Defining a New Lifestyle with Wet Rooms

Building new homes these days poses new and rather exciting and welcome challenge or the homebuilder. Be that a townhouse, a chalet or an apartment, you now have synthetic materials that are just as strong and durable as traditional ones for both indoor and outdoor construction.

Pre-fabrication has also made it faster and cheaper to construct homes. There’s one special area that has assumed greater priority today than ever. These are your bathrooms and toilets. Whereas before, they have been relegated almost like an afterthought, consigned to cramp spaces with the least sybaritic appointments except in the most palatial of homes, they are now getting their due respect as a spacious and most livable part of homes.

With better construction methods, waterproofing techniques and a higher priority in their designs, you can now have wet rooms which bring the bathroom showering function to higher levels of comfort and functionality.

Designing for Function and Space

Bathrooms and toilets traditionally find themselves in the smallest possible part of the house. Most shower spaces and bath tubs occupy the same real estate with the toilet and faucet nearby.

There are large rooms and some have spaces for natural lighting and ventilation like a mini garden, but rarely to do you find bathrooms that have specialized shower space. Most designers now consider the idea to use dedicated wet rooms design that provide greater space freedoms than before.

No more drenched paper towels, or misted vanity mirror and wetted toiled seats that come from the splashing water in the shower, even if separated with a curtain. Even when constrained by floor area, the homebuilder juggles between two options: allocating a larger room to house both shower/bath and toilet, or getting two separate smaller rooms for each.

Handicapped members of the household also benefit a lot from the wider elbow room in the newer wet room designs. Apart from allowing space on the walls to be fitted with hand rails and floors with pathways to accommodate a wheelchair, a wet room for disabled people can be large enough to accommodate a caregiver or nurse assist a paraplegic in attending to his or her hygiene needs.

This freedom alone makes a large showering space a must in many apartments and townhouses offered for subletting to the public. The landlords will never know if the tenant is a disabled or not.