integer with the sink, in this case they are made from one material. Not so long ago there were sink-table-tops from colored tempered glass (X-Wood, Russia; Arte Linea, Italy). They look original. However, note that white spots of dried droplets are clearly visible on the stained glass. It is avoided that matted surfaces in more expensive versions. Also, countertops are made from MDF, natural and artificial stone.
If the bathroom remains free space, you can hang or put lockers of different shapes and sizes. Narrow shallow slides-pencils (they are also called speakers) are most relevant and there are all manufacturers. For example, IKEA offers many options worth from $ 50 ("Sparkle" series; film coating chipboard) to $ 200 ("Wattern" series; Array of birch, cropped). Cabinets are single or bivalves, equipped with one or more shelves and special tanks (for example, baskets for linen).
Furniture for the bathroom also includes a cabinet on wheels. It is easy to move from place to place so that at the right moment the little things stored in her were at hand. It is convenient (for example, to bathe a child) stool, in the seat of which an additional container is arranged.
In crowded but not mad. Making the bathroom, always have to look for compromises. But we will not pessimist by sacrificing one, we often get another in return. So, sometimes full-fledged furniture in the bathroom is simply not placed. Then its functions take on various accessories. Finding them small shelves, you can create a magnificent ensemble. And yet the minimum set for the bathroom is "Moidodyr" and the mirror to which a small shelf is attached. Their location is tied to the place that the sink occupies. If the san node is combined, it is usually located between the toilet and the bathroom.
Furniture for the bathroom for the size you need can be ordered from major manufacturers, such as "Aquaform" or Aqua Mate. Make it and some firms working exclusively under the order, for example "Artis-Plus". But such a decision is not always justified. It happens that the product is not distinguished by the product of the economy class furniture, but it is impressive, it is more precious, since $ 1500.
Bathroom furniture is sold alternately. This means that it is not necessary to buy entirely a headset, because of which, by the way, instead of stylistic unity, it is sometimes a dreary monotony. The locker or the bedside table can be purchased from another manufacturer. The main thing is that all objects echo in color. Not the right one who thinks is that the large room is easier; Here, too, there are difficulties. Although there is enough free space, often all items are arranged along the walls, and the interior is passive, uninteresting. There are several options for solving this problem. For example, you can put the bath to a low podium or zonate the space using the installation system (frame for suspension plumbing). Designers advise to make a bathroom in a single style with the whole apartment. Let's say if it is High Tech, "Moidodyr" should be made of glass and metal, if the classic, needs furniture made of solid with natural stone plastic, in this case is contraindicated.
Design. Over the past hundred years, the appointment of the bathroom has changed little. The equipment was complicated by reaching unthinkable, and sometimes unnecessary technical heights, but it serves the same objectives. What has changed dramatically, so this is a relationship to the poorest bathroom. Today it is perceived as a space for recreation and relaxation. Here we spend at least an hour per day, charging energy for the whole day in the morning and seeking to achieve full relaxation in the evening. Naturally, it changed and attitude to furniture. Now we are waiting for it more than simple functionality, we are waiting for positive emotions. Therefore, modern bathroom furniture should not only be reliable, but also beautiful. Significantly simplifying the situation, you can allocate two main trends. Some designers offer objects of streamlined forms (models from Klessidra, Arte Linea), since the lack of sharp faceting of visual relaxation. Others endow their belongings with impeccable proportions and strict lines, avoid fractional parts and as a result achieve a harmonious appearance of models. This approach is the German manufacturers.
Color. Traditionally, the bathroom chooses a blue blue gamut. It is associated with freshness and purity and often finds support in motifs of decoration of all sorts of ships, starfish, fish. Many factories "plunge" the undergoing stereotype - in stores you will definitely find models that have at least parts (for example, doors) blue or blue. However, such a tonality is not at all necessary, the color may be warm. Soft pastel shades make interior air. Furniture of soft yellow, apricot and pistachio tones are in the collections of IDO and Telma companies. Avot Bright screaming paints in the bathroom use quite rarely, they are too active for a small space. Yet such furniture is, for example, at the Italian Factory Novello, which produces scarlet, orange and purple models.
But this is an exception, and usually make a bathroom on white. Such is almost all products of the economy class of Russian manufacturers. To avoid monochrome (after all, the plumbing is overwhelming most of the buyers also prefers white), you can add intense-colored or on the texture accessories or refuse from white in the wall design. In this case, contrasts revive the room, and it will cease to seem sterile. Furniture made of wood and its imitation (chipboard, MDF, covered with laminated film with "wooden" pattern), becomes more and more popular lately. Each breed of wood has its own shade, its texture. The choice of a specific variety depends, as a rule, on the overall concept of the interior.
