Whether project ‘new bathroom’ is finally in motion, recently actualised, or you’re trying to breathe new life into your existing bathroom, now is the time to consider accessories.
These crucial bathroom essentials play both an important functional and aesthetic role across your space. So, join us as we explore a range of must-have modern bathroom accessories to provide your bathroom with its perfect final touches.
The Ultimate Modern Bathroom Accessories
1. Mirrors
Mirrors are more than merely functional, they’re key decorative features – and kind of magic.
Not only do they provide your bathroom with an all-important focal point, but mirrors can create the illusion of space, and reflect and enhance the lighting in your bathroom to truly transform your space.
Explore countertop mirrors, wall-mounted and extendable shaving models, and of course feature wall-mounted mirrors to meet your functional needs and to take advantage of the space and light-enhancing benefits these modern bathroom accessories provide.
At Parker Howley, we carry wall-mounted mirrors from leading brands, Crosswater and Origins Living, and offer our own Curated by PH range. From timeless elegant designs like the Ravenna Light Mirror from Origins Living, which also offers you added lighting, to modern designs like the MPRO and the rounded and back-lit Artist model from Crosswater, we’ve got you covered.
2. The Small Details
You might think towel rails, rings and hooks, toilet roll holders, and handles, might come at the end of a list like this. But when chosen carefully, these final details (and the physically smallest modern bathroom accessories in this list), can pull a big aesthetic punch.
As bespoke bathroom specialists, we find most customers want to match the material and finish of these accessories to their bathroom’s basin taps, bath taps, and shower fittings, to tie the bathroom design together. But there are no hard and fast rules.
Our range of rails, rings and holders has something for everybody, offering timeless models like the Crosswater Belgravia towel ring and BL029 toilet roll holder, and contemporary models like the matt black Origins Living Turner towel ring and the brushed stainless steel 3ONE6 toilet roll holder from Crosswater.
Cabinet and vanity unit handles may seem like the last thing on your mind, but it’s in these tiny details where bathroom designs are brought to life, so don’t neglect to carefully consider these powerful modern bathroom accessories.
Explore round, square, rectangular, triangular and hexagonal shaped knobs, bar handles, and T-bar models to find the perfect finishing touches for your cabinetry.
You’ll find all this in our range of handles, from market leaders like Armac Martin, Corston Architectural, and Carlisle Brass, in finishes ranging from plain polished, to nickel, antique brass, bronze and matt black finishes, and with brushed, knurled and dotted textures .
3. Countertop Accessories
Countertop accessories can help you to tailor your bathroom to the needs of your family, and inject your personality into the space via your aesthetic choices.
When selecting these accessories, consider the materials used across your bathroom such as chrome, brass, stone or glass etc, and select pieces that can match these existing materials, or provide a new dimension to the space.
Explore soap dispensers, soap dishes, tissue box covers, toothbrush holders, tumblers or storage jars for makeup brushes and razors etc, containers for cotton pads, cotton bud dispensers and beyond.
4. Bath & Shower Accessories
The same is true for bath and shower accessories like bath trays, bath caddies, shower baskets, multi-tiered shower caddies and soap baskets.
Though these important modern bathroom accessories are highly functional, remember to ensure that the materials and finishes you choose match, compliment, or attractively contrast those of your taps, bath and shower fittings, handles etc. These small features make a big splash and deserve major consideration. So, choose carefully.
Many of the accessories throughout this blog add texture and dimension to your bathroom, but bath mats might be one of the most effective tools of texture you can apply to your bathroom. What’s more, they add warmth and aesthetic interest to your space, and help to keep the floor dry during bath/shower times.
5. Storage Accessories
Bathroom storage is key. In fact, storage accessories might be some of the most important functional modern bathroom accessories to help ensure that clutter doesn’t overtake your bathroom and distract from its design. .
As bespoke bathroom specialists, we manufacture custom shelving solutions, tall boy units, and vanity units, but these are fundamental storage solutions that for the purpose of this blog, we assume are already either in place or in motion.
For extra storage, explore options like:
- Floating shelving to store and display decorative pieces, candles, plants or toiletries.
- Floor-standing storage caddies and wheeled storage trolleys – to tidy your toiletries, and store towels, bath reading materials etc.
- Vertical ladder shelving to display candles, a speaker for bath/shower time music/audiobooks/podcasts, decorative items, towels and beyond.
- Laundry baskets and hampers to tidy the chaos of family life.
6. Lighting
Lighting provides your bathroom with its ambience, mood, and vibe, so it’s important to get it right.
For a spa-like look and feel, a three-tiered lighting system is key, starting with your ambient lighting – your main overhead lighting source.
Whether you’re finding the final touches for your new bathroom, or updating your existing bathroom, you likely have your ambient lighting in place, but don’t miss the opportunity to ensure your lighting fitting makes an aesthetic statement.
Accent lighting, like mid-level, up and cove lighting, is important second-tier lighting used to highlight features of your bathroom.
Finally, don’t skip task lighting, the important third-tier of lighting. This can be achieved with essential modern bathroom accessories like lamps and illuminated mirrors, as well as wall-mounted light fittings above your vanity and countertops, to create light in places your ambient and accent lighting may not reach.
Contact our team today if we can help provide you with the perfect bathroom mirror, towel rails/hooks, soap dishes, handles, bespoke storage solutions or vanity unit for your bathroom. We hope we’ve helped guide you to identify the perfect modern bathroom accessories for your bathroom.
