A bathroom, finished with your own hands, will save the budget. To understand how to equip it, you need to analyze several options, choose the most suitable one in terms of finances and taste.
DIY bathroom design cheap and beautiful
To equip an aesthetic bathroom, it is not necessary to spend a lot of money on expensive materials. PVC panels and inexpensive tiles are perfect. It is recommended to make a stretch ceiling. This will not only hide the ventilation communications, but also ennoble the interior, align the transitions and joints of the plates.
Often just refreshing the bathroom is enough:
- Paint old walls or clean tiles. A new color is always refreshing and immediately changes the look of the room itself.
- Highlight the seams of the joining of finishing materials with a contrasting color.
- Lay out the floor of decorative stones.
- Update the color of the decor, install a mirror, hang hooks, handles with a “zest” in the design.
Thanks to the large selection of decorative materials on the market, any design can be realized. A few examples:
- The simplest design and economical option is PVC panels. This is strength, freedom of choice of colors, ease of installation, easy maintenance.
- Laying ceramic tiles. Durable tiles with various patterns will last for a long time, focusing attention on themselves. The downside is that it is an expensive material. And laying tiles for a beginner is not the easiest option. Therefore, in this case, it is recommended to invest once in the services of specialists laying ceramics so that the floor is perfect.
- Dye. Almost completely forgotten decor of bathrooms. Pretty handy option. Beautiful colors or their overflows will please the eye for many years and will not fade. You can design your own interior and draw pictures. There are disadvantages – it is desirable to make plastic or ceramic inserts in places of possible contact with water. Because the paint (even moisture resistant) will not be able to maintain its original color for a long time with prolonged contact with water (mold, calcified deposits).
- Decorative plaster. The leader in wall decoration. Such processing looks rich, you can create whole pictures. The downside is that if you want to create a complex design, you will need the services of a master.
- Fake diamond. Infrequently in the bathroom there is wall decoration with artificial stone. But, despite this, he is very good in the “bath” business. It can be combined with other materials, which gives the room its own charm. But it should be borne in mind that such a wall is very difficult to repair if necessary in the future.
- Self-adhesive film. A very low price and a variety of patterns now puts this product in the lead among very budget options. It is very easy to maintain, easy to apply to the surface, environmentally friendly. But, corresponding to the low cost, the material is very fragile. It’s worth considering.
Some craftsmen, in order to save the budget, purchase building materials that are defective in appearance (scratches, chips, scuffs) at bargain prices for invisible sections of the floor and walls. There are many such invisible “back streets” in the bathroom, which allows you to save pretty decent money without compromising the design.
Plastic-lined bathroom: photos and ideas
PVC panels are one of the most economical and simple options for bathroom cladding. Attractive price, easy installation that even a beginner can handle, and a large selection of patterns that can be combined with each other.
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Pipes can be easily hidden behind plastic panels. The surface is easy to clean and perfectly tolerates temperature extremes, humidity.
Thanks to the pattern “under the tiles” the room looks no worse than finished with real ceramics. You can add bright accents or three-dimensional drawings to emphasize individuality.
For dreamers who, while lying in the bath, imagine themselves on the seashore, relaxing after a hard day, there is also a choice of a variety of drawings and paintings on panels on this theme.
For lovers of minimalism, so that nothing distracts on the walls with a colorful pattern, there are plain panels. And the choice of colors is very large.
There are also disadvantages in the “plastic” design. PVC panels do not tolerate direct impacts. Also, the material is highly flammable. With poor ventilation, condensation can accumulate on the walls with the further development of the fungus, especially at the joints.
How to decorate a beautiful bathroom in Khrushchev
Khrushchevs have their own characteristics both in general and in bathrooms in particular. These are small rooms, a combined bathroom, uneven walls. In order not to clutter up an already small space, they select furniture and plumbing with a bias towards minimalism. For the same purpose, it is advised to install a hanging toilet. For budget repairs, they select such finishing materials that you can handle on your own, while saving on the master.
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When choosing a room design in such bathrooms, it is better to avoid multi-color options.
After the repair, household items (towels, rugs, toothbrushes, etc.) will be added to the room, they will bring their own flavor. From this, a small bathroom will become visually overloaded. It is best to use 1-2 colors for finishing. It will look stylish. Light shades will visually increase the space around. And the drops, which, when dried, leave white streaks, are not so noticeable against a light background.
It is recommended to pay attention to the options for compact showers and bathtubs. So-called “wet baths” are very convenient to save space. An open shower cabin will not clutter up the room with extra doors. For convenience, the drain is installed in the center of the room. In such a bath, the best option is to tile everything without installing furniture and cabinets with doors.
How to place compact plumbing in a small bathroom
For small rooms, a hanging toilet is perfect. It takes up less space, and visually the room becomes much more spacious. As for the bathrooms, there are options for “break bowls”. Such solutions free up space under the cabinet or sink. And, accordingly, it is already possible to think over the location of additional pieces of furniture. If you need to remove the washing machine, the option under the sink is the best.
If you want to visually enlarge the room, you can change the lighting to spot lighting, hang a mirror without a frame. So the bathroom will look much easier and more comfortable. Also, the bath itself can be replaced with a shower cabin with transparent doors.
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Such a booth will take up much less space, and transparent doors will not visually clutter it up.
Bathroom in a wooden house: design photo
Shower rooms are characterized by humidity and temperature fluctuations. This must be taken into account, especially in housing made of wood. Important points of interior planning:
- waterproofing finish against mold;
- ventilation for better air circulation:
- high-quality drain to avoid premature rotting.
Even houses made of timber and wood shrink over time. Therefore, when conducting pipes for water supply and sewerage, it is worth considering their flexibility.
If the area is characterized by a cold climate, in order to avoid freezing pipes, it is better to bury them in the ground to a depth of at least a meter. When laying plumbing in the house, in order not to damage the walls ahead of time, it is better to give preference to plastic pipes, put rubber clamps on the mounts, install thermal insulation to prevent condensation.
The most important thing when considering the design of a future bathroom is the finishing material. Anyone can make beautiful and high quality. A little effort, and any bold ideas can be translated into reality.
In wooden houses, the interior is not complete without greenery. You can put a few flower pots for decoration, and the cold bathroom will immediately come to life.
For the interior design of the room itself, fragmentary decoration is often used. That is, one part of the bath, where the walls most often come into contact with moisture, is tiled, and the other is sheathed with wood. This allows you to beautifully combine different materials with parallel zoning of the room.
The choice of flooring is taken very seriously. The wood base does not really like static weight drops in one place – this way the risk of destruction increases significantly. When the bathroom is completely filled, it is quite heavy, so reinforced boards are installed under the legs.
Actual materials for flooring:
- tile or mosaic (for a non-deformable base);
- linoleum (only on chipboard or plywood);
- impregnated wood or moisture resistant laminate.
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Quite often, porcelain stoneware is used – durable, unpretentious in operation, moisture resistant. For laying, a cement base is required, since installation on a flat, non-deforming surface is required, and wood does not have such characteristics.
It is better to make the ceiling suspended. It will create an additional moisture-proof cushion that protects the hardwood floors.
Halogen spotlights are often used to illuminate bathrooms. They are very convenient to zone the space, and all the wiring will hide under the stretch ceiling. You can install a sconce or chandelier – they will add stylistic charm to the room.
With imagination and skillful hands, the bathroom will become a wonderful decoration of the house. The main thing is not to be afraid of bold ideas, and everything will work out.
