In detail: do-it-yourself repair in a bathroom combined with a toilet in a Khrushchev from a real master for the site my.housecope.com.
Renovation is generally not an easy undertaking. In the case of small-sized housing, everything is complicated by the small size, and in old houses the problem of worn-out engineering networks is still added. Their replacement is also the concern of the owners, since it can take a long time to wait for the control campaign to change them. So repairing a bathroom in a Khrushchev usually begins with replacing old risers.
One of the options for what can happen as a result
A distinctive feature of Khrushchev apartments is the small size of all rooms. The bathroom and toilet are so small that even a minimal set - a bathtub + a sink - becomes only compact. Finding a place to install household appliances is a difficult task. The most popular solution is the redevelopment of the Khrushchev, which almost always affects the bathroom and toilet. One is made of two microscopic rooms - a combined bathroom. Due to the fact that the partition is removed, the area increases by almost a square meter, which is very significant in these conditions. In some versions, it turns out to increase the space due to the corridor or the adjacent storage room. This renovation of a bathroom in Khrushchev is more difficult technically and it is more difficult to get permission for such a change, but anything is possible.
If you decide to make a major overhaul of the bathroom in Khrushchev, the order of work will be almost identical with or without redevelopment. When redeveloping, the destruction of the partition, the transfer of the door, and the laying of an unnecessary doorway are added. Further, everything is like a carbon copy.
In the following, the sequence of works is as follows:
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- Remove all finishing materials. If the walls and ceiling are crooked (the drops are more than 3 cm) or there are voids under the plaster (when tapping, the sound is dull, when pressing, movement is felt), the plaster is also beaten.
- Decide what kind of plumbing and household appliances will stand where, draw a plan in accordance with the scale. Draw on the plan the supply of electricity, water, sewerage.
It is with this state that the repair of a bathroom in Khrushchev usually begins.
There are more and more options for finishing materials. For example, cork or PVC tiles can be laid on the bathroom floor. In this case, on top of the screed, another layer of self-leveling mixtures is needed to obtain a strong and even base, and the coating itself is laid last after all work is completed, but before installing plumbing. In general, the procedure for repairing a Khrushchev bathroom can vary significantly.
Renovation of a bathroom in Khrushchev is difficult not so much from the technical point of view, but from the point of view of creating a beautiful, functional and comfortable room. The small size of the room is the main challenge. We have to look for non-standard solutions in the selection of equipment, plumbing and furniture.
A small bathtub can be beautiful too
During the renovation of the bathroom in Khrushchev, they very often abandon the bath in favor of a shower cabin. This allows you to carve out a place in a small room for installing a washing machine. The most successful solution is a corner shower. In this case, a fairly decent piece of space is freed up in which you can put a washbasin or washing machine.
One of the options is to put a shower cabin with a deep tray or simply install glass doors on the bathroom.
If you still want to lie in the bathroom at times, you can compromise - choose a shower stall with a deep tray. But it is worth remembering that high sides are not very convenient for daily use if there are small children or elderly people. Why are they worse than a regular bathroom? The fact that it will not be possible to fully rely on them is plastic, and it will not withstand heavy loads.
It is not necessary to put a ready-made shower stall. Less space is taken up by a tile pallet and a partition. If the partition and doors are made of glass, the room will not be "congested" and will feel more spacious.
Bathroom design in Khrushchev is a complicated matter
If, nevertheless, you are not ready to give up the bath, there are those that are much narrower in one part. A sink can be placed in this area. It will be convenient to use it, as well as a non-standard bathroom shape.
When developing a bathroom design in Khrushchev, they are trying to find a place for installing a washing machine. Yes, it rusts faster, but in other rooms it is even more difficult to find a place. One of the options has already been described - a corner shower, and in the vacant corner there is a washing machine. If this option is not suitable, you can install a specially shaped sink and a washing machine under it.
To make the bathroom in Khrushchev more comfortable - the sink can be installed above the washing machine
Until you get used to it, it is not very convenient to use the sink - it is installed a little higher than usual, but much more convenient than if you put an undersized one to save space. By the way, this is also a way out, but not the best one.
To make the bathroom renovation in Khrushchev not only functional, but also beautiful, we correctly select the finishing materials, their color and texture.
Using every centimeter is the challenge
Baths in the Khrushchevs are not only small, but also have low ceilings. Therefore, if suspended systems are installed, then only at a minimum distance, and this can be achieved by installing wall lamps or recessed ceiling lamps, but on LEDs that have a thickness of about 3-5 cm.This loss will be almost imperceptible, and the work will be much less than when plastering the ceiling and its subsequent putty.
