There is no such person who would not like to sit in a well-heated bathhouse in the evening. It is a place where the body rests, both physically and spiritually. Moreover, doctors recommend performing paired procedures once a week. Therefore, the interior of the bathhouse must be at the proper level. How to properly decorate the interior walls of a steam room? What material to choose for a shower, as well as answers to many other questions, you will receive as you read our article.
A good quality bathhouse is like a balm for the soul of a Russian person
Key Features
The main requirement for the construction of a bath complex is the resistance of the material to high humidity. The traditional finishing material for the steam room itself is wood. It does not heat up much, when properly processed, it is very pleasant to the touch, and also has a beautiful natural structure.
High-quality wood and simple shapes are the main secrets of interior design of a bathhouse in the Russian style.
In the bathhouse you can improve your body, relax your soul and enjoy the atmosphere of friendly communication.
An important requirement for the type of wood that is going to be used to cover the floor, walls and ceiling of the steam room is the absence of resin. The common and relatively cheap pine species will not work. Suitable varieties are:
- Linden;
- aspen;
- cedar;
- oak;
- alder;
- larch;
- Linden;
- birch;
- Abashi.
Advice. The best for finishing are oak, linden, aspen, cedar, alder and abashi.
Abashi is an African oak. It is lightweight, strong, and resistant to prolonged exposure to moisture.
It is important to choose the right type of wood for each room in the bathhouse.
If you still decide to use coniferous wood, use it to make those parts and elements of the sauna that you do not need to come into contact with. It is strictly forbidden to cover the ceiling with pine. As the tree heats up, it will begin to “cry” hot resin.
The interior lining should be smooth and pleasant to the touch
A sauna is a separate building on a personal plot, inside of which several rooms are built for comprehensive relaxation. This includes a dressing room with wardrobes and a corridor, a relaxation room, as well as the steam room itself. If necessary and possible, an additional room for entertaining games, a plunge pool or swimming pool, as well as a shower room is built.
The covering should be washed well without reacting with household chemicals
Each room has the right to be decorated with its own individual characteristics. For example, a steam room should have comfortable seats and beds. The lighting here is not too bright, allowing you to rest in relaxation. Lamps are placed under a wooden bench, or on the walls behind a wooden lattice.
You can install bright lamps in the steam room. Then it will be necessary to sheathe the interior with a dark type of wood.
The color palette is selected in muted warm colors
The design of the bathhouse looks much more interesting when several types of wood are used to cover the steam room. The excellent structure of the shade of the surfaces of the boards will have a beneficial effect on the beauty of the interior in the bathhouse. Use cedar and alder together with linden or birch. The pinkish tint of the former can harmoniously complement the space.
The interior will become more diverse if you use different types of wood in decoration
The washing room must provide convenient shelves and hangers for bath accessories
Oak goes very well with almost all types of wood. Its dark texture allows you to focus attention. At the same time, the interior design of the bathhouse gets a noble, expensive look.
Distinctive features of a traditional bath
In the classic version, the Russian bathhouse combines three rooms: a dressing room, a steam room and a relaxation room. Of course, the main material of the structure is natural wood. In a modern interpretation, a non-residential building can be supplemented with a bathroom, a swimming pool, and a billiards (or games) room.
Regardless of the number of functional areas, the integrity of the interior is distinguished by the following characteristics:
- themed accessories. Bast shoes on the walls, amulets, brooms under the ceiling, a bucket with a ladle, rugs, runners on benches and other bath-themed items give the room a touch of antiquity and make it more colorful;
- shelves. The main items in the steam room are shelves. They are often made from solid wood. For normal air circulation in the room, small gaps (1.5-3 cm) are left between the beams, and the sides are not sewn up. The shelves can have a stationary structure or be fixed on the walls in several steps. In the second case, they seem weightless, although their estimated load is capable of supporting the weight of several adults;
- stove-stove. She is the heart and soul of the interior design of the Russian bathhouse. As a rule, it is built of brick and then trimmed with stone or ceramic tiles. The easiest way is to purchase a ready-made steel stove and decorate it with stone.
