How to properly plan a bathroom ina typical apartment? How to avoid mistakes when arranging it? Architects Ekaterina Mamaeva and Ekaterina Svanidze answered these questions by showing an already completed project. This bathroom project was created for a young family with a child. The facility is located in an apartment in a monolithic brick building on Khodynka. Initially, two bathrooms were planned here, but at the request of the customers, one of them was converted into a dressing room. Thus, it was necessary to place all the functionality of the bathroom in an area of 5.7 square meters. Architects and heads of the architectural design studio "Dvekati" - Ekaterina Mamaeva and Ekaterina Svanidze - told us how they managed to design a small bathroom in a typical apartment. Ekaterina Mamaeva and Ekaterina Svanidze The architects have more than five years of professional experience in the field of designing public and private interiors. They received their education at the "Modern School of Design" at Moscow State University. Now they run the studio "Dvekati" (architectural design). — Was the bathroom redeveloped? — The bathroom is “squeezed” by living rooms on both sides, making expansion impossible, but we managed to “carve out” a niche for a shower near the non-residential area in the center of the apartment, which complies with redevelopment standards. Thanks to this, we were able to place both a full-size bathtub and a spacious shower in a separate niche in the bathroom.
— — Tell us more about the shower niche.— — We installed a drain in the shower niche and hung a glass door in the opening. If you want to use a similar technique in your bathroom, a curtain can act as a door. The ceiling level in the niche was specially lowered a little to fit a ceiling shower head.
— How did you work with color and textures?What materials did you choose for the cladding? — We ended up with a functional, but elongated angular room. We decided to “smooth” it out with dark matte porcelain stoneware of a noble texture. The floor and all the walls are covered with the same material, which made the room intimate and uniform. The overall gray palette was diluted with two accents — a strip of black and gold mosaic, distracting attention from the corner of the utility box, and a gypsum board countertop with an integrated sink, covered with the same material. The classic marble texture of the porcelain stoneware and gold mosaic elements are “modernized” by the ascetic forms and chrome surfaces of the selected plumbing collection.
— — How did you solve the issue with the systems?storage? - There are pull-out storage drawers under the tabletop (they are not mounted in the photo yet). It was possible to place a washing machine under it, but together with the customers it was decided to move it to the kitchen cabinet. For storing bathroom accessories, there is an elegant hanging cabinet next to the toilet, made according to the studio's sketch. For shampoos and other things, there is a small niche in the corner above the bathtub. It was possible to integrate it between the box and the wall.
Brands and marks:
- porcelain stoneware - Aparici, G-Stone collection
- mosaic - Aparici, collection Noice Negro
- bath, toilet, sink — Villeroy & Boch
- plumbing, accessories - Dornbracht
- Towel warmer "Tera"
- pencil case - according to the designers' sketch "Stylish kitchens"
- drawers under the countertop - "New interiors"
- mirror - according to the sketch of the designers of the "Mirror Factory on Nagornaya"
- glass door, glass shelves in the niche - "Inprus"
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photos provided by studio "DVEKATI"
