A little strange at first glance, the combination of a bathhouse with billiards is actually the most effective recreation option. The opportunity to steam in a sauna and enjoy spending time at a billiard table has long been recognized as the best option for relaxation within the walls of a bathhouse complex. Fashion and the enormous popularity of saunas with billiards among owners of country holiday homes have led to the fact that even people who are absolutely indifferent to the game are building saunas with billiards.
Features of the layout of a bathhouse with gaming tables
In some cases, billiards appears in the sauna house as an element of the interior or a simple addition to the furniture of the relaxation room - the living room. In this case, there are no special requirements for the design of a bathhouse with billiards; the table can be placed anywhere in the hall in the free space.
It’s another matter if the billiard table will be used for a full-fledged game, if not at a professional level, then at least at an acceptable amateur level. With this approach, the design of the layout of a bathhouse with billiards must satisfy certain requirements:
- The room for playing billiards must be completely isolated from the steam room, dressing room and pool. Excessive humidity in the bathhouse atmosphere negatively affects the wooden structure of the gaming table;
- The specifics of the game of billiards require the arrangement of an independent base for the table; it is best to make a podium or a foundation separate from the sauna;
- The free space around the billiards should be at least one and a half meters from each side, in addition, it is advisable to provide one or two windows in the playing hall.
For your information! The total recommended area for a billiard room should be in the range of 35-43 m2.
Of course, the room for playing billiards should have its own access to a balcony or open terrace so that the players do not disturb the visitors of the bathhouse, and vice versa. Traditionally, a separate fireplace, upholstered furniture and a bar can be installed in the billiard room. In fact, a billiards room in a bathhouse is not much different from projects where a table is placed in a country cottage or residential building.
With a warm dressing room
It's hard to imagine a bathhouse without a cozy dressing room.
How to make this room beautiful and warm? In order for the dressing room to protect the room from the penetration of cold air inside, it is necessary to insulate it. You need to start with a warm floor so as not to spoil the entire impression of the bath procedures. Attention! Remember that this small room is also susceptible to moisture. Therefore, choose insulation materials that are resistant to moisture and do not forget about a layer of waterproofing on the floor before the final installation of the boards
Therefore, choose insulation materials that are resistant to moisture and do not forget about a layer of waterproofing on the floor before the final installation of the boards.
Concrete floors are undesirable, but an expanded clay concrete screed with a built-in “warm floor” system for any covering is a good option.
After the floor is ready, the upper part of the dressing room is insulated.
If you do not plan to use the attic space for your needs, then give preference to a flat ceiling.
It is easy to install and inexpensive. If on the contrary, then it is better to choose a false ceiling, which also retains heat well, but is a more durable structure.
A bathhouse with a warm dressing room, the design of which we will consider below, is insulated from the outside. How to do it? The walls of the dressing room can be insulated in two ways: inside and outside. Both technologies are almost the same. The beam is attached, then the insulation is laid. On top comes the material that you use to add aesthetic beauty to the walls. The only difference is that foil polystyrene foam is used as insulation inside the room, and mineral wool is used outside. The joints are taped to create a vapor barrier on both sides.
Information! You can make windows in the dressing room. The shape and size are chosen according to preference. To preserve heat, it is recommended to install a double wooden frame or double-glazed window.
Also, to maintain the temperature in the dressing room, you can make a separate heating system. There are several options:
- Install an air duct system on which special valves will be installed to regulate the heat supply;
- Release several pipes passing through the firebox to the place where the stones are heated. At the moment when water hits the hot surfaces, hot air will move through the pipes into the dressing room;
- Install the stove so that one of its walls, heated in the heat exchanger, heats the adjacent rest room. The heat that is released will be enough to maintain the optimal air temperature.
If the size of the dressing room allows, then it is better to install a separate stove to heat the room. You can lay out a fireplace. It looks beautiful, is easier to install and has greater functionality.
Layout options for a sauna with billiards project
Excessive requirements for the size of the room in which the billiard table or tables are planned to be located. There are quite a lot of standard solutions for arranging billiards within a sauna building, almost all of them are divided into three large groups:
- One-story bathhouses with a separate wing of the building dedicated to billiards;
- Two-story buildings, the billiard room is located in the attic or second floor of the bathhouse.
Most bathhouse projects with a remote room for playing billiards are planned on the basis of ordinary country cottages. It is enough just to convert one of the rooms into a room with an increased level of comfort. The remaining rooms are planned for a steam room and a dressing room.
Selecting a project
Today it is customary to build steam rooms according to original designs, which include many rooms for various purposes. Today in such a bathhouse you can see one or more relaxation rooms, a separate washing room, a terrace with a barbecue, billiards, and even a SPA salon.
An example of a project with a billiard room, for which the second floor is allocated
Let's discuss the option of a steam room with a billiard table in more detail.
