Bathroom Trends
If you’re planning to refresh or redesign your bathroom – whether you want a hit of hotel chic for a glamorous space or a whole new look featuring heaps of hardworking storage for family life – we’ve got it covered. From elegant period designs with roll-topped baths to trendy wet rooms, we’ve uncovered the top bathroom trends for this year. Some trends are here to stay and some fade away over time; when redesigning or renovating your bathroom, consider all bathroom design trends carefully and consider all your options. We rely on our experts, designers and wealth of connection in this industry to bring you all the latest bathroom trends in one place.
Stylish Tapware Solutions
Bathroom tapware can elevate both style and function. Once you've determined your water pressure, explore options like vessel mixers or compact designs. With finishes from brushed metals to black, Mico offers a wide range of choices to suit any bathroom. Learn more.
Refreshing Shower Designs
Installing a new shower is an exciting way to upgrade your daily routine. Consider options like glass enclosures, walk-in showers, and built-in storage for a modern touch. Once your layout is set, explore Mico's tapware. Learn more.
Toilet Design Trends
Toilets are essential to any bathroom, with modern designs featuring sleek slimline tops, customizable flush panels, and rimless options for better hygiene. Higher pans add comfort, especially for those working from home. Learn more.
Kitchen Tapware Ideas
The kitchen is the heart of the home, where meals bring loved ones together. A kitchen refresh offers the chance to explore stylish, functional tapware, from statement designs to practical features like pull-out sprays, enhancing both cooking and convenience. Learn more.
Heating & Cooling
Enjoy year-round comfort with our heating, cooling, and ventilation systems. From cozy wood and gas fires to efficient heat pumps and ventilation, we have everything you need to keep your home perfectly comfortable in any season. Learn more.
Bathroom Accessories
Mirrors add light, space, and style to any bathroom, with large, backlit designs trending. Functional accessories like heated towel rails, demister mirrors, and hooks enhance both comfort and practicality. Learn more.
Luxury Bath Inspirations
Baths are a blend of luxury and necessity, offering both relaxation and style. Free-standing tubs are a popular design trend, while space-saving options like shower-over-baths cater to modern needs. Learn more.
Contemporary Basin Designs
Basins are a key element in any bathroom, combining functionality with design. From trending colors like blue and green to materials such as stone and concrete, today’s basins offer a range of styles. Learn more.
2024 Bathroom Trends
Whether you are revamping an existing bathroom or creating a brand new room, you will want something that mixes function and aesthetic – something that does what you and your family need it to do, and also reflects your personal style. Read about 2024 bathroom trends to get you started.
Changing Times
The global pandemic temporarily eclipsed progressive design trends and encouraged many to update their bathroom not only for health and wellbeing, but also with a focus on hygiene. Learn more about what has changed.
Bath vs Showers? How to Have the Best of Both Worlds
We all want the best of both worlds. A gorgeous bath to soak in after a long day and a shower to quickly hop in and out of when time is of the essence. Well now you really can have it all!
What's New - The Cutting Edge of Bathroom Trends
What was once a very ordinary and purely functional room in the house has been transformed into something truly special, a room that provides peace and serenity that you can tailor to suit your individual needs.
Balancing Act
Contrasting colours and prominent prints offer endless ways to make a statement in your space, but how far should you go?
A Material Issue
With ever more options available when it comes to the materials and finishes available for the bathroom, the decision on what to go for can be a challenging one. So let’s look at the current trends...
Hot Right Now
There have never been so many options when it comes to furnishing your bathroom, so to point you in the right direction, check out our must-haves and lust-haves.
The New Wave
New Zealand bathrooms continue to evolve, as new trends wash in, dated looks fade away, and firm favourites make a fresh splash.
Second Nature
Pair tiles in soft, herby green with warm timber for a calm, grounded vibe that embraces the textures of the natural world.
Modern Minimalism
Creating the perfect bathroom requires not only a marriage of form and function but space and aesthetics as well. One broadly appealing look which strikes that happy balance is modern minimalism. Future-proof your bathroom with this clean and simple look.
Japanese Scandi Style
Scandinavian style meets Japanese simplicity in this forward-looking bathroom look. If you’re refreshing or renovating your bathroom and are after a beautifully simple, stylish space, the Japanese Scandi look could provide the perfect inspiration.
A Luxe New Approach
Luxury bathroom design has never been such a hot topic, as standard, simple spaces are reimagined into something that indulges the user as much in look as it does in function. In 2019, bathrooms are all about the uncomplicated luxury.
Naturally Nature
A natural bathroom design makes walking into the shower feel like stepping into a cascading waterfall, while sinking into the bath could be likened to relaxing into a warm rock pool.
Smart Bathroom Design Trends
As design and technology advance, the smart bathrooms of tomorrow will work harder than ever to cater to the needs of the user, while exuding the look of effortless elegance. Prepare to be transported to a future that was unimaginable just a few years ago.
Old World Glamour
Mixing the beauty of a bygone age and vintage bathroom design, with the luxury of modern fittings, gives you the elegance glam bathroom. Feel like a queen/king in your own house in an ageless bathroom.
Unique Bathroom Designs
Your bathroom design can make a statement about you, the unique bathroom you built reflects the person you are. We give you the tips and design ideas you need for a bold bathroom and try to help you navigate the thin line between unique and overwhelmed.
Deconstructed Luxe
These minimalist bathroom designs take you to a space that challenges conventional luxury, stripping it back into something but soothing, raw but beautiful, edgy but relaxed.
Timeless and Luxurious Bathroom Collection
Classic, timeless, serene. Perfect words to describe this bathroom design. With a focus on luxury, the designers have opted for an elegant touch on all features – chrome finishings on tapware and handles, moody stone tiles and the stand out bath.
A Hip and Modern Bathroom Collection
This bathroom collection is targeted at a young and “hip” demographic; this bathroom design, screams individuality and modern glamour. From the dramatic matte black features to the raw tones of the timber panelling, Collection One is a modern space with lots of it!
Comforting and Relaxing Bathroom Collection
Comfort and relaxation was the aim in this bathroom design and has been clearly pulled through. Another bathroom collection choosing to integrate the simplistic trend of matte black, timber and metal; this bathroom design is modern, spacious and quirky. A neutral palette of greys and whites make the black features and iconic green moss wall really pop.
Geometric Bathroom Trend
Burns Lane, Kumeu hosts a bathroom design with a neutral yet striking palette of white, grey and navy tones. Warm lighting, plants and the use of rich timber combine with strong geometric shapes to create a statement bathroom. This space hosts a mixture of Kohler products proudly supplied by Mico.
Contemporary Bathroom Trends
Situated against the shores of Lyall Bay in Wellington, what was once a public cinema is now a spacious, contemporary home stunningly appointed and inspired by its history. A stunning bathroom design is what brings us to this trend.
Bold Colour Bathroom Trends
Surf and sand. Air and water. Harmony. Let’s take a leisurely stroll through the Mico Mt. Maunganui showroom where an elaborate showcase of displays inspire future bathrooms. Sit in front of bold colours, prints and relax with soothing tones – the harmony of yin and yang.