Do I need a bath?

That’s a great question.

You might forgo your bath for a more contemporary alternative, a wetroom—You got it!

Bathtubs are yesterday. Oversized, glamorous showers are TODAY!

I personally experienced this trend while working as the sales manager at a new, active adult community.

We started selling these condos as “dirt,” meaning there were architectural drawings and a piece of empty land. My job was to sell the buyers on the lifestyle of the active adult and also the homes themselves. This brings me back to the bathtub discussion.

While designing their homes, we offered our buyers the ability to include a soaking tub and separate shower, or, an oversized 7-foot shower. The results speak volumes to how we now live in our homes. Of the 66 units that we sold, only 5 included a tub. The rest chose the oversized, custom-designed shower.

Having this personal experience, I started to do research into what I saw as a building trend. Seems my use of the word “shower” was….yesterday.

Today’s bathroom designers now call them wetrooms, designed to provide the ultimate shower experience. They are no longer a cubicle, but instead span the whole room with just a drain in the floor to collect shower water. Intended to mimic a spa experience, today’s bathrooms are larger, brighter and have a softer design edge.

While nothing can ever replicate a good, old-fashioned bath, today’s buyers seem more comfortable facing their day standing up. I wonder what Calgon would think of that!