Owning a small bathroom is a blessing and a curse. On one hand, it means that it’s easier to clean and maintain. But that’s cold comfort when you want to spruce up your bathroom with luxury fixtures and finishes and you don’t have the room to accommodate it.
Don’t let the size of your canvas determine the beauty of your masterpiece. You can still turn a small bathroom into a luxury bathroom by using some luxury bathroom renovation tips. Follow our luxury bathroom design guide to draw some inspiration om how you can turn your tiny bathroom into a jewel of beauty.
Use Storage to Maximise Space
The biggest factor that makes a bathroom feel cramped and cluttered is the lack of space. It’s hard to feel luxurious in your bathroom if you have a bunch of bottles or products littering your vanity and the floor or your shower. You can avoid this issue by investing in new ways to store your toiletries and necessities.
Door Storage
While sliding or barn doors are great at maximising space in a small bathroom, regular swinging doors are great places to add hanging storage, like wire shelves or hanging wicker baskets. It doubles as a very effective storage solution, while also being a way to hang humidity-friendly plants like orchids who will enjoy the steam from hot showers.
Mirror Cabinets
A bathroom staple, if you don’t have one of these in your small bathroom, you should definitely consider it. It’s a sleek, discreet, and practical storage solution lets you store important items behind a mirror.
Shower Alcoves
This is probably on the pricier end of a bathroom renovation, but nothing says luxury more than a recessed shower alcove. A small wall niche is a fantastic way to store soap, hair products, and other shower items in a way that’s easy to reach, neatly organised, and most importantly, not on the floor. Installing one doesn’t just make your shower appear more spacious, it also lowers the likelihood of knocking into things.
Use Vertical Lines
A staple across fashion and home design—vertical lines are highly effective at naturally drawing the eye up, making spaces feel taller or more expansive. If you want to make a bathroom feel bigger, a luxury bathroom renovation tip is experimenting with vertical lines to make them feel bigger.
Ways of doing this is are by creating vertical lines with the grout of bathroom tiles along your walls, using a vertical mirror on your vanity, or even installing vertical light fittings to create a sense of verticality. Get creative! Even something as simple as a towel hanging high off the ground creates a vertical line.
Think about how you place things on your wall. Arranging picture frames in a vertical fashion creates vertical lines. If you’re installing cubbies, see if you can install multiple small ones one on top of the other.
If all goes well, you’ll have made your bathroom feel bigger with the introduction of vertical lines, and also made it feel more decorated and luxurious.
Think Focal Points
Our final luxury bathroom renovation tip is to think about focal points im your bathroom. Focal points are “statement pieces” that draw the eye when you enter a space. Having a main focal point in your bathroom can make it feel more visually arresting.
The most visually noticeable focal point you can install in a bathroom is a mirror. Wall-to-wall mirrors are popular as they make the room feel bigger due to how they reflect the whole room. If you want something more vintage, a framed mirror can give your bathroom a Victorian-era charm. For something more modern, an organically shaped circular mirror will make a strong statement.
The way you let in natural light into your bathroom is important. If you can’t do something as dramatic as installing a skylight, you can still decorate your bathroom with humidity-resistant blinds, or frosted covers on the window glass.
Want Help Kickstarting your Bathroom Renovation
We hope our luxury bathroom design guide has inspired you to transform your bathroom. Brisbane Ark Bathrooms team got its start as father-and-son duo, and now after 35 years in the bathroom renovation business, we have seen all kinds of bathroom renovations through. From modest remodels to luxury bathroom renovations, we have seen hundreds of projects to the end. If you want some guidance on new fittings for your bathroom, feel free to visit our showroom or contact us so that we can be of assistance.
