Even before choosing a style and selecting the products, the first thing to be considered in designing a bathroom is the dimensions of the room and the space taken up by the sanitary ware, the furniture and the shower/tub.

A matter of measurements

As a rule, a standard-size bathroom poses no special limits and you can choose freely from among the different products on the market, save for the constraints arising from the plumbing when you do not restructure the bathroom and simply replace the sanitary ware.

First of all, you must determine the dimensions and the distances between the bathroom appliances.

What are the bathroom appliance dimensions to be taken into consideration?

Standard dimensions of bathroom appliances:

–       Depth: on average it is about 54 cm

–       Width: standard width is 36 cm

–       Height: generally it is 42 cm for both back-to-wall and wall-hung fixtures;

Apart from minor variations between different models and brands, as a rule the space to be considered is given by these dimensions. We strongly recommend that prior to selecting and fitting the bathroom appliances you acquire the technical data sheets and the templates to work out a realistic design, avoiding unpleasant inconveniences.

If your bathroom is small, the size of the products makes all the difference. Space-saving products available on the market include Flaminia’s MiniApp and MiniLink wall-hung appliances having the same width as standard products and a depth reduced to 48.5 cm. Space-saving products , in fact, are from 48 to 50 cm deep, which is the minimum size in a bathroom for a comfortable use of WC and bidet.

These measurements change if you are designing a public bathroom for the disabled, whose dimensions, in fact, are different.

Washbasins instead come in a wide range of sizes, from small basins 60 cm wide to big 120 consoles. In case of space problems, hand basins with a width of less than 60 cm and depth reduced to the minimum can be used.

…and a matter of distance

Clear space is as important as space taken up for purposes of ease of use and comfort. As for the distance between bathroom appliances, we recommend providing for a minimum distance of at least 60 cm between the centre of the toilet bowl and the centre of the bidet, i.e., a minimum clear space of 24 cm.

The height of the washbasin has been growing in recent years in parallel with the increase in the average height of the world’s population and now comes to about 90 cm.

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