subject: Bathroom Furniture: Combining Practicality With Style [print this page] Although the domestic bathroom is essentially a practical addition to the home, a functional room, we should be able to enjoy these spaces and feel comfortable and able to relax inside them. At this time of year its especially important, as most of us are leaving for work and returning home in the dark and cold. Achieving a bathroom which is both highly practical and efficient, as well as an inviting, friendly and easy to use space isnt as difficult a balance as you may think, and here are a few tips on how to create it.
Firstly, in Britain we have the dubious honour of being the European nation with the smallest average domestic room size, and in order to maximise the amount of living space we have, bathrooms often bear the brunt of any space-saving measures. Therefore, its important to make the most of what space we do have available, and there are a couple of classic shortcuts for achieving that. Light coloured walls will make any room feel larger, and whilst white walls are common in bathrooms, when combined with an all-white bathroom suite and harsh winter sunlight, the results can be a little sterile and cold. Painting your walls a light pastel shade will keep the room feeling bright and spacious, but a little warmer and more comfortable. Upgrading you standard bathroom mirror to an illuminated model will create an additional light source to enhance this effect, as well as creating a stylish contemporary vanity area, which can serve as a focal design feature in your new and improved bathroom.
In order to best complement your pastel walls, and to maintain a calm, organised aesthetic, some bathroom furniture is essential. We all tend to accumulate far more bathroom products than we need, and without sufficient storage space available, all of those mismatched and multi-coloured toiletries, cosmetics and clean supplies are enough to make even the largest bathroom feel cramped and crowded. Naturally finished wooden furniture will combine with your pastel walls to create a bathroom decor full with rich warmth, and tactile appeal, as well as allowing you to keep your bathroom products neatly organised and within easy reach.
Natural stone tile is back en vogue in a huge way at the moment. As a particularly dense tile, it is ideal for bathroom use, whether you wish to tile a full wet room set up, or just have small, discreet splash back areas behind your basin. By choosing tiles and furniture in matching, or complementary tones, the overall effect will far greater than the sum of its parts.
A warm, friendly bathroom which is highly efficient and functional is a combination which is now easier to achieve than ever before, so a little time to have a click around, and discover your components for you new and improved bathroom today.
