Swedish site Alcro has a great inspiration gallery that's especially strong in the bathroom category. Clicking through, we found a few ideas, like storing extra towels high up in cubbies and using a step stool to reach them. Click below for more...
The floating shelves and long mirror compliment each other well in this bathroom. We also like the towel bars on the front of the sink.
This bathroom makes use of a common entryway setup: a low bench with hooks above. Unlike most American showers, this one doesn't use a curtain or door.
A mirror with a built-in shelf is a more minimal take on the traditional medicine cabinet. We also love how the tile moves from the recessed shower onto the bathroom wall.
Rather than a regular bathmat, this room uses a low step stool. To see the entire gallery, click here.
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Comments (7)
A mirror with a shelf is a more minimal take on a traditional medicine cabinet.... until you realize how many toiletries you need to have easy access to on a daily basis, and you're stuck cramming it all onto a tiny little shelf, in full view, since you don't have a medicine cabinet!
Any source for the sink/counter combos on the photo with the stripey bag sitting on a wooden bench?
not to mention the shelf is a dust and grime collector....and you try to take one item off the shelf and knock down three more....nice in theory....horrible for real-life. Love the floating shelves though and the blue/green tile.....oh my kingdom for a house!
Does anyone have a bathroom that's anywhere near the size of these rooms? Also thinking taht the bathroom with double showers and a bench reminds me of a camping bathroom. They look very similar, but have shower curtains....
well, just to correct the image that Europe is free of shower curtains or doors - they are the rule here, too.
and the bathrooms rarely are this big around here, either. i know precisely one house with a bathroom like that, and i do know my share of houses ... :-D these clearly are ideal rooms, like mag shots. i still do like them, but as it has been said before, they need a few additions to become useable and every day proof. (using a step stool to get into - and out of - a tub sounds like an accident waiting to happen, actually.)
I have loved the open shower method since I saw it on this old house a long time ago.
I would love to redo the bathroom in the place I am going to buy someday so that there is no tub but a full shower with a tile bench/seat.
The bathroom with hooks is some sort of institutional setting -note the soap dispensers-.
Shelf is a bad idea.
So is putting towels up high where the steam will just make a moldy mess..
I like the long mirror and the green tile.
I have a fairly large bathroom, but there almost no free wall space or free floor space. Wish I did. There are some terrific ideas there.
I just finished renovating two generic 5x8 rooms that came with hideous prefab shower/tub stalls.
The master bath main wall ran parallel to the house's exterior wall, but it seemed like there was a lot of extra space trapped behind it. There was. Enough to cut the wall back 18" AND add a 12" built-in.
Just like staircases, bathrooms placed on out edges often have space you can easily reclaim.