Often associated with a house on a farm or on a mountain, rustic style is used widely in rural areas, but interpreted the right way it can also be a great choice in city homes.

Rustic-style bathroom: how to furnish it

If you want to recreate a warm, relaxing country atmosphere in your bathroom, the rustic style is the way to go. The rustic bathroom, which had lost its appeal over the years owing to the dominance of minimalist and modern design, is now coming back strong. Rustic decor, revisited in a contemporary vein, creates a “bucolic oasis” effect even in the most modern city home.

Here’s how to furnish a bathroom in rustic style.

Natural materials that can bring to mind natural elements are to be preferred, those most popular being wood, stone and cotto. Lacquered and glossy finishes, decorations and inlays that are reminiscent of a more refined and elegant style should be avoided instead. In rustic bathrooms, the combination of stone and wood elements is a popular option.  

Rustic colours and floor and wall coverings

For colours, go for neutral tones in the brown colour scale, such as beige, rope or green shades. Cement grey is also used widely and, combined with small bricks and wood, it is used in bathrooms featuring a modern rustic decor.

For floor and wall coverings wood is preferred, but in view of its permeability to water and moisture, cotto or wood look porcelain tiles are a good alternative. Even stone or stone effect ceramic slabs are just perfect.

When choosing the accessories for a rustic bathroom you should avoid any element that evokes the world of luxury and concentrate instead on “raw” materials, such as wood or rope, fabrics such as jute, accessories made of iron.

Authenticity and warmth are the preferred values for this style, whether furnishing city home bathrooms or rustic mountain home bathrooms.

Among Flaminia’s products that are perfect for this style we should definitely mention the sanitary ware and washbasins in the Fluo collection, with their organic shapes that seem to have been smoothed by the sea, but also the countertop washbasins from the Boll and App lines, with their sinuous and soft lines.

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