— lighting. The intimacy of the atmosphere is emphasized by warm, dim artificial lighting. Instead of a regular ceiling chandelier, it is recommended to use spotlights or sconces with lampshades. When organizing a lighting system, it is important to secure all electrical accessories, because... high humidity and high temperature can lead to a short circuit or fire;
- furniture. Massive wooden tables with benches are attributes of a relaxation room in a bathhouse. Here you can have a meal, have a heart-to-heart talk, and just relax after the steam room. Soft sofas and armchairs with patterned bedspreads create a cozy atmosphere and promote a comfortable pastime;
- aroma design. A real Russian bathhouse is distinguished not only by its interior aesthetics, but also by its characteristic aroma. A pre-steamed birch broom, pine oil poured into a bowl, tincture of eucalyptus or lavender set visitors up for recovery, having a relaxing and pacifying effect on the body.
Decoration of the rest room
The quality of time spent here depends on how interesting the rest room is decorated. And in our country, wooden log houses are especially popular. By ordering one of them, you will soon receive a ready-made building for a sauna made of round logs. It is best to decorate such a room in the Old Russian style.
From time immemorial, the best log house has been considered to be hand-made aspen
It’s not hot in the dressing room, so the walls can be lined with pine clapboard
The flooring of the rest room should be made of warm, moisture-resistant materials. The board is an ideal candidate for flooring. Additionally, warm foot mats are placed on the floor. From the interior items of the bath, you will need to install:
- table;
- comfortable armchairs, sofa or loungers;
- TV, stereo system;
- fireplace and other decorative elements.
If the room is finished in the Old Russian style, especially when constructing walls made of round timber, Slavic curtains on the windows will look very nice. Hanging shelves are also installed, which are filled with folk utensils of the inhabitants of Rus'. All kinds of jugs and wicker baskets will be a harmonious addition. The interior of the bathhouse consists primarily of oak brooms hanging on the walls. Their number is not limited to a couple of pieces.
The environment inside the bathhouse should give peace and harmony
A relaxation room with everything you need
The ceiling can be made from the same timber, or in a more thematic way. Decorated under an antique twig roof, with inter-row partitions, it fits perfectly into the old Russian design of the bathhouse inside.
The recreation room, furnished to look like an ancient Viking shack, looks very interesting. Heavy, massive rough-hewn boards soaked in dark oils are the main attraction of a Viking room.
A cozy dressing room is an important part of a good bath
The furniture here will also meet the requirements of massiveness and roughness. The dining table can be constructed from timber. This solution will add medieval savagery to the bathhouse.
All elements of the interior, even the chandelier, correspond to the Viking idea. Wrought iron should be everywhere. Fasteners for doors and cabinet doors are made with Middle Ages themes.
Table for soulful tea parties
Animal skins, stuffed animals, antlers and other suitable decorations will serve as decorative elements. Hanging bath brooms everywhere would be appropriate here.
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Steam room design
The time has already passed when the presence of a bathhouse as such made a country house a unique and inimitable place. Now this should not surprise anyone. Now, in order for your steam room to be remembered for a long time, you need to surprise with the beauty and unusual decoration of this room.
The steam room is the main room of the bathhouse, for which it is being built
It is not fashionable to do clapboard cladding now. Special profiled boards, which are made with different facades, are in demand. For example, there is euro-lining that imitates round timber. Also, large format boards are produced similar to timber.
All steam rooms must have a sufficient number of seats, which also serve as sunbeds. Now, in bath accessories stores you can find beds designed for steam rooms. They are made from different woods that have different shades. Methods for processing boards make it possible to arrange all sorts of patterns on headrests and other parts.
Plastic and varnished products are absolutely inappropriate in the steam room
If you wish, you can independently build wooden steam room structures designed for convenient placement. Cuttings of old lumber, thick tree branches (along with bark), as well as trunk cuts are ideal for this. All material is subjected to carpentry processing on a jointer, after which you will receive ideal blanks suitable for further construction.
The flooring of the steam room is made of boards or ceramic tiles. Additionally, wooden grates will have to be laid on the ceramics, since tiles are a cold material.
A wooden floor will always be warmer than ceramics, unless of course your bathhouse is equipped with a “warm floor” system
The interior of the steam room can be light or dark, choose the color scheme that suits you best
The walls are decorated with all sorts of intricate designs. Practice shows: in a steam room, most often the main decorative element that reveals the overall stylistic idea is the walls. A large selection of lumber allows you to consider many suitable solutions.
To decorate the steam room, it is recommended to use only hardwood that does not release resins when heated
The wall space is covered with pieces of cut tree trunks. It can be either a whole (round) piece or a quarter. It is not necessary to remove the bark from the workpieces. It can be a wonderful decorative addition.
Premises in the bathhouse.
