Can you have a wet room in a small bathroom?
Yes — small rooms are where wetrooms make the most sense. Removing the tray and enclosure frees more usable space than any other change in a room under 2m × 2m, and the continuous floor makes it read bigger. The design keys: a fixed glass panel to keep dry zones dry, and storage planned out of the splash line.
In a 3m² bathroom, a shower enclosure is a piece of furniture — it owns a quarter of the room and its door needs swing space. Deleting it is the single biggest spatial win available. The floor runs wall to wall, the glass is one fixed panel you walk past, and the room's real size becomes visible for the first time since it was built.
The small-wetroom design rules we work to: drain and falls positioned so water is pulled away from the door line; one fixed panel (700–900mm) shielding the WC and towel zone; the basin wall-hung so the floor plane is unbroken; storage recessed into stud walls or mirrored above splash height; and underfloor heating, because in a small volume the whole floor is near the shower and wants to dry fast.
The honest caveat: in a small wetroom everything is nearer the water, so material choices matter more — timber accessories out, sealed storage in. Get that right and the small wetroom is, square metre for square metre, the best bathroom format there is.
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