A Modern Glamour-Style Bathroom – How to Decorate It?
Glamour style is bold, striking, and has been a hugely popular choice for years - for bathrooms, but also for entire homes. Classic interiors have evolved in recent years, taking on inspiration from minimalism and modern aesthetics. How do you decorate a bathroom in the new, modern glamour style? Discover our inspirations.
Modern glamour in the bathroom – what sets it apart?
Glamour style is well known, popular, and maybe even a little familiar by now - at least in the form it took until recently. Design trends keep evolving, though, which is why glamour aesthetics went through a gentle transformation a while back, taking on a somewhat more modern shape. What sets a bathroom decorated in this convention apart?
- Decorations are less literal and less bold, but there's still no shortage of them.
- Crystal chandeliers and lamps are replaced by somewhat simpler forms. If there's crystal, it's the single decorative accent in the bathroom.
- The color palette is more muted - fewer contrasts, more shades of beige, gray, and pastels. Fuchsia gives way to lavender, and emerald to sage.
- Marble and its imitations, gold details, and shine are still used - just more sparingly.
- Ornate sinks, mirrors in heavy, highly decorative frames, and tiles with botanical motifs are replaced by simpler, more subtle forms.
A glamour bathroom – bathtub or shower?
In a modern glamour bathroom, ornate bathtubs on fancy legs are becoming an increasingly rare sight. In their place come simple models, and even more often - elegant walk-in cabins or ones with a low, stone-textured shower tray. What does "elegant" mean when it comes to a shower cabin?
- Finished with tiles imitating marble, or tiles with a subtle texture.
- With a gold or chrome, decorative shower faucet.
- With a drain matched to the faucet and the rest of the bathroom - in gold, chrome, or copper. You'll find designer, eye-catching linear drains in the Slim&Low ProLine collection.
If you don't want a walk-in cabin completely without a shower tray in your bathroom, don't worry. An elegant alternative in that case is composite shower trays. The models available at Balneo come in 3 colors: white, light gray, and dark gray. They're only 2.5 cm tall, so they subtly mark the boundary of the shower zone without overwhelming the bathroom.
A modern glamour bathroom – how to combine patterns and colors?
Modern glamour is far from excessive - shine is balanced here by matte surfaces, and ornamentation by simple forms. In "classic" glamour style, it was easy to slip from opulence and glitz into kitsch. The contemporary version of this aesthetic is much safer.
What patterns and colors should you use in a modern bathroom in this style?
- Marble - a timeless, elegant stone that never goes out of fashion. It works well on the floor and walls, as well as for a bathtub surround. In the modern version, don't pair it with tiles featuring botanical or baroque motifs, but with smooth surfaces, or possibly with another stone.
- Metallic - gold metallic tiles are a nod to classic glamour. Pair them with smooth, white, or sand-colored tiles to achieve the impression of a spacious, bright interior. If you're going for gold tiles, the rest of the bathroom's fittings should tone them down a little. So avoid mirrors in large, decorative frames or crystal lighting.
- Mosaic - tiles referencing baroque ornamentation would be too literal for a modern bathroom. Go for mosaic tiles or a herringbone structure instead. If you want a subtle nod to past centuries, choose decorative ceramic trim strips.
Modern glamour is still a style rich in decoration, very bold and striking. It is, however, somewhat more muted than the original aesthetic. A bathroom decorated this way features more simple forms, matte finishes appear, and direct references to palace interiors are strongly toned down.
