House-bath: beautiful projects and design features

Many people who are planning to build a private house and love a bath often have the idea of ​​connecting these rooms. And it happens that the site is small and there is simply no place on it to accommodate a separate bath. What are the options for combining a bath with a house?

Like any other construction project, the house and bath, built as a single complex, has its advantages and disadvantages.

First, let's talk about the pros.

• Convenience for owners. There is no need to wear warm clothes to walk to the bath and go back.

• Reducing the risk of colds. In the case of using the bath as a prophylaxis of colds, it is logical that after it the steamed people would not go out into the cold, risking to pick up this very cold.
• Budget project.It is much cheaper to equip a steam room in a house than to build it separately. In addition, it is easier to equip engineering networks - they will be combined with the networks of the house.

• Saving space. This is very convenient when the land is small (less than 10 acres) or it is impractical to have additional buildings on it.
• Sauna, equipped inside the house, does not require large maintenance costs, as if it was a separate facility.
• In the bath, if it is part of the house, you can dry, for example, linen. Or design a laundry room with a dryer during construction.

As you can see, there are many advantages, and they are quite substantial. Now we will focus on the shortcomings.

• The main inconvenience of such a project is the need to comply with and comply with fire safety rules and regulations. The material from which the house is built, and the place where the bath is located, must fully comply with them. For houses with baths, built of wood, the requirements are particularly serious.
• Ignoring SNiPs and other mandatory rules during construction will lead to the fact that the relevant services (such as sanitary, fire, electricity supply and others) do not issue permission to enter the facility into operation. Accordingly, such a facility will be operated illegally.If you do not report that a bath is set up in the house, you can be seriously hurt - large fines will be issued and engineering networks will be disconnected.

• If the engineering and technical norms and rules are not followed, you can, for example, pay with high humidity inside the house (this is especially true for wooden buildings). And from this hand to file and to such troubles as mold or fungus, destroying and deforming all the structures in the house. Therefore, you must be puzzled by the correct hydro and vapor insulation, as well as ensure good ventilation in the bath.
• Sewage in the bath will have to be done separately, since it is not practical to drain all the water from the steam room into the common pipe - too much load.
• If a wood stove-heater is installed in the bath, then it is necessary to properly adjust the thrust so that the soot does not settle on the walls and ceiling.
• For insurance companies, homes combined with a sauna are objects of increased danger. Accordingly, the insured amount will be much lower, and the conditions of the insurance policy are much tougher.

A house and a bath, located under the same roof, can be built in two ways:

• the project was originally designed for the construction of the complex;
• bath acts as an extension to the already rebuilt house.

The second option is more common: first they build a house - a country house or for permanent residence, and after that thoughts of a bath appear. You can use ready-made projects, and you can develop it yourself.

Currently, there is a decrease in the popularity of the classical layout of private houses with separate buildings: sauna, garage, gazebo, summer kitchen. The modern projects of large houses and cottages, under the roof of which various premises are combined, are becoming more and more widespread: rooms of the house, garage and sauna. Since there is a huge choice on the building materials market - from brick to aerated concrete, it is easy to implement these projects.

The projects of cottages with built-in bath and garage have a lot of advantages.

Variability:

• bath and garage can be located in the basement (basement), living rooms - on the ground;
• if the house is one-story, then, of course, all the premises will be located on the same floor;
• You can make a bath and a house under the same roof, but with different entrances, connecting them inside the junction, then you can get into the bathhouse bypassing the entrance to the house;

• if the construction is planned to be two-storeyed, there are even more options - 2 floors will allow you to plan the layout of the rooms;
• there are many more so-called "half-storey" houses - with an attic, which can be a workshop, an office, a billiards room or a nursery;
• the size of the garage can also be different: for one or two cars, 6x8 m, 6x6 m, also the dimensions of the bath can vary - 6x8, 6x9 m, it can be with a rest room or without it, together with the bathroom or separately.

