Your bathroom doesn’t have to look boring and bleak – it is a room with a specific set of purposes, but investing some time and effort to know how to decorate a bathroom can land you with a gorgeous and cozy room. Besides, the bathroom is often used more than a couple of times a day, so you should make sure that the time you do have to spend there is as enjoyable and comfortable as possible. Here are some bathroom style ideas you can use in 2017.
Freestanding Tubs
Over the course of the past couple of decades, we’ve gotten used to seeing bathtubs placed against the bathroom wall, but if you have some spare room, you should really look into freestanding tubs.
Having been gaining in popularity as of recently, freestanding tubs are likely to overcome the trends where the bathtub is placed front and center and literally put on a pedestal.
Home designers tend to recommend seeing the tub as a simple, yet beautiful piece of furniture, without surroundings, steps or a platform. Everything else is up to you – your tub can be a simple soaking tub or a more luxurious therapeutic air tub with chromotherapy and a variety of other tech innovations; it can be oval, round, or square, but if you make it freestanding, it will definitely be a quieter, although a prominent part of your master bathroom.
Storage
You can’t have a gorgeous, well-adjusted bathroom without organizing it. On the other hand, nicely tucking away everything isn’t enough to make things functional and efficient, especially when you’re in a hurry to get ready for work or a night out.
Equipping your bathroom with smart storage will help you have all your essentials at hand at all times. For example, with smart storage, hair dryers and curling irons can be plugged in and ready for use with built-in drawers and pullouts designed specifically to fit this purpose.
Drawer dividers for makeup and toiletries are increasingly common and even medicine cabinets come equipped with built-in electrical and USB ports, with device charging in mind. Everything from smartphones to cars is becoming “smart” these days, and bathroom storage is no exception.
Wood
The 20th century has played a huge role in making the tiles predominant material in bathroom decoration. In fact, there’s a lot of logic behind this, seeing as how concrete is anything but welcoming and wood doesn’t really play well with water. However, modern times have equipped us with means of preserving wood in humid environments. This has led to timber flourishing in the bathroom over the course of past few years.
This trend is here to stay – timber that is purpose-designed for bathrooms is likely to bring in the natural warmth into this type of a room, where wood used to be unwelcome. Duckboard flooring is a prime example of this – it has been used in boat building for years and works well with water by nature, while providing a lovely feeling when standing on it with bare feet. Use wood to bring out life and warmth into your bathroom walls and floors.
Metals
This may sound counterintuitive, but there is no reason to avoid using wood and metal in combination; the whole ‘steampunk’ aesthetics is based on this combination and it has been becoming increasingly popular in recent years. Even when they aren’t combined with wood, metals reflect light and offer glamour, while perfectly contrasting with natural materials. Matte and satin finishes are going to be particularly popular in 2017.
Think fixtures, towel bars, shower rails, handles and even copper baths! If you’re aiming at combining wood and metal, use the former for surfaces and the latter for details – wood should be predominant, while using metallic splashes is going to do the trick!
Bring Lush into Your Bathroom
The bathroom may not seem like a typical place for plant life and, quite frankly, it’s not hard to tell why. However, indoor plants tend to bring in life, so why should your bathroom be an exception here? If you’ve opted for using wooden surfaces, a couple of lush plants will do wonders for the general atmosphere.
Using fake plants isn’t advisable; these tend to look lifeless and, well, sort of dry. Furthermore, there really is no better place to grow plants – steamy showers work perfectly well with plants, by providing them with a sort of a tropical atmosphere! Go with jasmine during the summer and swap it for sansevieria in wintertime.
Dimensional Tile
Although large tiles are currently a big deal in Europe, the dimensional tile trend also began there. For example, dimensional tile making big waves is one of the latest design trends for bathrooms and the innovations in the water jet technology have made it possible for tile manufacturers to express themselves in new and interesting ways.
With the aim of bringing drama as well as style into the modern bathroom, dimensional tiles are significantly superior to wallpapers and fabrics that have the same purpose. Think of using a dimensional tile as an accent wall, for example!
Large Tiles
Regardless of what type of a surface you opt for in the bathroom, tiles are unavoidable, at the very least in certain places. Mosaics and slender subways are slowly going out of fashion and are making way for oversized tiles, which are pretty famous in Europe and Australia. In addition to being easy to clean, large tiles create a seamless spatial illusion that works perfectly with small and medium-sized bathrooms.
If you are planning on doing renovations, but already have small, mosaic-type tiles, there are many bathroom renovation experts available out there that offer transparent pricing, so there is no reason to remain in the 20th century with awkwardly small tiles.
We hope that these design ideas will help you achieve an ultimate bathroom, regardless of whether you prefer following trends or not. These tips and trends are going to be huge in 2017 and well beyond, so if you are planning on remodeling anytime soon, following these tips can go a long way in inspiring you with a trendy, warm, inviting, yet functional bathroom!