Let me Jim the bathroom guy guide you through the ins and outs of what makes a bathroom feel small and how we can make your bathroom feel bloody bigger.

Many older bathrooms are small by design. They were built during a time when bathrooms were thought of as practical spaces, not spaces designed for relaxation.

Today, bathrooms are designed to be more comfort-based and more practical 

Below we will break down

• Why does your bathroom feel small
• How to make it feel bigger
• 3 BASIC TIPS TO FOLLOW

Why does my bathroom feel small?

So team let’s get to it. Often your bathroom feels small because it is small!. Now we have that out of the way let’s work on the key factors for a bathroom feeling small.

Below is a great example of a small bathroom, that feels small but ends up stunning and feeling huge.

From the image below you can see this is your traditional small bathroom/ensuite. The layout make you feel confined the shower being framed feels like a wall and the door opens into a space cutting off the room.

Recap For Small Feeling Bathrooms

• Swinging Door Closes Off Space
• Framed Showers Create A Wall Like Corridor Feel
• Horizontal Borders Show Off How Small The Room Is
• Small, Bright or Decorative Floor Tiles Emphanise How Small The Foot Print Is

These small bathrooms often has to accommodate either a bath, shower, toilet, vanity and some storage space or some combination of all of them clogging up your feet, eye line and Dredd.

Often spacing and too many items will cramp your space making you feel small and not being able to swing a cat. Check out the next section to see the outcome.

How to make your small bathroom feel bigger

When you’re renovating, the challenge is to get as much space as you can without sacrificing necessary inclusions.

It’s up to you to decide what those inclusions should be, but even if you still want a bath and shower, you can make your bathroom feel much larger.

Bringing back the above bathroom you can see the finished result on how to make a very small bathroom feel big and impactful.

WOW, it is hard to believe this is the same bathroom as the first image but it is, while never adding more space. 

This is how you make that small bathroom feel bigger. 

Layout Change – Is there a better layout for your bathroom? This bathroom moved the toilet to the entrance and the vanity to the side of the shower.

Doing these two acts gives you a massive shower, hides the toilet and shows off that stunning tiling.

Full Height Tiling – Full height tiling can be your friend. Having a stunning tile and running that boy vertical or in this case a marble look tile to the ceiling shows off either the extra height or the standard height.

3 BASIC TIPS TO FOLLOW

Staying away from small tiling can be the best thing you can do in a small bathroom especially if you want to install it everywhere. Small tiles create a feeling of lines, those lines especially if grouted darker than the tile can be a disaster.

Sliding doors are perfect for small bathrooms. That annoying pivot door can eat into half your bathroom space just by existing. Go SLIDING OR CAVITY to create so much more space in your bathroom area and feel so much larger.

Go LIGHT AND BRIGHT. Everyone will tell you to go light in a small bathroom and this is true but its important to note that getting as much natural light into a space is key. I have created the smallest bathrooms with skylights and big windows but using super dark tiles and I tell you just having natural light makes the world of difference.

Final Thoughts

So you have a small bathroom? So what it just means that the bathroom will be cheaper to renovate! but on a serious note keep it simple when it comes to making small bathrooms feel big.

• As much natural light as possible
• Keep everything floating and curvy 
• Tile to the ceiling with a tile that shows off the standard height of your room as it is as big as every other person’s bathroom that is the key. 

Below are some quick hits for smaller bathrooms to help out some more.

Additionally getting away from shelving and using a shower niche set-up can be a god send with fewer items poking out of your shower you can have a feeling of a much bigger shower.

It is important to understand all our advice is general and it is best to talk to your local renovator. If you have any questions about bathroom renovations please contact us at smallbathroomrenovations@gmail.com or through our contact page.

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