Bathroom Design

The bathroom is the most important room in a residential building. Planning the location, shape and type of equipment that is in it should be planned so that people who are using the bathroom to feel comfortable in it.


 Factors in planning a bathroom:

   1. Health Factors

      To support health factors, the most note is the building material, especially the bathroom floor and walls must be watertight, thereby automatically bathroom can be easier to clean. Rungan room bathroom is easy to produce a bad odor, it is important to provide adequate ventilation for the bathroom itself. Also be undertaken there must sunlight into the room the bathroom, because sunlight is great for killing bacteria.

  2. Safety Factor

      Construction of buildings must be made safe, both in terms of material and mounting / installation materialnnya own. All material inside the room the bathroom should be qualified and solid, including the installation must be strong. For example the installation of an existing sink or glass in the bathroom must be really sturdy and strong enough to maintain safety.

   3. Comfort factor

      To support this factor, we must give the impression of a comfortable indoor bathrooms, providing bright color and shine is one good way to do. If we use a dark color bathroom, in addition to the impression of a less attractive will also lead to dirt or dust is not visible. This will make the bathroom is unhealthy and less fun.
 
In the exercise of making the bathroom there are a few things to note:

   1. Planning Places and size. 

Placement of the bathroom should be set in terms of convenience and aesthetics, bathrooms are not placed in positions difficult to reach, do not force the placement of space adjacent to the bathroom where space is often occupied by people, eg near the living room, when where to place it, make a wall artistic in front of the door where it does not directly lead to spatial. Where home circumstances that allow placing the bathroom in the hall bedroom, select the position of the bathroom door is not facing the bed, and also must remain aware that the bathroom should have a separate ventilation associated with outdoor air. The bathroom size is adjusted to the condition the home building area, recommended a minimum size of a bathroom space is 1.5 mx 1.5 m.

   2. Bathroom Construction

In the construction phase must be considered only too well the implementation of the building is mainly related to land  and its piping system.

Here are tips relating to the construction of bathrooms:

• For the bathroom located on the first floor, must be considered true original soil condition of the building. Where sites are located at the former marshland, try to dig the ground in perpetuity, if necessary pest exterminator to spray the medication, then condition again with the new embankment soil.

• Never allow the construction of the floor with only mortar and sand only. Because the room the bathroom was always associated with water, then the floor will often be wet so that the floor would be easily damaged, this will facilitate small animals such as earthworms animals will increase the surface of the bathroom floor.

• Do not be too confident in your bathroom, despite being coated with ceramic, but make sure the construction is really solid underneath the floor, if necessary, make a concrete floor slabs. To choose the type of floor finishing materials that are not smooth ceramic / anti-slip. Choose an attractive color and pattern to your taste.

• For dirty water discharge pipe installation and pipe installation of the closet / sink, make sure all the connections terekat perfectly. Do not let the leak because it will be bersumbernya germs. Give a floor drain that can avoid the entry of animals into your bathroom. 
• If the room your own bathroom looked quite small and can not be changed again by increasing the area, there are several alternatives that you can do for your bath room looks spacious enough. Placement of a large glass in one corner of the bathroom walls will give the impression of more room larger and brighter. 
• Make sure your bathroom has a vent directly related to the outside air to get good air circulation system into the room the bathroom.

     3. Supplies and equipment in the room the bathroom
To get a more interesting bathroom, a bathroom can be filled with the type of equipment types in accordance with the needs and tastes of the owner of the bathroom. Some fixtures and equipment placed in the bathroom should be interesting with color and decoration elements of interest. As each function such as bathrooms can be filled with bathub, sink, closet, shower and other support equipment such as glass, towel hangers, soap dishes, toothbrush and other. Goods mentioned above shall be planned in such a way, should be easily visible and accessible, and also the placement of the equipment will have to add a bathroom look more attractive.

     4. Placement of lights
Placement bathroom lights will also give the impression to the bathroom itself. Choice of lamp types must be adjusted to the conditions of the bathroom. For small-size bathroom with select placement of the lights in plafoon with a rather bright color so that the impression will be spacious bathroom. For a rather spacious bathroom, you can make a lamp with laight ceiling model and make it more interesting you can also put the artistic lamp on the bathroom wall.

    5. Paint Color Selection
Selection of color in the bathroom will affect the comfort and condition of the room the bathroom itself. For indoor bathroom with a smaller size is recommended to provide light and bright colors which will give the impression of a larger room. And for a room that sedkiti wide, you can combine several attractive colors so the room bathroom will look more elegant. Adjust the color of paint the walls with color ceramics, furniture / equipment in the room the bathroom.