The bathroom; it’s not the most glamorous of rooms in the house. Unlike the living room, or the kitchen, or the dining room, the bathroom is a room which people want to get in, do what they need to do and get out as soon as possible. It’s a necessity rather than a luxury.
However, this line of thinking betrays the fact that good bathroom design can lead to some truly stunning results, creating the kind of environments people will want to relax in a hot, soapy bath and enjoy.
Furthermore, the kind of accessories that frequently appear in the opulent bathrooms appearing on the pages of interior design magazines and such aren’t even that expensive. Here are five opulent accessories that’ll make your bathroom shine.
Audio Mirror
Do you like to listen to music in the shower, but have a history of your phone suffering from water damage? Audio mirrors provide the solution.
These mirrors are essentially bathroom cabinets with speakers on the top, and feature Bluetooth connectivity so you can have your music player outside of the bathroom while you blast out beats and indulge in some bathroom karaoke.
These mirrors start from around £400 (around $638).
Freestanding Bathtub
Nothing says opulent spa like a freestanding bathtub. Although most freestanding bathtubs share the same characteristics as a bog standard wall-aligned tub – four walls, a plug, taps and so on -, there is just something about a freestanding tub that makes bathing more luxury.
Freestanding tubs can vary wildly in price, but you should be able to pick one up for around £300 ($480).
Waterfall Shower
The advent of showers has led to a general improvement of hygiene standards in society, making it something of a bathroom essential (unless you can be bothered to run a bath every night).
Unfortunately, as they’ve become essential, it means they’ve also become bog standard. That’s where waterfall showers come in; mimicking cascading water as it would appear in nature, waterfall showers feel great and look just as good too.
Waterfall showers start from about £150 ($240)
Egyptian Cotton Bath Towels
Many people say that the true sign that someone has become an adult is not when they develop a greater understanding of the world or take on more responsibility, but when they invest in a nice set of towels.
Towels don’t come nicer than Egyptian Cotton, which is akin to drying yourself with a luxury cloud. A set of Egyptian Cotton towels tells the world that you are a mature and responsible adult with excellent hygiene standards.
Best of all, Egyptian Cotton towels are ridiculously cheap – you pick one up for as little as £10 ($16)!
Vessel Sink
A direct relative of the freestanding bathroom, a vessel sink eschews the normal practice of embedding a sink into the top of a cabinet or sticking it to the wall and instead has it freestanding. Vessel sinks are generally larger than their normal equivalent and come in all shapes and sizes, from big old rectangular sinks to bowl-shaped sinks.
The cost of a good vessel sink starts from around £200 ($320).
Christopher Smith is a writer with a keen interest in interior design. He writes for Illuminated Mirrors and a range of other online publications.
