This article contains more than 10 options on how to make the right shelf for a bathhouse (steam room) with your own hands. Just below >50 drawings, diagrams and models of various designs: corner, folding and removable. Video selections. And also at the end of the article there is a large photo gallery + 200 photos of the most beautiful and simple shelves for a wooden bathhouse.
Layouts of bathhouse linings (sketches and drawings of shelves)
Here are collected layouts of bathhouses with 3 rooms : steam room, washing room and relaxation room. Here you can see the approximate design of the shelves
(Click on photo to enlarge)
How to make shelves in a bathhouse
Setting up a steam room is not a difficult task, so any user can handle it without any problems. However, in order for the design to be of the highest quality and safest, you need to focus on many parameters, including the type of wood for the shelves, the location of flooring in the room, the dimensions of the bathhouse, the presence of window and door openings, and much more.
It is recommended to begin work on creating shelves in a bathhouse by forming a specific action plan, according to which all necessary measures will be carried out.
Peculiarities
The shelf in the bathhouse is a universal resting place located in the steam room. In fact, this is an element of bath furniture necessary to create comfortable living conditions in the room.
Since rather complex microclimatic conditions are observed in the bathhouse, bathhouse furniture must be made from natural wood, provided that it meets certain criteria. You cannot use other materials for shelves, including glass, plastic or metal.
Device
When arranging steam rooms in baths that are as close as possible to classical Russian traditions, it is worth giving preference to single-tier shelves located along the walls where there are no window openings. The resting area in the bathhouse should have good ventilation and be located at a slight angle to ensure water drainage.
Also, when installing shelves in a bathhouse, it is recommended to take care of the issue of safety and comfort. When creating seating, you need to arrange wooden backrests in the steam room. Typically, this design resembles a compartment in a train carriage, thanks to the folding seats.
Shelves in the bathhouse: photo
Differences between Russian baths and saunas
We have said so many times that in any national bath everything is thought out to the smallest detail, or rather, that there are no small details at all. Temperature, humidity, air exchange rate are values so closely related to each other that a change in one leads to a violation of air conditions as a whole.
What does shelves have to do with this? Yes directly. At different heights from the floor, the temperature will be different; right at the ceiling it is hottest ; this is where the hottest air and steam from the stones accumulate, if the owner practices a Russian bath. But is it necessary to make shelves under the ceiling? But who cares - the Finns will be interested in this, but the Russians have no need.
Therefore, what the height of the shelves in a bathhouse should be depends on their number , and the number depends on whether it is a bathhouse or a sauna.
The simplest option is when the size of the shelves in the steam room of a Russian bath is determined by their single-tier arrangement, that is, one or two sun loungers (the latter is only possible in a spacious steam room), on which it is convenient to lie down at full height, and this is somewhere around 2.0-2 .2 m with a shelf width of 90 cm and a height from the floor of 75-90 cm.
ATTENTION! The height of the shelves in the bathhouse from the floor when choosing a single-tier option is determined either as the height of the upper edge of the stove + 10 cm, or according to the height of the bath attendant who will most often steam - measured from the knuckle of the thumb to the floor.
Such a shelf may be accompanied by a movable footstool, which has a height of, say, 40-45 cm, that is, approximately half the height of the shelf. With such a bench, the design becomes conditionally two-tiered, because it allows those who wish to sit on the bench as if on the lower tier.
In general, from what has been said it is clear that the most important thing for a Russian bath is to have a lying place, convenient for the steamer and the steamer.
The steam room itself must be arranged in such a way that the steamer’s broom can freely pick up the steam that has accumulated under the ceiling and lower it onto the body of the steamer.
It is possible, if the ceiling is high, to make the structure two-tiered, that is, so that the steamer with a broom stands on the lower tier (in the design described above, he stands on the floor).
A sauna differs from a Russian bath in the high (90-100 degrees) temperature of dry air (humidity 5-15%), which is the main means of warming up the body - in a Russian bath it is heated with steam . People come to the sauna to sweat. And this happens better where the humidity is lower and the temperature is higher, that is, higher from the floor.
BY THE WAY! It is better to sweat while sitting, which is why Finnish shelves are narrow and three-tiered.
In general, it is clear that the Russian shelf is wide and with minimal tiers, while the Finnish one is narrow and reaches the ceiling
