Plan carefully – clean lessFive tips for bathroom planning
However attractive a good design may be, users find cleanliness in the bathroom more important at the end of the day. If you are planning a bathroom, you should therefore observe a few basic rules. After all, good bathroom planning makes your dream bathroom even better – and the design of your bathroom by no means has to fall by the wayside. Read our five tips for bathroom planners on how to design the ideal bathroom:
1. Simple room planning
Design the floor plan of the bathroom carefully to suit your requirements. Bathrooms should have as few corners and edges as possible. Without them, cleaning can be taken care of quickly and efficiently. On this note, plan to conceal as many unnecessary dust traps in the bathroom – such as cisterns, pipes and cables – behind the wall. You can even position traps and mirror cabinets behind or in the wall with a clever choice of products.
2. Avoid grouting
It is not a good idea to have small tiles in a bathroom. The larger the tiles in your bathroom, the easier they are to clean. And the less grouting you have, the fewer the opportunities dirt, splashes and germs have to accumulate. If you then decide to have a floor-even shower without a tray, the same is also true for limescale deposits in the shower niche.
3. Floor-even is clean
Moving straight on to the clever planning of your shower. Shower trays generate corners and edges – and they are more time-consuming to clean. However, there are simple and stylish ways of avoiding this in your bathroom. Floor-even showers are now available in the form of a shower surface made of a solid surface material, for example. It is also a good idea to continue the tiling or floor panels into the shower niche. In your bathroom, you should plan just one drain in the form of a shower channel in the floor or as a wall drain. This shower drain with its small combs is generally easier to clean than a standard shower drain.
4. Rimfree solutions
Conventional toilets with a flush rim have a problem: limescale in water makes the surface under the rim of the ceramic appliance rough – and cleaning extremely difficult. The deposits look unhygienic and are a magnet for dirt. Therefore, the simpler and more continuous the surface is, the easier it is to clean the ceramic appliance. Modern toilets dispense with the flush rim, while washbasins without an overflow hole are also available. A clean new bathroom is that easy!
5. Simple cleaning thanks to wall hanging
Cleaning thoroughly around corners and edges is – as already mentioned – painstaking and troublesome. You can avoid this by planning the room carefully, but also by choosing the right bathroom furniture and toilets. If bathroom furniture and the toilet are hung on the prewall, a space results underneath that is easy to clean. Around 15 cm is the ideal distance between the floor and lower edge of the toilet or furniture. This allows for easy access with a mop or other cleaning utensils.