LED luminaires have a low height so that the ceiling can be lowered to a small height
It is not at all necessary to lay tiles on the walls. In this case, a smaller mosaic looks even better, since a large tile "makes" the room. Another option for wall decoration in a small bathroom is painting and finishing with decorative plaster. Bathroom paints create an equally reliable coating, but this option costs less money, especially if you will putty the walls for painting yourself. Decorative plaster is also moisture resistant, and this type of finish looks modern.
Mosaic in a small room looks more organic than large tiles
In any case, the ceiling and walls in a small bathroom should be made in light colors, preferably with a slight gloss or mother-of-pearl, silk sheen. This finishing option makes the room visually more spacious. Most often these are shades of beige. A very unobtrusive and democratic color that can be revived with some details of brighter colors.
It is better to decorate the bathroom in Khrushchev in light colors. This example uses a calm shade of green.
Another technique is that the walls are plain and only approximately in the middle is a wide strip of a brighter or more contrasting color. This technique "pushes" the walls, the room seems to be larger than it really is.
If, while renovating a bathroom in Khrushchev, you decide to replace the bathtub with a shower cabin, refuse to install a ready-made cabin. Even the smallest takes up a lot of space, and the plastic walls load up the space heavily. You physically feel the lack of space.Making a pallet of tiles and installing glass partitions is a more practical solution. Doors can be made sliding - there are a sufficient number of systems that are easily installed by hand, but for craftsmen this is not a problem at all.
The colors are light, vertical stripes break the monotony, but the highlight of the interior is a bathroom and a sink of a non-standard shape. They complement each other perfectly and both are convenient to use.
When choosing a sink, try to find the option that will best fit into your interior. They come in different shapes, sizes, colors. There are wide and narrow, deep and shallow, angular - in the form of a sector, such that are partially located above the bathroom. In general, there are many options. Yes, they are more expensive than the standard solution, but if possible, choose a beautiful and convenient plumbing.
Apartments in Khrushchevs are usually inherited or bought by young families. Their condition is usually deplorable, if repairs were made, it was 20 years ago. And in this apartment, the bathroom looks "not very".
This renovation of the bathroom in Khrushchev is traditional - tiles on the floor and walls, the ceiling is made of PVC panels. It all starts with the removal of all finishing materials.
Removing the old finish from the walls
The next step is to level the walls with plaster (without beacons, since the walls are relatively flat). A screed from a self-leveling mixture (self-leveling floor) is poured on the floor.
A perfect surface is not needed - tiles will fit
After the screed has set, the tiles are laid on the floor. We lay it out diagonally. To make it easier, a plan was previously drawn on the floor (with a pencil).
After laying the floor tiles, they took up the supply of water and sewerage, installed the bathtub and connected it.
Water and sewerage connection
After that, they began to lay tiles on the walls. This is not always done. The second finishing option is to first lay out the wall with tiles, then put the bathtub, and close the gap between the wall and the side with a special border for the bathroom. The second option is preferable, since you can replace the bathtub or put a shower stall at any time. In the first case, you will have to redo everything.
Tiles in the process of laying
After the walls were finished, the frame for the suspended ceiling was assembled from plastic panels. Economy option, but later you can change to any more expensive one.
After that, there were only little things left - to hang a mirror, install and connect a sink with a built-in cabinet.
We come to the final part
And the finishing touches are the stock near the bathtub, shelf and hooks.
I would like to share information about the repair of the bathroom and toilet rooms, in a small apartment - "Khrushchev". In our country, apartments of this size still make up a decent share. Therefore, I hope that the repair option made by me will seem interesting to someone.
From the very beginning, we decided to combine the bathroom and toilet, breaking down the existing brick partition between them. Thickness - half a brick. This is how much the combined bathroom has increased. Those who know the size of such premises in "Khrushchevs" will understand the significance of even such a meager increase in area. A blank wall appeared at the site of the doorway to the former toilet, which also played a role in its enlargement. There was one door leading to the combined bathroom. We decided to keep the one that led to the bathroom.
There was a heated towel rail along the demolished partition, which needed to be moved to another location. These were the tasks before the start of the renovation.
Top photo: toilet and bathroom. You can also see here where the partition passed between them. It has now been removed.
Here you can clearly see that this is one room. One can only guess about the partition, since traces from it are visible in the middle of the floor and the wall. This room is ready for renovation. Everything that is not needed has already been dismantled and taken out.
