What criteria should be the bathroom furniture? Standard, as one of the main attributes of any bathroom, should accommodate the maximum of things, but be compact and beautiful. Today on the market, on the Internet and specialized stores can be found, if not a million, then certainly several thousand offers of a wide variety of bedside tables. Most often it happens that if a thing like it, it is exorbitantly expensive, and vice versa. If you do not want to put up with such injustice, take the situation under personal control and make the tube under the bath with your own hands!
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Types of bedside tables
Suspended stands
Excellent option for those cases where it is required to save place (and therefore in almost all "old" apartments). This design releases the space on the floor and will provide a comfortable and fast cleaning.
An interesting solution that can be combined with many modern styles - High-tech, minimalism, eco-design, etc. Makes such a tumbler, you will be able to create a convenient and practical interior.
Outdoor vehicles
One of the most common options. The flooring stands for the bathroom perform several tasks at the same time: hide the unsightly communications, are a tabletop and tank for sink, store a lot of necessary things.
Very often, the floor stands are used for ergonomic installation of bulky washing machines. However, for a small bathroom, this option is not suitable, or the dimensions of the bedside tables will correspond to the size of the room and allow only hidden counters, pipes, but put inside the minimum of the necessary things.
Corner Tombs
Corner tubes for the bathroom He became a real salvation for many owners of Khrushchev and Brezhnevkov. The perfect option for saving space - wall-mounted (suspended) corner bedside tables. So you will free the place on the floor where you can put, for example, a basket for linen.
But in the angular bedside table, it will not be possible to hide communication or mount the sink, unless, of course, do not change the standard room layout and do not transfer everything into the angle. But in such a bedside table without tangible harm for free space, you can put anything, starting from the spare toilet paper, ending with a hairdryer or bath facilities.
Preparation
Before going to the store for building materials and start creating a bedside table, you need to deal with a number of questions. If you want your manual furniture to serve you for a long time and delivered only useful pleasure, think over everything to the smallest detail. And it would be nice to begin with awareness that you still need a functional spacious locker under the sink for household chemicals and other integral bathroom attributes or decorative room decoration. Or maybe you just need to hide non-zero tubes under the sink?
Before creating a drawing diagram of a bathroom stands, solve the following questions:
- Harmonious combination with a common room design. If your bathroom is made in light blue colors, there are smooth bends and "soft" design, then a bright orange angular bedside table will not be at all to the place, even if you really like this color. We give another example: the bathroom is made in a magnificent "rich" style - a tile with gold patterns, luxurious carved handles and hangers, a large mirror in a heavy frame ... High-tech bedside table or minimalism will be in this interior of the White Voron.
- The right choice of materials and fittings. We will talk more about materials suitable for the construction of the bathroom couch slightly below. We only note that accessories must be chosen from chrome metal. Legs, handles, hooks are often loaded and are in contact with moisture, so if you do not want to change the plastic gilded "luxury" every six months, take care of quality from the very beginning.
- Competent layout of the bathroom. It means not only the placement of furniture, but also technical moments. For example, if you have a heated floor installed, it is not recommended to build a bedside table with a basement - the simplest stand on the legs is suitable.
Furniture functionality is entirely determined by your needs and preferences. If the bathroom area allows you to "raise", then it is not necessary to do a small tube with a bunch of shelves and drawers. But, again, this is a matter of taste. Let's truth in the eye - there are not so many apartments with spacious bathrooms in the post-Soviet space, so the question of saving space is more relevant. The corner tube for the bathroom perfectly fit into a modest square even in a joint bathroom.
When choosing the design of the future bedside table, you should not forget about your own feelings, because it is for you to use your creation every day.
Choosing materials
Properly selected materials for the construction of something are the key to longevity and reliability. If you have no idea, from which you can build furniture for the bathroom, look at similar products in stores. This is where you can find the starting point for inspiration and ingenious design solutions!
Plates MDF.
In most cases, the bedroom bedside tables (and countertops for kitchens too) are built from MDF plates, since this material is perfectly withstanding permanent contact with moisture and has enviable durability.
MDF Plates are highly pressed wood fibers. The presence of a special binder provides protection against moisture and extraordinary strength. With all this, the material is easy to handle even at home.
Wood
Wooden stands are not as popular as out of MDF, since natural quality material is quite more expensive. A properly treated tree will last as long as lumber with synthetic additives. It is not afraid of moisture and creates the atmosphere of comfort and comfort in the room.
Plastic
Modern analogue of natural building materials, which is suitable for those who want to save a considerable amount. However, you should not expect that the plastic cabinet will look as luxurious and sound like a wooden, even with a very good finish.
