Design Tips for National Kitchen and Bath Month

Kitchen and Bath Month is Here!

October is National Kitchen and Bath Month. With the holidays right around the corner, it’s the perfect time to take the first step in your home remodel project after putting it off all year long. Kitchens and baths are of course the most popular spaces to remodel, and there are infinite ways on how you can redesign them. Here are seven design ideas you should consider upgrading your kitchen and/or bathroom with.

Natural Quartz

Natural quartz embodies modern elegance with the perfect mixture of natural and manufactured materials for beautiful style and functional performance. You can choose from a wide variety of marble, natural, and contemporary designs.

Beautiful and timeless colors from warm to cool white, light to dark gray tones, and rich creams to inviting browns enhance the look of a room no matter the design. Subtle to dramatic veins offer the look of natural marble.

Walk-In Showers

These tub-sized showers have plenty of bathing room, maybe a window that brings in natural light, and a small shelf or niche for toiletries and other necessities.

A larger shower like this also provides room for dual showerheads, such as the wall-mount, handheld, and rain-style showerheads in this space for more than one person to shower at a time.

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Water Vapor Fireplaces

More and more homeowners love to have a shimmering fire at home, but without the heat. These specific fireplaces don’t look or act like your traditional fireplace either. These water vapor fireplaces are high-end design elements with all the modern touches. The technology that powers water vapor fireplaces generates a realistic flame without the threats of a real fire.

These designer-friendly fireplaces run on electricity and water and use LED lights to deliver the effect of fire. They plug into a standard outlet, and once you add water to the tank, you can spend time enjoying your fireplace. They are great alternatives for anyone living in or around a high fire-threat area or those concerned about fire risks from a traditional hearth.

Wellness Designs

Health and well-being are on everyone’s minds. Designers are creating spaces that deliver not only an aesthetic level but an environment to help alter moods and assist rejuvenation. These designs include enhanced outdoor living spaces and using light as therapy.

Outdoor designs are shifting away from aesthetics and space layout to well-being and experience-driven environments for the entire family and guests who visit. Part of this trend is enhancing the outdoor cooking and entertaining capacity. So many of today’s outdoor appliances offer a great range of cooking flexibility. Eating outside also feels good, the meals taste better, entertaining is less stressful, and there’s a certain intimacy.

Advances in lighting technology have made lighting a necessary therapeutic tool. Light therapy usually uses LED light, which has been incorporated into showerheads, taps, and cabinetry. It’s supposed to help boost and improve immune systems and have many other health properties for the skin.

Glass Backsplashes

To really make your backsplash stand out, think glass. With glass, you can use art, photography, natural tile and stone, and patterns for that added pop of creativity. A glass backsplash is a great way to add color and a visual interest to your kitchen and bathroom.

Adding artwork, photography and patterns to these glass sheets is an even more distinct style and design flair that would be unique to your home.

Textured Wallpaper

With the development in the styles as well as the application, wallpaper has become a fun medium to create with. Texture, when in relation to design, doesn’t always mean a physical element that you can touch.

It also applies visually to a space. When you go the route of adding texture to a room, you can in turn create depth to your design, which, as a result, adds warmth to your space.

Bold Colors

A bold color can be a little risky because you just don’t know how long that color can avoid looking outdated, but despite this, bold colors are making their way back into kitchens. White kitchens are a thing of the past as homeowners are looking for brighter and bolder colors on not just accent pieces, but pretty much everything from cabinets to walls to sinks.

Expect to see vivid backsplashes and matte plumbing fixtures. The most popular of these bolder colors are greens and blues as a testament to nature and looking more natural.