Bathroom trends you'll love in 2018

We would never advocate that you blindly follow trends from year to year and adapt or change your style to what seems “in”. But we do love showcasing what’s new and fresh in the world of design – we’re not called Pzazz Building for nothing!

Bathrooms typically aren’t a place to “take a risk” or do something “trendy” and until recently, bathroom tiles were getting bigger and bigger in the interests of being “easy to clean”. But now we’re seeing a move to small – sometimes tiny – tiles that are easy to install because they come in sheets and create beautiful intricate patterns and textures.

Here’s a gorgeous example of what can be done with tiles – create your own bathroom mosaic, in this case on the ceiling as well as the walls and floor. 

It used to be that you either had a separate shower and bathtub, or you had a shower in your bathtub. The latter could be decidedly slippery and dangerous, so bathroom designers began to look for better ways to combine showers and bathtubs. This is one of the solutions they came up with, covering the tub with phenolic laminate slats when you want to shower and removing them when you want to use the tub. 

The idea that you need an enormous bathroom to achieve the kind of luxury you crave has gone out the window thanks to modern bathroom design and fixtures. The trend in 2018 is for efficiency that doesn’t compromise on luxury, albeit on a small scale. The bathroom above uses a walk-in shower and a floating vanity with a smaller basin to make the most of the available space. 

This entire bathroom is coated in plaster – no, that’s not a typo. Modern water sealing products make it possible to use what you want in your bathroom to get the look you want, even materials that are normally highly water-absorbent.

Floating bathroom vanities are old news but it used to be that they were always in synthetic materials. Now we are seeing them in other non-traditional materials like stone and we love the results.