®We looked at what our own designers actually draw. In September 2026 we went through 321 real customer bathroom designs from our showrooms. A few numbers changed how we think about bathroom design software.
The headline numbers
| What we found | Share of designs |
|---|---|
| Had something boxed in | 78% (250 of 321) |
| Had a door or window cut in | 98% |
| Weren’t a simple rectangle | 33% |
| Products in an average design | 6 |
The suite is the quick part
An average design had six products in it. The most placed, in order: basins, WCs, showers, radiators, enclosures, mirrors, accessories and baths. Dragging a bath into a room takes seconds.
The room is where the hours go
The time goes on three things:
- The room shape. A third of rooms weren’t rectangles: bays, chimney breasts, angled walls and returns.
- The boxing in. Nearly four in five designs had something boxed in: 393 bulkheads and 111 pipe boxes across the 321.
- The tiling. Feature walls, recesses, bath panels, floors, and the box counts that people order from.
How KBB Go handles the hard parts
- Boxing in drops straight in. Pick pipe box, bulkhead or slope and it appears at a sensible size, ready to adjust.
- Shaped rooms list each wall, and corners square up as you draw.
- Tiling works from one room tile. Feature tiles are clicked onto walls, and one card tiles the recesses and bath panels at once.
- Box counts take off what isn’t tiled and keep what is.
Why we share this
Most design software sells you a catalogue of products. Our numbers say the products aren’t the hard part for a bathroom business. The room is. That’s what KBB Go is built around.
Figures from designs in our own business (My Beautiful), September 2026. They describe our own work, not a survey of the industry.