A luxurious spa-style bath design is the perfect solution for stressful lifestyles. Its minimalist approach is sleek and modern, enhanced by quality materials and a relaxing color palette. Accessorizing with organic textures and bringing in nature with plants forges a real connection to the outdoors. Enhancing your retreat with aromatherapy and a large soaking tub makes it the perfect place to relax.

On a practical level, spa-style bath designs also accommodate spacious shower enclosures and floating vanities and toilets, which open up floor space for a light and airy feel. Thresholdless showers are ideal for this calming, open-plan design. Encouraging natural light also brightens up a spa-style remodel but a layered lighting plan that allows for task lighting and soft light sources is a must for all-round relaxation and comfort.

Get inspired for your relaxing, spa-style bath design. These are our top ten ways to treat yourself to a spa-style bath design.

1. Clear The Clutter

The first step towards a spa-style bath remodel is to clear out your existing bath design. When you have a decluttered space, you can think with a clear head and visualize what you would like in your spa-style space.

The key to creating a relaxing sanctuary is an uncluttered space where you can breathe and move freely. When you have removed everything, clean all surfaces, and decide what improvements are necessary for your bathroom’s storage. Your bath design expert can advise you on the ideal fixtures, storage, and decor for your renovation.

Go through the contents of your bathroom and decide what you’d like to keep and what can be donated or disposed of. When you are left with the essentials, it’s time to figure out a storage plan to transform your bath design.

2. Design Storage to Meet Requirements

Custom storage is the key to a sleek, spa-style bath design. Think about spa sanctuaries and how streamlined they are, resulting in a tranquil space. Once you have eliminated things you don’t use, it’s just a matter of designing storage to conceal or display the rest.

Closed storage for a spa-style bath design is typically a contemporary-style vanity cabinet. This should be a simple door style that is unembellished and designed in a quality material, preferably wood. Tailor-made internal storage solutions, such as drawers with built-in outlets for electronic items and size-specific compartments mean that all contents are stored in an organized way. This enhances the functionality of your bathroom remodel and makes life easier. What more could you want?

Open storage in the form of floating shelves or cubbies should be kept simple and only contain carefully curated items to avoid clutter and collecting dust. Countertops should also be kept as clear as possible.

Use decorative storage containers to hold small items, that are sleek or in an organic material, so they don’t jar with the overall clean look of your spa bathroom. Introduce texture with baskets or try glass containers with their reflective quality. Mirrored medicine cabinets also marry form and function in a bath design that needs light and space to succeed.

3. Be Inspired by Nature

Nature is the predominant theme in a spa-style bathroom remodel. The basic way you can incorporate natural elements is to ensure that there are house plants around your bath design. For a bath design, it’s best to choose plants that do well in a humid environment. Their lush texture is the perfect foil to a minimalist design and green provides a calming color accent. Plants also purify the air in a bathroom. Place them at different heights, from large floor pots to hanging plants in organic containers.

4. Choose Quality Materials

The materials you use should also embody nature and be as high quality as possible. Hardwood and natural stone bring a feeling of luxuriousness to your spa-style bath remodel. Marble stone slabs provide a luxe backdrop to a statement shower enclosure but be aware that marble requires ongoing re-sealing as it is a porous material. An alternative is to go for marble-effect quartz slabs or porcelain tile.

Natural stone vessel sinks and flooring with heating underneath are the ultimate in spa-style bath design. Rich wood cabinetry can complement cedar bathmats, shelving, storage boxes, and window frames to bring warmth to your bath remodel. Natural materials set the tone for your organic, sophisticated spa-style bathroom, giving it both a luxurious and a grounded feel.

5. Keep Colors Calm

In keeping with the theme of nature, stick to a color palette of earthy neutrals for a spa-style bath design. Crisp white fixtures, like toilets and bathtubs, give your bathroom a fresh and clean look. This also brightens up a bath design in beige or brown tones to avoid it appearing too flat. Natural stone can vary from cream through to earthy tones and wood can be rich tan and chocolate colors, making natural materials an ideal choice for a spa-style bath. With so many shades available, keep your neutral palette to a minimum to avoid overwhelming your bath design. Accents of color enliven your remodel. Use towels, textiles, art, or flowers to introduce accent colors. If you’re going for wallpaper or tiles, keep them simple with a pared-down pattern to complement your sleek, spa-style design.

