White bathroom design

White bathroom - a classic solution to the interior of such a room. Color is associated with purity, freshness and neutrality. Its expressiveness depends on a number of factors, the knowledge of which will allow correctly and harmoniously making up the design of a white bathroom.

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Special features

It should immediately make a reservation: the white bathroom is so named. The design does not imply that the space is filled with elements of furnishing only white. It only remains the dominant interior composition, but has a contrasting combination. Interior implies versatility. For this reason, when designing the situation using a few tones.

By itself, the white color is unique. Few people know that it consists of all shades of the rainbow. This explains its compatibility with other shades of the color palette. Depending on this, it can take on different emotional tints.This factor is a distinctive white color and allows you to use tone in any detail of the selected design.

It can be used:

  • when facing walls, ceiling, floor;
  • as the main tone of furniture and sanitary ware;
  • for decorating accessories;
  • in the design of bathroom lighting;
  • framed windows, slopes, door frames, doors;
  • in the tone of accessories, towels, bath linen.

The tone can be warm, cold, snow-white, texture - coated, mother-of-pearl, matte, glossy. It depends on the type of material used for the bathroom. This feature allows you to use in the design of products with different surfaces, softening or highlighting a certain design emphasis. White color brings together the scattered pieces of furniture.

The choice of this color is especially good for small bathrooms. The harmonious design of the bathroom in a white tone if the bathroom does not have natural light, which is gaining popularity today. This design is appropriate in the bathrooms of old apartment buildings such as Stalinok, Khrushchev and Brezhnev.

With the help of white color you can get rid of the feeling of heaviness and oppressive atmosphere created by the lack of usable space.

Advantages and disadvantages

To better understand the possibilities of bathroom design in white, it is worth considering the advantages of this design:

  • These bathrooms are aesthetically pleasing. Due to the variability of the texture of the shade, they can create a surface with the desired reflectivity.
  • The dominance of white color saves the bathroom from hard wall floors. Due to this, you can visually make the walls taller and wider.
  • The white color in the design of the bathroom allows you to visually hide the base defects and the broken prospect, saving the room from visible fragmentation.
  • This tone can be the basis for the design of any stylistics. White color is appropriate in classical, ethnic, vintage, modern directions.
  • White color is combined with lighting devices of any type and color. Due to it, they are relevant in the interior regardless of the decor.
  • When adding any color contrast, the white bathroom becomes elegant. It can be issued using products from different materials.
  • Depending on the perspective of a particular room, it is possible to beat any angle advantageously due to the color. Color arranges the interior, even on the shelves will not create a feeling of confusion.
  • White color contributes to the accuracy of users. Each family member will unwittingly follow the procedure when using such a bathroom.
  • This design is variable in the transfer of the desired mood. Due to the shade you can make the atmosphere special.
  • Due to the development of new technologies, it is possible to perform an ideal white coating without admixtures of other tones.

With a lot of advantages, the design of bathrooms in white colors has disadvantages.

  • White color marks. Under the conditions of the bathroom, it is constantly exposed to contaminants that are clearly visible on the snow-white surface.
  • Despite the abundance of cleaning products, the white color in the interior over time loses its former attractiveness and becomes yellowish. This applies to furniture and accessories.
  • The visual effect of white color increases not only the room. Furniture details also seem more voluminous.
  • If white is located on a white background, it loses its expressiveness. For this reason, you have to add to the design other shades and mix the texture.

The abundance of white in the design of the bathroom obliges to the design of the other rooms of the house with the dominance of the white background.Otherwise, the load on the eyes at the entrance to the bathroom will be very strong. In addition, a sharp transition from one color perception to another can negatively affect the mood of the household.

A color scheme

The choice of additional to white color should be deliberate. Even a small amount of contrast can change perception. For example, to create the effect of a classic design with its inherent elegance, you can combine the white color with gold or bronze. These can be gold handles of mixers with spout, mirror frames, soap dish shade, lamp body, table handles, bath trim.

Gold diversifies even the most boring bathroom interior, making it softer.

