Bathroom Ideas
Vintage Glam With a Twist Designer Micaela Quinton of Copper Sky Renovations and the homeowners of this historic Atlanta-area home fell in love with this antique-furniture-style vanity and used it as the charming centerpiece for the guest bathroom design. The mirror was selected without a frame so it would blend in with the bold wallpaper. Its antique shape echoes the vanity’s vintage character. The wallpaper’s dark background works with the black granite counter, while the dusty blues tie in with the vanity color.
Other special features. Marble floor tile in a basket-weave pattern. Subway tile with penny tile accent strip in gray-blue and black. Designer tip. “The custom cabinetry really maximizes the storage in the small room,” Harrington says. “Also, the glass-walled walk-in shower helps the space feel larger and lets in light from the window in the room.”
We remodeled & changed the layout of the Jack & Jill bathroom in our small 1905 house last year-- it was 44 sq. ft.; we took a little space from adjacent closets (perhaps 8 sq. ft.) to make room for a nice walk-in shower and storage, and removed the tub. We plan to stay in our house for many years, so we were interested in making the bathroom nice for us as we age rather than worrying about resale value. Plus several realtors have told me recently that a tub isn't all that important anymore for most buyers. Here's what I think is important for small bathrooms: rounded corners on sinks or vanities, as well as on grab bars, towel racks, etc. No sharp corners to bump into in a small space! I love our Duravit console sink- the console has a rack for hanging hand towels, and the open space below really does make the room feel more spacious, as do the light colored tile and glass shower door. I'd have loved to have floor radiant heating, but it requires lowering the floor joists-- best to do this on a new addition rather than inside an existing house. Grab bars are so important for everyone in a room with wet surfaces, not just for old folks. Photos courtesy Angela Klein AIA.
Medicine cabinets. Since we easily collect various toiletries, having a good place to store them is essential. While drawers in the cabinets and the space under the sink provide some storage, medicine cabinets place more accessible and well-lit storage areas at eye level. There are many ready-to-install medicine cabinets that range from 15 to 24 inches (38 to 61 centimeters) in width and 20 to 30 inches (51 to 76 centimeters) in height. You can either mount these on side walls adjacent to the sink or in the wall above the sink. You will want the top of the cabinet to stay under 80 inches (203 centimeters) but not below 48 inches (122 centimeters).
Potter Construction Inc The design team added several features that will allow the homeowners to age in place: Curbless entrance Stall dimensions that are large enough for a caregiver to fit in when help is needed Slip-resistant tile Plywood blocking in the walls to support future grab bar installation Handheld shower head Wall-mounted flip-down teak bench that can support up to 500 pounds Creating a curbless shower that would be accessible for a wheelchair or walker was tricky in a condo with concrete floors. To build up enough height for the drain to function properly, the designers increased the floor thickness in the bathroom and bedroom an imperceptible amount, but enough to allow for the slant they needed in the shower for drainage. The shower walls are clad in the same quartzite as the countertops. Limiting the material palette created a cohesive look in the minimalist style the couple likes. The shower floor tiles are Eco-Stone by Pental. It is porcelain with a natural stone look that picks up on the colors in the veining of the walls and is slip-resistant.
You Love Monochromatic, Minimalist Bathrooms The scheme in this Melbourne, Australia, bathroom by Fido Projects is simple and straightforward: mostly white with a few key black accents providing sharp contrast. Simple shapes rule — circles for the mirror and fixtures, large squares on the floor and 4-by-4-inch tiles in the shower.
When space is extremely limited, you can have a solution like this bathroom. An oval-shaped sink and cabinet are nestled into a concave wall. The toilet is snugly placed next to the shower, but there is enough space to enter and exit through the glass doors. The architects have even managed to insert a conventional medicine cabinet in the niche above the sink
ou can find shorter and deeper tubs like this, which allow soaking similar to Japanese-style tubs. This configuration employs the leftover space at the end of the tub for a shelf or shower seat. Should you choose to have a glass enclosure, as in this bath, consider how high you would like to have the glass reach. Showers that have a steam function need to be completely enclosed, as seen here. Otherwise, the top of the glass should reach at least 76 inches (193 centimeters) above the floor. You may want to coordinate the height with the tiles or other wall finishes, or with the height of the windows and doors in the room. Browse soaker tubs
The bathroom would have been difficult to move because one of its walls is load-bearing. Since it made the entrance dark, however, Peyrieux inserted a narrow panel (94½ by 10 inches) of smart glass, which turns opaque at the touch of a button, into the wall, “so as not to lose the view from the entrance and the kitchen while also being able to maintain privacy when needed.”
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The narrow bathroom works hard for the family of four, but a clever design makes it manageable. The narrow custom bathtub allows the owners to give their young kids baths, while a wall-mounted shower head and three built-in niches let the parents take a shower with bath products within easy reach.
Choose porcelain wall and floor tile. Porcelain can last a lifetime, so chances are you won’t have to replace it as you get older. It’s also perhaps the easiest surface to clean. Water and a rag normally do the trick. If you’re concerned about grout, look for porcelain tile with a rectified edge. Finely cut edges allow for thin grout joints (as little as 1/16 inch in some styles). You can purchase a presealed grout as well.
Oh,boy! Интерьеры с мужским характером Pure Zen Intricate woodcarving also marks this bathroom in Moscow. Along with the stone-covered walls, the wood sculptures and a sink that looks as if it were carved from a rock, it brings a calm and peaceful feeling to the room. In fact, it feels more like a meditation room than a loo. Style note: Check out the minimalist shape of the vanity. It’s just a basic open box that’s mounted to the wall.
A large walk-in shower filled with mosaic tile from Granada Tile and palm trees creates a lush oasis in this Los Angeles bathroom.
An airy pendant light from France made of seven Limoges porcelain birds floats from the ceiling of the master bath.
Go vertical. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em! Sometimes, if your bathroom has small square footage, rather than try to make it look bigger horizontally, the smartest approach is to embrace the height as the largest dimension and emphasize that feature instead. Using vertical elements as simple as a tall, thin mirror and a bold accent color on a skinny wall can enhance the height of a space and make the room feel big and breezy from that perspective. Add some delicate lights and a little black and white tile, and you’ve got lots to keep the eye moving from flooring to ceiling.
Splurge on a large mirror with a beautiful frame, or go wall-to-wall with a custom-sized piece. The effect can be so powerful that you need little else to make the room look perfectly finished. This can be especially effective in slim powder rooms with small walls that don’t take much glass to cover.
Try tone on tone. Not a fan of stark white? You can still get a very big and breezy effect with a tone-on-tone palette in warm beige, soft grays or even faint hues such as powder blue. Choose a sumptuous tile, and find a paint color for the remaining walls that picks up on one of the hues within it. The overall effect is still serene and spa-like, without the jarring visual breaks to shrink your perception of the space.
a new vanity from salvaged table legs to further create a feeling of openness.
A tall, slim cabinet provides storage for towels and toiletries and gives a dose of visual warmth amid the crisp new white quartz countertop and Carrara marble floor tile.
A Pleasing Tile Combination Using clear frameless glass for the shower surround makes the room feel more open and larger than an obscure glass option would have. This angle gives us a good look at the different tiles — large-format 12-by-24-inch tile on the floor, 6-by-24-inch planks on the shower walls and small 1-by-3-inch rectangles on the shower floor. “These tile work together because we have a good mix of scales and textures. The wall tiles are quite long and have lots of monochromatic variation, so we went really simple for the shower floor tile,” Wheelband says. “We also mixed up the install — the wall tiles are installed offset in a brick pattern so we went with a grid pattern for the shower floor. And the main floor tile is also neutral and brings out some of the lighter tones of the wall tile.”
Across from the vanity, a toilet with a low back takes up minimal visual space. “Storage was key, so we gave them a little closet for cleaning supplies, a hamper and towels,” Wheelband says. The clients preferred to leave it open rather than closed off as a closet for easier access. If they should ever change their minds, the jamb around the frame would make installing a door easy. The designer also thought about every item the family would need to accommodate when she planned out the shelves, raising the bottom shelf high enough to allow for a hamper below and allowing enough room between shelves for piles of folded towels.
. Designer Andrea Schumacher retrofitted an antique Chinese dresser into a vanity and wrapped it in a waterfall of marble for a guest bathroom in her own suburban Denver home.
. Designer Andrea Schumacher retrofitted an antique Chinese dresser into a vanity and wrapped it in a waterfall of marble for a guest bathroom in her own suburban Denver home.
Even a small bathroom can have space for a tub. The way to use this Japanese-style tub is to sit with hot water up to your chin, rather than lying down as you would in a Western-style bath. The space was designed by Fraher Architects.
House of Amelia Once a feeling has been established for the space, translating that into a color often depends on gut instinct. If there’s one color in particular that feels right, like the warm brown of this Dallas powder room, breaking it up with different textures and forms — penny tile walls and a custom marble surround in this case — can make a statement without going overboard.
Hotel samples and extra shower supplies. Group mini soaps and shower gels, shampoos and conditioners into the right organizer. This can be a spice rack attached to a cabinet door, an over-the-door travel bag or an over-the-door shoe organizer. Give each type of product its own compartment and label it. Instead of having backup supplies hogging valuable space, you’ll have products to tide you over from the time you run out to the time you make it to the store. And if you tend to hoard these like I do, you’ll find you can live off samples for a surprising amount of time, which is a nice little money saver. Note: Mounting a rack like this inside a cabinet or closet door is a nice choice; just make sure there’s ample room between the shelves and the rack so the door can close properly.