6. Focus on Stylish Hardware and Fixtures

Think carefully about the hardware you choose for your bath design. In a minimalist design, you can make features out of sophisticated faucets, shower heads, toilet paper holders, hooks, or cabinet hardware.

The mixed metals trend is continuing to grow, and it offers huge scope in its variety of metals and finishes. The key to mixed materials working well together is to have a common theme by sticking to either cool or warm-toned finishes. You can vary the finishes, but the color should either veer to yellow/orange/pink or blue/gray/black. Warm-toned metals like copper, rose gold, and bronze are all trending, and matte black is still a hit and can be paired with stainless steel or nickel.

Hammered, brushed, oil-rubbed, antique, or polished finishes all work to make your metal choices interesting. Coordinating these finishes tonally really accessorizes and pulls your design together.

7. Accessorize to Counterbalance Minimalism

When accessorizing a spa-style bath remodel, you need to temper your approach, so the bathroom’s calm aesthetic is retained. The minimalist look of a spa bathroom can be counterbalanced by introducing a little softness. Invest in good quality towels to bring a touch of spa-style luxury to your design. Fold or roll them to store them on shelves stylishly. Plush bathrobes can be hung on the door and deep pile bathmats look good while preventing slips and falls. To complete this inviting look, hang soft drapes and place a stylish, upholstered bench in front of your makeup vanity. Fabrics can differ but keep the colors in the same family for a polished look.

8. Streamline Fixtures

Fixtures are the cornerstone of your bathroom design. It’s important to get the layout right to ensure that you can move freely around your bathroom while retaining its spa-style aesthetic. You want to achieve a minimalist look, so sleek, wall-hung fixtures are an ideal choice. Floating vanities and toilets dictate the strong, clean lines of your design and open up the floor of your bath remodel. This gives an airy feel to the space but also, on a practical level, makes it easier to clean the floor and around the fixtures.

Streamlined freestanding tubs with flat bottoms allow you to relax in style without taking over your bathroom. Spa-style shower enclosures are usually open and spacious or enclosed in a frameless glass surround that lets light shine through. Add steam showers or rainfall shower heads and massage jets for extra luxury, temperature and pressure controls that are voice-activated, and music to set the mood for your relaxing shower. Why not include two shower heads for an even more efficient shower design? The more high-end your fixtures, the more of a sanctuary your bath remodel will be.

9. Create a Sensory Experience

If you’re treating yourself to a spa-style bath remodel, it’s important to indulge your senses for the full effect. Sight, sound, smell, and touch should all be catered for so you can feel either relaxed or invigorated. Textures and colors go a long way toward creating the right atmosphere, but scent is a real mood booster. Choose your favorite diffusers, essential oils, and candles, and ensure they complement each other if you’re using them together. Buy quality cleansing products as a little goes a long way and they will smell and feel luxurious. If their packaging doesn’t suit the bathroom’s aesthetic, then put them into decorative dishes and containers that do. Now you can really unwind in style.

10. Plan Effective Lighting

A spa-style bath design focuses on relaxation, so low, multisource lighting is a key way to achieve this. You also need bright light when you’re busy in the bathroom, but this is not conducive to a relaxing atmosphere. How can you have it all? The best way to ensure that your design is successful and appropriately lit is to plan a layered lighting scheme at the design stage. This lets you have the type of lighting you need at any given time without having fittings and switches taking over your bath design.

Include as much natural light as possible with windows and skylights. There is even artificial light available that emulates natural light throughout the day. Ensure that you have light sources at different levels in your bath remodel. Recessed lighting in the ceiling along with a pendant over a tub is a good place to start. Sconces or LED mirrors are great options to light up the wall above your vanity cabinet. Illuminate shelving or uplight a tub for a dimensional look. Dimmer switches allow you to have different levels of light. Why not invest in voice-controlled lighting so you can change it at any time from the comfort of your tub or shower? It’s so easy to have a perfectly balanced lighting scheme to enhance your spa-style bath design.

Treating yourself to a spa-style bathroom isn’t out of reach. Talk to us today at Woodmaster Kitchens to benefit from our years of experience and our knowledge of the latest trends and products. Your ultimate spa-style bathroom remodel is just a phone call away.

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