In its classic form, the Russian bathhouse has three main rooms (steam room, washing room and dressing room), each of which stands out not only for its purpose, but also for its distinctive features.
Waiting room.
In the dressing rooms, people not only change clothes and leave their things, but also relax. It can contain upholstered furniture with wooden inserts, a hanger, shelves for things and a small table. Accordingly, the dressing room must be sufficiently well insulated and illuminated. If the sauna is heated with wood, then there should be a place for firewood, and if with coal, a lockable box for storing it. The walls of the dressing room can be decorated with decorative panels or paintings. The color scheme of the interior of this room is selected according to what you want to feel when visiting a Russian bathhouse. If you want to relieve tension and relax, then the interior details are kept in brown and soft orange tones. Conversely, lacquered furniture, as well as bright yellow and red colors, are refreshing and invigorating.
Washing section of the bathhouse.
The washing compartment can be connected to a shower room; it contains the main containers with cold and hot water; furniture elements may include benches and shelves for the necessary bath accessories. Additionally, it can also accommodate leg holders and wooden headrests. All bath utensils present (ladles and bowls, slippers, washcloths and grips) should be made from natural materials - wood, natural fabrics, plant fibers and algae, which also fits organically into the Russian style of the bath interior.
Steam room.
So, the central room of the bathhouse is the steam room. The key point here is the presence and correct location of shelves designed to allow you to steam not only while sitting, but also while lying down. Their size must be no less than 0.6 m wide and no less than 1.8 m long. They can be either solid boards made of boards tightly adjacent to each other, or with small gaps for better air circulation. The shelves are usually located along a blank wall in two or three tiers, in a slightly inclined position to allow water to drain. The options for mounting them can be different, so they can be stationary, sliding, folding or removable.
A small table for a basin with a broom will be very convenient in the steam room; an hourglass, a thermometer with a scale of up to 120 degrees and a device for measuring humidity - a hygrograph - will also not be out of place in its interior.
As you can see, even a Russian bathhouse and its interior has its own laws. Enjoy Your Bath!
Unusual solutions
If you decide to do the finishing work on the steam room yourself, you are sure to get an unusual result. Experts offer very unusual solutions. In one of the country houses, the author spied the arrangement of a paired room made of two large wooden boxes, inside of which there were sea pebbles and sand. This is a very interesting way to relax and enjoy. The massage effect of the pebbles will have a beneficial effect on your overall well-being, and the beach sand will transport you to the seashore of Haiti.
Similar massage baths are also practiced in Japanese saunas.
Canadian saunas are distinguished by intricate, flowing shapes. Interestingly, all finishing materials here are natural. The well-known Canadian maple and other varieties are widely used in the production of bent products. Look at the photo below to see how gracefully a sauna room made in this style looks.
The interior of a Canadian sauna can look like a cave
An Alpine herbal bath will transport you to the atmosphere of mountain rivers and ridges. An exclusive stove is a worthy decoration of a sauna. The white wood of the benches will add purity, lightness, and freshness to the space. The presence of two bowls above the stove will allow you to steam natural mountain herbs here and plunge into the world of wild nature. The walls and ceiling are finished with dark wood. Oak is perfect for this.
Typically, a sauna room is built without a window, or with a small window, which serves as a source of fresh air. But if the sauna is located in a beautiful, well-kept garden area, then why not open the view of the flower arrangement directly from the steam room? Install a wide window made using special technology that allows you to retain internal heat.
A glass wall in a steam room is a very extraordinary solution
If it is not possible to arrange a viewing window, make a false version. To do this, you need to assemble an impromptu window frame, inside which you place a photo composition. To enhance the effect, the element is illuminated with a small LED strip. The frame is not necessarily made square. It can be round, triangular, star-shaped. The more unusual the solution, the more original the sauna design.
Linden is the best material for shelves
Thanks to the play of light, it is easy to diversify the design of a steam room. Small elements of artificial lighting sources are mounted in door and wall panels. This creates a shadow, harmoniously diluted by figured rays of light. The lamps are installed under the long sauna benches. Wooden lattice wall panels also allow you to install light sources underneath them. Nearby rods will create a beautiful play of light and shadow.
The design of the stove depends on the size of the bath
The stove can be an excellent accent in the decorative composition of the entire steam room. It is laid with brickwork, natural cobblestones, and tiled tiles. You can buy a metal stove, or decorate the bathhouse in the Old Russian style, laying out a real Russian stove.
