If you look closely at the bathroom style trending statistics, you will have noticed a move towards a more robust sizing trend in bathrooms. And with this increase in spatial relationship has come an awareness of the importance of filling the room with fixtures and fittings that not only provide practical functionality but also create the perfect balance between usage and genuine bathroom style. Believe it or not bathrooms are normally a stylistic reflection of the rest of your house. This normally holds true, unless in rare occasions, you base every room in your home on a different intermittent style, which in a sense is an “eclectic style” by diverse association. When we speak of style we are usually referring to how we put our bathrooms together based upon period (historical place in time), the design of fixtures and optimal use of space (minimalist), traditional (time honored conventions), and what is the current modern-day trend (contemporary). These different styles can be achieved through details in colors, materials and finishes that carry a certain theme throughout your bathroom décor.

In minimalist bathroom design, you can present a feeling of luxury by playing down the use of your fixtures and using the openness of your bathroom space and rich surfaces. This in turn reduces your lavatory to its essential elements and creates a stylistic expression of subtlety and shapes that generates a harmonious bathroom style of Zen like relaxation. In a sense you are trying to do more with less. In this type of bathroom design, light, shapes and minimal color plays an integral role in defining your washroom’s spatial relationships. It should be noted here that minimalist bathrooms, while being understated, still provide all the features and comforts of traditionally more robust styles of bathroom design choices. A good way to increase the visual feeling of space in a small bathroom is to use minimalist bathroom design. Here using a single color for your floors and walls will reduce the appearance of visually stated lines, there by creating the illusion of boundless space. By adding just the right pieces of minimalist bathroom furniture to dutifully occupy the space, you can create an elegant bathroom that does not sacrifice usability for the sake of design.

In part 2 of Bathroom Trending Styles we will examine “Period” orientated bathroom stylistic choices….
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