5 Design Tricks Bathroom Experts Use To Create Privacy
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- 17 Jun 2022
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Adding privacy to a bathroom is essential, especially when you are trying to master the art of serenity in a shared space.
The bathroom is also the wettest room in the house, making the choice of materials an issue. Room dividers, well-placed screens and steel-framed glazing will allow you to create a wide range of clever and inspiring ways to make your bathing space more private.
Essentially the midway point between open plan and traditional separate rooms, a room divider is the separation of rooms, either partly or temporarily. Think: screens, partitions, and even the intelligent use of window treatments.
We've asked the experts for their favorite bathroom ideas that utilize the best privacy design tricks, and show how a partition can be adapted to work in just about any bathroom.
1. MAKE AN ENTRANCE
Today’s bathrooms are increasingly seen as more than purely functional spaces. With some careful thought, they can be designed as restful retreats for relaxing at the end of a busy day or in times of stress, and as centers of wellbeing in our homes where we can recharge. With this in mind, design starts from the door, which can aid sound proofing and mark a change in mood.
‘By creating an impressive entrance, we can evoke the feeling of arriving in a luxury bathroom, closing the door on the noise of the world and enjoying a sense of calm and privacy,’ says Helen Bygraves of Hill House Interiors(opens in new tab), who has recently clad a set of double doors in luxurious diamond-stitched leather for this reason.
2. CREATE A PRIVATE ZONE
Interior designer recommends using a floor-to-ceiling wall of ribbed glass as a room divider between bedroom and ensuite to let the light flow through the spaces. ‘It makes a design feature with its alternate panels of horizontal and vertical ribbed glass and black framing, and offers some privacy in the bathroom,’ she explains.
3. LOOK FOR A SHOWER SCREEN
‘While a clear glass shower screen is always an elegant choice, choosing a frosted, tinted or fluted glass screen will elevate the space to the next level and also give you an unobtrusive yet stylish way to create some privacy.
Fluted glass offers a modern take on vintage style, while frosted, acid-etched decorative and tinted glass options in bronze, grey to black and other colors are also available, with different levels of opacity. Frosted glass and sandblasted glass modesty panels typically offer the most privacy. Read More...
