Choosing The Right Bathroom Furniture and Accessories to Stay Warm

Even in Florida, temperatures can easily dip into the low 50s during the winter months. On extremely cold nights, temperatures may even drop down as low as the 30s and 40s. This can leave your bathroom drafty and uncomfortable, especially first thing in the morning when you shower or when you are winding down at night with a hot bath.

Keep your bathroom toasty and warm with well-planned home improvements and bathroom upgrades, which may include some new bathroom furniture. Here are the top pointers that will keep your bathroom pleasantly warm, even on the coldest winter nights.

Rethink Your Color Scheme

Are your walls and bathroom furniture cool colors, like white and pale blue? While this is a popular color scheme in many bathrooms, it can exacerbate drafty cool air and make cold temperatures feel even colder. Instead of designing bathrooms with an all-white or mostly white color scheme, incorporate warm colors and warm accessories whenever and wherever possible.

"Red, orange, and yellow tones along with warm wood finishes will all help to lend a cozy ambiance to the space," Bob Vila writes. Warm yellows improve our mood, make us happier, and make rooms seem more comfortable and temperate. Pair yellow walls with medium or dark-wood bathroom furniture, like cabinets and vanities. Choose bathroom cabinets in these medium or darker finishes or tones and finishes like golden oak, red oak, cinnamon, cedar, chestnut, or walnut. If you need help choosing wood finishes that complement your color scheme, ask a staff member at a nearby bathroom vanity store for their recommendation.

The bigger your bathroom is, the more important this particular pointer will be. A compact bathroom, which is present in nearly 15% of U.S. homes, will naturally appear warmer than an open, spacious bathroom.

Install Cozy Heated Flooring

If you are serious about your warmth, install heated flooring to keep your bathroom toasty. These floors work using water-heated tubing or electric heating coils. These mechanisms heat the floor and the entire room, and they do it while using less energy than traditional heating systems. Kansas State University reveals that these floors are 25% more energy-efficient than heating and cooling systems that use ductwork.

Adjust Your Lighting

As with the color of your walls and the finish of wooden bathroom furniture, the lighting in your bathroom can go a long way to make the room feel colder or warmer. Swap your current light bulbs with bulbs that emit a warmer light -- or ones that emit a yellow or orange glow. If you want to take it one step further, there are heated bulbs you can purchase and install to heat the immediate area.

Plus, make sure your bathroom gets plenty of sun during the day. Sunlight will naturally raise the temperature in your bathroom by several degrees. If privacy is a concern, ornamental window films let sunlight in while obscuring the view into your bathroom.

Purchase The Right Accessories

To complement your wooden bathroom furniture and warm color scheme, complete the look with the right accessories. Purchase plenty of large, green plants and an oversized showerhead for optimal warmth. Add real, potted plants to your bathroom, and they will increase the humidity in the room, making it feel warmer.

Likewise, install a large, oversized showerhead at the top of your shower. That way, the water will rain down on you and cover you completely as you shower, keeping you as warm as possible. Small showerheads or showerheads installed at an angle only hit certain parts of your body at any given time, making it feel that much colder in the room.

All of us share the desire to be warm and comfortable while bathing or while showering in the morning while getting ready for work. Keep your bathroom at an optimal temperature year-round using the pointers above.

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