How To Change Your Bathroom Decor With A Wooden Bathtub

Wood bathtubs offer unique benefits. Here, we’ll explore wood bathtub designs and show you why they’re special.
The clean design focuses on the essentials and harmoniously emerges out of the wood grain. ‘Ofurò’ is haptic, visual, and comfortable: one of a kind,” says the product description.
Cedar is the best wood for a bathtub. The reason why cedar is the best wood for a  bathtub is due to its fast-drying capabilities. However, and like all wood types, cedar does not absorb moisture well.

Origin Of Wood Bathtubs

This KHIS wood bathtub is a stunning addition for all bathrooms thanks to its dark color and elegant lines. The depth of the tub provides an excellent soaking experience.
This oval wood bathtub design from KHIS can hold 100 gallons of water. 

Wood Bathtub Ideas To Transform Your Bathroom

Traditional Hinoki Wood Bathtub

Modern Wood Bathtubs

More ship-shaped than the other wood tubs we found, the European-style custom tubs from Bath in Wood of Maine are very interesting.  Of course, these tubs would fit well in a more ornate bathroom.

Rectangular Wood Bathtubs

A wooden bathtub is a bold statement. When redesigning your bathroom space, instead of a traditional porcelain bathtub, consider a wood alternative. Wood bathtubs have long been relegated to spa environments, but that’s changing among homeowners nationwide.

Western Soaking Wood Bathtubs

Handcrafted Natural Wood Bathtub

From KHIS, the “Natural” is a large and versatile wood bathtub. The tub can hold 250 gallons of water. It offers built-in light, massage, and water heating controls. The Natural is available in a wood or stone bottom for added protection. 

Although not a traditional deep soaking tub, the Ocean Shell wood bathtub by Bagno Sasso is inviting. The sleek design, resembling an open seashell, makes you want to slip into the water.
Even in this rectangular wood bathtub by Unique Wood Design, the light wood and spare style evoke an Asian aesthetic.

Oval Wood Tub

Without a doubt, some homeowners prefer a more traditional built-in style. For instance, this is a variation of the Laguna basic, the stand-alone model we showed above.
After careful research and review, we’ve created a list of the best wood bathtub ideas available on the market today. 

In Japan, Hinoki wood is used to make wooden tubs. The popularity of hot tubs and spa experiences in modern society could possibly be behind the rising popularity of wood bathtubs for soaking.

Mixed Wood Styles

Japanese Bathtub Aesthetic

Glossy Finishes

Go ahead and fill it to the brim. Alena’s Laguna Spa wooden bathtub has a wide rim filled with pebbles to take any overflow. The excess water gurgles away between the pebbles, adding to the relaxation of soaking in this beautiful tub.

Embellished Tubs

Puntoacqua, an Italian company, has been creating hydromassage wood bathtubs, multipurpose cabins, saunas, Turkish baths, and other sauna accessories for 25 years. This wood bathtub example, known as the “Natural,” features Canadian cedarwood.
Wooden tubs last 30 years. However, their average lifespan is between ten to 15 years. 

Understated Beauty

Dark Drama

This wood tub is by WS Bath Collections. It is available in a number of wood varieties including larch, beech, mahogany, cedar, walnut, cherry, wenge, or teak

Hand Finished Wood Bathtubs

Old-School Feel, Modern Shape

Matte Finish 

Sauna Style

Remember the film “Titanic”? You may recall the scene when the luxury cruise liner was sinking and the passengers used wooden lifeboats to stay alive. Well, with this bathtub design from Gallerie Kreo, you can play “Titanic survivor” in the privacy of your bathroom.

Shell Shape Wood Bathtubs

In Japanese culture, wood bathtubs are not used to soap and wash your body. People clean themselves outside of the tub and afterward soak themselves in a tub. Traditional style wood bathtubs in Japan include seats.

The Rosemarie wood tub by Wooden Baths Ltd in Scotland is coated with a High Clarity glass-reinforced epoxy resin. Most important, this coating is hard-wearing. Moreover, the glass fabric reinforcing makes the bath resistant to changes in humidity, temperature, and high UV levels.

Shallow Wood Bathtubs

The Laguna basic wooden bathtub is a misnomer. The beautiful woodgrain and velvety-looking finish are elegant and stylish without being flashy.
The Barrel tub from Wood + Water is made from Tasmanian Oak and  maintains the feel of a traditional soaking tub, even though its shape is modern.

Unique Wood Tub Designs

Ergonomic Bottom

Heart-Shaped Wood Tub

Glass And Wood Combo 

Yacht Tub

Poland’s Unique Wood Design created these luxurious wooden tubs. The company began building wood boats and yachts. Consequently, they use the expert carpentry and boat-building skills they developed.
The way the wood is thermally processed gives this KHIS wood bathtub a dark brown, almost black finish. Besides giving it a luxe look, the process makes it water-resistant and durable.

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Wood Tub For Two

Niewendick’s two-person Bamwan wood tub is more European than eastern style, but would still be equally relaxing for a good soak. Overall, the design is ergonomic and the stainless steel railing helps bathers enter and exit safely.

Super Sturdy

The Wave Diamond tub by Bagno Sasso Mobili s a combination of glass and wood.
Unique Wood Design says that “Our impregnation method has been adopted from yacht hull building. The tub’s multilayer coating is waterproof and has mechanical and chemical resistance.

Sleek Wood Tub

Exotic Hardwoods

Built-in Styles

Cedar is meant to be treated every 24 months. For a maximum lifetime, apply multiple coats of waterproofing. If you want to paint your cedar surface after you waterproof it, then do not apply more than one waterproof coat on the cedar. 

The “Sailor” wooden tub from Bagno Sasso has digital touch controls built into the edge of the tub. As a result, it elevated this design from a basic soaking experience to a luxury spa soak.

Life Boat Tub

This boat-shaped, homage to history bathtub, isn’t a traditional standing tub, but rather a sturdy wood tub. This comes from Dutch firm Studio Wieki Somers.
Unique Wood Design’s Vanala custom wood tub offers not only a beautiful tub but also the surround in the same wood. This provides extra counter space, like many large built-in standard bathtubs — but with the beauty of wood.
Mair’s produce description explains that the sophisticated drain and overflow lie flush with the surface of the bathtub, disappearing into its form.

Lacquered Finishes

Shallow Circular Tub

Varnish will help waterproof your wood bathtub and also protect it from scratches. 
Bagno Sasso’s Circle Tub is not quite like the usual soaking tub. the wooden tub is dramatic and  makes a bathroom statement, but is much shallower than a real soaking tub.

Boxy Beauty

The Laguna Pearl is available in a variety of woods: Wenge, walnut, pear. mahogany, iroko, and oak. Importantly, all the woods are certified wood from forests with controlled felling and reforestation.

Wooden Bathtub Conclusion

Matteo Thun and Partners made this wooden bathtub called ‘Ofurò’. Inspired by traditional, the design features a European shape. “Made of larch wood – for a sauna-scented experience – it is dried in several work steps and cut, shaped and joined together in a special procedure.