TRICKS AND TIPS ON PLACES YOU CAN TRANSFORM INTO STORAGE SPACES
A common request we receive from our clients at the start of an interior design project for an apartment or house is to optimize the space and create effective storage solutions. This is the main requirement in all interior design projects for apartments and houses.
At the same time, everyone wants their space to look as airy as possible.
In most interior designs, bathrooms have small surfaces, in which, in addition to the usual sanitary objects, as many storage spaces as possible must be integrated. Thus, in the interior design project for most apartments, bathrooms and storage spaces, a specific approach is required.
To optimize the space in bathrooms, we resort to a series of interior design “Secrets” and “tricks”.
We have a rectangular bathroom (interior design house).
In order to fully respect the beneficiary’s desires in terms of interior design theme, we incorporated in this bathroom, in addition to the free standing bathtub, a walk-in shower and a washbasin with a generous countertop. The space that remained for storage was almost insignificant due to its small size.
Thus, to obtain storage spaces, while maintaining the airy appearance of the bathroom, we resorted to the following trick:
HERE’S HOW: creating a rectangular niche in the drywall wall where the toilet cistern is recessed. The niche serves as a storage space for accessories and decorative items.
PLUS: The coherence of the wall’s design is maintained, it does not visually burden the space, it integrates perfectly into the interior design concept of the house.
EXTRA STORAGE: under the sink countertop, create storage units with drawers to optimize space and achieve a fluent and airy layout.
IDEA: Even though the space did not allow a countertop of the same width, in order not to give up storage, we chose to continue to the left and right of the sink with two units with a smaller depth, to use the space as efficiently as possible.
Interior design – Small bathrooms – studio bathroom –
One of the recently completed interior design projects – the transformation of a studio into two rooms – taught us that in small spaces you need to consider the use of every corner.
Thus, in line with the studio’s interior design, the bathroom also “sacrificed” some of its initially allocated space.
The interior design proposed for the studio transformed a classic bathroom into a practical one, optimized for a rental apartment.
Since it is a narrow bathroom, there was no space for storage units. The solution found following the interior design project consisted of transforming the space above the sink and the niche for the buried tank allocated to the mirror into storage spaces.
IDEAS for interior design bathroom: – the mirror has a cabinet behind it for cosmetic storage
TRICK for interior design bathroom: the free space between the storage body and the tank mask can be covered with a mirror on the back, to create visual continuity.
COLORS for interior design bathroom: using bright colors, with the mirror creating a dynamic effect.
MUST HAVE – a must-have in bathroom interior design this season, when it comes to storage, is the use of wooden ladders. They have a decorative role but are also practical at the same time.
Whether it is a ladder to place over the washing machine, or a freestanding one, ladders/shelves could be an attractive element in any bathroom interior design.
Another trick which helps optimize the space, in a bathroom design where the desire was to maintain the “airy” interior arrangement aspect, was to transform the resulting space between a pillar and the wall into a storage area with shelves.
For furniture, we used a sink with storage underneath, and a mirror with a raised frame, which serves as a shelf for cosmetics.
HERE’S HOW – bathroom interior design – use closed storage, in the form of vertical “soldiers”, to avoid visually cluttering the space
Interior design tricks for very small bathrooms
Make the most of the space under the sink – drawers for storage
Choose a mirror with a shelf/edge for storage
Create a niche above the toilet to store decorations.