Bathrooms of the Future

Bathrooms are becoming increasingly hi-tech with ever more impressive gadgets available to enhance your hygiene routines. But what would bathrooms look like in 20 or even 50 years from now? Gloss bath panels and glass fittings are the bathrooms of the future.

Just when you think bathrooms can’t get any more hi-tech, another new invention comes onto the market to make the simple process of getting clean even more spectacular. The bathrooms of the rich and famous are full of gadgets like waterproof plasma screen TVs over the bath, all-in-one saunas and steam rooms, and showers with in-built phones so you never have to miss that important call. So just what would our bathrooms look like in the future? Would there be even more super-advanced features, or would the bathroom from today’s average home look the same?

Bathrooms of the Future: Technology

It seems only those with a lot of cash are able to afford today’s super hi-tech bathrooms, with more gadgets and gizmos than you could imagine. But just as vast plasma TV screens – once the preserve of the wealthy – have become widespread, so too could features like multiple-jet showers with in-built phones and TVs. Technology from Japan will come over the West, and more people could enjoy voice-activated showers and hi-tech toilets that automatically wash and dry your rear whilst playing music.

Bathrooms of the Future: Size

There are two ways that bathrooms could go in terms of size. On the one hand, those who do live in larger properties will probably expand their bathrooms to be able to accommodate all the hi-tech equipment. On the other, as space for housing becomes scarce as the population increases, bathrooms could become the smallest room in the house with just a shower room. There will likely be a big divide between those with money and those with less, with the wealthy people’s bathrooms becoming vast, and everyone else’s shrinking.

Bathrooms of the Future: Eco Issues

One major influencing factor on the bathrooms of the future will be the state of the environment. As more people become greener in their daily lives, they will be less concerned with the luxuries of a bathroom, and more intent on saving water. Baths will be abandoned in favour of water-saving showers, and the hardcore environmentalists will be using buckets for a quick splash. If Earth’s water resources do become seriously depleted, we might all be forced to use the bucket and sponge method!

Bathrooms of the Future: Toilets

Again, while some people will be using hi-tech toilets, the rest of us might be so concerned with using all our natural resources that we resort to home-made compost toilets. The toilet in the shed could even make a comeback as we look to save space in our homes.

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