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It’s no big surprise to see bathrooms becoming more and more luxurious. While bathrooms can be the most difficult project in the home to tackle, the results can be life altering. Here are a number of items to consider that you too—with a bit of planning and perhaps some professional help—can include in your new bathroom:

Bigger Bathrooms

Bathrooms are getting bigger and bigger. In older homes, people are knocking down walls to make their bathroom a spacious room instead of the once traditional 6x8 bath. Those building new houses are planning ahead for a larger bathroom space.

Fancier Fixtures
More room lets you explore the more options. People have been making the best of the larger areas and there has been a surge in high end fixtures. Not only is there more room for them, but the fixtures are getting affordable, accessible, and people are starting to view them as necessary rather than as luxury. Steam and jet showers, whirlpools, bathroom furniture and cabinetry, and heated tile floors are a few of the great new trends for comfort and luxury. Even refrigerated drawers and coffee machines are on the rise in the master suite.

Many of you may have experienced the oh so mediocre builder grade whirlpool tub. We meet you daily in our showroom and you typically react with an ‘ugh’... when we mention a new tub. However don’t be fooled by the past. If you are in a truly quality line, there are fabulous features available.

When I built my new home this year I invested in some luxury courtesy of Jason International….the cream of the crop when it comes to bathing rapture!

With remote control operation, underwater mood lighting and options for full therapeutic massage and relaxing “bubble” therapy…it has transformed an evening ritual into a mini vacation. Multiple shower heads and body jets in an “oversized” shower complete with ambient lighting and a comfortable seating area…and music, yes music, make a daily shower something close to heaven!

Less limiting designs
The options open to someone remodeling their bathroom are limitless. It’s tres chic to have bathrooms that are aesthetically and stylistically interesting places…and consumers are showing their willingness to make them so. New materials, like specially treated, water resistant hardwood flooring, very trendy and artistic paint options, lighting, furniture, cabinetry and hardware appropriate for the bathroom and specially designed for it, have made their way onto the market. There are many options available, like colored glass bowls, antique-looking ceramic bowls and even stainless steel bowls, definitely not your grandma’s old pedestal lavatory!

Additionally, vanity designs span the entire spectrum from antique designs to the ultra contemporary. New flooring options can also transform the space completely. The addition of color and mixing of materials in the bathroom are both on the rise as well.

The bathroom has evolved from a simple necessity in the home to a retreat, where people are spending more and more time relaxing and regenerating. Bathroom designs have followed suit, growing more elaborate and comfortable while at the same time acquiring an aesthetic flare all of their own.

Start daydreaming and planning today, and tomorrow it can be your spa retreat that is the envy of all!