How to Design a Luxury Bathroom

Installing a sumptuous, high-end bathroom in your home has to be one of the most enjoyable parts of a remodelling project. A luxury bathroom is a private sanctuary that enables you to freshen up in the morning and unwind in the evening. It should make your life feel easier and more relaxing, focusing your attention on your own wellbeing. So how do you go about designing one? Let’s take a look.

Contents

Choosing high-end products online

Plumbing-in a deluxe bathroom

Decorating for luxury

Creating a sense of timelessness

Designing for the 21^st Century

Choosing high-end products online

It’s easier than ever to find—and order—beautiful, top-of-the-line products on the Internet. Whereas, once, you might have had to contract an artisan to visit your home, measure up and spend months crafting your bespoke vanity unit, freestanding tub and walk-in shower, you can now do it within a few clicks online, thanks to retailers like Riluxa.

The best online bathroom retailers won’t just offer customisable bathrooms, though. They’ll also give you the chance to purchase deluxe off-the-shelf fixtures and fittings, like those available through the Riluxa In-Stock range.

After all, your contractor will have deadlines for installation—which may be even shorter if you’re an interior designer, architect or property developer. Being able to get your products within a few days could mean the difference between meeting and missing those deadlines.

For simplicity, you might find yourself looking into ordering a full bathroom set, which may help you to save on the shipping costs of ordering multiple pieces from different online retailers. It also makes shopping for luxury bathrooms easier for those on a lower budget.

When looking for an online supplier for your luxury bathroom remodel, don’t forget to look into the shipping costs and procedures—as well as the returns policy. What you’re ideally looking for is free shipping, a trusted carrier and a robust statement concerning returns to guarantee buyer safety. Take a look at Riluxa’s delivery page as a good example.

Plumbing-in a deluxe bathroom

Installing your luxury bathroom once it arrives is either a case of finding a good plumber or taking the DIY approach and fitting your own bathroom. Because this is a high-end project, it’s probably advisable to hire a construction team to make sure the project is finished to professional standards. It all depends on the level of DIY skills you have. You might, for instance, be great at tiling and grouting but what good is that for installing robotics and automation into your bathroom?

Think about potentially working with an architect, especially if your bathroom has a complicated layout or if it’s part of a bigger remodelling, renovation or restoration project. Also, consider whether you’re going to hire an individual contractor who’ll manage the entire process or individual sub-contractors. The latter will likely be cheaper, but more difficult to manage.

Decorating for luxury

The overall look of your bathroom isn’t just about the fixtures and fittings. Decorating for a high-end bathroom puts as much importance on the finishing touches as it does on the products you install. Start your design journey by getting inspired on Instagram and Pinterest. There are some incredible design influencers out there who’ll give you tons of ideas.

Consider the decoration style that you’re going for. Will it be inspired by a particular design movement from a specific period like minimalism or mid-century modern? Or will it, alternatively, be a mishmash of lots of different styles from different places and periods like the boho style?

Develop the aesthetic style of your bathroom around the fixtures and fittings—not the other way around. Flexible design methods, like those offered on the Riluxa site, mean that it’s possible to customise your vanity unit and choose your basin, bathtub and shower tray from an array of different colours. Choose your paint—as well as your plants, ornamentation and lighting—to complement your new, luxury fixtures.

Speaking of lighting, think about how you can make the space work to let in as much natural light in as possible. Also, spend some time working out whether or not to hang art in your bathroom—the high-moisture environment will be suitable to certain types but not others.

Creating a sense of timelessness

Making your bathroom feel timeless is one way of ensuring that high-end, luxury feel you’re going for. It will also help to make sure you don’t have to remodel again for a very long time—if ever—because it will never go out of fashion.

So, choose an enduring style that denies the faddishness of fast-fashion and that oozes sophistication and an understanding of the history of interior design. Whether it’s styled after art deco, Scandi, or even shabby chic principles, a luxury bathroom should feel as though it will look as splendid in 20 years as it does today.

Using natural materials like wood, marble and ceramic is a great way of helping to achieve this because they’ve been used for many centuries by many generations of bathroom designers. You should also choose handcrafted products, built by artisanal producers and—as such—built to last. Well-built bathroom products, made from the finest materials, will help to make sure your bathroom doesn’t start feeling tired and old after a few short years.

Designing for the 21^st Century

Even though you’ll be looking to craft a bathroom that stands the test of time, you’ll still be doing so right here in the 21^st Century—so there’ll be some present-day considerations you’ll no-doubt want to make.

Contemporary luxury bathroom design here in the 2020s isn’t just about the way a bathroom looks and feels. It’s about how it responds to the challenges weighing down on society, like the environment, our ever-busier lives and our overall sense of wellbeing. Today’s bathroom designers are taking those factors into account in new and innovative ways.

Manufacturers like Riluxa’s design partner Galfia are focusing on sustainable bathroom materials like Corian®, which are low in volatile organic compounds (VOCs), as well as easily renewable and long-lasting. They’re also working to make their products customisable to even the smallest of environments like tiny houses, enabling people to reduce their clutter and carbon footprint simultaneously.

Bathroom design in the 21^st Century has become more people focused than ever before, too—not just environmentally focused. The internet of things allows to switch on the hot water for our shower or bath remotely from our phones and domotics technology even enable us to detect leaks from our boilers.

Finally, aesthetically speaking, our bathrooms are no longer tied to particular historical periods, design movements or geographical style narratives. That’s because we’ve moved into an era when our concerns are more solutions-based and less about stylistic originality for its own sake.

As a result, a sense of eclectic, anything-goes design has come to populate our bathrooms. Customisability, like that offered by Riluxa in—for example—the ability to choose a single product in multiple colours of Corian® is a great example of this democratised world of design. It is a world that sees designers actually collaborating with their customers on a one-to-one basis to devise bathroom products that are both pre-designed but also personalised in terms of shape, layout, colour and size—right down to the last millimetre.

There has never been a better time for individuals to design their own luxury bathrooms. The possibilities are virtually infinite, and the choices are very much in the hands of consumers themselves. What an exciting time.

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