The instructions are:
- If you have a fairly large area, then there are no limiting factors for you regarding the choice of a bathhouse project with a billiard table. You can build a one-story building of a large area. You can also build a two- or even three-story bathhouse. At the same time, the average billiard room area varies from 22 to 52 sq.m. In this case, everything will be determined by the area of your site, as well as your preferences. A typical project for a bathhouse with a billiard room involves the construction of a steam room, a washing bath, a relaxation room and a room with a billiard table. And for tea drinking, you can build a porch reliably protected from wind and precipitation;
- To save the total area of the site where construction is supposed to take place, it is necessary to move “vertically”. In this case, you need to opt for the option of an attic or two-story bathhouse. It can be supplemented with an original balcony.
Photo of the interior arrangement of a bathhouse with billiards
Many believe that the attic will necessarily be characterized by excess humidity, which negatively affects the equipment. But if steam and waterproofing is carried out correctly, then such a risk will be eliminated.
One-story billiards with sauna
The simplest design of a one-story bathhouse with a billiard room is shown in the diagram and figure below.
Despite the fact that the total dimensions of the room are 15x7 m, less than half of the usable area of the building is allocated for the bathhouse itself.
A bathhouse with a billiard room is always built with an increased steam room area, in this case - 6.85 m2, and a large relaxation room - 20.5 m2. 41.05 m2 is allocated for the games room of the bathhouse. In this case, this is not a whim of the customer, the game is a collective activity, so most of the premises are planned to be visited by at least 4-6 people at the same time. In fact, this is an informal accepted standard for small bathhouses with billiards.
A good solution is to use a common wall of billiards and a steam room in the project. This allows you to install a fireplace in the billiard room and at the same time solves the problem of heating the game room.
In another option, the bathhouse design can include a warm wall for the hall adjacent to the steam room.
It is clear that it is not always possible and resources to build a separate room in a bathhouse. In the simplest case, a small 6-foot table 2.1 x 1.2 m can be placed in the living room or recreation room.
Advice! It is not recommended to add a separate room to an existing bathhouse box to equip a billiard room in it, unless both buildings are located on a single monolithic foundation, strip or slab.
Often, owners try to add a billiards room to an existing bathhouse project on blocks, stilts or a shallow belt. No matter how powerful the new foundation for the gaming room is, in any case, the attached room will settle in relation to the bathhouse box. The result will be a trim or slope and all pool tables will have to be leveled or reinstalled on adjustable platforms or play will simply be impossible.
The simplest solution to the problem is to arrange an attic room or room for playing billiards above the bathhouse.
Design of baths, saunas: start from the type of steam room
Interior designs are improving every year, impressing with their diversity, presenting users with ever new arrangement options. Saunas are no exception, as more and more people want to install a steam room at home, so the interior design does not let you get bored. The main thing is to decide what type of bathhouse you want to see in your home.
Finnish sauna - also known as dry steam room
It is characterized by high temperatures prevailing in the cabin (above 85 ° C) and low air humidity (below 10%). The Finnish sauna is especially recommended for people with muscle problems and bronchial asthma. High temperature and low humidity are maintained by a special sauna heater equipped with heating (non-water-repellent) stones. A dry sauna can only be used for 15-30 minutes several times a week. Such a steam room is often built from conifers, such as spruce and pine, but alder is also used. The interiors are bright with a slight pine scent.
Infrared sauna - an innovative steam room solution
It does not use conventional stoves, but installs infrared heaters. The infrared sauna heats up to 60 ° C, while maintaining a humidity level of 20 - maximum 25%. The relatively low temperature and higher humidity make an infrared sauna suitable for use for approximately 30 minutes once a day. The functionality of such a cabin depends little on the finishing material, so different wood is suitable, such as linden, Siberian cedar, Canadian cedar, aspen, alder, giving the room a pleasant woody aroma.
Steam sauna - also known as a Roman bath
The sauna maintains medium temperature (up to 60 ° C) and high humidity (up to 100%). Excessive moisture further increases the thermal sensation. The evaporation of the sauna comes from the stove, and the steam is created by an automatic evaporator installed in the floor. Due to high humidity, this type of room should not be made of wood. Glass and ceramics are better suited for its construction. A steam sauna can only be used for 15 minutes to half an hour several times a week.
Russian bath - proven healing for centuries
This steam room is based on the effects of water and steam. Russian people love it because the temperature in the steaming room can easily exceed 100 degrees Celsius. But the optimal temperature for a Russian bath is 60-70 degrees Celsius, and air humidity is 90%. The moisture level is adjusted by pouring water onto hot stones. It is recommended to wear a special felt hat to protect your head from extreme heat. A Russian bathhouse is built separately from the house from logs of such species as pine, spruce, larch, cedar, as well as oak, linden, and aspen.