The material is not afraid of moisture and is able to serve not one dozen years. If you make an emphasis on the construction of furniture, then plastic is your material. If you want to get a truly beautiful pretty bedside table as a result, that is, it makes sense to look alternative, say, chipboard.
Glass
A glass cabinet for the bathroom can be the subject of real pride of its owner. Make such a thing very difficult, but still really. It is clear that from ordinary window windows, you will not make a tumbler - you need thick and durable glass, which would maintain the load from the sink, shelves and things that are inside. There is such a material that is not suiced, and it is very problematic with it at home. If you are categorically set up and want only a glass cabinet, it is better not to crush your head and buy it in the store.
Combined options
Why limit yourself with something alone if you can combine the most successful quality of materials and make a real masterpiece from them? So, you can make the side walls from an inexpensive lumber, to put the MDF slab on top, and do the doors from the glass. And if you have the unrealized artistic potential in your shower, you can paint on wood, stained glass window or mosaic!
Select location
The place to install the couch also plays a role. Not only the convenience of operation depends on the location, but the durability of the couch and your safety. So, if you put it, say, near the bath itself, you will constantly hit the edge, and couples and splashes will be faster in disrepair.
The perfect location is under the sink. But how to be if the places are quite a bit, and you need to be the table to be the most accomplished? In this case, it is worth thinking about either overpaying and transferring communications to another place, or about the bedside table without a sink (suspended, in the corner, etc.).
If you are just planning to bring communication (build a house), you have a great opportunity to become the master of the perfect bathroom, where everything is thought out to the smallest detail!
Rules for choosing a place for the couch:
- Select a place in accordance with the dimensions of the bedside tables (and on the contrary). To do this, make the calculation and marking of the room and see if you will be convenient. Be sure to "lose" in the imagination at least two options with different positions or different designs of the couch.
- If the cabinet will be built under the sink, it means inside the pipes will be located. Think out this moment so that the pipes do not interfere with the desired number of shelves, and you could easily get to the water gathering or crane.
- If there is bad ventilation in the bathroom, and it is not possible to fix it, you should not make the couch on short legs or "deaf" outdoor options. So you simplify the subsequent cleaning of the room and reduce the risk of moisture stagnation.
- If the bathroom has heated floors, it is also not recommended to put outdoor stands. In this case, the ideal option will be attached design.
Production of cabinets under the sink
So, the drawing is drawn up, materials purchased, the place is indicated. Now you can finally begin directly building the bedside tables. On this example, we describe how you can make an elementary, but very beautiful and practical outdoor sink tube.
Required tools and materials:
- mDF plates for table top and the scene itself (sidewalls, rear wall, bottom, shelves);
- tile mosaic;
- drill;
- electric jigsaw;
- fastenings (corners, screws);
- paper (old wallpaper);
- latex moisture-resistant glue;
- toothed spatula;
- grout for tiles.
Progress:
- First of all, it is necessary to make the tumba self without top (countertops). Create a box with fasteners inside for the shelves, hang the doors on the loop or make drawers - as you are more convenient. In the case of drawers, problems may occur because communication (hot and cold water pipes, plums) will be located inside the tubes. Therefore, if you do not have the necessary experience or simply do not want to "bother", make ordinary shelves.
- In the back wall of the bedside table, drill holes for communications. If the pipes go out of the floor, drill the bottom of the couch.
- Install the cabinet on the legs. By the way, the suspended cabinet differs from the outdoor only by the method of fixation. Outdoor relies on legs, suspended - on mounts in the wall. You can experiment and make a second option, screwing down at least 2 durable angular mounts on each side of the bedside table.
- Now you can do the tabletop itself. To make a hole under the sink in the MDF plate, it is necessary to transfer the sink size 1: 1 on paper, cut around the circle and circle the area on the plate obtained by "pattern". But often when installing the master, it is preferred not to make unnecessary gestures, but simply turn the sink up the bottom, put it on the stove, roll and cut out with an electric bike. Decide yourself, what option is more convenient for you. If the sink is heavy, you can make a tabletop of 2-plates.
- Install the tabletop on the end and screw it with an angular mounting from the inside. The gap between the stove and sink fill with silicone or any other sealant. Connect communication.
- This stage will especially like creative parts, so if you have kids, you can safely fill them to work! Purley the tabletop and walls of the mosaic tiles.
- After sticking the mosaic, treat the surface of the grout. Wait for drying and enjoy the fruits of your work. Such a bedside table will serve you not one year.
You can use both the finished mosaic tile and the tiled battle, a river pebble, a sharpening glass and any other durable materials.
Just imagine what beauty can be created from ordinary stones that are fully on any banks of the river! Beautiful, durable and completely free!
