If you’re looking to refresh your space, and investigating the summer kitchen trends and summer bathroom trends 2022 has brought in, you’re likely encountering plenty of suggestions for updates to your space. From lists detailing what colors are trending for bathrooms to articles breaking down décor trends that are “in” for the 2022 year, there’s something for everyone’s personal style.
Large-scale trends—like separated rooms and bold blues and greens for color schemes—often dominate the trends of any given year. These dramatic updates can easily become the focal point of a room, but they aren’t the only way to give a space a fresh look. In fact, small updates can breathe new life into a room, and take a tired space into the modern day. Whether you’re looking for full kitchen or bathroom remodel ideas or looking for a less expensive and time-consuming way to freshen up your home, small details can be the finishing touch to get a room looking great.
One of the small but important changes in a space is hardware. Hinges, drawer pulls, and knobs can have a big impact on the look and feel of a room—for a fairly small investment and little installation labor, they can have a major effect. Updated hardware can pull a room together and take a dated space into the present day. Here, we’ll address what hardware styles are trending this year, and how The Tub Pros can get your kitchen or bathroom looking great again in the Memphis Metro Area, Germantown, Collierville, and greater mid-south area of Mississippi and Arkansas.
Where is hardware used in my kitchen and bathroom?
Hardware includes the handles, knobs, pulls, and hinges of the cabinets and drawers in your kitchen and bathroom. In the bathroom, hardware can also include hooks, rings, and towel bars. It might also include your faucet, taps, showerhead, and shower curtain rod. It’s different from the more permanent fixtures of your kitchen or bathroom, but hardware, when combined with the tub or sink, creates the full look of the space.
What styles are trending for hardware?
With 2022 styles moving away from the open shelving popular in the 2010s, and opting for more storage, there might be more hardware features than ever in your space. Kitchens and bathrooms since the COVID-19 pandemic have moved more and more towards practicality and function, while also maintaining a calming aesthetic.
In 2022, you’ll probably see functional, easy-to-grab drawer and cabinet hardware—sleek pull bars or rounded knobs are gaining popularity. Long, elegant pull bars can allow you plenty of room to grab hold, while also offering a touch of chic style. Sinks with plenty of clearance to allow you to comfortably wash dishes are growing in popularity, too. Double shower heads in the bathroom also emphasize comfort and practicality, while adding a feeling of beauty and luxury.
Some homeowners and designers are opting to do away with cabinet knobs altogether, and replace them with cabinets that pop open with a touch or have a hidden recess to let you pull them open. This gives the space a clean look, and forces viewers to observe the space as a whole without distraction from other elements such as the hardware.
What colors and materials are trending for hardware?
Brass is having a moment in 2022—this metal finish for hardware offers warmth, like gold does, but with an edge that makes the color distinctive and interesting. This classic finish can work with a variety of styles, as can the other traditional colors trending this year—like copper, gold, and brushed or polished nickel.
But homeowners this year aren’t shying away from new trends, either. Especially in bathrooms, some are opting for fun shapes and colors—like white, black, or even bright blue to compliment modern design. These styles are a throwback to the 1970s, and can make faucets or taps a centerpiece in a room, rather than a feature often overlooked.
Another big trend in 2022 is mixing metals. While often it’s traditional to make all hardware the same color, and to match it to other, more permanent features of the room (think dishwasher or fridge), design trends now are starting to move away from this and make the most of the mixed metal look.
To get that mixed metal look without looking messy, be intentional with your design choices, and make sure the metals are distinctive—not brass and gold, which may look similar, but brass and matte black, or copper and wrought-iron. Keep it to just a few types of metal that you can use in multiple places throughout a room, to maintain balance, and consider mixing matte and shiny finishes, too.
What can The Tub Pros do to help update my hardware?
Updating your hardware can be a big step towards refreshing or modernizing a space. But sometimes, small updates might not be enough to breathe new life into your home, and you may find yourself still in a space that looks worn and tired. Other times, you may find that you wish the surrounding features—like your sink or counter—were just a slightly different or more modern color to complement your new hardware.
That’s where refinishing, or reglazing, can step in to help. This process strips the surface from your existing tub, sink, counter, or tile, repairs any damage, and applies a new coating. The process can be done on many surfaces—including porcelain tubs and granite countertops—so whether you’re working on the kitchen or bathroom, reglazing has you covered. A refinished surface will look and feel like new, but for a fraction of the price and time involved in a full replacement. The new coating can be in a color of your choice, too—including faux granite countertops.
At The Tub Pros, we’re proud to be the leading refinishing service in the Greater Mid-South. Not only can we fix damage to counters, tubs, tiles, or sinks in the kitchen and bathroom, but we can make those surfaces look as good as new with reglazing and new hardware.
Overall, 2022 hardware trends are flexible and seem to come in all types of metals and solid color treatments. No matter what your style preference is, 2022 seems to have something for you. We are here to get your kitchen and bathroom updated today. Call our office at (901) 871-8827 or use our online contact tool—we’re here to affordably update your kitchen and bath, making your home safe, beautiful, and functional again. Additional free value added information can be found in our website article library.
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