12 Cool Ideas for Bathroom Design Inspired by Hotels

To ensure that a demanding guest doesn't hesitate to stay at a competitor, bathrooms in luxury hotel rooms should always be top-notch. We share affordable and effective techniques from the toolkit of hospitality professionals that will help you decorate your own bathroom stylishly and comfortably.

Bathroom in the bedroom

This popular solution in luxury hotels may seem extravagant at first glance. In a private home, it simplifies ergonomics and eliminates morning wandering through the corridors: wake up and go straight to the shower.

In the Valentinerhof hotel in Castelrotto (Alps), they solved the zoning of a combined bathroom and bedroom space using glass partitions and a thick curtain.

Layering

A mix of wall and floor tiles in different formats can look interesting and unconventional if there is something in common in what is being mixed. For example, in the bathrooms of Hotel des Grands Boulevards in Paris, everything came together thanks to a monochromatic palette, elongated shape of both tile types, and dark grout.

Vibrant Colors

An active color palette for a single bathroom in the house, as seen in boutique hotel The Dave in Tel Aviv, might be too bold a move. However, for guest bathrooms, it's exactly what's needed.

To make a vibrant bathroom look modern, paint not only the walls but also the ceiling in bright colors and leave the floor neutral.

Accent on the bathtub...

Colored or conservative white? Both options are equally popular in hotel bathrooms. We recommend paying attention to colored ones: a bathtub painted in an interesting shade adds warmth to the space.

It's great if the bathtub color matches other interior elements, such as the tiles, like in the LUX* Grand Gaube hotel on Mauritius Island designed by Kelly Hoppen.

If the bathroom is spacious enough to see the bathtub properly, you can add a pattern, as done in the English Beaverbrook hotel in Great Britain. Several graphic lines or a simple pattern can be easily applied using stencils and painter's tape.

...or the ceiling

Bathroom ceilings deserve as much attention as walls and floors. At least, that’s what designers who decorated the Ibis Styles Tbilisi hotel in Georgia believe. To prevent vibrant ceilings from making the space visually lower, they extend the design to the floor.

Double Sink

Yes, it will take a bit more time for cleaning. But this solution helps forget about morning queues in the bathroom, especially if there is only one and several people live in the house.

Besides, a double sink is a must-have for everyone who likes the idea of dividing living space into “his” and “her” zones, as Patricia Urquiola did in the Il Sereno hotel on Lake Como (Italy).

Curved Shower Curtain

These are usually installed in classic settings. However, in the boutique Paramount House hotel in Melbourne, a circular curtain perfectly supported the loft style of the hotel. Of course, with the help of industrial mixers in aged brass.

Stool

Unlike hotel bathrooms and showers where stools or small chairs are frequent guests, we usually overlook these pieces of furniture in our homes and find them too cramped.

Yet, it's a pity! A stool in the bathroom is a convenient item and indispensable if there are elderly people at home. The key is to choose a compact model, such as the one in the bathrooms of the 1898 The Post hotel in Gent, Belgium.

Small Tray

This small hotel lifehack will come in handy in any bathroom. In the Californian hotel in Santa Barbara, designed by famous Martin Lawrence-Bullard, trays for small toiletries were chosen in brass to fit into the warm color palette of other accessories.

White Towels

While designers unanimously insist that mismatched textiles ruin even the most classic bathroom, in luxury hotels other options than white towels, as well as robes and slippers, are apparently not even considered. A clear example is the towels in Nobu hotel in London.

Liquid Cosmetics Dispensers

Usually, hotel bathrooms are equipped with shampoos, conditioners, and shower gels in single-use packaging with a design that matches the room’s style. Dispensers are less common, but for home bathroom use, this option is more logical.

Appropriate bottles can be selected based on the color and texture of mixers, as in the bathrooms of The Vera hotel in Tel Aviv.

Magnifying Mirror

It's best to examine all skin imperfections and roughnesses in natural daylight. If daylight is not available for some reason, a magnifying mirror will come to the rescue – probably one of the most popular solutions in hotel bathrooms. Install it next to the main mirror, as in the bathrooms of the Hygge hotel in Brussels.