Five Bathroom Spout Ideas for Modernizing Your Bathroom on a Budget
Modernizing your bathroom on a budget? If you want to breathe new life into your bathroom without breaking the bank, think smart rather than big. Updating the bathroom spouts is one of the easiest and most impactful ways to transform the look and feel of your bathroom.
These small yet significant fixtures can add a touch of style and sophistication to any bathroom design. But looks are not the only benefit of modernising your bathroom.
Why Modernise Your Bathroom?
You can choose to modernise your bathroom for several reasons. One of them being a general renovation or restructuring of your old house. But, using new sanitaryware, faucets and fittings in your bathroom has many benefits.
Some of the critical benefits why you should consider renovating the old bathroom are listed below:
- Improve Functionality
You can restructure the bathroom interior to include a modular storage unit and improve space utilisation, perhaps, even add a shower enclosure.
- Improved Cleanliness and Hygiene
Hygiene is a critical factor in bathrooms within your home. One way is to regularly sanitise the bathroom using harmful chemicals. Replacing your old sanitaryware with modern germ-free sanitaryware, and tiles is another way of improving hygiene.
- Energy and Water Savings
Modern sanitaryware and faucets can complete the job with less water and electricity. Installing a five-star storage water heater can reduce your electricity bills, while aerated faucets and showers do the job with up to 60% less water.
- Better Aesthetics and Safety
You can upgrade the bathroom floor with anti-skid tiles and install modern concealed mixer-diverter faucets to maximise relief space in the bath. More space means more room for movement, and the anti-skid floor ensures a good grip on the wet and soapy ground.
- Get a Better-Looking Bathroom
Improved appearance is an obvious goal of modernisation. The best way to achieve this is to follow a theme for the bathroom (hopefully for the whole house). If you want to start from scratch with a blank slate, you can go step by step with:
- Plumbing improvements - Consider concealed cistern at this stage
- Wall and floor claddings – Full wall cladding plus anti-skid floor tiles
- Sanitaryware – Wash basin and commode (water closet)
- Faucets – Mixer-diverters, rain shower, health faucets, angle valves, washbasin mixer, bathtub spout
- Cabinets and Accessories – Add bath cabinets, towel rods, towel rings, tumbler holders, soap dispensers, etc., to finish your modernisation efforts.
- Increase in Property Value
Who wouldn’t want to own a well-built house? And building a bathroom is one of the toughest parts of the home. The amount of conflicting and dangerous appliances (hair dryer and bathtub, oral kit and sanitary chemicals, etc.) used within the bathroom periphery can be overwhelming.
Modernising your bathroom interior with modern tiles, sanitaryware, faucets, and equipment beautifies the space and makes it safer. Plus, if you are preparing to rent or sell the property, a modern bathroom makes for a premium on the price.
Five Ways to Modernise Your Bathroom Spouts
Your bathroom modernisation plan needs to factor in the age of equipment and elements in the bathroom. Perhaps replacing them would be better if they are from a different era or over a decade old. However, if things are relatively new but in a run-down situation, you can choose other ways to improve this.
So, based on your bathroom’s condition, you can try one or more of the following five action plans:
1. Cleaning & Repairing Faucets & Spouts
It’s easy for uncared faucets, showers and spouts to gather calcite marks due to prolonged use. Usually, modern faucets feature sturdy chrome polish that can remain intact for a long time if wiped clean and kept dry after use.
However, if you need to get those water marks off the faucets, follow the steps below:
- Wash the faucet with water to remove loose dirt
- Prepare a solution with 1 part white vinegar and 3 parts water
- Soak a sponge into the solution and apply it to the faucet. You can disconnect the faucet from the plumbing and soak it in the vinegar mix until you can see its chrome polish.
- Wash the faucet gently and remove any remaining spots
- Wipe it dry with a clean microfibre cloth
- Check if the faucet has an aerator. If yes, open it and remove any dirt from the filters of the aerator and install it back.
2. Add Rain Shower
Rain showers are an asset to the modern urban lifestyle. Appropriate rain showers with ample bathing space offer relaxation after the day’s hustle. If you want to add a shower cubicle in your bathroom, you will need a minimum space of 4x4 feet.
If your bathroom does not have this much space for a shower cubicle, don’t worry, you can still enjoy showers, just take care of the following:
o Provide full 7-9 feet of tile cladding to the walls around the shower
o Have a separate drainage and sloped floor for the shower area
o Use appropriate shower head size; i.e., 150mm or 200mm diameter rain showers can provide sufficient water flow for a small area.
o Use air rain showers, for maximum effect and water savings
3. Add Hand Showers
Hand showers are more flexible than overhead showers. You can install hand showers with single or multiple flow options. The flexible arm of the hand shower allows you to reach areas and angles not possible with overhead showers.
