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Alexa, let the tub! – Diepresse.com

mars 31, 2025

Bathroom shine with artificial and natural intelligence: the return to wood-and networked toilets, water-saving fittings and showers with thunderstorm sound.

Fades uniform white on the sink and tiles freeze the facial features when looking at the mirror in the morning, because it perfectly emphasizes dark circles, redness and swelling after a short, troubled night. The appearance of operating theaters was still standard for a long time because sanitary bleaching, often paired with ice -cold light, was equated with purity. Now bathrooms are rehearsing the uprising.

The fadess in white is driven out by bright colors – and by nature, in the form of real wood furniture, shower floors, wall panels and sinks. The new star is a raw material that was considered to be unmissable for wet room. But with good care, wood brings ground to the house, has an antibacterial effect and enables Waldbaden in the word sense. The input and diving into a feel-good world without worries, fears and needs. The daydreaming in familiar fragrance nuances. And relaxation when touching the warm grain, artwork of nature.

« Wood creates warm mood and an exclusive note. »

Attention, wet!

Even ceramic specialists discover the material. Villeroy & Boch presents a solid wood collection, with cupboards, consoles as well as high and sideboards in colors such as warm walnut and honey oak. Your organic design language should remind you of dew drops. Thanks to an innovative lightweight construction with hollow body technology, even bathtubs made of wood are now manufactured for exclusive home spas, individually to measure.

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The renowned and multi-award-winning German bathroom and spa designer Thorsten Müller, at the time of the « press » interview as a trend scout at the « Maison & Objet », the large Paris trade fair, knows about the effect of wood. « It creates a warm, natural atmosphere and exclusive note. Its feel offers a unique and sensual experience. In combination with cool materials such as natural stone or glass, a harmonious balance arises between comfort and modernity. » Andrea Leifert, sales manager of « Villeroy & Boch Bad and Wellness » in Austria, joins the same horn. « Wood creates a natural feeling. »

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The largest enemy of untreated or unsuitable woods in bathrooms is (air) moisture. Without professional sealing and optimal ventilation, you can swell, form cracks and promote mold. According to Müller, good care with oils and special surface coatings are « essential to ensure the longevity of the material ». With natural robustness, walnut, spruce and larch scores, as well as tropical woods such as teak, Iroko and Merbau. The latter also offer a non -slip surface – a safety gain for passionate pritschler. Thermally treated also work domestic alternatives such as ash or oak. According to Leifert, the latter is « even suitable as a hard wood for washbasin and shower ». For caution, the expert advises you to use cleaning products. They too can hug the natural substance unsightly, in the form of discoloration and edges. « Here the investment in good wood quality and regular care helps with a damp cloth. »

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Sound for the quiet place

Although the wet room is currently on the proverbial wooden path, it is also conquered digitally. The global movement of artificial intelligence (AI) does not stop at your own bathroom. The last scream are networked toilets that illuminate the night with an automatic LED light and clean yourself independently.

The brain behind the abort’s autonomy is a mini calculator who processes the information from a sophisticated sensor orbatter. A sensor of reflection is waiting here that recognizes when someone enters the room. The lid opens as if by magic. An electrostatic sitting sensor perceives the setting and getting up to rinse and switch off the toilet heating heating. The distance sensor controls applications such as the PO shower or the bidet function and make sure that the lid does not close for standing pincles and the toilet rinses prematurely. And the temperature sensor warms the seat, the shower water and the blow -dryer, depending on the surrounding area.

There are even models with SD card slot so that users can play their music program on the place once quietly. With smartphone apps you can also control your toilets remotely, safe is safe, as well as control electricity and water consumption. The toilet of the future is a playground for technology professionals such as rookies. Leifert recognizes a growing market in Europe. « In addition to older people, more and more young people appreciate freshness, cleanliness, the design and the comfort of an intelligent shower toilet. »

« The excursion under the shower becomes a trip to the wide world. »

Doc toilet

According to Müller, smart toilets are already a good tone in the high-end segment. In the future, the private throne will even be a place of provision. « The toilet will be able to provide information on vitamin deficiencies or pregnancies through the urine analysis. » The future of elderly and nursing is also hidden under the toilet glasses. A small camera takes photos that are invited to the cloud. There, Doctor AI analyzes the form and consistency and enters the results in the digital patient leaf. So the well -groomed, health staff and the doctors see in an app immediately whether everything is in the healthy area. The diagnoses of the smart docs are now correct in 80 percent of all cases, thanks to machine learning, the super brain becomes smarter every day.

In times of expensive energy and summer water shortage, smart fittings also experience a boom. According to experts, they already reduce water consumption considerably. Müller speaks of savings by up to 50 percent, even Leifert from 60 percent. This is ensured by technologies such as the air-bicing and flow limitation. This guarantees the optimal balance between sustainability and wet experience without influencing comfort.

Well -tempered and intuitive

The excursion under the shower even becomes a journey into the wide world and for all the senses. Warm tropical rain pours on the body, lightning and thunder meet the cabin, and a heavy exotic fragrance hangs in the air. Multi-sensory experience showers score with bird twittering, waterfall or jungle sound, including a suitable lighting mood and automatically controlled fragrance effects. According to interior designer Müller, the shower-suitable room and time machines set new standards, but currently mostly in home spas in villas in the Oberliga. « Your costs correspond to a mid -range car. » But the first affordable variants are already conquering the market. And thanks to a simple but intelligent solution, the danger of involuntary ice cream baths in the shower of hotel rooms is also banned so that the rotation in the wrong direction on the non -intuitive shower fitting does not bring cold water from above. The solution lies in smart shower panels with pictograms, according to the motto « recognized danger ».

Ulrich Dohle