Six Wellness-Related Bathroom Design Trends For 2024

A bathroom remodel – especially for a primary suite – is a major undertaking with tremendous wellness potential for its users. Done well, it can also offer strong resale potential for your property. That’s why it’s worth paying heed to what the pros say is trending. And why I always pay attention when the National Kitchen & Bath Association, a trade organization comprising 50,000 members, including designers, dealers, remodelers, installers and manufacturers, releases its annual studies. (In the interest of disclosure, I’ve been an NKBA member for close to two decades, but it’s only one of the leading associations I source for research.)

The 2024 Bathroom Trends Research Report was just released last week, and you probably won’t be surprised to learn that wellness design plays a strong role in the findings. Here are six of the wellness-related emerging trends cited in the study, with emailed insights from NKBA member designers who had a chance to review the report and expound upon the concepts described in its points. These are the four design professionals who shared how the trends NKBA tracked are showing up in their practices: