If your bathroom is dated and in need of a sprucing up, now is the time to start renovating it using the small bathroom trends 2022. Modernizing a dilapidated bathroom is based on 3 main pillars. Bringing the bathroom up to current safety standards, in particular electrical standards, improving the functionality, and increasing the comfort of the installations, while of course keeping the concern for design and aesthetics.
Open spaces, volumes designed to optimize storage, elegant and easy-going materials, fittings that meet current codes, and lighting that combine the useful with the pleasant: here are small bathroom trends 2022 to renovate your bathroom.
A bathroom with safety standards
The first thing to tackle after boning up your old bathroom is upgrading the electrical system. The bathroom, with the presence of water, humidity, and electrical appliances, is, along with the kitchen, one of the rooms in the house where the risks of domestic accidents and fire are greatest. It is therefore essential to properly update your electrical installation to protect users in the first place, but also devices, and finally, guarantee the validity of your multi-risk home cover (compliance with standards being one of the conditions of application of the cover. In case of a problem).
It divides the bathroom into 3 distinct zones corresponding to precise standards:
0. zone 0 is the most at risk: it is the space of the shower or the bathtub. Any electrical appliance is prohibited.
- zone 1 is the area above the bathtub or at the top of the shower and only allows the installation of a water heater, also up to standard.
2. Zone 2 located within a radius of 60 cm around the shower/bathtub allows the installation of electrical outlets that can accommodate low-power devices or an electric heater if class 2 double-insulated.
3. Zone 3 constitutes the rest of the bathroom. The outlets can accommodate class 2 (double insulated) or class 1 devices but are connected to the earth.
Small bathroom trends 2022 for a fluid and open space
Renovating a bathroom also means knowing how to take into account the trends. Improvements proposed by professionals in the field and integrate them into your plans.
The main trend in the development of interior spaces is to compartmentalize. And create open living spaces where not only users. Also energy and light circulate freely, free from constraints and other partitions that have become obsolete. We “push the walls”, we knock down partitions. We replace them with glass roofs or glazing which enlarge the volumes and open up perspectives. And we increase the fluidity and modularity of the spaces.
The bedroom invites itself into the bathroom, the garden into the bedroom, the dressing room extends the shower … we deconstruct the spaces to breathe better! This is true as much for small bathrooms, which open onto the rest of the house and gain in volume.
Here, for example, we see a magnificent example of a bathroom open to the bedroom and beautifully integrated into the intimate space.
A clean space with integrated storage
In the modern bathroom, hide the ugly or the unsightly to obtain a minimalist and designer space with a clean look. No more visible pipes, shampoo bottles lying around, visible siphons: they disappear in the partitions, panels, and integrated storage cupboards as discreet as they are functional: the basins hide large storage drawers, large panels open onto wall shelves which receive all our bathroom items which are no longer visible and are, moreover, protected from water protection and ambient humidity.
Elegant and easy-going coverings
Modern bathrooms come in an infinite number of materials and styles depending of course on tastes and budgets. But there is a general trend: the elegant and easy-going coating, which will give shine to the bathroom.
On the ground, we like waxed concrete or waxed concrete effect floors for their purity and ease of maintenance. There is also an increasing use of natural stone as in the example below or marble effect tiles. Which instantly adds an elegant and timeless character to the room.