Materials. The humidity and air temperature, which is particularly noticeable in small rooms with poor ventilation, is often chanted. Therefore, the materials from which the furniture is manufactured must be moisture-resistant. Ideal in this sense plastic (it specializes, for example, the Italian company Telma). Next, they follow the metal and glass, however, in the bathroom, they often look too hard and therefore do not taste. You can take one shelf or the cabinet mirror (Metalkris is at all inexpensive) and several items from other materials. Another infrequent material is a tree in our bathrooms, and it is not necessarily afraid of moisture. Oak from staying in water becomes unusually durable. Do not destroy from moisture and exotic rocks as Wenge and Iroquo. More bathroom items make beech and cherry. To increase the strength, the furniture from the array is covered with ship varnish. However, such an environment is quite a road and is suitable only for large (from 15m2) premises. It is mainly represented by elite producers (Duravit, Villeroy Boch, Keramag, Ideal Standard).
Open question
Combine bathroom or leave separate? This question still causes controversy. Having dreamed of redevelopment and destroying the walls, we significantly increase the useful area of the room. It is aware, we can place in it additional objects of furniture or columns, in which, finally, it will be possible to remove all the necessary things: towels, bathrobes, cosmetics, household chemicals. The visible bathroom will be able to put a wide model "Mojdodyra", hang a large mirror. However, a positive decision is to take only if the family is small, a maximum of three people, or if there is an opportunity to harm a separate toilet with a toilet and miniature sink.
More often, furniture for premises with high humidity is made of chipboard in combination with MDF. Moisture-resistant chipboard with a special coating is on the body. As a rule, these are several layers of soil based on polyurethane resins and glossy enamel. The edges protect the melamine or pvc edge. The facade is made of MDF material that can be given any, even curvilinear form. Punching bobbies are often used veneer. Chipboard and MDF use most Russian companies: Aquaton, Aqua Mate, X-Wood, Mr.Doors. Among foreign manufacturers applying such technology, Italika, Sonia, IDO, Klessidra, Arte Linea. The poor-quality chipboard and MDF plates will swell away from the water and box. To extend the life of the "life" of the purchased product, it is necessary to wipe it dry.
Prices. Exclouch Talk about prices. Everything is quite obvious here. The market can be divided into 3 sectors. Clerv is completely inexpensive furniture represented by the already mentioned Russian factories (Aquaton, Aqua Mate, X-Wood, AquaForm). The set ("Moidodyr" plus mirror) costs $ 150-500, depending on the size and configuration. Over the past few years, the proposals of this type have become more. The range of inexpensive furniture increased, it gradually becomes more diverse. The one who is not ready to spend on the furnishing for the bathroom solid amount can find the appropriate version and at IKEA. It offers both a completely cheap (record-$ 60 per set) and more expensive models (an average of $ 400 per set). The CSred price range includes Mr.Doors, "Opadiris", as well as many Spanish firms, such as Italika, Metalkris. The cost of the kit ranges from $ 800 to $ 1500. In our opinion, the price is not always justified. On the border of medium and high prices is Finnish IDO, Italian Telma, Swiss Laufen. Price per set - $ 1700- 2000. At the highest price level, the German and Italian manufacturers who have already been called in this article. Unic cost of one item (say, shelves with a mirror) can reach $ 6000. The average price of the kit is $ 2500 or more.
What to do?
In typical houses, the area of the bathroom is 2.5-3.9m2. Hoping, it is very small. The underlying area of less than 3m2 does not even fit the washing machine - it has to be put in the kitchen. How to deal with furniture? We offer to buy a small sink with an asymmetric countertop, on which washbasin can be placed. Conveniently, if such a sink is also equipped with handrails for towels. Knei In the kit, take not just a mirror, but a mirror locker (its depth, as a rule, about 40 cm). Thus, you will fit at least a little space for storing different little things. The baby-baby should not put "Moidodyr" on the base. He not only looks more cumbersome than the suspension, but also prevents his feet when you are standing close to the sink.
The editors thanks the company "Akvaton", IKEA, IDO, Mr.Doors, Sagt, "Makelevvel", "Boomerang RS", "Leveu-Artis", "Domostroy", "WORLD WORLD", SALON "European interior collection" For help in preparing the material.