Silver is more suitable for modern bathroom interiors. The presence of chrome surfaces looks less pretentious, although in this case you will have to add color contrast to white. For example, it may be light gray in the form of marble streaks, a combination of white, gray white and green will be successful. In this case, the color can be supplemented with a small accessory (for example, a plant in a vase), a mosaic insert, a panel.

It is important that the color contrast is soft, muffled.

Better than other colors, the white color in the bathroom is combined with the shades of the natural (wood) scale. These are beige and brown tones of different degrees of saturation. Popular combination of white with a shade of light and dark oak, wenge (diluted tone brown with black).

Today, this combination is more in demand than mixing white with beige and black, as well as bright accents.

With regards to the rich colors of the palette, it is worth noting: Their combination is not always harmonious. For example, a red-white bathroom will give way to a harmonious design, based on white will be combined with light wenge and green shades. Red is preferable to replace orange, yellow, pink. Violet-white, blue-white, turquoise-white or light green bathroom looks beautiful with the moderation of adding cold colors.

Often it is better to replace bright tones with light ones (for example, with a blue tint).

Combination of materials

In the conditions of a bathroom it is undesirable to use materials that are destroyed by moisture, steam, household chemicals.The surface will have to constantly clean, wipe, wash, dry. This means that the raw materials used for the elements of the arrangement must be resistant to destruction of any kind. Therefore, MDF, chipboard and similar plates for drawing up the interior of the bathroom are not suitable.

The main types of material for the bathroom are metal, wood, plastic, glass. Due to modern developments in the list, you can add materials based on different polymers.

For example, if earlier baths were made mostly of cast iron, today it is more practical to use acrylic models with an attractive snow-white surface. It does not rust, does not change color in the process of use, serves for a long time.

The choice of a particular type of material depends on its purpose, shape, size. Convenience of the main part of the raw materials used for the arrangement is compatibility with each other. For example, wood looks good with marble. Glass is appropriate everywhere. It makes the space easier, expands it, whether it is a regular partition, glass curtains or a mirror sheet.

Countertops with sink can be made of natural or artificial stone.They do not look massive, while they look good on the background of mirrors, marble coatings, wooden boxes and metal structures with a chrome or painted surface. Plastic is harmonious with any material. He is able to imitate the desired texture. This eliminates the need to use materials in the bathroom that break down over time from water.

Furniture selection

The number of pieces of furniture in a white bathroom is subject to room footage, the height of the ceiling, and the layout features. A prerequisite is the streamlined shape of any object. It does not matter whether it is a rack, cabinet, table, dresser or a set of open console shelves. All edges must be treated to eliminate the possibility of injury.

If the bathroom is small, it will fit a standard set: sink with pedestal and hanging shelves or cabinet for hygiene supplies. When the bathroom is combined, under furniture usually manages to allocate more space. In this case, the shelves can sometimes be replaced by a compact rack of a linear or angular type. If the space is limited to a minimum, the room is equipped with a hinged shelf on the door.In such cases, you have to use any niche or beat the ledge.

Another thing, if the bathroom is spacious. The layout of such a room can give a lot of possibilities for design in white colors. Some of these rooms are more like living rooms, adapted to the bathroom. They can have a podium under a bath in the form of a bowl of different shapes, two tables with sinks, a dressing table with a mass of draw-out drawers.

In addition, the rack can include a rack with a heated towel rail, a chest of drawers with a mirror. Some rooms even have seating for rest.

Floor and walls

For decoration of the floor and walls of the bathroom in white, you can use different materials. For walls it is mainly tile, mosaic, wall panels made of plastic, strip or sheet type. The use of wallpaper, plaster is undesirable: they are damp and can move away from the base. The best materials for the floor will be tile, porcelain and epoxy floor.

Since the white color for the floor is completely impractical, it is diluted with a light gray, a touch of light wenge oak and a gray-beige tone. You can try a combination of white and neutral marble.

The material for the floor covering should be selected with anti-slip to eliminate the risk of injury. A small relief or matte texture type will do. It is better to use stone or granite.

For wall decoration, it is better to use panels made of plastic with an imitation of the desired texture. It can be a type of aged stained wood, imitation mosaic, brick or tile masonry. For the bath zone itself, tile will be the best facing material. It is durable, practical, easy to clean, resistant to abrasion. At the same time, it can be combined with panels and include into the design small inserts in the form of panels that diversify the interior of the room.

