Bathroom Décor: How to Create a Bathroom That Feels Like a Luxury Country Hotel
There’s something special about stepping into the bathroom of a beautiful country hotel. It’s rarely the grandest room in the building, yet it’s often the one that leaves the biggest impression. Soft lighting welcomes you in, natural materials create warmth and texture, and every detail feels thoughtfully considered. It's a space designed not simply for getting ready, but for switching off, slowing down and taking a moment for yourself.
Bathroom Décor: Decorating with Heritage Colours
As more homeowners move away from short-lived interior trends, heritage colours are making a welcome return. Rich greens, deep blues, warm browns and earthy neutrals are replacing stark whites and fleeting fashion shades, creating bathrooms that feel elegant, calming and timeless.
Bathroom Décor: The Return of the British Bathroom
As August arrives and many of us escape to country hotels, coastal retreats or characterful cottages, it's easy to notice what makes these spaces feel so inviting. They don't rely on the latest fashions. Instead, they create an atmosphere that feels calm, considered and effortlessly luxurious. Increasingly, homeowners are looking to bring that same feeling home.
Bathroom Wellness: How Your Bathroom Can Help You Stay Cool During a Heatwave
When temperatures climb into the high twenties and beyond, staying comfortable can become a challenge. The human body works hard to maintain a stable internal temperature, but during a heatwave it can struggle to keep up, leaving us feeling tired, restless and overheated.
Bathroom Décor: The Trends We Can’t Stop Thinking About this Spring
Spring 2026 is all about creating homes that feel softer, warmer and more personal. Interiors are moving away from cold minimalism and towards spaces that feel calming, tactile and lived in, without losing that luxurious edge. Bathrooms especially are becoming more than practical rooms; they are wellness spaces, design statements and somewhere to properly slow down.
Bathroom Wellness: How to Create a Relaxing Bathroom Routine for Better Sleep
Creating a calming evening routine has become essential in modern life, and the bathroom is one of the most effective spaces to support this. A well-designed bathroom can help you unwind, reduce stress and prepare for a better night’s sleep. The good news is that you don’t need hours to achieve this. A simple 10-minute evening reset can transform how you feel at the end of the day.
Bathroom Wellness: The Everything Shower
The “everything shower” has quietly become one of the most loved self-care rituals of the moment.
Bathroom Wellness: Keep your skin happy
Winter brings cold winds, dry air and central heating that can zap moisture from both your skin and the spaces you live in. Add a wellness reset like Dry January or any skincare goals tied to better health, and it’s the perfect moment to look at your bathroom not just as a functional room, but as a place that actively supports your skin, wellbeing and daily rituals.
Today’s bathroom trends, from spa-like lighting and steam features to intentional hydration and thoughtful materials, are all about comfort, ritual and self-care.
Bathroom Culture: The Art of Hygge
When the days grow shorter and the world outside feels a little colder, our instinct to seek comfort indoors becomes stronger. In Denmark, they’ve perfected this feeling through Hygge - a cultural tradition centred around warmth, wellbeing and the simple pleasures of everyday life.
Ripples Christmas Gift Guide
These handpicked gems are perfect for surprising your loved ones and spreading holiday cheer. Get ready to impress with gifts they'll absolutely LOVE!
Bathroom Wellness: How Sunshower transforms daily wellbeing
Our homes are no longer just places to live, they’ve become spaces to recharge. And nowhere embodies that shift more than the bathroom. Once purely functional, it’s now seen as a sanctuary for wellbeing; a place to pause, restore and reconnect. With innovations like Sunshower, that idea moves one step further - transforming an everyday shower into a wellness experience.
Bathroom Décor: Styling the Bathroom as Your Winter Escape
As winter settles in, our homes become places of retreat and restoration. It’s the season for slow mornings, long baths and quiet moments of calm - and the perfect time to transform your bathroom into a haven of warmth, comfort and wellbeing.
Book To Read In The Bath: The Land in Winter
There are books that match the season perfectly - and The Land in Winter is one of them. With its gentle pacing, evocative landscapes and quietly affecting characters, Andrew Miller’s latest novel is the kind you sink into slowly, like slipping into a hot bath on a cold day. It’s thoughtful, atmospheric, and lingers long after you put it down.
Bathroom Décor: Styling your bathroom for the season
Autumn is the season of warmth and retreat, when our homes become havens from crisp mornings and golden evenings. While bathrooms are often seen as purely functional, they can be one of the most rewarding spaces to style for the season. With thoughtful accessories, from seasonal scents to indulgent textiles, you can create a bathroom that feels both elegant and autumn-ready.
Bathroom Culture: 5 trends from London Fashion Week that will shape interiors in 2026
London Fashion Week has always been a launchpad for fresh ideas, and this September was no exception. While the runway was alive with dramatic silhouettes and bold textures, what struck us most was how easily many of these fashion trends can be reimagined for our homes, and more specifically, our bathrooms.
Book To Read In The Bath: Our Evenings
If you’re looking for a beautifully written, emotionally rich novel to unwind with, Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst should be top of your list. It’s the kind of book that doesn’t shout, it hums quietly, drawing you in with its lyrical prose, thoughtful characters, and a story that lingers long after you’ve turned the final page.
Bathroom Wellness: Back-to-school reset
September always carries that sense of new beginnings. The long summer evenings fade, the air feels fresher, and families everywhere prepare for the return of routine. Uniforms are pressed, school shoes polished, diaries fill with after-school clubs and meetings. In the middle of this busy transition, your bathroom can quietly become one of the most important spaces in the home, helping mornings feel calmer, evenings more restorative, and everyone in the family start and end the day on the right note.
Bathroom Wellness: Morning bathroom rituals to start your day right
The way you move through your morning matters - and your bathroom is the perfect place to begin. By adding a few mindful physical rituals into your routine, you can set a calm, energised tone that lasts throughout the day.
Bathroom Décor: Get the Rachel look
We recently had the pleasure of working with singer, presenter and style icon Rachel Stevens (yes, that Rachel Stevens!) to design her dream bathroom - and to say we’re obsessed would be an understatement. We may have been there for the bathroom, but we definitely left with a few notes on her candle and skincare game too.
Bathroom Décor: Our designers’ favourite summer bathroom trends
There’s something about summer that makes us want to refresh our spaces, embrace the light, and play with colour in a bolder way. At Ripples, our designers are seeing clients embrace personality-packed bathrooms more than ever, filled with warmth, character and creative flair.