Fitted bathroom Bathroom Furniture Installation Guide – Washstands furniture can be a fantastic design feature for many bathrooms: offering a coordinated and harmonious finish, it maximises the space in the bathroom and provides a fantastic amount of storage space. Of course it’s not for everyone: but with a range of traditional and modern designs available, it has a fairly wide appeal.It’s especially useful in a small bathroom where every millimetre counts. Clever layout in a small or awkwardly shaped space can make a tricky bathroom into an easy to navigate and pleasant place to be; the employment of alcoves and corners as homes for fitted bathroom furniture such as wall hung cabinets will increase your overall storage space, without significantly reducing your floor space.Even the smallest fitted vanity units, which can be found in widths of not much more than 40cm wide and 20cm deep, will afford you a cupboard below the basin in which to store some of your beauty items or cleaning products; slim storage units of only 35cm wide and 35cm deep, meanwhile, can hold a lot of bathroom accessories when they’re almost two metres tall.If space saving is a must, you might like to look at some of the basin and WC combination units that are on offer from many manufacturers. These compact items of fitted bathroom furniture combine a basin unit and a WC unit in one piece, maximising the storage space available below the basin, between the basin and the WC, and even behind the WC. They can be less than a metre wide altogether, and their depth depends upon your choice of toilet: modern toilets with a round bowl will save a little more depth.Bathroom furniture manufacturers recommend that you leave at least a 60cm gap in front of a toilet and in front of a basin, and a 70cm gap alongside a bath, otherwise the room will feel cramped and your movements will be constrained. Unless you’re planning to use the bathroom alongside other members of the household each day – which would be tricky in a really tiny bathroom – these ‘space’ areas can overlap. Draw out your bathroom plan on the floor in chalk if you need to, and act out running a bath, sitting on the toilet, stepping out of the shower and brushing your teeth… You’ll feel a little silly, but if your elbows don’t feel hemmed in by your ‘furniture’ and you walk easily among your planned room layout, then you can be much more confident that your design will work in practice.Those householders who are struggling to see how standard size fitted bathroom furniture can possibly fit their bathroom could be interested in going bespoke. There are a range of companies which offer a made-to-measure bathroom furniture service; in the UK, Mereway Bathrooms is one such company. Customers planning to go down the bespoke route should plan carefully: think about how best you can use your space and what cabinets and units you’d like to have. Sketch out a few designs and discuss them with the company you choose to make your furniture, as an experienced company will not only have a good idea of how practical and how achievable each of your layouts will be but also be able to help you with details like space for plumbing and the provision of adequate ventilation.