Finishing a bathroom in a wooden house: ideas for repair and design

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

Finishing in the bathroom in a wooden house

Despite the natural texture of wood, which in itself is an excellent finishing material, the design of a timber or log house also needs creative ideas. Particular attention associated with high humidity, require premises associated with the use of water, and therefore the question: "How to finish a bathroom in a wooden house?" - never loses relevance.

Having offered video and photos for clarity, we will tell you how to make its interior not only original, but also practical, preserving the special atmosphere that exists only in a house built of wood.

Wooden walls: finish

In private houses, where the area of ​​bathrooms is not less than the area of ​​the kitchen or bedroom, and even often have windows, the issue of high humidity is not as acute as in apartments. If the wooden structures are properly treated, steam will not harm them - especially if the room can be ventilated.

So:

• The design of such a room may well be based on the decorative surface treatment of logs or beams, from which the walls are erected. The exception is the zones where water directly gets - there, nevertheless, ceramic tiles are needed. That is why the combined decoration of wooden walls (see Wall decoration in a wooden house: simple and tasteful) is so popular: it’s practical in operation, and there are more than enough possibilities for design.

Log home: wood and mosaic in the bathroom

About how to prepare walls for tiling, we will tell a little later, but for now we will consider several options for finishing the surface of wooden walls.

Decorative wood

It makes sense to talk about decorative processing of the wooden surface of load-bearing walls only if calibrated wood was used for the construction of houses. It is characterized by more accurate dimensions, as well as minimal deviation from the longitudinal axis.

Walls erected from logs or beams of this quality are obtained not only smooth, but also quite smooth. Price home decorationbuilt of calibrated wood, as a rule, is minimal, and well compensates for the cost of buying expensive building material. Most often, the process of decorating it comes down to grinding and tinting.

Grinding

In general, polishing is not an obligatory element, it all depends on the level of aesthetics that the design of the room involves. This is a rather time-consuming process, but a sanded surface looks incomparably better than with planed or rounded wood.

• Indeed, even if the log is smooth, there are always cracks and chips on its surface. In addition, the top layer of wood tends to darken under the influence of ultraviolet radiation and the microorganisms present in it until it is treated with an antiseptic.

Grinding a log wall

• Grinding is one of the methods of decorating wooden structures, as well as lining material, and allows you to save their surface from all of the above disadvantages. When removing the upper darkened layer in all its glory, the texture inherent in the rock is exposed, each vein is visible.

There is also a practical benefit: after the grinding procedure, the consumption of protective and tinting compounds will significantly decrease - and this, with their considerable cost, means a lot. Sanding the walls with your own hands, given the relatively small dimensions of the room, is not so difficult. To do this, you just need to purchase the most inexpensive grinding machine.

Tinting

There is probably a “thousand and one” way of giving wood the desired shade. It can, of course, be painted using opaque oil or alkyd paints.

And, in general, sometimes designers make just such a decision. With such staining, the tree pattern is not visible, and so that the wall does not look like a siding sheathing, some additional decoration options should be used, for example, an intervening cord.

So:

• For this reason, wood, for the most part, is not painted, but tinted - that is, it changes its color through the use of transparent compounds. Thanks to this operation, you can make the color of the log or board more uniform, emphasize the texture and make the natural shade more saturated.

Bathroom in a timber house: tinted wood and cork tiles

• The tone can be made darker, which will allow you to hide minor defects on the surface, or even give the tree an unusual tone. After appropriate processing, inexpensive wood may look like valuable. The craquelure effect is also in fashion today - when the surface is artificially aged.
• In previous years, wood was tinted mainly with organic dyes, which were made from plant components. In fact, these are various decoctions and tinctures from the roots and bark of trees, sawdust, nuts and their peel. They are used now, and for those who want to have an environmentally friendly finish, there is always an instruction on the Internet.
• With the help of vegetable stains, you can achieve almost any shade - the main thing is to find the necessary raw materials. With the advent on the market of aniline dyes, enthusiasts who want to make decoctions on their own have significantly reduced. Many today prefer to use ready-made factory-made tints, which are enough to dilute in hot water.

Aniline tinted log walls

• The tinting process is quite simple: before finishing the bathroom in a wooden house, the surface of the walls is moistened with water, after which it is treated with a sponge or a hair brush moistened with a solution. This procedure is repeated at least three times, trying not to leave streaks that leave traces.
• If your house, for example, is a frame-panel, walls can be sheathed with a lining that simulates the shape of a bar or board. But it is better to paint it in advance, even before installation. After toning, the surface of the tree is smoothed again - now no longer with a grinding wheel or sandpaper, but with some coarse-haired material.

After the tinting procedure or even instead of it, the wood can be coated with wax or soaked in oil. These are the best ways to protect it from moisture, ultraviolet rays, drying out and, as a result, deformation. Treated in this way, the tree ceases to absorb odors and for many years does not require decorative updating.

Preparation of bases for adhesive cladding

So, with the process of ennoblement of wooden structures figured out. Now we’ll make it clear how to properly prepare the wooden walls for tiling, because the flooring in the bathroom, as well as the areas around the bathtub and washbasins, must be airtight.

• Tiles are not laid on wood. Yes, this is impossible, since the tile does not have a solid support on the spherical surface of the log wall. In order to create this very support, that part of the walls, which is supposed to be faced with ceramic tiles, needs to be sheathed with some moisture-resistant material.

