Three Ideas to Lend Sparkle to Bathroom Decor

An Overview of a Rapidly Changing Market

Today, innovative design strategies can lend extra sparkle to bathroom decor. Home owners in this era enjoy access to an incredible variety of exciting new products; baths, taps, shower enclosures, spa showers, luxury baths and even entire bathroom suite packages await'shoppers on line. Where previous generations had to choose mainly standardized product items for the bathroom based upon local market conditions, today the Internet permits a far wider array of choices. The sheer number of new products allow the occupants of a home to customize every room in the house, including bathroom decors. Here are just three ideas to lend design interest to this area:?

Marble Facades

One of the hottest new trends in bathroom design actually traces its roots back to the ancient world. An increasingly popular motif for upscale bathrooms involves the generous use of marble to line floors, walls, long vanity counter tops and tub steps. The rich texture of the surface colors lend interest and warmth to this motif.?

The wide array of potential baths facilitates the use of a marble room exterior. Today, home owners can find an amazing selection of bath designs, ranging from stand alone claw footed tubs such as the luxurious Premiere Grosvenor Double Ended Freestanding Roll Top Bath, with solid, wide and heavy claw feet to the sleekly modernistic designs of the Phoenix Assai Black Freestanding Double Ended Bath, an acrylic-based bath with a black surround surface. An elevated marble platform to showcase a claw foot bath or marble stairs rising towards a freestanding one add elegance and a sense of luxury to normally fairly utilitarian room setting.?

Shelf Accessories

Another trendy design device involves selectively placing floating glass wall shelves along bathroom walls. The wide availability of baths that can stand anywhere in the room work well in conjunction with this goal. For instance, in a larger room with a shower and enclosure on one'side, many home owners might choose to add a freestanding bath near the opposite wall, as well. They can install convenient adjacent wall shelves to permit accessories to remain within easy reach. The trend of adding shelving as desired reflects the greater design control vested in the owners of residential premises today. Now residents, not architects, seem likely to exert the most significant input into bathroom fixtures.?

Unexpected Design Accents

Another interesting design secret in wide use at the present time involves adding unexpected room accents. For example, a completely white porcelain dominated bathroom might benefit from the addition of a standalone bath with a dramatic black surround, such as the Phoenix Assai Black Freestanding Double Ended Bath. The unexpected contrast of light and dark shades would add visual interest to the decor. Other useful additions might include selectively placed colored tiles or mirrors. With so many tub and spa shower models available, originality prevails.