Bathrooms are spaces we use daily, so their importance is far greater than we give them credit. From bright and cheery to sophisticated and imposing, modern bathrooms have long exceeded the space limit. Creative solutions for small bathrooms have entirely changed how we look at spaces, while the endless design possibilities for spa-like environments have surpassed our wildest dreams. In between, details transform dull bathrooms into fantastic relaxation and refreshing spaces.
Beauty lies in the details. After taking a tour through 30 beautiful and relaxing bathroom design ideas, it’s time to expose modern details, materials, textures, and light that sum up a modern bathroom.
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When your home displays vaulted cathedral ceilings in the primary bedroom and porcelain floors throughout, you know you’re surrounded by high quality and ask nothing less than that in the bathroom. This is one of the four bathrooms in the Elysium Penthouse located in the Grace Tower building in Vancouver. It flaunts a freestanding bathtub right next to the window overlooking the city so that a bubble bath is a sensory and visual experience.
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A relaxing bath is often part of your routine when you have a natural color palette and warm materials. This bathroom, which features a modern wood look, is equipped with various mirrors and lights to create a tranquil atmosphere. If you’re looking for a more compact space, try using a combination of mirrors and lights.
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Showcasing a crisp interior design, this modern bathroom is part of the 813 Laurel Avenue House. Within a luxurious home like this one, the bathroom had to be spacious and induce a feeling of openness. The wall acting as a background for the freestanding tub was not only painted dark but also fitted with a window that frames the natural outdoors – that’s an interesting idea to apply in your large bathroom to add character.
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Making the most of your bathroom requires careful planning before inspiring decorating. An efficient layout stabilizes the overall appeal, leaving room for moving freely, as seen in the Mandeville Canyon Residence’s bathroom above. Use a practical bathroom layout guide to help you define the areas in your bathroom that necessitate attention so that you can enjoy the results with no regrets.
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This spacious private room displays a large shower area dressed in glass and a freestanding bathtub, so owners can choose between a quick shower and a long bath while enjoying panoramic views over treetops and the sparkling lake.
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Luxury bathrooms like the one in this stunning Aspen home are an example for those who aspire to live in a great environment. Contemporary bathroom design comprises carefully chosen details, colors, and textures and is defined by space and light.
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The bathroom conveys a luxurious relaxation when your home is a chalet-inspired modern villa in Madrid. Greenery makes the space more welcoming, while the bathtub is basked in natural light through a floor-to-ceiling window.
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When your home is luxurious with high-quality materials and perfectly fitted details, it comes with the territory. Deep chocolate hues employed in the apartment were also used to create a sense of belonging and comfort in the bathroom.
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Modern spaces that inspire our fantasies of what a bathroom should be like are only a click away. The contemporary bathroom in the elegant Punta Brava 2 Residence merges a spa-like environment with finely crafted details and glimpses of an outdoor green area that balances intimacy and openness.
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The minimalist bathroom design of the Naramata cabin features a combination of French oak and wood, which creates a warm and inviting atmosphere. The wood adds a touch of luxury to the room and feels like it has been curated rather than designed.
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Inspiration can come from all sorts of sources. Displaying all things needed to leave this room refreshed, the luxury Malimbu Cliff vacation villa in Indonesia flaunting this modern bathroom was imagined as a cheery space that provokes you to leave worries behind.
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The sophistication seen in the bathroom of British studio SHH’s Addison Road House uses vanity mirrors to induce a sense of deep relaxation and visually enlarge the space. Between the oversized mirror and two windows welcoming natural light inside, bathing here seems reserved for royalty.
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Seeing the fantastic bathroom of Villa des Parcs makes us wonder how details like that could do for our own private spaces. Employing the warming power of wood and the serenity showcased by combining clean contemporary lines and intriguing dirty pink furniture, this bathroom exudes tranquility and relaxation.
