New Year, New Bathroom: 5 Luxury Items Your Bathroom Needs
Be kind to yourself this year. Transform your humble bathroom into a sumptuous spa retreat and indulge in a daily dose of pampering.
New year, new beginnings, new you.
If one of your resolutions is to take care of yourself (and if that’s not one of your resolutions, it should be!), a great place to start is your bathroom.
Treat yourself to a new and improved experience in your own at-home retreat. With features like these, you’ll never want to visit a spa again! (Personal masseuse not included.)
Here’s how you can turn your bathroom into an oasis of calm and relaxation.
Steam shower
Make any bathroom into a sauna for deeply cleansing and relaxing showers and baths. Whatever the size of your bathroom, you can have a steam shower. Compact steam generators by Mr. Steam and Steamist come in all sizes and with multiple installation options (as well as customizable features, touchscreen controls, chromatherapy, aromatherapy, and integrated speakers) so that you can enjoy a good steaming whenever and however you want. Some use less than 2 gallons of water for a 20-minute session, so the eco-conscious won’t miss out. With prices starting at under $1,000, luxury is now affordable!
Jetted tub
Wash away the stress of the day with a long, bubbly soak in the perfect tub. Choose your experience: a whirlpool tub offers rejuvenating deep-tissue massage; an air tub provides a light, effervescent sensation; and a combo tub allows you to choose your experience in every bath. These tubs may be equipped with ergonomic sculpting to cradle your body, colored chromatherapy lights, heaters to keep the water from getting cold, integrated aromatherapy systems, gentle waterfalls, pillows and armrests, and even television screens and sound systems. You’ll never want to get out!
Check out our tub guides to learn what a tub can do for you.
Towel warmer
Wrap yourself in cozy, inviting warmth after every shower and bath for an extra boost of toastiness, especially on those dreary winter days. A towel warmer heats your towels to the perfect temperature so you never get cold (skip that shiver-inducing trip from shower to bed!).
Towel warmers are slim, unobtrusive devices available in hundreds of styles and price ranges that add a special dose of pampering to your everyday routine. And with budget-friendly prices – starting at just $161 – they make great gifts, too!
Toilet
That’s right, even time on the throne can be a luxurious experience. Toilets have joined the ranks of the super-luxury products on the market; some include features like foot warmers (a heater at the base of the unit), touch-free flushing, music syncing, automatic lids, and built-in deodorizers. Duravit’s SensoWash Starck bidet/toilet combination (known as a washlet) provide a gentle, effective cleaning and lavish features in one stylish package, courtesy of designer Philippe Starck. (Learn more about the SensoWash here.) You can also turn any toilet into a washlet with a bidet seat rather than a full-fledged toilet with incorporated bidet features; check out the Brondell Swash bidet toilet seat with all of the luxury bidet features you want – heated seat, night light, adjustable sprays – that can fit virtually every toilet.
TV mirror
TV in the bathroom? Tacky. Hidden TV in the bathroom? Much better!
Forget the bulky, unattractive units. You can watch TV in the bathroom and then hide it entirely when out of use. Sounds impossible? It’s not! Check out the Electric Mirror line of fully functional mirrors with integrated TV screens that disappear when turned off. They’re available in a range of shapes and sizes, even on medicine cabinets!
Get ready to present the new you in the New Year – thanks to your new bathroom.