It’s estimated that we spend around a fortnight out of every year in front of a mirror, and as bathroom specialists, we know a thing or two about the importance of these powerful bathroom accessories.
An essential part of our morning and evening routines, bathroom mirrors help us to shave, style our hair, apply makeup, brush our teeth, check our outfits before we leave the house, and are one of the last items we use before bed.
They are also one of the most powerful and transformative elements of bathroom design, creating a stunning focal point, helping to maximise your space, and reflecting natural light or mood lighting across the space, helping to increase the light in your bathroom or create a calming atmosphere.
In this blog we explore our favourite bathroom mirror trends to help transform your bathroom.
Our Top 5 Favourite Bathroom Mirror Trends
1. Framed & Unframed Mirrors
Framed mirrors are an excellent way to connect your mirror to your bathroom’s design and its decorative elements, and are one of our favourite timeless bathroom mirror trends to help you elevate your space.
Gold, bronze and brass-framed bathroom mirrors are an excellent way to add warmth to your space. Whether you have a more simple or maximalist bathroom, they’re the ultimate way to add a touch of timeless luxury to any traditional bathroom design, and if hung above your basin, pair beautifully with elegant, traditional-style taps in the same finish.
For contemporary bathroom designs, silver or stainless steel-framed mirrors may offer a more subtle, but no less beautiful aesthetic appeal, and pair brilliantly with design elements in typically monochromatic colours such as black, grey and white.
Browse our mirrors, and explore models by Origins Living, and the Curated by Parker Howley range, to select your favourite mirror and pick the perfect frame.
Unframed mirrors are one of the most popular bathroom mirror trends of 2024, especially for those with contemporary bathrooms. The absence of a frame makes them a highly versatile option that doesn’t need to match your existing colour scheme or decorative theme, and instead acts as a statement piece where the mirror’s shape and size takes centre stage.
Check out our Crosswater Artist models for uniquely shaped, unframed pieces perfect for your contemporary bathroom.
Mirrors with a bevelled edge are an excellent way to bring unframed mirrors into traditional bathroom designs as well as modern spaces. Explore the Orion model and Porterhouse model by Origins Living, and Traditional Square by Perrine & Rowe, for excellent examples of bevelled edge mirrors.
2. Round/Curved Mirrors
Round, oval and arched mirrors have exploded in popularity, and break up the straight lines and sharp corners across your bathroom with soft curves that help to create a calm and inviting atmosphere.
Practically speaking, round mirrors can also offer space saving benefits, as they are able to be hung closer to the wall than rectangular mirrors, and therefore take up less room.
Large round mirrors in particular are becoming one of the fastest growing bathroom mirror trends, adding an impressive aesthetic impact and focal point that lifts your bathroom design. Be sure to measure the available wall space above your basin/vanity unit, and to make the biggest, most dramatic splash, we advise you opt for the largest round mirror you can.
For round, wooden framed mirrors, be sure to check out the Kenji Round models from Origins Living, or for round aluminium framed mirrors available in a range of finishes, check out The City Round model. For those with contemporary bathroom designs, explore our unframed, bevelled Traditional Round model from Perrin & Rowe, and The Porterhouse Round model from Origins Living.
Another related point in our run down of favourite bathroom mirror trends, is round suspended mirrors, which lend a rustic or industrial aesthetic to any bathroom design. Ask our team about selecting the perfect model to suspend in your bathroom.
3. Uniquely Shaped Mirrors
Uniquely shaped or asymmetrical mirrors are one of the most popular bathroom mirror trends, especially for those with a contemporary bathroom design, or those looking to inject a bohemian, industrial, or minimalist aesthetic into their space.
However, there are no hard and fast rules, and mirrors with unusual asymmetrical curves and a combination of sharp lines, smooth curves, and jagged edges, could help to make a statement and add a bold focal point to any bathroom design.
Not only are these mirror models stunning pieces of functional art, but they reflect light and your room’s design elements around the space in interesting and lively ways. Positioned by the shower or bath, uniquely shaped mirrors help to refract the water creating a truly stunning effect.
Be sure to explore our Circle Edge, Ikar, Octagon, Kora, and Hera models by Origins Living, or for more conservative shapes that still make a statement, the Octagonal tall and Traditional Octagonal models by Perrin & Rowe.
4. Mirrors With Integrated Lighting
Mirrors with integrated lighting are an amazing way to not only add some additional mood lighting to your space, and create an atmosphere of calm and luxury, but to help you to zone in on your shaving, make-up application, tooth brushing and beyond.
Striking the perfect balance of design and functionality, and creating a spa-live aesthetic in any bathroom, it’s no surprise that mirrors with integrated lighting have quickly become one of 2024’s top bathroom mirror trends.
At Parker Howley, our LED and backlit mirrors feature touch or hidden sensors rather than traditional switches, and some are even adjustable, giving you the flexibility to control the amount of lighting produced.
Browse our Curated by PH Touch Sensor mirror, back-lit mirrors and highly adjustable models featuring lighting in the mirror’s frame, by Crosswater, and even bevelled edge mirrors with lighting from Origins Living.
5. Dual Mirrors
At Parker Howley, we’re vanity unit specialists. We help our customers to create the perfect bathroom with both single and double vanity units hand made in our Yorkshire workshop.
When it comes to pairing the perfect mirror with a double vanity unit (a vanity unit featuring two separate basins and taps) you can either opt for one large mirror, or two smaller mirrors.
The his and hers, or jack and jill design concept is one of the most popular bathroom mirror trends in double vanity unit-equipped bathrooms, and helps to create a sense of symmetry in your bathroom.
Two identical mirrors, either framed or unframed/bevelled, in either wall hung or suspended orientation, and in round, square or rectangular shapes, are popular choices for this application, though mismatching more unusually shaped mirrors can help to create a more layered aesthetic.
Dual mirrors can provide a beautiful focal point to your space, so be sure to choose wisely.
Go Bespoke With Parker Howley
Use our online tool to select the perfect frame for your chosen model and your unique bathroom design.
Alternatively, our team of bathroom specialists are at hand to answer any questions you may have and to help you find the perfect mirror for you.
Go bespoke with Parker Howley and bring our favourite bathroom mirror trends to life across your bathroom.
