When I visit unfamiliar bathrooms, there is one thing that always bothers me: service shafts with covered pipes where it’s immediately obvious that there are pipes hidden behind them.
We faced the same issue in our new build and definitely wanted to avoid that look. After consulting with an interior designer, we did the following:
Along a 3 m (10 ft) long wall with a continuous pre-wall structure 126 cm (50 inches) high, we placed the shower in one corner with a 90 cm (35 inches) wide floor-to-ceiling built-up wall for the pipes and flush-mounted fittings. In the right corner, at the same depth, we enclosed the unfortunately necessary ceiling-high service shaft, 60 cm (24 inches) wide, which houses the roof ventilation and solar pipes. Between these two floor-to-ceiling built-up walls, a false ceiling-height column 30 cm (12 inches) wide was built at intervals of 60 cm (24 inches), creating two 60 cm (24 inches) wide recesses on either side of it starting at 126 cm (50 inches). Into these recesses, four glass shelves 60 cm (24 inches) wide and 18 cm (7 inches) deep (flush with the pre-wall tiles) are now installed up to the ceiling as shelving.
The trick: The eye no longer sees a protruding service shaft in the wall but rather what appears to be a continuous wall with two recessed shelves. This effect is reinforced by tiling the built-up walls and column to the ceiling while the niches’ side and back walls are only painted. If you place attractive items on the glass shelves rather than typical supermarket shower gels, they also serve as eye-catchers and further distract from the service shaft.
We faced the same issue in our new build and definitely wanted to avoid that look. After consulting with an interior designer, we did the following:
Along a 3 m (10 ft) long wall with a continuous pre-wall structure 126 cm (50 inches) high, we placed the shower in one corner with a 90 cm (35 inches) wide floor-to-ceiling built-up wall for the pipes and flush-mounted fittings. In the right corner, at the same depth, we enclosed the unfortunately necessary ceiling-high service shaft, 60 cm (24 inches) wide, which houses the roof ventilation and solar pipes. Between these two floor-to-ceiling built-up walls, a false ceiling-height column 30 cm (12 inches) wide was built at intervals of 60 cm (24 inches), creating two 60 cm (24 inches) wide recesses on either side of it starting at 126 cm (50 inches). Into these recesses, four glass shelves 60 cm (24 inches) wide and 18 cm (7 inches) deep (flush with the pre-wall tiles) are now installed up to the ceiling as shelving.
The trick: The eye no longer sees a protruding service shaft in the wall but rather what appears to be a continuous wall with two recessed shelves. This effect is reinforced by tiling the built-up walls and column to the ceiling while the niches’ side and back walls are only painted. If you place attractive items on the glass shelves rather than typical supermarket shower gels, they also serve as eye-catchers and further distract from the service shaft.
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