One of the main advantages of the combined object is the convenience of the owners. Put the car in the garage - and you are already in slippers. Also, the bath - no need to go in the frost through the entire area and back. The hostess can make masks on the face and, without being afraid that curious eyes will see her, calmly walk around the house, then return to the bathhouse again and finish the spa procedures.

Combined together house, garage and sauna saves a huge amount of space in the cottage. On it you can create beds, greenhouses, a greenhouse, or such interesting design solutions as an alpine slide or rockeries. Most space is saved, if the house is small, but two-storey. Then in the garage, for example, you can install a boiler for the bath, and replace the rest room in the bath with the kitchen in the house. You can place the grill on the terrace near the bath. A sauna stove can be an additional source of heat for the whole house. In addition, communication is much easier to mount once, than to bring them to each building separately.

The layout of the house with the letter “G” is also a very interesting option for the joint project. You can make the most of the entire area, beating the corner rooms and arranging them as conveniently as possible for the owners. The optimal area for a rather comfortable accommodation of a house with a bath (and a garage) is 10x12 m. You can “build in” everything in it - an attic, a terrace, a summer kitchen with a shed, a fireplace, and a BBQ.Also of interest are the layouts of houses 9 to 15, they are among the most popular among the owners of country houses. If the space on the site is not so much or the above options are not so budget, there is still 8x8 at home. This is an average size that can be no less comfortable for a family, provided it has a good layout. The most budget option is the 6x8 house, but it requires very careful drafting of the project so that it is not crowded.

The basis of the bath is the walls, they determine the reliability of the building, the quality of the insulation and, to a large extent, the convenience inside.

Most often, the walls of the bath erected from:

• bricks;
• foam concrete, aerated concrete;
• arbolita;
• tree.

Brick walls are very hard to lay. They have a high thermal conductivity, so you need to strengthen the insulation. Under the walls of brick is necessary to lay the foundation.

Arbolit is a mixture of cement with organic fillers.mainly shredded wood. Its properties are similar to foam concrete, it is also manufactured in the form of blocks. You can make it yourself right on the construction site, the technology is very simple. The main disadvantage is one - low resistance to moisture.

Foam concrete and aerated concrete blocks have much higher thermal insulation qualities, besides, they are much lighter and do not require a massive foundation under them.

The size of a standard wall foam block is 20x30x60 cm, and it alone is equal to 13 silicate bricks. It is easy to build walls from foam concrete blocks yourself.

The tree is most often used for the construction of baths in our country. Wood species suitable for this purpose are sufficient; experienced builders secrete larch, pine, cedar.

To raise the log house, suitable materials such as:

• logs (solid or rounded);
• timber sawn with rectangular section;
• profiled bar;
• glued profiled beam.

Both wet and dried material can be used. For a log house is better suited first. The more moisture in the material, the more the log house will sit. Glulam does not require shrinkage. A log house sits longer and longer than the rest.It is not necessary to mention that wood is the most eco-friendly material, therefore it is best for building a bath.

If we talk about the interior decoration baths, then in the finished projects, it is usually not laid. Architects develop only the project, and then the fantasy of either the owner or the designer invited by him comes into play.

The fundamental step is the choice of material for finishing. It is not necessary to take one type of tree, their combination will give a bath of originality. Of course, you need to take into account the properties of the material that you have chosen, otherwise you will find a lot of disappointment.

Interior decoration performs a large number of functions:

• insulation and waterproofing bath;
• extension of its service life;
• effect on the body through the release of nutrients into the air at high temperatures;
• decorative function.

Dressing rooms and rest rooms are well decorated with pine. It is inexpensive, easy to process and has an interesting structure. In the steam room, the same pine will not work, since when the air temperature rises, it produces resin, which will cause a lot of inconvenience. No chipboard and no linoleum is allowed - it is combustible materials,besides, the latter, when heated, releases various kinds of substances that are of little use to humans.