Two-story baths
One of the ways to solve the problem of rational use of usable space involves the construction of a one-and-a-half-story building or house with an attic. Arrangement of the attic as a billiard room has certain advantages:
- It became possible to install billiards on a base independent of the foundation of the bathhouse. This makes it possible to adjust the level of the playing field with less effort;
- The room is isolated and can be used for games, even if the bathhouse is not in use at a given time.
The best design for building a bathhouse is a building with an attic, more space, higher ceilings, complete isolation from the washroom.
The only significant problem that will have to be solved is ensuring the appropriate level of lighting in the hall. The window openings on the gables of the bathhouse building are clearly not enough, so for side lighting of the billiards, additional transoms and glazed hatches embedded in the roof slopes are used.
Construction of a bathhouse with a billiard room
Layout features
It is worth planning the internal structure of the bathhouse in detail during its design process. Carefully consider the water and electricity supply system. In this case, you will not have to redo anything after construction is completed.
The design of a bathhouse with a billiard room will give you a truly pleasant stay
You will also need to accurately calculate the required amount of construction and finishing materials. When making purchases, do not forget about materials for making furniture yourself, if this was part of your plans.
The overall layout of the premises should be carefully thought out. Then moving from one room to another will be comfortable and easy. This means that nothing will spoil your relaxation in the steam room.
Billiards is an exciting game and a great relaxation
Make the entrance door to the bathhouse on the south side. In winter there will be much less snowdrifts. However, window openings should be located in the west - then the rooms will be bright.
If there is a pond with clean water on your site, then the structure should be erected next to it. The optimal distance is about 20 meters. Then you will have unlimited access to water, and bathing procedures will become even more enjoyable.
Material
The main material for a bathhouse with billiards in most cases is profiled timber and rounded logs. Such buildings are erected quite easily and in short periods of time.
However, this does not affect their high quality: such a bathhouse will certainly be reliable and durable due to the fact that “tenon and groove” technology was used during its construction.
Processing logs involves removing the top layer from its surface, which is exposed to precipitation. As a result, a strong core remains, which is impregnated with special protective compounds. This provides buildings made of logs and timber with a long service life.
The bath promotes relaxation of the whole body
Bathhouses made of laminated or profiled timber look very neat and aesthetically pleasing. For this reason, for such a structure, external finishing is not as important as when using other building materials. The only thing that can be found often is the inner lining of the walls of such a steam room.
A structure made of rounded logs will serve you faithfully for decades, delighting you with its beautiful appearance and practicality. Such logs can be marked at the production stage, for this reason it will be very easy and quick to assemble such a log house with your own hands.
It is also worth noting that the processed log is characterized by many significant advantages: affordable price, low level of thermal conductivity, excellent noise insulation, resistance to sudden temperature changes.
Build the steam room of your dreams
That is why this material is often preferred by those who are planning to build two-story and attic bathhouses.
Bathhouse with billiards and swimming pool
Moving the gaming room to the second floor of the bath complex building allows for expanded opportunities for recreation on the water. First of all, it becomes possible to equip a full-fledged swimming pool on the ground floor of the building.
In this case, the place for billiards is moved to the second floor, to the recreation area. In essence, this is a hall that unites several bedrooms. Not the most convenient form of the project, but the most rational, since the bathhouse in the superstructure is used in the most rational way.
Perhaps doubts will arise whether it is possible to locate a billiard room next to the bedroom. In fact, the game, if connoisseurs and experts in the carom process participate in it, is not much noisier than watching movies.
In this project of a bathhouse with a swimming pool and billiards under the water, the corner sector of a large recreation room stands out. This layout option makes it possible to build a bowl of water of increased size, in addition, it becomes possible to swim, regardless of whether the bathhouse is heated or not.
Of course, the pool group is separated from the main room of the relaxation room by a small partition, as in the photo. This is very important to avoid splashing and spreading water in the room, especially if the dressing room is used as a rest area.
But even in such a project for planning a sauna with a swimming pool and billiards, all significant interior items, tables, upholstered furniture, equipment and, especially, the billiard room have to be hidden at a considerable distance from open water.
Materials for construction and finishing
The structure is installed on a solid foundation slab. The choice of this particular option is due to the fact that even with significant seasonal fluctuations in the soil, the walls fixed on the slab do not shrink or deform, and the load is distributed evenly over the foundation. In addition, the slab base minimizes heat loss through the floor and prevents moisture from penetrating into the premises.
And this is important - after all, the humidity in the bathhouse is already somewhat increased, even with high-quality ventilation
We decided to build the walls from 300 mm thick gas block - a lightweight, easy to cut and lay, warm, comfortable and environmentally friendly material.