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Choose a toilet with a slide-off seat option. Many toilet seats now allow you to remove the plastic covers on the screws that affix the seat to the bowl and easily slide the seat off to clean this crucial spot. Most manufacturers offer this option; just read the fine print when choosing a toilet seat. This photo shows Kohler’s Quick-Release seat.
8. Pick a toilet with a skirted base. A skirted toilet has a base with a smooth profile all the way to the floor. This means none of those pipe shapes along the sides or other crevices where dust and toilet paper lint can collect. Those nooks and crannies often require some serious yoga positions just to reach them and are tough to get clean. Skirted bases make for a much easier and smoother wipe-down so you don’t have to hold your yoga position for very long.
For faucets and fixtures, select a finish that’s resistant to fingerprints and water spots. Or choose a finish that gets a better patina from these things, if that’s your style. The finish seen here is oil-rubbed bronze, which is resistant to both. For a thorough list of finishes and their ease or difficulty of keeping clean, check out A Crash Course in Bathroom Faucet Finishes.
Choose a stunner of a sink. The right vessel can be a feature your guests will remember long after they finish washing their hands. In this Bozeman, Montana, farmhouse, a sink made from a wooden dough bowl is the star, accented by a beautiful arabesque-patterned concrete tile. The simple base is a custom piece, built out of steel pipe with threaded fittings and a black granite top. The wooden vessel was waterproofed with a rosin finish.
It wasn’t easy to find a narrow enough piece that could meet the limited dimensions of the space between the wall and window. This particular chest’s width was just right. It also needed to be the right height. Frees had it sized so the backsplash lines up with the top of the wainscoting. With the base and countertop, the vanity is 37 inches high (just an inch higher than today’s standard of 36 inches).
Vanity. The jumping-off point for the design was this vanity. While the designer has her own showroom and access to any type of custom cabinet she can dream up, for this project they went for something different: a vintage chest of drawers transformed into a vanity. A favorite local Chicago source, MegMade, found this vintage campaign chest. It stripped and refinished it, cut off the legs, made a custom brass base for it and painted the original hardware to match the base. “I would never have something like this hardware painted unless I knew they could do an impeccable job like they did here,” Frees says.
Putting it all together. Think about using your space in a way that makes sense for your daily life, within your aesthetic. Keep frequently used items near where you use them, and attractive containers on open shelves. Extra items and those used less often don’t need to take up valuable real estate near your sink or tub, so store these in a cabinet or hall closet.
Good for: Makeup, skin care products, hairbrushes and accessories. Not recommended: Anything that will spill or leak. Small trays. Keep an assortment of bottles and jars visually contained on a small tray; it’s easily lifted for cleaning. Good for: Leak-prone bottles and perfumes.
Waterview Kitchens Email Save 4. Try a rug-like inset or borders. A rug in the bathroom can be beautiful, but for some it feels too impractical. A rug-like tile composition gives you the look of an area rug in the same hard-wearing finish as a standard floor tile.
. Layered. If you want to make a big statement, mount a mirror on top of a mirrored surface. It’s a very classy and creative way to dress up a wall. While it may be more expensive than other wallcoverings — such as drywall, wallpaper, or ceramic or porcelain tile — it can be less expensive or on par with the cost of natural stone or glass tile. By using a reflective surface instead of an absorbent surface (drywall, wallpaper, and the like), you allow for more light to be reflected, giving the illusion of more light overall. Works best with: Traditional and eclectic styles. Pros: Layering makes a decorative statement, and the added reflected light makes the room feel bigger and brighter. Cons: This arrangement is sometimes hard to clean. Plus, installation can be tricky and costly.
Buffet. This antique buffet in rich, dark wood with detailed hardware has lots of drawers and doors for hiding bathroom bits and pieces. A turquoise enamel sink is embedded in the top, and its off-center positioning allowed the plumbing to be placed behind one door, ensuring that the drawers are still functional.
Pitts installed a minimal marble-top vanity in the master bathroom to make room for more storage. The custom floor-to-ceiling Shaker-style cabinets on both sides of the vanity offer plenty of room for toiletries and linens.
Moroccan: to create elegant curves. Not keen on straight, sharp lines? Try one of the Moroccan-style tiles that are on the market. The shapes created by a layout like this look gentle and elegant. As an easy transition from subway tiles, use them as a monochrome backsplash, as the homeowners have done here, or go for an all-white design to cover the walls. If you’re feeling brave, choose a rich color, such as cobalt blue or emerald green, to really make a statement.
Install a Corner Sink Sometimes even a pedestal sink can disrupt the only available traffic lane in a bathroom. In this case placing a corner sink across from the toilet works better than a sink across from the shower. The opening and closing of the shower door usually creates an awkward walk-around condition.
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