Kid-friendly bathroom design

The best laid plans of moms and dads often go awry once kids enter the picture. What was once a bathroom for two suddenly becomes a space for three or four or five. Moreover, these new users have drastically different needs than the adults who designed the spaces. Often parents or guardians will find that their carefully designed bathroom has to be updated to accommodate a child’s arrival, both in terms of safety and functionality.

It’s important for kids to stay safe and equally important for adults to stay sane. The good news is that there are a number of easy ways to make your bathroom more kid-friendly while maintaining the look you’ve worked so hard to achieve.

For most adults, a warm bath is an opportunity to indulge in a moment of relaxation and tranquility. But for young children, a tub of water is an invitation to splash about and run wild. In most cases this is little more than an annoyance for the adults who care for them, but special care must be taken to ensure that more serious accidents are avoided. Anti-slip bath surfaces, with their intrinsic traction-giving properties, go a long way in helping to keep these rambunctious young ones from suffering slips and falls.

These properties have in the past been attainted via adhesive tapes or plastic mats, which, though effective, are not aesthetically pleasing. These days, there are a number of materials such as Stonex^® or Surfex^® which are inherently anti-slip, giving your bathtub all the benefits of a slip-resistant base with none of the downsides.

For small children, safety is an abstract concept which often takes a backseat to curiosity and is frequently thwarted by accidents of all sorts. It’s important for adults to remember that everyday objects can be potentially dangerous to inexperienced users with short attention spans and low manual dexterity. In a bathroom which will be used by children, one can never be too careful – or too organized.