Many modern toilets sit parallel to and against the back wall, these are called “wall faced” or “back to wall” toilets.Another good rule of thumb is to avoid narrow, hard to reach spots. The less corners, ridges, edges, seams, grout, touch-points, cluttered space, the less there is to clean! This means for modern, easy clean bath design, the first step you can take is to find and fit products that have less to worry about.Īs a general rule of thumb, the simpler the product and the more seamless, the better it is for cleaning. It couldn’t be truer for clean-friendly bathroom design. The best way to approach creating an easy to clean bathroom is to start with the fundamentals, perhaps best summarised with the phrase: Less is more. Leslie & Tony’s bathroom pictured above has a lot less to clean than most bathrooms. Weak exhaust systems that can hardly extract a puff through their dust clogged vents, let alone moisture, so it settles where it shouldn’t.Very small tiles, and thus excessive grout, another magnet for grime and stains.Heavily framed shower screens that seem to be a magnet for grime, moulding and stain build up, especially near and around the frame.
Toilets with plastic cisterns that discolour in a matter of days, becoming an unpleasant shade of yellow after so many years.Floor standing vanities with stained, water damaged edges where the cabinet meets the floor.It doesn’t help that most existing bathrooms have undesirable features such as: It’s not fun spending time cleaning your bathroom, grout can get really moldy in the shower, the shower screen keeps collecting grime, and getting in behind the toilet to scrub is certainly not something we aspire to do. Reduce the yucky things with your bathroom design What should you avoid having in the bathroom? Lets start with the first principle of cleanliness: This shower area is from our inspiration #77, would you intuitively think it's easy to clean? Imagine having a mold free, pleasant looking, fresh smelling bathroom! It’s certainly possible, and surprisingly simple. Modern, low maintenance and easy to clean bathroom design can be pretty simple, for both renovations and new homes. Saving time, reducing cleaning headaches, keeping it mold-resistant, hygienic and ensuring you get to do better things. Keeping a bathroom easy to clean can be very valuable: Left: What we’re very familiar with Right: Good looking and easy to clean!
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