Tiled wall decoration of a wooden house

• It is best if they are slabs of DSP (cement-bonded), LSU (glass-magnesite), or OSP (wood-polymer) sheets. Although, you can also take moisture-resistant plywood or gypsum fiberboard (gypsum sheets). All of these materials have the necessary strength and water resistance, which will allow you to mount ceramic tiles on glue.
• If you prefer traditional tiling over the entire height, or when building the house you used ordinary uncalibrated wood, wall cladding can be done completely. As for the floor, in wooden houses it is in any case sheathed with one or another type of material that we are talking about.
• Floors (see Floor finish: types of material) and ceilings in many private houses, and not only wooden, beam, and such cladding is included in the list of technological installation operations. In interfloor ceilings, sheet materials are used both for arranging the floor of the upper room and for hemming the ceiling below.

Wood wallcovering

• By and large, the sheathing process is similar in all cases. First, a crate of bars or battens is installed, which allows you to bring uneven surfaces into a single plane, if necessary, a heater is laid in it and the whole structure is closed with sheet material.

The structure of the frame and the number of fastenings of the material depend on the size of the sheets and the width of the heat-insulating material, if used. The need for insulation is another good reason for lining wooden walls. And it is not necessary to glue the tiles on the walls.

Other finishes

Almost any kind of decoration can be performed on the sheet sheathing of wooden walls: mosaics (see Mosaic cladding - all the subtleties of installation and design), gypsum stone lining, installation of 3D panels, wallpapering.

By the way, for bathrooms use wallpaper with an icon on which three waves are depicted, which means: super washable (especially resistant). For combined decoration in a spacious bathroom, this is a very good choice.

So:

• One of the commonly used options for finishing wooden walls is plastering on insulation. It can be either one of the types of decorative plastering, or warm plaster, which also has an interesting granular texture due to the fractional filler. An example of such a finish is given below.

Decorative plaster and tile in the bathroom

• In such cases, high-density polystyrene plates are used as heat-insulating material, and in order to keep the plaster screed on them, the surface is pasted over with a fiberglass mesh with a large cell. Finishing the bathroom in a wooden house can be done with the help of panel cladding.
• Classic wood panels are used only if the bathroom is decorated in any style, but cork panels or small-format tiles - for the bathroom, what you need. This is an expensive material, since cork finishing materials are produced in European countries. The cost of a tile of the format 150 * 150 * 13 mm is about 170 rubles. a piece.
• And, nevertheless, there are quite a few people who can afford it. But such a coating looks wonderful: even on the floor, even on the walls. In one of the pictures above, you can see the option of decorating the walls with cork tiles at the bottom of the walls.

Option for a spacious bathroom: brick tiles and plasterboard with painting

And yet, when it comes to the bathroom, no cork will overshadow the popularity of ceramic tiles. In great fashion, options are now imitating the textures of materials such as stone, wood and brick.

Moreover, not only their textures and natural shades are imitated, but also the shape of these finishing materials.For example, tile under a tree can be difficult to distinguish in appearance from a parquet board.

Ceiling in a wooden house

Speaking about the decoration of the bathroom, one cannot but pay attention to the ceilings (see Ceiling options: traditional and new) What is the most preferable option in a wooden house?

Here it is already necessary to make a decision based on the general concept of the interior:

• If on the walls you decide to fully or partially decorate the supporting structures, it would be logical to do the same on the ceiling. And yet, you need to focus on the design features of the ceiling or roof - depending on where the bathrooms are located.

Ceiling of wooden slats

• When the bathroom is located on the ground floor of the house or in the basement, the ceiling there is usually flat and differs only in that the base is not concrete, but a base. In this situation, the rack ceiling will look most harmonious. Reiki can be both wooden and aluminum, but stylized as wood.
• For those who do not know: this is one of the options for a suspended ceiling, where decorative battens are suspended on a subsystem of aluminum profiles. All elements, coupled with ceiling rails, are sold as a set from the manufacturer and are cut in the store according to the size of the customer.

Stylish interior of a modern bathroom

• The fact that the house is built of wood does not hinder to create any kind of trendy interior in one of the modern architectural directions. When load-bearing constructions are involved in design, it is always closer to country - rustic and ethnic styles.

The same wood, but only in the form of smooth laminated panels, makes the interior more modern. Today they are used both for wall decoration and for arranging suspended ceiling structures. Frosted glass insert or a beautiful colored stained glass with backlight will make any bathroom fabulously beautiful.

If the bathroom is in the attic

Often, owners of private houses prefer to have bathrooms in the attic. There is nothing special about this, except for the non-standard shape of the ceiling in the attic, which follows the contour of the roof. And there is no difference at all: this is a wooden house or a brick one - and on those and others, the roof is built from wooden structures.

• They can be completely hidden in the casing or partially remain outside - it depends on the design features of the roof. Unlike other rooms, the ceiling of the attic must be insulated without fail, so its decoration is almost always based on lining. Although, between the rafters, you can insert double-glazed windows.

Wood tiled bathroom

For lining the attic, they use both lining, and parquet board, sheet laminate, plywood, drywall. Everything else is a matter of technology.

The board and plywood can be decorated in the ways described above, plasterboard can be puttied and painted with latex paint. Well, the laminate doesn’t need any decorative finish. The beams that remain in sight are also polished and tinted, often making a contrasting emphasis in the interior precisely on them.