6 small ideals to take advantage of space

Find the perfect design for small bathrooms It can be a difficult task. You know you want a beautiful but functional place. And if you live in a small apartment, this can be something complicated, since finding the best configuration to have a comfortable and cozy bathroom without having to sacrifice space is of the utmost importance. That is why we share 6 ideas of small bathrooms They work wonderfully in any type of department, regardless of whether it is small or big, that will make your home emanate the luxury of a hotel room.

A stone wall like in a garden

The house is located in an old poor neighborhood of Porto, but a neighborhood under construction. «My father is of Portuguese origin and, when I bought the house, I was reconnecting with my paternal roots,» says François Leite. I found this house that had been very renovated, without permission, a few years ago. It was a very dark house, without comfort … «.

A shower (almost) outside

The bathroom opens to the garden, like an outer shower. Open to the living room, its floor rises to the bottom of the walls in a high zoclo and its walls of smooth ceramic tiles give the impression of an outer wall, in the spirit of this old passage. The mirror doors with steel frame melt with the stone wall to give a contemporary touch. They open in both directions, reflecting both surfaces, with the bathroom door reflecting the patio when it opens on the side of the room.

Tips to remember

Transform an old corridor in the bathroom to give the impression of a shower open to nature.

A hidden shower in the Bow Window

We are east of the Butte Montmartre. In a nineteenth -century building, this 40 -square -meter apartment also comes to life for its decoration and luminosity, while benefiting from a rare calm, thanks to its double exposure to the patio. Currently occupied by one of the four founders of Rive Architectes, has been redesigned by its owner and its partner. Initially divided into three bedrooms, it has become an «large open plant», as described by Tom Locatelli, in a «a bit loft style, where everything can be opened and become a single space.»

A bathroom open to the room

The bathroom is Tom Locatelli's favorite room, but also the most unusual. Almisted in an added volume in the mid -twentieth century, which covers the entire height of the building, forms a kind of Bow Window where the shower is located, bathed in light. «We wanted to break the orthogonality of the plant with this ultraluminous bathroom, especially in the morning,» explains the architect, who imagined a «cocoon» surrounded by a transparent oval door that lets the sun pass to the adjoining dining room. The floor, the walls and the roof are finished in a pink waxed concrete envelope to accentuate the softness of the stay. «Concrete is a material that evolves with time and light, providing warmth and a veiled that only he can offer,» concludes Tom Locatelli.

Stripes as a thread

In district 18, the street travels the bottom of the Montmartre cemetery. On the sixth floor, under the roofs, there is a small service room that the architect Anthony Authié, of the Zyva study, has already reformed once, with a totally different vision and experience of architecture, since it was its first project. «I had just left school, I was not done as now, I had done something very simple and I wanted to reinvest it in a dream, design my own hotel: second grade, there is only one room and it's tiny!»

A fun and very personal decoration

Many of the elements are taken more or less literally from the architect's life: the talled sailor jacket of the bathroom is a direct reference to the attire of the Dalton brothers, with which the architect is obsessed.

Tips to be taken into account

Extend the reason for stripes, a red thread here, in black and white in the bathroom, in a style inspired by the Dalton brothers.

The bathroom embedded in a curved partition

We are in Barcelona, ​​in the Barrio de Gracia, a neighborhood with Alma Bohemia, rich in history and culture. The small department, located in a classic building, originally measured 52 square meters, divided into 6 rampant rooms with flat roofs. After their transformation by the architects Isabel Francoy and Anna Enrich and the decorators César Carcaboso and Josep Vicens, founders of Santa Living, has become a diaphanous space with a fluid circulation.