You can install hand showers in a way that you can use them without holding them. You will need to consider mixer diverter faucets to support your choices.
5. Replace Old Bathroom Spouts & Faucets
Once you have decided to replace the old faucets and fittings with modern ones, it is better to look for the most elegant designs within your budget. Installing modern faucets creates a new and elegant look for your bathroom.
Plus, these faucets add several benefits such as water savings, safety, and convenience to your bath.
Five Bathroom Spout Ideas for 2023
You need some direction before going hunting for the best bathroom spout. Given below are the top five bathroom faucets and spout ideas you can consider at Johnson Bathrooms:
- Elite Series Bathroom Faucets
Johnson Bathroom’s Elite faucet series offers some of the most elegant bathroom faucet designs. This faucet portfolio is best for recreating a minimalist modern bathroom with concealed diverter spout and maximising free bathroom space.
Concealed single-lever mixer diverters, single-lever pillar taps and bathtub spouts from the Elite series are a beauty to behold.
- Johnson Altis Mixer Faucets
Altis is another beautiful range of bathroom faucets from Johnson Bathrooms. Unlike the Elite 5000 series, Altis carries a more technical design with sharp angles and a strong appearance.
This series also offers pillar taps with single lever mixer function, concealed diverters and bathtub spouts.
- Fusion Series for Wall-Mounted Faucets
Johnson Bathroom’s Fusion series offers the most functional products with sturdy quality and finish. The exposed diverters can fit in your existing plumbing without many alterations. The 3-in-1 diverters can handle the overhead shower, hand shower and bucket spout. The 2-in-1 faucets give you a choice between overhead or handheld faucets.
These faucet designs fulfil their bathroom functions and maintain a brilliant appearance with minimal maintenance.
- Spun Series for Wall-Mounted Mixers & Showers
Johnson’s Spun faucets bring in a perfect blend of minimalist design and superb functionality. Spun’s wall-mounted cold tap offers a unique addition to your bathroom for bucket operations. So, if you are looking for some old-fashioned utilities, this is the perfect faucet portfolio for you.
- Selecting Mixer Faucets for Wash Basin
Johnson Bathrooms offers several options for basin and kitchen sink faucets. But you need to select faucets and sinks together to avoid mismatches. Plus, there’s more that goes into your sink or basin faucet selection:
- You can use Tall Pillar Taps or wall-mounted mixers with vanity basins without a faucet mount
- Use pillar tap or swan neck pillar tap for basins with faucet mounts or over and under-the-counter basins.
- Single-lever basin mixers are the most convenient to use, especially when you need to mix hot and cold water frequently.
Add Health Faucets & Accessories
Health faucets are an indispensable add-on to the modern bathroom. Adding handheld health faucets adds to your convenience, hygiene and utility. You can choose between multi-flow and single-flow health faucets.
After health faucets, consider adding the necessary storage unit and accessories like a soap dish or dispenser, tumbler holder, towel rack or bar. Even if you have a small bathroom, you can add a towel rack and rob hook to provide storage space for clothes.
A medicine cabinet behind the mirror is a great idea for small bathrooms and provides a safe and dry space for storing equipment and oral kits.
Modernise Bathroom for Your New Home
Modernising your bathroom is a decision that brings a plethora of benefits to your home and lifestyle. You can enhance functionality, energy efficiency and property value with the upgrades.
Modern bath sanitary ware, fittings, and accessories create a relaxing and luxurious oasis within your living space. Whether you seek a sleek and contemporary design or a cosy and traditional ambience, the possibilities are endless with your bathroom.
Take the opportunity to revitalise this essential part of your home and elevate your daily routines to new levels of comfort and style with Johnson Bathrooms. Use classic and modern faucet designs with water-saving functions and heavy-duty ceramic valves. For more products and bathroom ideas, explore Johnson’s Bathroom Concepts page.
FAQs
1. Where is the spout used?
Ans. Spouts are used in bathrooms, kitchens and as washing machine connections. Bathtub and bucket spouts are the two most common uses of spouts.
2. Which tap is best for a bathroom?
Ans. The type and function of the best tap depend on the bathroom size and your needs. For instance, single-lever mixer taps are best for washbasins, and concealed single-lever mixer diverter taps are best for shower installation. You can also use wall mounted 2-in-1 or 3-in-1 mixer diverters.
3. Which brand tap is best in India?
Ans. Johnson Bathroom provides the best quality taps and faucets with heavy-duty ceramic valves that can last up to 200,000 cycles. If you are looking for something stylish yet within your budget, Johnson’s catalogue of Elite, Fusion and other faucet designs can fit your imagination.
