Choose what to finish the walls in the toilet

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

How to decorate the walls of the toilet

Materials for wall decoration in the toilet are selected in accordance with the general view of the apartment in style and color. This is the part of the house where it should be beautiful, cozy and comfortable enough. Everyone wants to create chic and exclusive in such a small room.

What is better to use materials for decorating the walls of the toilet, which design to choose, the article will tell.

Features of wall decoration in the toilet

To finish the walls in the toilet, it will take not too much time and not big financial costs, which is associated with the small area of ​​the room. But the toilet is a specific room where special requirements must be presented to the repair so that it is aesthetic and practical.

In the presence of high humidity, you should especially carefully approach the choice of materials in order to properly finish the walls in the toilet.

Some tips before carrying out repairs in this room:

• Its space can be visually enlarged using an integrated drain barrel. For its installation, preliminary preparation of the walls will be required, and it is better to mount it under the plaster.
• When preparing the room, you need to pay attention to wiring.
• Remove condensation in the riser.
• Mount the hood correctly. If its installation is delayed, many unpleasant problems can arise during the repair.
• Treat the walls with special impregnation from the fungus.
• Glossy surface helps to widen the room, and matte adds coziness.
• Skirting board must be purchased with a secret mount.
• It is not necessary to apply more than two different types of coating at the same time when decorating a room.
• According to Feng Shui, the color of the walls of the toilet should be in pastel colors. You can use white or black, and then they make bright patterns on the wall in the toilet.
• It is advisable to replace the existing pipes with new ones.

Tip: At the beginning of the repair, the walls of the toilet room should be finished, and then the ceiling.

To cover the walls can be used:

• Ceramic tileoccurs most often. It is very practical, visually attractive, but at the same time the most expensive, with complex installation material.
• Wall panels in the toilet room made of plastic or lining are the best option for such a room.
• Wallpaper. The price of the material is the lowest, but at the same time the walls of the toilet will not be very practical.
• Combined materials. The following combinations are commonly used:

1. the bottom is made of tiles, and the top is made of plastic or wallpaper;
2. the bottom is PVC, and the top is wallpaper.

At the same time, the performer chooses the level of the border between the bottom and top at his discretion. From what to make walls in the toilet, each owner determines for himself, but here should be comfortable and always clean.

How to decorate a toilet with plastic panels

This is one of the common ways that walls and ceilings in a toilet are finished (see Do-it-yourself toilet decoration with plastic panels: features and installation).

Material Advantages:

• High strength and durability. It does not corrode in a humid environment.
• The color of the panels is not lost for a long period of time.
• Large selection of PVC panels, they can imitate many decorative materials: marble of the most different colors and shades, silk, bamboo, wood, abstract drawing.
• Just look after: there is no need to exert great efforts and purchase expensive products, plastic can be wiped with a damp sponge dampened in a neutral detergent, and then wiped dry with a cloth.
• Glossy panels allow you to visually expand the room.

Tip: Using a darker shade of panels in the corners of the toilet room makes it original and creates a sense of perspective.

• All work can be done with your own hands. When decorating with plastic walls do not require careful alignment of the walls.
• Panels are available in different widths., this makes it possible to create a seamless surface finish.

Features of the installation of the material:

• From a wooden bar or a metal profile, a crate is arranged. Plastic panels are fixed with a stapler and staples. A neat transition between adjacent walls and beautifully designed top panels help end and corner elements, as in the photo.

Installation of plastic panels in the toilet

• To create an ideal vertical wall, control must be carried out by level.
• Installation of skirting boards completes the repair work.
• Installation of panels can be performed in any direction and at an arbitrary angle.
• If we finish the walls of the toilet with plastic panels, it is possible to hide all the pipes behind them, without making any serious construction work.

The lack of material is the fragility of the panels. From careless maintenance or bumps they burst.

How to decorate the walls with tiles

Such material is not afraid of mechanical stress. With it, you can implement a variety of ideas, which allows you to make a large selection of tiles in texture, color and size. This is a fairly durable material, which can create an original finish thanks to the friezes produced with tiles (see Tiling the toilet: installation recommendations).

Tiled toilet

Tip: High-quality tiling of the toilet room requires a certain experience, for this you need to invite a qualified specialist. Before laying the material, carefully prepare the surfaces.

Instructions for laying tiles and preparing the surface:

• When preparing the walls, it is necessary to carry out several stages:

1. smoothing surfaces with plaster (see Alignment of walls with plaster according to all the rules);
2. putty;
3. primer.

• In the presence of risers, it is necessary to make a protective screen on the wall in the toilet of drywall.
• Stacked material. For this:

1. a layer of mortar is applied to the wall;
2. the composition is applied to the back of the tile;
3. the tile is firmly pressed against the wall.

Tip: To obtain beautiful seams, you should use special crosses, they are removed after the solution dries.

• Butt joints are carefully filled with special grout.

How to decorate a wall with a mosaic

The main advantage of the mosaic is the ability to decorate walls that have rounded shapes.

Besides:

• The material is durable.
• The elements fixed on a grid or paper are well combined with each other, which allows them to create unusual patterns.

Mosaic for walls

• The most common form of elements is small squares, but they can be:

1. circles;
2. triangles.

• The material has a wide range in color, patterns.
• If desired, the manufacture of mosaics can be ordered with a specific pattern.

The material is laid similarly to tile. Mosaic is made by rolls, the basis of which is a grid. When chipping one of the elements of the canvas, it can simply be fixed on the wall with liquid nails.

Material disadvantages:

• High cost of work.
• A lot of time is needed for preparatory operations and styling.

Features of decorative wall painting

Painted walls in the toilet are becoming increasingly popular. Currently there are a large number of very different decorative paints.

In addition, as an addition, you can choose a wonderful decoration option that can be applied through a stencil, by rolling the image. Without decoration, the wall will look primitive. In this case, you can even make wall decorations from rolls of toilet paper.

Toilet paper wall decorations

The moisture inherent in the room can cause cracking and peeling of the paint.

Good surface quality can only be obtained after thorough preparation:

• Plaster leveling.
• Application of starting and then finishing putty.
• Primers before each new stage of wall decoration.

Tip: To save materials, painting walls should be combined with tile or plastic panels.

How to use moisture-proof wallpaper and oilcloth in the toilet

Using wallpaper or photo wallpaper (see What you can choose a wallpaper for the toilet) You can issue a toilet with an unusual and original interior. For example, when decorating the end wall with panoramic wallpaper, the dimensions of the room visually expand. But, simple wallpapers from regular cleaning wear out very quickly, they are short-lived.

Moisture-proof wallpaper in the toilet

More durable water-resistant wallpaper, which can replace the oilcloth for the walls in the toilet.

To use them, you need to properly prepare the walls:

• To clear of dust.
• Primer.
• Putty.
• Primer again.

Further:

• Apply glue to the surface of the wall and the back of oilcloth or wallpaper.
• Materials are glued strictly vertically and carefully leveled with a special roller.

When choosing material for the bathroom, you need to consider the size of the room, your desires and capabilities. How is the construction of the walls of the toilet, the further design of the entire room, prompt the video in this article.