събота, 8 януари 2011 г.

What's on the wall in the bathroom instead of tile?

The choice of materials on the wall to the bathroom is huge. Everything depends on our vision, style, space, and we want to give their wallets. The bathroom is a place that is designed not only to wash, but should also fit in a good mood. It is here that we have to relax, refresh and forget about worries. And contribute to this nice and clean design. The design determines the appearance of the bathroom floors and walls. And we can choose a range of materials. The times when we placed only on the walls or ceramic tiles, thankfully long gone. It is true that tile is still popular and fashionable, but the stepped stone cladding, wall paper, textured plaster, glass and wood. Key to the material chosen for the walls in the bathroom was practical and resistant to moisture and the room we liked. For traditionalists who can not bear to part with the plates is good news. Contemporary ceramics is not like that a few or a dozen years. Modern tiles imitate other materials such as wood paneling, stone. They have a new, bold patterns and shapes - from the simple to the highly distorted, with uneven edges. This gives interesting effects.

Wall in bethroom

Wall in bethroom
Exotic Wood owes its popularity to high hardness and resistance to moisture and beautiful colors of. On the wall you can use solid wood in a traditional wood paneling. Popular on bathroom walls become a board made of waterproof plywood veneered natural, moisture-resistant timber. They can be arranged in the elements of different sizes, sticking to the plastered walls or screwing Drywall - cardboard. Not every type of wood is suitable for bathrooms. And when it comes home it is the most durable oak, elm, ash, beech, and larch. Less resistant to moisture is the pine, spruce, cherry and pear. The latter make better use in places that are not exposed to direct contact with water. If we decide, however, domestic wood, it must be adequately secured by: varnishing, oiling, staining, waxing or painting.

Wood wall bathroom

Wood wall bathroom
A good alternative for the tiles are the wallpaper. Great mask the inequalities of the walls, are easy to install and relatively inexpensive in the bathrooms used vinyl wallpaper or wallpaper with glass fibers coated with acrylic lacquer, acrylic or epoxy paint. Wallpaper with glass fiber are very resistant to mechanical damage. On the walls of the success can be several decades ti difficult to remove from the wall. Glass fibers merge with the wall surface. They are to be painted wallpaper. They have a texture simulating different - different in thickness and weave and texture of the fabric.

Wallpaper wall in bathroom

Wallpaper wall in bathroom
Natural stone is an alternative to other materials. In recent years, natural stone is very liked. Has advantages, it is durable and easy to keep clean, and most of the species tolerates contact with water. Unfortunately it is not cheap. Interior lined with elegant stone becomes. But I do not fit anywhere. Let us remember that the stone looks great in large bathrooms, even bathing rooms. In such spaces can bring his charm. Typically used with species such as travertine, marble, polished granite, onyx. The most durable, suitable for walls, but also the most expensive is granite.

Stone bathroom

Stone bathroom
The right type of paint perfectly replaces the tiles on the walls. Paints with such properties as latex, vinyl or silicon are available in a full range of colors. Acrylic paints are the most popular of the paints used in bathrooms. They have a small absorption. They have a low susceptibility to soiling and fungal attacks. Are also characterized by very high vapor permeability. Suitable for mineral and organic substrates, with the exception of limestone and silicate. Silicone paints, also known as siloxane, silane or organosilicon - are hydrophobic, which means that water is not absorbed by it, just flows without going deep into the layers.

Tiles on the walls

Tiles on the walls
It has a different thickness, transparency, patterns and colors. First of all, we should use the bathroom safety glass, tempered, laminated or wired. Hit shatters into pieces blurred edges, or sprayed on the surface of grid formed only cracks. What can be done from a glass? Blending into the background wall and decorative shelf. They have a variety of sizes and shapes. Are square, triangular, rounded. We will be putting it on the wall of glass facing, they may be in the form of large sheets or plates of standard size ceramic elements, and thus the squares and rectangles of various sizes and mosaics. You could get the material in the natural color of glass - a shade after installation will depend on the color of the substrate, but also the colors of the other surfaces in the interior. You can also choose a colored glass, this provides an incredibly spectacular effects. Glass is not cheap. But it may be limited to a small, glass decor, slats of different thickness or individual tiles.

Glass bathroom

Glass bathroom