Small Wet Room Ideas
Limited space doesn’t mean you have to compromise on style, comfort or functionality. Our small wet room ideas show how smart design, quality products and expert installation can make even the most compact bathroom feel spacious and luxurious.
If you’re looking for very small wet room designs, CCL Wetrooms can help you make the most of every inch, with bespoke wet room solutions designed around your space and needs.
From walk-in showers and effective drainage to stylish finishes and accessible features, explore CCL Wetrooms’ specialist services to create a practical, beautifully designed wet room that works for you. We’ll help you transform even the most compact bathroom into a luxury wet room.
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Very Small Wet Room Designs: How Small Can a Wet Room Be?
The smallest practical wetroom size is approximately 1.5m x 1m, with enough space for a toilet and wash basin.
The minimum recommended size for the walk-in shower area alone is 70cm x 70cm depending on the style and design you choose. Removing the toilet and wash basin can create valuable extra space, making it easier for those with limited mobility to move around.
However, if you’re looking for a luxurious wetroom area, you’ll want to find a way to maximise space. This can be done through careful planning of toilets, sinks and showers. Likewise, if you already feature a bath in the small space, you can upgrade it with a modern walk-in-shower instead.
Wetrooms are an excellent choice for compact bathrooms, offering a practical and stylish way to maximise available space. With the right plumbing, drainage and layout, small wet room ideas can transform even the tightest area into a comfortable, functional and easy-to-use space.
Small Wet Room Ideas Gallery
Need inspiration? Explore our stunning small wetroom gallery and discover a range of projects and design ideas. For expert support throughout your project, our wet room design services include specialist advice, product specification, training and ongoing technical support.
What Do You Need to Know About Small Wet Room Designs?
Keeping the water contained is key to avoiding bathroom leaks. Spray can be restricted with a hinged or static glass partition that keeps your fittings dry, but this isn’t essential. When waterproofing wetrooms, at a minimum the shower area and one additional metre surrounding it should be tanked. A wetroom measuring 1.5m x 1m would require the whole space to be waterproofed.
What Can a Small Wet Room be Used For?
Wet room designs for a small bathroom can be tailored to your needs, from improved accessibility and mobility to creating a luxurious, spa-inspired space.
Many people choose to turn otherwise redundant spaces into wetrooms, offering greater convenience and use of space. As well as being easy to maintain, they also provide homes with hygienic showering solutions and require less cleaning than a typical bathroom. This is largely because wet rooms have fewer fittings, screens and enclosed areas where dirt and moisture can accumulate. However, drainage systems and mould do need to be monitored regularly.
Wet Room Design Ideas for Small Shower Rooms
Making the most of your wetroom space is vital, and ensuring it’s completely functional is also a must. A small wetroom layout can be achieved by converting the cupboard under the stairs or even a disused airing cupboard into a compact shower room. There are plenty of options since a wetroom offers you unrivalled versatility and creativity.
A wetroom shower also lets you make use of architectural quirks in a room’s shape that might otherwise go to waste. Your space needs to work as a waterproofed area that offers excellent comfort, manoeuvrability and efficiency. That’s why shower trays and baths might not always offer the best flexibility, especially when they can take up considerable space.
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Small Wetroom Ideas
Replenish a Redundant Room
Make the most out of your wetroom through clean dividing lines and sections specifically allocated for their purpose. Combining a walk-in shower, wash basin and toilet all in one room is an excellent way to rejuvenate otherwise redundant spaces.
Luxurious Spa Appearance
Through sleek lighting and reflective surfaces, you can make your small wetroom space embrace a relaxing ambience, such as a spa-like Hygge bathroom. Ensuring light can reflect from all surfaces will create a calm, yet spacious, impression.
Create a Contemporary En Suite Design
Introducing a wetroom into your en suite offers convenience and comfort, especially for guests staying in the room. If you’re contending with a sloped ceiling too, this ensures an impressive use of space that might have otherwise been lost.
Offer Freedom and Mobility
If you simply need an accessible space that offers you the support you need, a small wetroom can be adapted to fit mobility requirements. From seats to grippy floor textures, various modifications and installations can readily be included.
Products & CAD Drawings
Planning a small wet room or bathroom project? Find the technical resources you need in one place, from product downloads and installation guidance to waterproofing specifications, technical data sheets and more. Explore our resources to help bring your project together with confidence.
Small Wet Room Product Considerations
There are a number of important considerations you should be aware of when installing a wetroom. Each of these ensures correct installation and maintenance of your wetroom down the line.
Waterproofing
Tanking is the technical term for the waterproofing of your small wetroom. An impermeable rubberised membrane with interwoven glass fibre is used to completely seal the wetroom’s floor and walls, eliminating the ingress of water. When done correctly this prevents the room from leaking and will last throughout the tiles’ lifetime.
Gradients
Creating falls (another name for the gradient that channels the water to the drain) is important too. The falls can either be achieved on timber floors with pre-formed decs and floor formers, or in wetrooms on solid floor build-ups, by pouring screed to the correct falls. The gradient created must be at least 11mm below the height of the floor to ensure the water drains into the traps.
Small Wet Room Drainage
Your small wetroom’s drainage capacity is vital. A shower which pumps in water faster than the drain can remove it is a recipe for disaster if left unattended. Shower heads with higher flow rates need additional traps to remove the excess water and prevent flooding.
Ventilation
Adequate ventilation will remove excess moisture from the air and prevent the formation of mould, and structural dampness. A popular ventilation option for small wetrooms is passive stack ventilation which allows moisture to escape without the associated loss of heat.
Turn Your Small Wetroom Designs into a Reality
To ensure a watertight wetroom is achieved, all these factors must be addressed prior to commencing your wetroom project. At CCL Wetrooms, our wetroom products come with a lifetime guarantee and our technical team is on hand to help you plan and install your perfect small wetroom. Call us today on 0844 327 6002 to discuss your project.