By the way, so that when the partition is broken, the tiles are chipped off (it was on the walls and on the floor), dust does not go into the apartment, you had to close the doors tightly, drape them with damp rags, and work in gas masks ourselves. It helped that the ventilation worked well. Garbage was taken out into the street in polypropylene bags. The doors were carefully removed after finishing all the dirty work. Of course, we did not cover the rest of the apartment 100%, but nevertheless, the precautions taken in this regard helped.
Well, everything old is broken and cleaned up, how the combined bathroom will look like, what and where it will be located in is determined. Materials for repairs and equipment for the room have been purchased.
The work began with the installation of sewerage and water supply systems. The pipes could be hidden in the floor or in the wall, but then they changed their minds. It turned out that they were almost completely hidden by the bathroom itself and the bedside table under the sink. Therefore, it was necessary to hide them on purpose only in the wiring place, where the main riser passes. The corner was closed using GVL sheets. Knauf. The old sewer pipe was also replaced with a plastic one. You can safely close it. They will stand for 100 years. The corner was closed. The routing and fastening of the pipes is finished.
Next, we make a frame for the wall and doorway. I have already said that instead of the door that used to lead to the toilet, there will be a blank wall. Here is the frame for it and we are assembling. Metal. Together with a doorway that will allow you to enter a single bathroom. This is how it looks in the photo. It remains to sheathe the frame and attach the doors. But this is later.
The next stage of work is to check with a level (we use both laser and conventional) the surface of the floor and walls. Set up beacons, focusing on which, fill the floor. Rather, first, if necessary, align the walls, and then move on to the floor. By the way, the preparation of the solution and the work associated with it, makes us take additional measures to prevent the spread of dust around the apartment.
So, the wiring is done, the walls, the floor are leveled and ready for tiling.
Be especially careful when installing the lower rows of tiles, otherwise a small flaw, unevenness at the beginning - will lead to distortions at the end. The tiles are laid using special tile glue. Before that, the walls and floor were coated with a primer. We bought a primer ready-to-use, but the glue had to be diluted. Although now they are on sale and ready to work.
The photo shows that the bathroom bowl is located almost end-to-end against the wall. Therefore, this edge of the bathtub was simply missed, there was no way to install the tiles. In our case, it goes to the bath, as far as possible, and then continued to lay it immediately from the side up. Looking ahead, I will note: when all the work was completed, this is not visible.
We had a suspended ceiling before. This time, they just changed the frame: from wooden to metal, fortunately there were remnants after the installation of the wall and the doorway. Of course, they made new electrical wiring. Attached new plastic panels. The number of lamps was left the same - four.
Having completed all these works, we continued the further laying of the tiles. Already up to the ceiling. With grouting. The grout was chosen a little lighter than the tile. In my opinion, it looks beautiful.
In principle, this is where all the repair work is completed. We closed the bathroom bowl with a sliding partition, since they are now sold for any size and taste. Some people still make a blank brick wall. I think this is extremely impractical: if necessary, you will have to disassemble it all in order to get under the bath. Why create problems for yourself. The sliding partition allows you to use the space under the bathroom. This is also important considering the size of our apartment.
This is what a combined bathroom looks like. Please note the following. There used to be a door opposite the toilet. When we combined the toilet and bathroom, we made a blank wall here.This allowed the washing machine to be put in place by removing it from the kitchen.
Such a feature as the presence of a combined bathroom in an apartment is familiar to almost every inhabitant of the post-Soviet space. As a rule, such rooms were equipped with the aim of saving space in the apartments of the Khrushchev period. Repair of a combined bathroom in Khrushchev - we'll talk about this. 
And if you inherited or acquired an apartment with a combined bathroom on the secondary housing market, you should not be so upset. Even a small combined bathroom can be decorated beautifully and conveniently. Photos of the combined bathrooms of 5 square meters are presented below.
The design of a small combined bathroom suggests different solutions. Some, in pursuit of square centimeters, remove the partition on their own, combining the toilet and the bathroom. Of course, the presence of a separate toilet room increases the level of comfort in the home, however, a combined bathroom can be attractively decorated in a single style.
In order to "accommodate the incompatible" on several modest squares, not only dismantling works, but also other tricks are used. For example, you can replace the standard bathroom with a corner version. Or completely abandon this plumbing detail in favor of a shower stall. Combined bathroom in Khrushchev design photo examples:
The latest technological developments are also available, such as a multi-functional toilet or a shower door with a drop-down bathtub. However, these achievements of scientific and technological progress are not affordable for everyone.
