Find The Smallest Bathtub For Your Home

When you start to plan the redecoration of a really small house or flat, one room that needs special consideration is the bathroom. Whilst a shower is nice, a bathtub is even more versatile, but finding the smallest bathtub available can be a bit of a challenge. Unless you mean with smallest bathtub a ‘baby bathtub‘, you are, most likely looking to get something an adult can have a nice, soaky-soapy, relaxing bath in it. And you will pleased to know that several solutions are available. If you want to go ahead and see more information about the smallest bathtubs available on the market, select one of the models in the slideshow below.

Still there? Great, here a bit more about the different types of small bathtubs available. Bear in mind that the standard length for a bathtub is five feet / 165cm, everything shorter than that can be considered ‘small’. How small you need your ‘smallest bathtub‘ to be, depends entirely on the space you have available, so please measure carefully before buying. There are many basic shapes on the market that could help you to solve your specific ‘small bathroom’ remodeling problem:

Walk in bathtub, also called seat-bath or sit-bath, these models make up in height what they are lacking in length. Because you are taking your bath seated, they require only minimal floor space. Most, if not all of them, can be accessed via a door, making them also very convenient for older or disabled people. There main disadvantage is that you have to wait quite a bit that they fill up and empty, as you can’t use the door, obviously, whilst there is still water in the tub.

Freestanding bathtubs are also available in smaller sizes, but they tend to be uncomfortable for taller people, as the knees will end up against the chest, making the bath less relaxing as it could be. But if your family is rather ‘short’, this might be a good solution.

Sometimes the size of the bathroom is not the actual problem, the problem in its shape! By thinking outside the box, you might find some unusually shaped bathtubs that fit the bill perfectly for you. The most common solution here is a corner bathtub, but you can also find asymmetric shaped ones, I even found one that has an avocado shape (see slideshow above).

Bathtubs don’t have a be always over ground, if you install them in the ground, level with the floor, you can win some extra space around the walls and similar. Combine this with a corner tub and you might have found a solution you have not thought about earlier. But these kind of bathtubs require a bit of fitness from you, when climbing out and a bit of agility to get into them

Japanese style bath tubs are a bit like a walk in bath, but without the seat and the door, you simply climb into them. Whilst they are stylish and space saving, there are more adequate for a young and fit family, than for a household with older people in it.

Have you thought about combing your shower with a bath tub? By taking out your shower completely and replacing it with a bathtub that has also a shower screen or curtain plus a shower head, you could really achieve the best of both worlds. That way you can take a bath or a shower as the mood takes you, or time permits, all in the same place.

I hope this little article gave you some ideas on how you can find your ideal smallest bathtub without compromising quality, nor paying an ‘arm and a leg’.