🍷Merlot Releases Video #1 in the 2026 Haute @ Home Series🔥
Our team was on-site at the Kitchen and Bath Industry Show (KBIS) and the International Builders’ Show (IBS), searching for the latest in design and home construction. Walk the floor with us to see our top picks from Orlando.
KBIS 2026 made one thing clear: the kitchen and bath industry has graduated from novelty to intention. The innovations earning attention in Orlando weren’t the loudest or the most loaded with features: they were the most considered. Across the show floor, a few unmistakable currents ran through the best of what brands brought to market. Wellness has fully arrived in the bath, not as a trend word, but as a design standard, with soaking tubs, whole-home water systems, and spa-calibrated finishes reframing the bathroom as the most personal room in the house. Personalization is no longer a premium option; it’s a baseline expectation, with homeowners and designers alike demanding materials, forms, and systems that reflect how they actually live. And the most compelling products were defined by what you couldn’t see: invisible technology, seamless integration, and the quiet confidence of design that removes itself from the equation to let the space do the talking.
The Haute @ Home video series captures the most compelling new products debuting at KBIS and IBS 2026, delivering editorial-style content that lives on YouTube, social channels, and in front of national trade and consumer media across the shelter and design space. With a streamlined, 20-minute booth shoot focused on a single trend-worthy product—no on-camera interviews required—brands gain polished, ready-to-share video assets that extend their tradeshow investment well beyond Orlando. Featured brands in this video include:
This Oak Washbasin Might Be the Most Grounding Thing in Your Home
This Oak Washbasin Might Be the Most Grounding Thing in Your HomeEdwood Pro Oak builds solid oak washbasins that bring genuine warmth and material honesty into the bath: no veneers, no shortcuts. If you’ve ever wanted a space that feels as intentional as it looks, this is where to start.
Art You Can Actually Soak In
Art You Can Actually Soak InEmpava’s Sculptura soaking tub is crafted from solid translucent resin in a warm Amber colorway that literally glows from within — and yes, it’s as dramatic as it sounds! This is a tub you build the entire room around.
Your Whole House Deserves Better Water
Your Whole House Deserves Better WaterThe Everpure Home Naia system brings appliance-grade filtration to every tap in the house, not just the kitchen sink, for water that’s gentler on skin, hair, fixtures, and plumbing. One system, whole-home protection.
The Drain That Disappears (On Purpose)
The Drain That Disappears (On Purpose)QM Drain’s Invisible Drain series features flush-mounted, tile-in linear and square options engineered to vanish into the shower floor, putting the spotlight back on the materials and layout you actually designed around. Sometimes the best detail is the one you don’t see.
One Design Language, Every Room
One Design Language, Every RoomZenario Home by Vimora introduces a coordinated system of furnishings and finishes meant to bring visual continuity across the entire home — not just room by room, but as a connected whole. The bathroom vanity shown here is a clean, modern example of what unified design actually looks like in practice.