Private Spa: A Room With No Limits

Clean water, clear air and the warmth of a summer’s day – that’s true luxury.Many people associate the feeling of being able to let go completely and enjoy the moment with a wonderful holiday experience.Or perhaps ... with a day in the bathroom.

A private spa is a splendid place for taking a mini-break in your own four walls – after work, at the weekend or while the kids are at the neighbours’. And if an hour is all the time you’ve got, the bathroom can become a secluded island, a hotel bathroom or a lonely mountain cabin too.Or a place where every morning starts with a quick dip in an icy lake, a walk across wooden floorboards warmed by the sun or a one-minute dive into an exotic world.

A place sheltered from the outside world, with everything the modern individual needs to relax and find his inner peace after a tiring day: privacy, beauty, tranquillity, water. The bathroom is becoming the focal point of a hedonistic culture that combines cultural sophistication with sensuousness, aesthetics, pleasurable sensations and rituals.

The room concepts the bathroom industry has developed for this modern bathing culture exhibit a host of different elements such as cosiness, differentiated functions, water scenographies or rainfall showers – things that are not the slightest bit revolutionary on their own but can be meaningfully combined to produce an innovative, ambitious type of bathroom: the private spa.

The private spa is a bathroom concept that turns routine into ritual and water into an experience.The wellness effect is created by features such as a rainfall shower, sauna or whirlpool tub, as well as soft factors like the ambience, furniture and a sensuous setting.First introduced by Pop up my Bathroom in 2011, the term private spa meanwhile stands for individual concepts that pursue a holistic approach to bathroom design with the goal of creating a place for experiences.

There are solutions big and small for implementing a private spa.Where one person opts for a horizontal shower, somebody else might only need a fountain-like washbasin or an attractive plant to make him feel he’s in a special place.But regardless of individual ideas about aesthetics, cosy furnishings, space and staging water, the private spa always means a little bit of luxury.The kind of luxury that is best enjoyed alone.