Adding Freestanding Baths Throughout Your Home For Added Luxury
Some of the most challenging issues when it comes to creating the house of your dreams are coming up with new and unique ways to transform your home in to an expression of your personal taste and style can be hard when you only have so much space to work with and around. One area of the home which can benefit by being changed are bathrooms. Typically, bathrooms are seen as functional rooms within a house; however, you can use decor, fixtures and accent items to make a bathroom a showpiece which is just as decorated and lavish as the rest of your home.
Using freestanding baths in lieu of traditional bathtubs is one way to change the look of a bathroom almost instantaneously. In fact, freestanding baths come in an assortment of shapes, styles and options you can find one to suit any type of theme you have running throughout your home. From claw foot tubs to freestanding baths with exposed plumbing running to the ceiling, you can create a look and feel for your bathroom which will cause many to take notice. In fact, an ornate and highly detailed claw foot tub in the centre of a bathroom adds elegance and luxury to a room which many may not otherwise take much notice to.
A trained and skilled plumber will need to assist you in determining the type of freestanding tub or bath will work best with your bathroom, as the bath will need to be functional in addition to being used for decorating purposes. Once installed, you will have to decide if you will have exposed plumbing for a more traditional look or have the piping housed under the floors for a more modern look and feel. Regardless of the option you choose, you will need to spend the majority of your decision making process on choosing the right freestanding tub to match your home and thus mesh well with your overall decor and theme. Keeping colour in mind, you may want to opt for a neutral colored bath so that you can change the rest of the bathroom later down the road to update the look, and thus be able to continually keep the freestanding tub in place and work around it.
Before the bath is installed, you will need to make sure you have the right flooring in place, as once the tub is installed in the centre of the room or even along a wall; you will not be able to move the bath very easily to handle the flooring issue. Good options for flooring, to mesh well with such a bath is marble or tile flooring. You can have the flooring heated underneath to give the bathroom an even higher level of luxury, which matches well with the showpiece bath you will be using as the focal point of the room.
Once the bath is installed and you are happy with the look, you can start decorating around the tub itself to further customize and personalize your bathroom. You can add a bar ring, suspended from the ceiling, around the bath and add a circular shower curtain to add privacy to the tub and thus impart elegance and colour in to the bathroom. You can also opt to have a handheld shower wand added to your plumbing to turn the bath in to a combination shower and bathtub as well, which is a more modern look. Using decorative accents throughout the bathroom which coordinate and accentuate the styling of the bath is another way to totally transform your bathroom.
Freestanding baths are great options for those who want something different and unique in their home. Making a bathroom visually engaging is difficult at times, however, using uncommon and non-traditional fixtures such as claw foot or freestanding tubs is one way to impart a touch of class in your bathroom.
Using freestanding baths in lieu of traditional bathtubs is one way to change the look of a bathroom almost instantaneously. In fact, freestanding baths come in an assortment of shapes, styles and options you can find one to suit any type of theme you have running throughout your home. From claw foot tubs to freestanding baths with exposed plumbing running to the ceiling, you can create a look and feel for your bathroom which will cause many to take notice. In fact, an ornate and highly detailed claw foot tub in the centre of a bathroom adds elegance and luxury to a room which many may not otherwise take much notice to.
A trained and skilled plumber will need to assist you in determining the type of freestanding tub or bath will work best with your bathroom, as the bath will need to be functional in addition to being used for decorating purposes. Once installed, you will have to decide if you will have exposed plumbing for a more traditional look or have the piping housed under the floors for a more modern look and feel. Regardless of the option you choose, you will need to spend the majority of your decision making process on choosing the right freestanding tub to match your home and thus mesh well with your overall decor and theme. Keeping colour in mind, you may want to opt for a neutral colored bath so that you can change the rest of the bathroom later down the road to update the look, and thus be able to continually keep the freestanding tub in place and work around it.
Before the bath is installed, you will need to make sure you have the right flooring in place, as once the tub is installed in the centre of the room or even along a wall; you will not be able to move the bath very easily to handle the flooring issue. Good options for flooring, to mesh well with such a bath is marble or tile flooring. You can have the flooring heated underneath to give the bathroom an even higher level of luxury, which matches well with the showpiece bath you will be using as the focal point of the room.
Once the bath is installed and you are happy with the look, you can start decorating around the tub itself to further customize and personalize your bathroom. You can add a bar ring, suspended from the ceiling, around the bath and add a circular shower curtain to add privacy to the tub and thus impart elegance and colour in to the bathroom. You can also opt to have a handheld shower wand added to your plumbing to turn the bath in to a combination shower and bathtub as well, which is a more modern look. Using decorative accents throughout the bathroom which coordinate and accentuate the styling of the bath is another way to totally transform your bathroom.
Freestanding baths are great options for those who want something different and unique in their home. Making a bathroom visually engaging is difficult at times, however, using uncommon and non-traditional fixtures such as claw foot or freestanding tubs is one way to impart a touch of class in your bathroom.
