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Wall-Mounted Wow: The Space-Saving Secret to Luxury En-Suite Glamour

December 12, 2025 3 min read

hances are your en-suite doesn’t feel small because of its actual dimensions, but because of the décor within the walls. Clutter building up on surfaces, insufficient lighting casting unflattering shadows, and a fragmented design that doesn’t feel coordinated. All this shrinks the space visually, even if the room itself is quite spacious. 

The good news is you don’t need to knock down walls or steal square footage from adjacent rooms to make your en-suite feel luxe. The real magic lies in manipulating the space and tricking the eye into making it feel more open. 

Create Clean Lines With Verticality

Every centimetre of floor acts as visual currency in a compact bathroom. When too many items interrupt the line of sight, whether it’s storage, bulky vanities, or standalone accessories like freestanding toilet roll holders, the space feels smaller and more chaotic. The simplest and most effective solution is to use walls wherever possible.

Mounting accessories to the wall frees up floor space and draws the eye upwards, creating the illusion of height and openness. Wall-mounted soap dispensers, floating vanities, and integrated shelving maintain a sleek, continuous flow that enhances the sense of verticality. This also improves practicality, and gives the room a curated, architectural quality.

Removing Visual Noise

Decor can create visual chaos, and this makes spaces feel smaller and more cluttered regardless of their actual size. When the eye encounters multiple elements, whether it’s competing textures, clashing metals or disparate accessories, it fractures attention and prevents the room from reading as cohesive. 

Being more restrained and choosing just a few focal points helps evoke simplicity. Maybe that’s ornate taps, an accent splashback or an antique-style sink. Everything else should be hidden and out of sight. This can even extend to your heating. 

Bathroom designers,  Hugo Oliver, suggest underfloor heating for unlocking space in a smaller en-suite: “Radiators can take up a lot of space…underfloor heating is a sleek and efficient way to keep your bathroom warm without compromising on space. This invisible heating solution doesn’t take up any wall or floor space, leaving your bathroom feeling spacious and comfortable”. 

A Trick of the Light

The eye naturally follows light and when you illuminate a space, you can guide the gaze to wherever you want, creating the illusion of height and volume. Embrace verticality with full-height lighting solutions, like tall fixtures either side of your mirror, or better yet,  install an illuminated mirror to the wall so you’re not using valuable counter space but still creating a sleek and luxurious room. 

The sleek look instantly makes the room feel larger, and it gives your en-suite that chic hotel feel that you’ll look forward to using every day. The result is interior design theatre. It transforms from a utilitarian space into a sanctuary where every angle flatters and your en-suite feels spacious and roomy.

Seamless Surfaces and Colour Drenching

Constant colour changes and clashing patterns make a room feel compartmentalised and small. To counteract this, embrace a monochromatic palette that makes every surface blend and flow into one another. When the surfaces feel unified and uninterrupted, the walls seem to recede and the floor extends, and suddenly your compact en-suite feels exponentially more generous. 

Finding the right colour palette takes a lot of thought, but a monochromatic design doesn’t mean you’re limited to black and white. As luxury interior designer,  Andrea Benedettini highlights, “don’t be afraid to use colours. Deep blues, greens and earthy hues all create a feeling of luxury and drama that enhances your space.” The key is to exude luxury while still creating cohesion.  

Borrowing Space With Reflections

Reflective surfaces serve double duty in a compact space. They bounce precious light into shadowed corners, and they borrow visual volume from the rest of the room to create a feeling of openness. A well-placed mirror isn’t the only option though. Any large surface area works in the same way, so think chrome hardware, glass-fronted cabinets, and quartz or marble counters or shelves that reflect the light. 

These principles all work in tandem to show the scale of your design vision doesn't have to be limited by the square footage of the room. It’s easy to create genuine in any sized room, with the right colour, lighting, and design tactics. 




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