Features of choice and location
A few nuances of choice:
- The cabinet is selected in accordance with the size of the room. For example, for a small toilet room in an apartment, small structures or narrow models located above the toilet are best suited.
- In a spacious toilet combined with a bath, you can install a larger overall hinged structure, cabinet or pencil case.
- Do not choose too wide products that will hang over your head. The most optimal and harmonious option are cabinets with a width of 20 cm.
- It is also undesirable to save on accessories and prefer high-quality and proven products.
Types of toilet lockers
There are a large number of cabinets with various operational parameters and appearance.
Mounted
It is a universal solution for a miniature room, where it is most often located above the toilet. Similar hanging furniture items on the mounting plate, have a wide variety of sizes, depth, content and stylistic performance.
Built in
It features a fairly compact design, easily fits into the interior space and provides convenient access to content.
Floor
It is a freestanding model, which can be equipped with legs, open or closed shelves.
Retractable
These multifunctional products allow us to save usable area and are therefore particularly suitable for designing a small toilet. Roll-out cabinets are often located near the toilet, which is very convenient.
Open shelves in the toilet
Such designs add a special style and comfort to the atmosphere and are mainly used to place various decor, for example, it can be a vase with flowers, wicker baskets, jars of cream or soap and so on.
Rack
It is a compact and ergonomic furniture element that can add multifunctionality even to the smallest room. Forged shelves are distinguished by a particularly spectacular appearance, which not only represent a beautiful and elegant product, but are also suitable for storing towels, napkins and other hygiene products.
Case cabinet
Enough roomy and at the same time not taking up a lot of space, the pencil case, thanks to the shelves installed along the entire length, allows you to place all the necessary household accessories inside.
With doors
This option has various sizes, installation method and design. Wardrobes with hinged or sliding doors, perfectly hide all the contents and contribute to the creation of a neat interior.
With roller shutters
It can be a model with rolling doors, which is a practical option for a small room and allows you to save additional space or a cabinet with louvred doors, which provides excellent ventilation for internal contents.
Purpose of the closet in the toilet
The main types of appointment:
- Plumbing. It is used to close pipes, meters or a boiler and thereby adds to the room more attractiveness and accuracy. Plumbing hatch, provides free access to communications or a water riser for repair or cleaning. In addition, appliances hidden in drywall, wood or plastic construction have a longer life and less condensate and dust.
- Economic. It can have enough overall dimensions and represent a kind of pantry for a mop, broom, rags, buckets, basins or storage of other household items used in the household.
- Decorative. It performs an exclusively decorative function, may have a very interesting design, the original color of the wings, a glossy or glass facade through which neatly placed decorations will be visible.
A design with a specific purpose not only differs in practical function, but also allows you to create a pretty nice design.
Options for the location of cabinets in the bathroom
Most popular solutions.
Closet behind the toilet
A convenient closet behind the toilet provides an excellent storage system for toilet paper, towels, a freshener and other little things.
Thanks to this arrangement, it turns out to free up space on the cabinet with a sink or shelves, which can be decorated using another beautiful decor.
Over installation
Such a solution will be an excellent addition to the toilet, which does not overload or clutter up the room. This arrangement not only allows you to hide communications, but also provides a sufficient amount of space for filling with other necessary things.
Hidden
It has a very aesthetic appearance and due to the front part, which is in harmony and merges with the walls in the interior, it creates the feeling of a holistic plane, behind which there is actually a secret cabinet with a lot of things. Quite often, when decorating the toilet with tiles, the doors of the hidden box are also decorated with identical cladding.
Side
It perfectly complements the atmosphere and, due to its thin and light forms, does not overload the space. This element of furniture may differ left or right-handed arrangement.
Angular
It is considered the most suitable option for small toilet rooms, which can be located in any corner of the room. Two corner shelves installed on both sides of the toilet will look very organic.
In a niche
Such products are equipped only with shelves and doors, and the rear and side walls represent the niche itself.
Design of a small closet toilet
A small toilet room is equipped with narrow shelves that take up space over the toilet flank, or a side wall or mini-models, with open or closed shelves that look very harmonious and neat.
Quite often, products with mirror facades are used here, which allow visually increasing the dimensions of the room. Such cabinets do not contribute to cluttering up the space, give the atmosphere special ease and can radically change the design of the room.
How to make a cabinet?
In the color scheme for the cabinet, you can choose from delicate white, beige, blue pastel colors that are perfect for a small toilet, as well as brighter and more contrasting green, red, black shades that will form a catchy accent in the interior and thereby also create the appearance of an additional open space.
Models made of colored, acrylic plastic or frosted, transparent glass look very interesting and original, as well as metal structures, which are often used for a loft style toilet room.
A rather unusual design is distinguished by home-made cabinets or products decorated with drawings, 3D images or photo printing, which are suitable for a toilet in almost any style direction. An even greater effect can be achieved by equipping the structure with the help of a backlight that automatically turns on when the doors are opened.
Photo gallery
The closet in the toilet is an equally useful and unique element of furniture, which undoubtedly becomes a harmonious part of the entire interior and creates the effect of a completed design.