Modern spa design, from refined Swiss wellness retreats to minimal aesthetic salons, combine a clean, fresh sense of order with more indulgent features such as flowing fabrics or shimmering hardware. If you have room, a freestanding bath is a great place to start. Keep the baseline colours pared back, and add in a few bold pieces such as a vintage mirror.

Spa bathroom lighting ideas are key to success as the element most likely to create the correct ambience. It is essential to avoid your light looking harsh, a guaranteed way to kill the soothing spa atmosphere. However, spa bathroom décor needs to work all through the 24hour clock and for all moods, so if you don’t have any daylight to work with you still need to add in ways to change the mood from invigorating to indulgent.

This can occur by layering lighting, from recessed dimmable spots to feature lights that lend a focal point to a subtle scheme. Hanging globes over the tub, sconces or adding an LED rope under shelves will take the scheme from practical to premium. If you do have a window, even if it’s overlooked, make the most of it. Use window coverings that are either Top Up, Bottom Down to allow in as much light as possible, or Duette® Shades Day & Night to change the mood from fresh to cocooning.

… or keep it out. But which ever you decide to do, approach bathroom storage with purpose. Cleaning products, children’s playthings or spare towels all need consideration. Clean lines can only be achieved when all these requirements have been resolved or they’ll drift onto every surface. Interestingly, a bathroom can be made to seem bigger by adding in false walls; push click false walls can hide everything from boilers to laundry bins and run floor to ceiling, creating lots of shelving inside.

Try creating a mirrored wall that covers deep drawers for bottles and jars. When you have cleared the decks, you add in features such as a wooden towel ladder or shallow shelf for you prettiest containers. Modern bathroom ideas aren’t about taking out personality but leaving space for the important things; in a spa-inspired bathroom that is a sense of space and quiet. The lack of visual clutter allows the chosen items to breathe.

Amazingly, indoor air quality can often be worse than the air outside. Gasses released from household appliances, open fires and cleaning products can all compromise the air. An air purifier can help, but for a more natural solution include house plants to clean the air and help eliminate toxins. They will also increase a sense of well-being, as the colour green is known to boost healthy living by reducing stress and creating a sense of calm. Succulents are ideal in a small space that lacks natural light, and are low maintenance. If you want less of a commitment but enjoy the sense of freshness, use some cuttings of eucalyptus to bring a cleansing zing to the room.

A green home is more than what surrounds you, but also what you use in it such as getting back to basics with natural skin products. Organic beauty products or natural skincare products are an easy win for improving the sense of well-being.

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