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Finding the perfect tiles for your bathroom could mean the difference between kitsch and luxury. As seen on Fap Ceramiche, the exemplary bathroom above transposes us into a world of perfection, where colors and patterns collide to shape an inspiring bathroom design.
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Wood can completely transform your bathroom. This has been proven not only by South African Metropole Architects. They imagined theAlbizia House as having a comfortable bathroom mirroring the design seen in the rest of this fantastic residence. The carefully planned bathroom looks as inviting as a living space – isn’t that something you would want in your own home?
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We’ve seen many modern bathrooms flaunting a dramatic freestanding bathtub, but this example designed by Len Cotsovolos andLC²Design is simply stunning. The bathroom’s openness and sophistication are designed from the inside out while allowing the outside in. This is the same strategy that the rest of the house uses.
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Photographed by Rachel Lewis, this monochromatic modern bathroom is a provocative example of today’s design possibilities. A combination of brown and wood tones creates a tranquil and almost mystical feel in the room. This is achieved by using a mirror that runs the length of the wooden basin support.
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When everything is quiet, taking a bath at night is like hitting the reset button. This spa-like bathroom with steam belongs to a robust Los Angeles home and facilitates your journey to dreamland with a careful selection of details like the concrete column in the corner or extensive use of glass.
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This spacious bathroom is found on the French Riviera, in the beautiful Villa in Cap Ferrat. A fresh design and good lighting create a sense of cleanliness. Storage underneath the sink ingeniously shaped the powder table, and a round stool was fitted underneath.
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Up-to-date modern homes might deal with large bathrooms that can be creatively transformed into bathing and relaxing experiences. Pebbles around the oval bathtub massage your feet as you enter the hot water and the busy city of Taipei seems to be just a framed moving picture through the floor-to-ceiling window.
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Most bathrooms don’t have panoramic views, yet sophisticated private spaces where light is present during the day and night bring romantic ideas. Just a few carefully placed candles and this black and white bathroom becomes an exotic retreat in the middle of Stockholm.
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Cream-colored and revealing a simple design, this modern bathroom displays an ingenious solution for the shower area. Everyone likes the possibility of choosing between a quick shower and a long bath. And when you know how to choose a relaxing bathtub for your home, this dream is easier to materialize.
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Flooded by natural light, a modern bathroom like the one above imagined by London-based TG Studio can showcase an imperial London influence toned down to create a simple and elegant space with white beveled tiled and accents of veined white marble.
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From luxurious influences to contemporary design, bathrooms can make you feel you’re royalty or that we’ve already colonized other planets. Iñaki Leite designed the modern bathroom above for the sustainable Dezanove House. A sense of stillness and peace was achieved in this bathroom in “frozen glass” warmed up by textured wood.
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Unusual spaces can quickly become intriguing bathrooms when designed by creatives like Mark Dziewulski Architect. The curved wall and mirrors on both walls create more ample space. The curve also hides the oversized bathtub and glass-encased shower.
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Vessel sinks are one modern way to update your bathroom. Take, for example, the private space shown above: simple, clean lines kept in neutral colors beautifully contrast the green outdoors.
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Compact modern bathrooms rely on creative ideas to look larger and feel cheery. Open shelves decorated with a repetitive pattern of plants and rubber ducks are all it takes to make a dull bathroom pop out. You can update your bathroom on a budget by working with what you have. This is a simple idea applied in the minimalist N House.
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Elegance and sophistication are the main ingredients for a feminine, modern bathroom. Mixed with select patterns and basked in natural light, the bathroom photographed by François Halard and designed by Tiffany Eastman Interiors showcases impressive details like the marble tiled floor, gray linen drapes, acrylic Z chair under the built-in vanity, and freestanding tub basked in light.
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One way to update your bathroom is to work with the given environment. Decorating an Australian home designed by Gary Marinko, this bathroom looks made for relaxation. Within this spa-like environment with a door leading outside, you can indulge in a little well-deserved “me time.”
So all you A&D readers out there, which details in this list of 30 beautiful modern bathrooms captured your attention?
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