How to Create a Timeless Bathroom
Achieving a sense of timelessness in your luxury bathroom remodel means you might never have to install another one again—wise interior design choices mean it could last a lifetime. What kind of bathrooms never go out of style, though? Let’s take a look at how to design a luxury bathroom that lasts.
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Select products that are built to last
Go subtle with your colour palette
Choose an enduring style
You only need to look around an old, fixer-upper property to be reminded that there are many bathroom fashions that the world is now better off without. Think back to your childhood home and ask yourself if you’d decorate your high-end bathroom in a similar way—chances are, you wouldn’t.
Short-sighted as fast-fashion choices may be, enduring bathrooms don’t necessarily avoid trends. Minimalist bathrooms and art deco bathrooms, for instance, both came out of era-specific design movements, but both would be considered timeless today. What makes them stand the test of time, rather, is that they are both examples of high-end period design.
Crafting timelessness is about paying attention to characteristics that denote a preference for the artistic, the tasteful and the lovingly developed. And you don’t have to go “old-fashioned”—contemporary luxury bathrooms might well prove to be timeless, if developed by well-respected designers. A good indicator of a designer’s credibility is if they have been nominated for awards, as Riluxa was—for instance—for its Lofty Black bathub.
Use natural materials
Materials drawn from nature—like wood, marble and ceramics—will never go out of style. People have used them in their bathroom designs for centuries and they will continue to do so for centuries more. That’s because they help to bring a little bit of the outdoors indoors and connect us to our natural environment—and nature is nothing if not ageless.
Installing a luxury bathroom with products like marble bathtubs, azul macauba basins and wooden cabinetry will help to ensure that you don’t have to replace them as soon as they go out of style—because natural materials transcend fashion. Think about it—when was marble ever out of style?
Select products that are built to last
Old, tired bathrooms are generally comprised of old, worn-out fixtures and fittings. A timeless bathroom, on the other hand, might be more than a hundred years old and still look as new as the day it was installed. So, it’s important that you choose products that are built to last.
Riluxa, for instance, works closely with an artisanal design partner in Valencia, Spain called Galfia—they lovingly craft every piece that leaves the factory, the majority with a 10-year guarantee, such is their confidence in the build quality. This kind of commitment to craftsmanship is what you should be looking for if you want your bathroom to have longevity.
Durable materials, sturdy joints and respect for the traditions of craftsmanship are all signs of a well-built bathroom product. If you’re buying a deluxe bathroom online, you won’t be able to see those things with your own eyes, so look for customer reviews and go with a trusted brand with a reputation for quality.
Incorporate custom features
Though there are some outstanding, high-end, off-the-shelf bathroom products on the market these days, such as Riluxa’s In-Stock range, a great way to ensure longevity is to go bespoke with a made-to-measure bathroom. Enduring design will almost certainly denote that it was crafted during a specific period—what it won’t do is look like everyone else’s bathroom from the same era.
Rather, a timeless bathroom will have characteristics all of its own—a basin with a sink designed to your exact measurements, for example. The vast majority of Riluxa products offer this type of design flexibility—it’s all about empowering people’s ability to have a bathroom that’s completely personalised to a particular space’s needs, but still drawn from a range of design classics.
Bespoke fixtures and fittings will set a bathroom apart from one purchased at a big box retailer. As such, it will never be exposed to the temporal limitations of fast fashion.
Go subtle with your colour palette
Interior design of the 21st Century to date has been indubitably bold in its choice of colours—maximalism is back in a big way.
Yet, whilst incredible colours populate today’s Corian® bathrooms, for instance, such as Laguna blue and Verdant turquoise, if you’re the kind of person who prefers the tried-and-tested design classics, it’s probably wise to choose something a little subtler. Muted bathroom colours, like Glacier White or Deep Nocturne, are far more likely to remain within your range of tastes a decade or two down the line.
Nevertheless, don’t forget what we said a little further up the page about timelessness being about standing the test of time, rather than averting trends—all design styles came out of one trend or another. Truth is, you could design your bathroom in the brightest of colours if you wanted, so long as you pick the right products. And that’s all about the reputation of the designer and the quality of the build.
So be brave, be sophisticated and be wise in your choice of bathroom manufacturer.
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