Bathroom Design
HomeWhat do you mean by bathroom design? Some think of the floor layout as in where the cabinetry and commode may be located. Some think of bathroom design as the selection of the cabinetry, fixtures, countertops, and perhaps the color scheme. Some consider moving walls, including other space in the design, pulling soffits, or a header from the top of a shower. Others just want a larger shower or to replace a tub with a shower. Some think of just replacing the tile, and some want to upgrade to marble. Those that primarily just want to replace the tile think of the selection of the tile, perhaps listellos or decos as the design. Others consider the bathroom dated and just want it to be stunning. All of these views are valid and will be considered by your contractor.
Bathroom Style
A taxonomy of bathroom styles in the United States could be viewed as headed by Country, Contemporary, and Traditional, with the most divisions under traditional. Many of the new bathrooms are purely contemporary. However, historically, most of the bathrooms in this country are neither cleanly contemporary or traditional, but generally contemporary with traditional touches providing the visual design influences of the homeowner or the builder. We usually do not get a request to provide a purely traditional style. In fact, although there are many retro fixtures and furnishings available, they are generally applied to contemporary styles. Most of the new fixtures and furnishings are either futuristic or contemporary.
Bathroom Design
Separate from your needs and your vision, your contractor will consider many other design issues. The biggest single design issue the contractor will consider while formulating your design, is how the water issues will be dealt with, using good engineering and experience. For example, you may want a walk-in shower. That can mean a shower without a door, which immediately implies to the contractor the minimum size of the shower, and then the question is whether the contractor can lay out your bathroom to provide that size shower in your space. You may mean a shower with no curb or threshhold. We have remodeled bathrooms for wheelchair access where there was no curb at all. This means that the area lined to hold water is even larger, and the floor has to slope toward the drain, providing the contractor with another set of design tenets to work with. As part of the design process at that point is where does the floor slope down from, and does the floor have to slope up before it arrives at that point?
A Contemporary Bathroom Design with an Island touch
A neat shower design was an open shower in the corner of a large bath with no shower walls at all. There was a large sloping threshhold to contain the water (except exuberant splashes). That worked very well.
Bathroom Design
The contractor is going to consider many other design constraints, including whether the work you are proposing or the contractor might propose, meets your local building code. Your contractor will make many decisions and look to you primarily for your functional requirements and your visual design views
Bathroom Design in Small Bathrooms
Whether you have a modest home, a mansion, a very small bathroom or a large bathroom, the same design, tile and workmanship issues apply. You may wish to go see a small bathroom remodel or a small bathroom makeover.
Bathroom Repair
If you are considering a bathroom remodeling contractor, or if you just need bathroom repair because of leaks or mold, you really should see bathroom remodeling. We replace many tub or shower surrounds. That is the largest single repair request we receive.