Revamp your downstairs toilet with these traditional cloakroom ideas
01 November 2024Katie Wells
Your downstairs toilet may be a small space but it can pack a real punch when it comes to design. Being a smaller room, it is the perfect place to get creative, experiment with design and bring personality into your interior. It is also the one room in the house that almost all guests will visit, making it the greatest opportunity to wow your visitors with awe-inspiring design.
Turn your downstairs toilet into your new favourite spot in the house with these inspirational cloakroom toilet ideas….
Dare to go bold
Bring creative flair into your cloakroom interior with striking colours and patterns. Unlike main bathrooms and ensuites, your downstairs toilet won’t generate any condensation from baths and showers. This means you can bring wallpaper into the design without worrying about it getting ruined over time. With wallpaper as an option, this opens up plenty of creative design opportunities.
When going bold with your walls, it’s a good idea to stick with crisp white ceramics, as this will allow your colours to pop while creating a good balance between light and dark tones. To achieve a harmonised design, opt for a brassware finish that adds an accent colour complementary to your wall colour. Here, Gold has been used to add an eye-catching accent that accentuates the regal colour scheme.
Combining style and function
When working with a small space, it’s important to find a good balance between style and function. This downstairs toilet design features our beautiful Matt Green finish to create a colour scheme that is bold, calming and on-trend. To stop this small space from becoming easily cluttered and overwhelming, a double-door vanity unit has been used to create a great storage space.
Ceramic bathroom features can become cold to the touch in the winter months. So, to keep your downstairs toilet as comfortable as possible, it’s a good idea to include heating. Due to the smaller space of these rooms, a heated towel warmer is the perfect solution as it is compact and discreet, doubles as a towel rail and often times is enough to heat the whole room. Our towel warmers are available in a range of sizes and colours, providing the ideal solution for any bathroom design.
Space-saving design
Squeezing in the downstairs toilet essentials into a small space can be difficult. But there are things you can do to save space, open up the room and avoid overcrowding. Opting for a pedestal basin over a vanity unit creates more space underneath the basin, creating more accessible space and taking up less room within the design.
Another thing you can do is elevate items from the floor. This will give the appearance of more room and create a less cluttered environment. For example, the use of a wall-hung toilet brush holder creates a cleaner design towards the floor while providing a sleek appearance.
For more design inspiration, download our brochure.
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