The pitched roof is covered with elegant dark chocolate colored tiles. The same shade is repeated in the chimney caps, lined with light gray torn artificial stone, as well as in drainpipes, window and door frames, and wooden exterior elements.
And to prevent the building from looking too gloomy, we diluted its exterior decor with light plaster on the walls and inserts of the same stone that was used to decorate the chimneys.
Small functional windows in the premises of the bath complex are balanced by large, bright windows in other rooms. And the huge transparent stained glass windows in the billiard room not only fill it with natural light and fresh air, but also give the entire structure lightness and even a certain visual airiness.
The concept of outdoor design in our project of a bathhouse with a billiard room is completed by open street lamps located along the perimeter of the building, the rays of which are directed simultaneously up and down. At night, it looks simply mesmerizing - no worse than complex multi-level decorative illumination.
Custom bathhouse designs with billiards
In the event that the bath complex uses only a small, so-called hardening pool, which is filled with ice water and, according to the design, is located right at the exit from the steam room or sauna. A plastic or ceramic bowl of water takes up no more than 3-4 m2; usually it is simply attached to the steam room, so there is no particular need to hide the billiards on the second floor or in an isolated room.
With this approach to arranging a bathhouse, a room for billiards can be included in the building design on the opposite corner of the building, and the rooms can be connected by a long corridor.
A distinctive feature of all existing pool projects is that the bowl, unlike a billiard room, can be successfully attached to the main frame of the bathhouse.
The center of gravity of the bowl of water is below ground level, so it does not have any effect on the stability of the building. It is enough just to make a small canopy or full glazing of the room with a swimming pool.
There are bathhouse designs that use a reverse layout of the rooms. Often, a pool is built as a minor detail, only as an addition to an open reservoir, or as a necessary part of a washroom interior.
In such cases, a steam room or sauna, with an open terrace or area for outdoor recreation, is placed on the second floor of the building, and a billiards room with a kitchen and bar is located on the first floor of the building.
Despite the somewhat unusual nature of the project, the idea itself finds a huge number of fans of playing billiards and relaxing in the bathhouse. Often the initial layout of the bathhouse box is carried out with a small margin. After completion of construction, it is discovered that the remaining part of the space turns out to be small for any useful use, and a decision is made to redevelop and equip the billiard room.
The building frame is built with an attic, and there is no need to make changes to the original design of the building; it is enough to comply with the requirements for attic spaces. In this case, the superstructure, where all the infrastructure is transferred, will not be considered the second floor.
In the same way, capital baths are converted into residential buildings.
Peculiarities
Regardless of the design of any pool, not every steam room can accommodate one. The main task when preparing a bathhouse for placing a swimming pool is waterproofing the wiring, walls and ceiling. You can’t just take it and put it in a ready-made steam room. Therefore, it is better to take it into account at the planning stage, otherwise adaptation to the premises will cost much more money.
Given the large volumes of water, the water supply system must also be fully prepared for the installation of a swimming pool. A regular foundation drain (which can be done in a small shower) will not work. Here you need a full-fledged drain and it must be equipped according to standard sewerage rules. True, there are cases when the sewer system cannot cope with huge volumes of water.
The building is designed taking into account the location of the pool - on the street, under the same roof with a steam room, or in another room.
Another important issue is the placement of utility networks. These include ventilation, water filters, lighting, and drainage systems.
What to pay extra attention to
As can be seen from the project, the distance between the vertical supports of the gazebo is from two to four meters. Such remoteness makes them unstable; it is necessary to take a set of additional measures to increase the rigidity of the supporting structure of the rafter system.
Connect the supports at the top of the gazebo together with 50x100 mm boards. Before this, the lumber should be passed through a surface planer, sanded to roughness and coated with a weather-resistant varnish.
The connection between the vertical supports of the gazebo and the boards can be done with long wood bolts; choose galvanized hardware. It is better to recess the heads and seal the holes with putty to match the lumber.
If, even after additional fastening of the supports, their stability is in doubt, install inclined corner supports. In the future, these supports can serve as a frame for the construction of decorative fences for the gazebo.
Beautiful examples
Option for a spa pool with hydromassage and detailed instructions for its installation.
For a small family, a miniature plastic font is quite suitable.
You can hang brooms and dried herbs on the walls to make water treatments even more relaxing and fill the room with a pleasant aroma.
Skilled craftsmen can afford to complete the finishing from natural stone.
An interesting solution would be to paint the walls near the pool.
An unusual pool design in the shape of a footprint.
A complex-shaped pool will require more money than a standard rectangular one, but it will look much more impressive and richer.
Special connoisseurs of art can depict an entire underwater world on the walls of the pool. Just take care in advance about waterproof materials for such work.
You can watch a master class on building a polypropylene pool in this video.