Futurism
The bathhouse “space of the future” is distinguished by unusual shapes: smooth lines and unusual design of the walls or ceiling are guaranteed to attract attention and become a distinctive feature of such a bathhouse. Decorative elements can be original installations or oddly shaped furniture. Despite the classic wood finish, this interior bears almost no resemblance to a classic bathhouse.
Wall decoration
The interior decoration of walls and ceilings in a futuristic style often looks textured: unusual shapes, the presence of niches or decorative walls, installations emphasize the exclusivity of this design. It is important that the element that attracts attention is usually done alone so as not to overload the space. The remaining surfaces are made as simple and minimalist as possible: sheathed with timber or wooden siding.
Futuristic style walls
Futuristic style walls
Lighting
Lighting fixtures in this case are used to draw attention to the original elements and emphasize the unusual shapes. Spotlights and LED strip lighting do an excellent job of this task. The latter is mounted not only in walls or ceilings, but also in furniture.
Futuristic lighting
Futuristic lighting
Entry group
The facade of the bathhouse in the futurism style should become a continuation of the interior interior. Unusually shaped windows, doorways and the building itself will highlight the structure and attract maximum attention. A small, minimalist illuminated sign will perfectly complement a modern bath space.
Entrance group in a futuristic style
Entrance group in a futuristic style
A bathhouse is a place to relax, where you can not only wash yourself, but also relax and undergo wellness treatments. Therefore, the atmosphere should be cozy and comfortable, and it is better to exclude bright colors and unnecessary decor. The combination of soft lighting and wood in natural shades will create the necessary mood, and the unique, memorable design will be an excellent reason to relax.
Photo: Bathroom interiors
Bath interior design in Art Nouveau style
Mosaic tiles on the floor in the sink
Recently, materials such as tempered glass, decorative brick or stone, ceramic tiles or mosaics have been very often used in the interior of a bathhouse. All these materials, of course, give the bathhouse or sauna a specific beauty and practicality.
Today it is difficult to imagine a sink or shower in a bathhouse with wooden floors. Floor tiles or mosaics are almost universally used for decorating and finishing floors in these damp rooms. The mosaic actually looks interesting. It is also practical to use on the floor, as it can easily create the desired slope for the drain.
Decorative stone is very popular in the design of bath interiors. It is successfully used in the decoration of fireplaces and individual wall fragments. Ceramic tiles also “keep up with the stone” and are very often used in the decoration of stoves, fireplaces, and partitions. Decorative brick is usually used in the arrangement of partitions or lining of metal stoves.
Decorative stone in the interior of a bathhouse Glass doors and ceramic tiles
Classic bath design
Glass doors are now confidently replacing their wooden counterparts. They are beautiful and functional. They have many advantages over wooden ones. When using them, the interior of the bathhouse becomes unusual, but at the same time beautiful and chic. Glass doors are especially relevant in the arrangement of a sauna or Turkish hammam, where there is no wooden finish at all, and tiles or mosaics dominate.
As can be seen from the above, a truly solid and large bathhouse has both classic and modern style in its design. Such an integrated approach always looks very original. So it’s difficult to answer the question in the article. The design of a modern bath combines both classic and modern.
Design of dressing room and showers
In the dressing room the air does not heat up as much as in the steam room. In an interior design project, you can give preference to coniferous wood. The phytoncides emitted by it have a beneficial effect on the respiratory system and help strengthen the immune system.
Most often, the following are used to decorate the dressing room:
- pine Wood can withstand many years of use even in adverse conditions. Over time, the logs take on a red tint;
- spruce. It has a more uniform structure and resistance to cracks;
- fir In terms of performance it is similar to spruce, but practically does not emit resin.
When designing a dressing room, it is important to consider its functional purpose. Here they undress and relax between visits to the steam room. The room should be quite spacious to accommodate everything you need.
In addition to wardrobes, a table, chairs or benches are installed in the dressing room. A real Russian samovar and a small bar with soft drinks will be a quality decoration. If the area and configuration of the dressing room allows, you can place a folding sofa for relaxation.
Washing precedes the steam room. And this is the only room in which both the floor and walls are completely tiled. If you really want to maintain the overall style in the interior, you can choose a coating with an imitation of wood structure.
For floors, tiles are chosen with a rough surface, for walls - perfectly smooth. Connoisseurs of tradition can install a tub of cold water in the shower. Additionally, you will need shelves for swimwear.