For finishing steam rooms and washing better fit linden or larch. If you touch these rocks when the air is heated, there will be no burn. In addition, both types of wood for a long time do not lose their attractive appearance. It is also good to decorate the steam room with alder, birch, aspen, cedar. These types of wood do not heat well, so they do not get very hot. In addition, they very quickly dry out at the end of the bath procedure.

To seal the room, walls are often finished with clapboard, under which there is mineral insulation and aluminum foil.

If there are no other finishing options in the steam room, except wood, then in the washing room and especially in the rest room there is a place to wander about the design and implement all the interesting ideas. If space and finances allow, in the washroom you can make a removable floor, under which there is a small pool or jacuzzi.There is no place for a pool - it does not matter, you can make a tub out of the barrel and relax in it. A waterfall instead of a shower and a natural “wild” style is an original solution for a home bath. What kind of discoveries designers will not surprise - what is worth only a shower in the form of a huge watering can or furniture made from barrels in a waiting room.

Excellent layout - with two lounges: a small tea room, decorated with wood, next to the steam room, and a large one, for example, with billiards. A lamp, hidden under the allegedly torn boards along the walls, will add to the interior of our time. Externally, such a building with a house can be designed as a tower or a fabulous palace.

The purpose of the external decoration of the bath is to warm its facade. If you make it ventilated, then the settling of moisture drops on the walls will be excluded. This will extend the service life of the bath. When choosing any material, it must be remembered that it should be combined with the finishing of the whole house, since these rooms will be combined. Or you can decorate the bath with the same material that the house itself is faced with, not highlighting its walls against the background of the main structure.

The following materials will be suitable for decoration:

• siding (vinyl or metal);
• lining (wood, plastic);
• imitation of a bar;
• block house.

Metal siding is not combustible and is great for finishing baths. Siding panels are available in widths from 0.2 to 1.2 m, the coloring has more than 15 colors. There are many manufacturers of it both in Russia and abroad.

Foreign is considered more qualitative, but it is also more expensive:

• well protects the facade from rainfall, winds;
• resistant to temperature changes;
• long does not fade;
• resistant to chemicals;
• non-toxic;
• permeable to oxygen;
• it is not subject to rotting, rodents are not interested in them;
• fire resistant;
• easy to install.

There are also disadvantages:

• the siding itself costs a little, but the components for it are expensive;
• siding requires a perfectly flat surface of the walls, a slight skew - and the panels will lay unevenly, which will give the facade a sloppy look;
• if the panels are not properly secured, they may lose their shape;
• non-ecological;
• if the color of the panels is dark, then they get very hot in the sun.

They can sheathe bath both outside and inside.In fact, this material is a wooden paneling. On the reverse side of the simulated timber, a recess was cut out, removing stress from the wood, thus prolonging the service life of the material. Different types of wood are used to make this material. As for the exterior, for it is optimal to take conifers, they are less susceptible to rotting.

The advantages of imitated timber include:

• ecological cleanliness;
• ease of installation;
• resistance to all kinds of effects;
• attractive appearance;
• large size ruler;
• good thermal insulation properties;
• long service life.

The disadvantages of imitation timber are the same as that of the timber:

• combustibility;
• requires constant treatment with antiseptic;
• subject to deformation if poorly dried;
• suffers from insects and mold.

The baths sheathed by the block house look no worse, since they are made entirely of logs, while costing several times less. A block house is a material that represents another imitation of a bar, but with a round outer side.

Advantages of this material:

• it is eco-friendly;
• attractive in appearance;
• budget;
• easy to install;
• Its size is easy to use.

Practically it has no minuses, mostly negative reviews are related to the fact that it was incorrectly mounted.

Layout angle allows you to make two entrances.

Attic with skylights gives originality.

Brick house with a bath and a garage looks very impressive.

About how much it costs to heat a frame house with a bath of 95 square meters. m., look in the next video.