Choice of plumbing

Choosing a bath, it is worth considering a number of requirements. In addition to the features of layout and footage, today there is an opportunity to take care of additional comfort, taking into account the interests of each household. Someone fairly normal option in the form of an oval bath.

In a confined space it is possible to use the angular variety. Some prefer a shower. Others like bath tubs or jacuzzi. In addition to the shape, the bath can be distinguished by the presence of handrails, stairs, seating devices.

There are a lot of options on the market.If desired, each buyer can choose your favorite model, taking into account the taste and budget.

If there is no such product, you can order a bath individually, the choice is really wide. When you want originality, the bath is decorated with imitation brickwork with gray seams.

Some like the legged option. Someone prefers models of round and even triangular shape. When a large room is set aside for the bathroom, it is possible to install a bath for two in it. Each type of product is different in its decor. For example, the back side of the bath can be decorated with imitation stucco from the base material.

If the bathroom is combined, try to pick up the toilet in the tone of the main plumbing. It is necessary to choose not only the whiteness of the shade. It is important to repeat the texture of the bath material. The same applies to the shell material. Otherwise, create an ensemble effect will not work.

Partially solve this problem by buying identical valves, faucets with spouts. This will divert attention from minor differences in texture or form. If the shade is different, you will have to separate the plumbing from each other with a contrasting shade of furniture, worktops,wall or floor covering, make a niche in a different tone. So the difference will be less pronounced.

Lighting

The bathroom lighting system involves the composition of the central and auxiliary lights. This division into 2 (sometimes 3) functional zones. This approach is due to stringent requirements for bathroom fixtures.

The standards include:

  • distance from hazardous (wet) areas;
  • minimum allowable height value;
  • type of lamp protection;
  • the stability of the light source to moisture;
  • mounting technology.

The central illumination of such a bath - near-surface panel, spotlights built-in type, as well as flexible LED strip or cord, at least - models with reflectors. Since such devices shine directionally, the individual corners of the bathrooms are not lit in the right amount. Therefore, it is necessary to additionally highlight the area above the mirror. Here use different methods of lighting. It can be lamps with adjustable angle, models of geometric shapes, built-in light inside the mirrors.

The shape of the luminaires is preferred ergonomic. Massive design gives way to easy solutions.The focus is on several laconic lamps, creating the effect of harmony of light design.

Gilding, elements of forging, chrome, and openwork motifs can be the decor of devices. If possible, the device should be closed, in the priority fog lamps in white. Glow shade is better to choose a neutral or warm white.

Interesting ideas

Reviews left on the forums for the construction and repair of bathrooms, show that the bathroom in white is the current trend of the present.

This is confirmed by examples of photo galleries:

  • A stylish solution to the present with the involvement of a niche and a minimum set of details of the arrangement in the zone of the bath and washing.
  • Room in the spirit of the living room. Glass curtains divide the shower area and place under the dressing table with a chair.
  • An example of the use of panels under the brickwork, a combination of white gloss with a matte light brown contrast.
  • Option with arched window and niche, used for built-in furniture with a mirror, drawers and shelving.
  • An example of changing the neutral interior by adding accessories in a blue shade.
  • The original solution for the design of a small space.Mixing white with woody and green brings cheerful colors to the design.
  • Dilution of white and gray with gold. Using glossy surfaces, a combination of curved and straight lines.
  • An example of creating a single ensemble of plumbing and furniture through the use of gold-plated decor. In addition to the main set of elements involved frame mirrors, towel holders and baguettes.
  • The variant with a shower cabin is successful due to a mosaic tile with mother of pearl. The combination of different wall decoration looks interesting.
  • An example of changing the color perception due to the LED backlight type RGB. Because of the light of the built-in tape, the surfaces of the walls appear blue.
  • The combination with blue looks beautiful and fresh. The use of glossy texture makes the white color dominant design.
  • The inclusion of a strip of mosaic green around the perimeter of the room changes perception. Bathroom looks cozy.

How to choose a tile in the bathroom, see the following video.

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