Enjoying your Showers in a Wet Room
A wet room is essentially your bathroom. Larger with no showering boundaries to distinguish a bathing area, it makes the entire room a splash showering room. Few homes have the luxury of space to allocate for bathrooms and would rather have allocate finite space to the kitchen and bedroom spaces.
In homes with small rooms allocated for the bathroom, it is common to combine a bath tub with a shower space with just a hang curtain to prevent shower splashes and hot water steam ruining rolls of toilet paper, misting the vanity mirror or wetting the toilet seat.
These days, new home design and building projects can make use of new construction materials that uses more effective waterproofing systems employing wet room design ideas to give the homeowners a less restrictive elbow room when showering.
Bigger is always Better
When it comes to showering, it’s always better to have a bigger shower space. With small rooms, mixing toilet with the bath can restrict movement for reasons indicated earlier. It is best to have another room for the toilet, leaving a small room entirely as a small wet room.
It is therefore critical in the design layout of any new home construction effort that priority be given to your bath and toilet facilities. They cannot be mere afterthoughts. In the early days of homebuilding, bath rooms and toilets occupied the least priority and are often considered an extravagance if sized anywhere larger than 2 x 2 meters.
Motels, apartments, condos and townhouses rarely ever exceeded these dimensions. The attitude seems to have rubbed off from the common practice of being less bodily hygienic than one should. It’s the one place in your home you want to spend the least time in.
These days, achieving hygiene standards for your body is no longer an afterthought and rightly so. It comes from a recognition that your private space can and should be just as worthy of your attention and priority as any part of the house. Hence, the vogue for larger bathroom and shower spaces in a room that can be as spacious are your bedroom or dining room.
But the economic realties of home building can be more limiting that anything. If you have to squeeze in the bath and the toilet in one room, be more kind and generous by allocating a larger room area. Understandably, a large shower base cost more to install but if you want a trendy home, spacious showers are in. And dedicated rooms just for showering and bathing in wet rooms are starting to take hold in many home designs.
