How To Choose The Perfect Styling For Your New Bathroom

If the time is right to freshen up your family bathroom, or you’ve recently moved into a new home that urgently requires a makeover, it can be hard to know where to start in terms of designing your new space. As a busy parent, it can be difficult to find the time to get inspiration about potential bathroom styles or features that can provide a personal touch and deliver the bathroom of your dreams.

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The tips below should put you on the right path to achieving a bathroom theme that’s future proof and cost-effective. From design tips to design pitfalls, read on as we explore the best ways to design your new bathroom suite.

Work with the Floor Space Available – Not Against It

Pay close attention to the space of your bathroom. Don’t get carried away. If your bathroom is small, no amount of architectural drawings will make your dream bathroom work. You have to work with the space you’ve got. If you don’t have room for a roll-top bath, consider a space-saving walk-in shower.

Don’t ignore wall space though – it can be a very handy storage provider, with the ability to fit floating vanity units and even towel rails that enhance the floor space and make the room feel larger. In tight, compact bathrooms, it’s more important to use light and colour to create a feeling of space. Light and bright colour schemes can make a compact room feel airy, especially when paired with contemporary fixtures.

Save Money by Looking at Prefabricated Bathroom Pods or Units

The price of your new bathroom suite can influence the style and sophistication of your new bathroom. Aside from materials, such as baths, showers, and vanity sinks, as well as floor and wall tiles, you must also take into account installation costs if you don’t plan on doing it yourself. In addition, if you are retrofitting an existing bathroom suite, there is always a danger of causing damage to your plumbing that can be expensive to repair.

That’s why prefabricated bathroom pods are proving a particularly popular alternative. They are largely pre-constructed offsite, including all your requested fixtures and plumbing, ready for simple onsite installation. If you are wondering what prefabricated bathroom pods price up for, they can start from as little as £1,000.

It’s even possible to utilise prefabrication to design and build a bathroom that connects with the great outdoors. There are all kinds of outdoor bath ideas that take inspiration from homes in the Mediterranean and Far East that fuse their bathrooms to take full advantage of their stunning natural surroundings. Built using offsite 3D modelling technology, these external pods can be tailored in the same way as an internal pod and transported straight off an assembly line.

Choose a Tile That Cements Your Look

Your choice of bathroom tile is one of the most important ways to set the tone of your redesign. If you plan on sleek and traditional bathroom fittings, you could opt for a textured tile to provide the design interest.

Practicality should be uppermost in mind when designing a new family bathroom. Ceramic, smooth tiles are best suited for these environments, with wipe-clean surfaces. Even the plainest tiles can be brought to life with re-grouting that can create eye-catching lines and patterns. Epoxy grout works best as it’s both waterproof and stain-resistant.

Accent with Bathroom Fixtures and Hardware

 
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You’ll be equally surprised at how the right hardware can knit a new bathroom style together in an instant. If you opt for a plain and practical vanity unit, it’s amazing how much bespoke or antique hardware can create an accent or theme for your space. You may even wish to employ a craftsman to handmade bespoke designs for door handles or knobs to complement tap and shower fittings.

The finish to taps and other hardware can make a huge impact on a bathroom’s overall style. Bronze, copper and rose gold hues create a sense of warmth, while chrome or even black taps can create crisp, striking effects against clean, white and bright fittings.

Honing a new style for your bathroom is an exciting time – and an opportunity to put your own stamp on one of the most used rooms in your household. With these savvy design tips, you should be able to turn your vision into reality in no time.