Shower head
Delta In2ition 2-in-1 Combo Showerhead ($60.99 to $74.99, bedbathandbeyond.com). “It feels like you’re getting a lot more water than you are,” she says. It includes four spray functions, so “you can change the speed of the spray, the type of the spray.” If you rent, consider asking your landlord if you can change the shower heads, Finley suggests.
When her clients want to upgrade to “something new, today,” Jessy Johnson of Michigan’s Mary Lynn Creations recommends Kohler’s HydroRail Shower Column in Polished Chrome ($330.19, homedepot.com). “It’s easy to swap out with existing plumbing,” she says, and adds style. For a modern rain head and hand shower that coordinate, Johnson likes Kohler’s Moxie shower head, which comes with a wireless speaker ($155.99, wayfair.com), and the company’s Flipside hand shower ($131.20, us.kohler.com).
Moen’s Magnetix has “the appeal of a fixed shower head, but it rests there on a magnet,” says Melissa Haas, project designer at Case Design Remodeling in Charlotte, North Carolina ($59.99 to $69.99, bedbathandbeyond.com). “You can pull off the shower head and use it as a hand shower, whether you’re cleaning the tile, rinsing your feet off or cleaning the dog.” Haas adds that “it’s really popular in a hall bathroom or a kids’ bath setup, where you don’t need this luxuryspa setup — you just need an allin-one sort of thing.” It comes in chrome and brushed nickel.
A homeowner can install the Retro-Fit Diverter Shower System with SpeedClean Technology without removing any tiles or touching the existing plumbing inside the wall, Morvay says ($498.99, allmodern.com). “It just involves replacing the existing shower arm.” The system includes not one, but two handheld shower heads and the ability to switch between the two. It comes in a burnished chrome finish.
Arguably, Pennington is the expert in making over homes fast, as HGTV’s longtime host of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. He likes the Dornbracht brand for high-end replacement shower heads and Kohler for a more accessible price point: “Their Purist line comes in a great chrome and satin nickel,” he says. The K-966-CP Purist 2.5 GPM Multifunction Wall-Mount Shower Head has a wide spray, massage spray and gentle spray and also comes in brushed bronze and brushed nickel ($91.76 to $132.82, wayfair.com).