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Choosing bathroom furniture requires some extra attention because this is no longer seen only as a merely functional room, but has increasingly become the favourite place to relax and spend time just for yourself. After a hard-working day, there is nothing better than close the world outside your bathroom door and just relax your muscles and mind under the gentle shower jet or indulge in a nice hot bath to release tension and stress.
Today's bathroom must be able to meet the needs of contemporary life, adapt to your style and therefore to that of your home. This is why the choice of bathroom furniture should not be underestimated and should not be made only according to latest interior trends.
This buying guide will help you with all the necessary ideas and advice about your future bathroom furniture.
What are the must-have pieces when furnishing your bathroom? To avoid making mistakes, it is better to start with the choice of sanitaryware: the toilet - and eventually the bidet - and then also the washbasin. These two - or three - pieces can be coordinated all from the same line or you may prefer a unique original basin with a distinct design for an outstanding choice. Then go ahead choosing whether to install the shower or the bathtub (or both, if you're lucky!) depending on the size of your bathroom: this is for sure a personal choice but sometimes it is influenced by other factors such as the space available or the budget, requirements that are both equally important to take into account.
The furnishing elements that can be placed in a bathroom to make it not only comfortable and functional, but actually more appealing are many and various: vanity units, cupboards, cabinets, storage units and shelves, mirrors and mirrored cabinets and so many more!
To better consider your bathroom furniture options you should try first to visualize an empty room where only the sanitary and window fixtures are set up.
The space that's left and its layout is the playground of your inner designer but at the same time it will condition in a decisive way every choice you're going to make, both positively and negatively. It is precisely on the basis of the size of the bathroom and its layout that you will end up choosing not only the sanitary ware type, but also the right furniture to match.
In a bathroom that is small by definition (i.e. with a surface area of less than 45 square feet) it becomes all the more important to orient the selection of the toilet on ad hoc designed collections, whose lines and dimensions are conceived to be compact, less bulging and with reduced depth. You can easily adapt the basin the same way installing a longer and narrower model or you could prefer a tiny cloakroom. Another super-comfortable and save-spacing solution is a combined toilet & basin unit.
To further enrich the creative and practical possibilities, there are also an infinite number of furnishing accessories that not just complete the bathroom but indeed make our daily experience of it easier: heating that also serve as towel rails, smart accessories for the shower cubicle designed in every shape, style and material, storage mirrors, storage units and much more.
If your house has only one bathroom, it is best to equip it first with the strictly necessary elements before thinking about any extra optional. If, on the other hand, you have two or more bathrooms, feel free to consider different options: in one bathroom the shower and in the other the bathtub is probably the most usual solution in this case.
The importance of space in the choice of sanitary ware and furnishings has already been mentioned. But also choosing colours is all about space. A well-known trick to make a small room - and so a bathroom - look bigger and brighter is to use light colours for the walls and furnishings, while in a larger bathroom you can use paints or wall coverings in bright colours or even with patterns if you like them. Depending on your taste, shiny colours and glossy surfaces can be used for the furniture pieces but if you like a simpler and more contemporary style then go for darker and matt shades.
If white has always been the most used colour and never goes out of fashion, today's satin and matt versions are giving it a new life. The same happens for the entire pastel colours palette: elegant and delicate, these beautiful shades give the bathroom a fresh and modern touch. The latest trends prefer grey and black especially in matt finish for a timeless sophistication.
Object of much more interest than in the past, present on the pages of specialized home decor magazines as much as the kitchen or the living are, today the attention paid to the quality of workmanship and materials of bathroom furniture is maximum. The current trend has therefore changed and the rule to be respected is that of quality over quantity: it is better to own a few pieces of furniture as long as they are of excellent workmanship and design and can also guarantee durability, rather than many or large units but of lower quality.
Long gone are the times when bathroom furniture was produced only in wood and wood-derived materials, of various qualities and types, and sanitary ware only in ceramic: today the industry is a flourishing of innovative technical materials.
The fascination of these new materials lies in their almost infinite versatility. Today's market proposals, in fact, not only meet a wide range of tastes thanks to the many possibilities of style they can adapt to - from traditional to modern and contemporary lines, concrete or stone effects, up to marble look can be easily recreated - but, above all, they offer characteristics of indisputable value such as reduced water absorption, scratch resistant surfaces, high resistance, maximum hygiene and safety thanks to non-porous surfaces.
Among the most popular materials today, especially when it comes to countertops both for the bathroom and the kitchen, it is impossible not to mention the porcelain stoneware. Thanks to always new production techniques and to large but thin slabs specially designed for countertops, porcelain stoneware makes it possible to create designs with a great aesthetic impact. What's more, it makes it possible to combine the strength of ceramics with the allure of richer materials and stones such as marble, for example, that many of us otherwise could not even dream of.
