How to achieve a chic city hotel bathroom in your home
Do you long for a chic hotel look in your bathroom? Whether you live in the town or the country, an urban theme will bring a touch of the city to your home. Create an urban oasis with all the right touches, from the best colours to the right tiles and the best soft furnishings.
When it comes to colour, nothing says hotel chic quite like a neutral palette. Choose an all-white suite and add a touch of luxury with your accessories. Marble walls will create the feeling of a grand hotel bathroom, even in the smallest space. Carefully chosen artwork will give the designer look you’re after, as will one statement fixture, such as novelty taps.
Add in black and grey touches to give your bathroom an industrial finish and that urban edge seen in some of the world’s best city hotels. Maximise the room with clever space-saving additions, such as inset walls or smart shelving ideas.
For that look only seen in the best boutique hotels, add a splash of colour to your neutral background. One hue will make a statement – and don’t go for all over colour, keep it to one focal point for a more luxe effect.
Graphic black and white bathroom
There are a few decorating tricks that are guaranteed to add unmistakable urban impact. Here, a black and white palette, graphic tiles and glossy finishes are three of these tricks that come together in harmony to let this bathroom successfully channel urban city hotel style. The glossy black metro tile splashback and panelled mirror are just enough of a nod towards the industrial without looking harsh and hotel style comes in the form of detailing – from the specialist light bulb to the piped towels.
Graphic urban tiled bathroom flooring
Start from the ground up if you want to achieve authentic urban hotel style. Hotels need to invest in durability for the sheer volume of wear and tear their fixtures and fittings will be put through. Apply the same principle to your choice of bathroom flooring and go for sturdy ceramic tiles, then apply the graphic principle by choosing a cool colour palette and sharp repeat pattern. Infinitely cool.
Black and white bathroom with a splash of soft colour
Avoid the temptation of thinking urban has to mean masculine. Black and white may be an edgy design choice, but the addition of a single pale colour softens those edges beautifully. Here, the perfect pale pink appears via fringed linens and candles – touches that also add softness – and most notably through a painted block of wall around the cabinetry. The genius? These are all easily changeable elements that mean powder pink today can easily become seafoam green tomorrow. Hotel style comes via the boxed-in suite, keeping everything neat and tidy.
Contemporary bathroom with opulent touches
The one thing hotels often do is make design decisions that transport guests outside their norm and make simple experiences memorable. Nothing wrong with a little everyday application of the same principles in your own home. In a bathroom, it can be as easy as one statement fixture. This stainless-steel swan tap is a jolt of design lightening against the black self-printed tiles and a simple bowl basin. Transportive indeed.
Marble bathroom with glass shower enclosure
If space is at a premium and the luxury of a bath escapes you, find luxury in other ways. Make up for the chance to soak in a tub by surrounding your shower with the richly veined chic of marble. A clear glass enclosure maximises light exposure and mimics the sensation of showering in the great outdoors.
Contemporary bathroom with a gallery feel
Urban hotels have the luxury of employing top-end designers to make dramatic and playful design decisions with the intention of creating unique and memorable looks. The drama of art in many forms occupying the bathroom walls will definitely have you remembering that holiday stay, so why not channel the idea into your own home. Nothing valuable, mind. Keep the artistic touches robust (and waterproof) – like these fine art portraiture melamine plates.
Urban bathroom with space-saving tricks
City-hotel design is all about maximising space through clever planning and a hint of trickery, and nowhere do space-saving solutions get more mileage than in the bathroom. Here, the basin is ledge-deep, making use of the inset portion of wall and providing just enough hand-washing space while still appearing generous. The towel rail, too, is cleverly positioned as it would be in a hotel for maximum use of height. Smart but still so stylish.
Black and white micro-check bathroom
This is proof positive that you can go bold in a small space and achieve big success. Urban style comes shining through via tiny black and white check tiling, only to be amplified by a large mirrored portion of wall and stainless-steel touches. The tiny window and compactness of the space says bijoux hotel bathroom, but the graphic tiles and accessories say urban cool. We love the bold design choices.
Grey urban bathroom with colourful storage
Chic and swappable storage is a great way to make a small space smarter. Steal this hotel trick of basketing up bathroom extras and placing them on a shelf below the basin. The lack of cupboard doors creates the illusion of more space and lets you inject colour via your choice of baskets. Luckily, woven storage is at an all-time high with sizes, colours and styles available everywhere and at maximum affordability.
Urban bathroom with graphic skyline-printed basins
If you don’t have them in your own home, the indulgence of a two-basin bathroom means the luxury of not sharing space – a relationship-lifesaver if there ever was one. Urban chic is literally transferred on to these quirky printed basins in the form of international landmarks in a washed-out photorealistic style. What better way to remember or plan a city-break or evoke the feeling of a foreign landscape?