With 2022 seeing the end of legal COVID restrictions; trade shows and a plethora of new showroom openings became a focus of Kitchens & Bathrooms News videos over the past 12 months.

It saw the introduction of two-minute, point of view tours of both manufacturer and retailer showrooms.

And reflecting the need for more young people to enter the industry, to help ease the skills gap exacerbated by KBB retail growth, we continued our “Meet the Young Kitchen & Bathroom Professionals” series, to showcase the industry as a career.

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Here is a countdown of our top six most watched Kitchens & Bathrooms News videos, produced in 2022, and featured on our YouTube channel.

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HIX Event 2022

In our top six videos of the year, the first entry in our chart is for a two-minute tour of the Hotel Interiors Experience (HIX) event, which returned to the Business Design Centre in London in November 2022.

The two-day event featured 135 suppliers representing a variety of sectors in hotel design, including bathrooms, and attracted 3,728 visitors.

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Merlyn taps into multigenerational market

At Kbb Birmingham, on an exhibition stand created by interior designer Jo Love, Merlyn showed how the company was tapping into the multigenerational market with its latest launches.

Marketing manager Eileen Slattery  also took the opportunity to inform visiting retailers about its “market leading” stock availability.

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Samsung introduces Wi-Fi connected ovens for all at Kbb Birmingham

Making our list of most watched videos, once again, is Samsung which introduced Wi-Fi connectivity across its entire oven range at Kbb Birmingham.

Channel manager of built-in appliances at Samsung Electronics UK Jonathan Hartley also pointed out its latest ovens boast healthy eating functions, such as air fry and sous vide, and features to offer a trade-up in sales, such as telescopic, sliding rails.

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Set the bar high in design | Meet the young kitchen & bathroom professionals | The London Bath Co

In the third video of our “Meet the young kitchen & bathroom professionals” series, then senior designer at The London Bath Co Nasser Fahad talks about how his university course led him to the Kbb industry.

He explains young designers must set their own bar for kitchen design standards and treat the business like it is their own.

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Laura Jane Clark “Clients can start to take ownership of home design”

We return to Kbb Birmingham for our second most popular video, created in 2022, where TV architect Laura Jane Clark highlighted consumer research findings by Hafele.

She partnered with the company to create a white paper into what consumers want and need from kitchen design, and how designers and architects should work in partnership with them to create functional spaces.

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RAK Ceramics Global Design Hub

Our most popular video, created in 2022, was a two-minute tour of the RAK Ceramics Design Hub, which opened in Clerkenwell, London, during Clerkenwell Design Week.

Spanning over two floors, it measures 7,276sq ft and showcases the company’s sanitaryware, as well as brassware for both bathrooms and kitchens, including a working display.