Toilet accessories: types and selection

When you make repairs in your apartment, then most often you try to adhere to a single concept in the arrangement of the interior. Accessories play an important role in creating comfort. In our today's article, we will introduce you to toilet accessories: their varieties, features of choice and use in different interior styles.

Since a toilet is a room that has its own specifics, and besides, it is most often small in area, accessories for it have their own characteristics. Let's consider them.

• Any bathroom - combined or separate, is a room with a high level of humidity. Based on this, one should carefully consider the choice of materials from which the accessories will be made. For example, textiles and untreated wood will not last long in such conditions. But plastic, metal, glass or wooden (processed) things will come in handy.
• Minimum items, maximum functionality - this is what should be the starting point for you when choosing accessories for the toilet. You must clearly understand what is really useful for you in this room, and what you can do without.

Well, now let's find out what toilet accessories can be found on sale these days.

• Ruff with a glass. It is not necessary to acquaint anyone with him in detail - he is in every home. It can be placed both on the floor (floor) and on the wall (hinged).

• Toilet paper holder. This accessory is made of various materials and can be of any color. Most preferred are chrome-plated paper holders. They often come with a wall-mounted toilet brush.

• Trash can. Many people choose to throw used toilet paper and sanitary bags into the trash cans in the bathroom. The peculiarity of such a bucket is that it must be hermetically closed in order to prevent the penetration of unpleasant odors into the room, and have a foot pedal to open the lid.

• Floor mat. This product has both a decorative, aesthetic and a practical function. It is much more pleasant to put your bare feet not on cold tiles, but on a warm and soft surface. When choosing such a rug, make sure it has a non-slip base.

• Multifunctional 3-in-1 floor stand. A very handy little thing that allows you to organize space and save space in the toilet. Includes a brush, paper holder and air freshener stand. Since the product is placed on the floor, it does not require drilling the walls for installation, which is also an indisputable advantage. Made of stainless steel. It has a modern stylish appearance and rather compact dimensions, so it will fit into any interior.

• If you are the owner of a spacious toilet room with a bidet installed in it, you should be interested in such an accessory as dispenser - a special container with a dispensing lid for storing liquid hygiene products. At first it may seem that he is not needed at all, but this will be a mistake. Let's explain our point of view: all these products are available in different bottles, the appearance of which sometimes leaves much to be desired.

• Holder for newspapers, books and magazines or magazine rack. A lot of people like to read on the toilet. This accessory was invented for such book-readers. It comes in two types: wall-mounted and floor-mounted. The floor-standing version is often complemented by shelves for toilet paper and air freshener. Made from materials such as textiles (floor bag), processed wood, rattan, chrome, plastic. The wall holder requires drilling the walls for installation, but such a magazine rack is often chosen by people whose bathroom area is very small.

The most common materials for making toilet accessories are:

• chrome-plated stainless steel;
• ceramics;
• glass;
• plastic;
• processed wood.

The color range of such products is extensive:

• the most commonly used shades of the sea: blue, blue, blue-green, Tiffany;

• those who decorate the toilet in minimalistic monochrome can choose accessories in white, black, gray and metallic colors;

• if you like muted classics, take a look at products in beige, milky, light brown with gold patterns;

• bright accessories (red, orange, purple, yellow) will be an excellent accent color in the interior of the toilet room.

The choice of bathroom accessories is based on the same principles that you rely on when choosing accessories for the rest of the rooms, namely:

• combination of selected items with each other and compliance with the chosen design concept;
• ease of care;
• functionality: it is advisable to purchase accessories "3 in 1" in order to save useful space;
• a specific requirement related to the characteristics of the room is moisture resistance.

The toilet should not stand out from the general style of the apartment, which means that we are learning to design it in accordance with it.

• Style eco the use of natural materials and natural colors is inherent, therefore we choose accessories from rattan, treated wood or woven unpainted fabric. The floor mat can be sand or green (depending on the color of the tiles).

• Monochrome colors, metal details, fancy or, conversely, deliberately simple shapes - most likely, your bathroom is decorated in style hi-tech, minimalism or modern.

• Cozy country and charming Provence suggest the use of artificially aged, vintage ceramic or wood accessories. A very useful floor mat, stylized as woven from straw.

• Registration classic style carried out by selecting items made in the old palace style. Monograms, gilding, white basic color will be very appropriate.

Before you purchase and start placing accessories in the toilet room, you must make careful measurements and determine its location for each item, so that later you do not puzzle over where to put this or that thing, so that it is both beautiful and convenient. There are several guidelines for this:

• If you are hanging a magazine rack, paper holder, air freshener or dispenser shelf on the wall, make sure not to hit it and hit it over and over again;
• sit on the toilet and make sure that everything you need will be available to you at arm's length;
• if your bathroom is equipped with a bidet, hang a towel next to it, making sure that it does not fall there, accidentally falling off the hook, and that it will be convenient for you to reach it.

See the video below for a description of the toilet accessories.