Bathroom

Grey Bathroom Ideas and Design Styles

Having a grey color scheme for a bathroom is a great choice as it gives the room a modern and timeless design style. The thing is, it doesn’t take much to create a grey color scheme. If you were just to keep the room muted in all other colors, and use grey for one or two feature pieces, you’ll be able to create an elegant style.

Some feature pieces in the bathroom include the bathtub, the shower, the walls, and floors. These are the largest pieces/areas of the room and can be turned into focal points. One idea would be to have all of the walls white but have one wall grey – this one wall will stand out as a focal piece (you could always have all the walls grey).

From the pictures in the mood board, the overall color schemes of the bathrooms are mostly white and grey. This would be the go to choice – a grey and white bathroom. Other overall color palettes that work well with grey are yellow, black, purple, and blue.

To really keep that elegant grey design style, you want to avoid having too many colored accessories and furniture pieces in the room. Any colored pieces, like the blue curtains in picture (4), really stand out because the rest of the room is in muted colors (grey and white) and no other colorful pieces are there. But if you were to have a number of different colored pieces in the room, you take away from the grey color scheme. Some easy ways of adding color to the bathroom while keeping that elegant style is to introduce plants to the space.

Marble is a great material to use for grey bathroom designs – the kind where you have a lot of white but streaks of grey. This can be used for vanity countertops, backsplashes, or wall tiles.

Modern Bathroom Design Ideas: From Lighting Design to Color Choice

One last thing when it comes to grey bathroom ideas is that the shade of grey you use in the bathroom will determine the style and feel of the space. In the pictures above, the bathrooms that use more white and light grey materials feel more spacious and airy. While the bathrooms that are designed with dark grey shades feel more compact, intimate and secluded. 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10

May 21, 2013 in Bathroom

French Style Bathroom Decor and Designs

Just like in our French kitchen post, the design elements that will make up French bathroom decor are porcelain fixtures (bathtub, vanity, sink, and handles like in picture (1)), white walls, natural colors (browns, brass/copper) and splashes of pastel shades. The French style is quite decorative yet minimalist at the same time. In picture (2) a decorative arch frames the shower but that’s it – there are no tiles, the space is quite bare and raw.

One of the distinct features in a French style bathroom is the free standing porcelain bathtub with the claw feet (3). Another feature piece is a chandelier (4). 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9

For more inspiration and pictures on bathroom decor and designs, a similar style to look at would be shabby chic:

Design and Decor Style: Shabby Chic Bathrooms

May 21, 2013 in Bathroom

Bathroom Ceiling Ideas: From Cove to Tiled Designs

Here are some ideas on what to do with those bathroom ceilings:

Decorative Touches: Some decorative ideas include wallpapering the ceiling, just like in picture (1). You can get wallpaper that comes in a tile design like the one seen in picture (2). And these can be painted over to suit the look and style of your bathroom. Tiles are another way to go – in picture (3) faux bronze tiles decorate the bathroom ceiling.

Painting the ceiling a solid pop of color is a simpler and cheaper option. If you’d like to have a textured look, have a look at our painting techniques post here that shows different ways of creating painted textures – like using a sponge to create a marble look.

The Go to Choice: The most popular ceiling choice in a modern home is a finished ceiling with recessed lights. If you have a large bathroom, the ceiling design can be broken up a bit by having drop down sections like in picture (4).

For other top remodeling ideas, have a look at my post here: The Upgrade: Top 8 Bathroom Remodeling Ideas and Design Tips.

Other Structural Bathroom Ceiling Ideas: For a grander looking bathroom, have a look at installing cove lighting (5). This is when there is a drop down ceiling that has a cutaway. Light fixtures sit hidden in the cutaway section – giving the room a nice soft glow.

Crown molding can be used to line the edges of the ceiling. It can also be used along with beams to create a bold design (6).

Having a skylight is a great way of naturally lighting the bathroom during the day (7). And if you like the shabby chic style, a chandelier is a great piece to have in the bathroom.

There is always the option of leaving the ceiling unfinished, and showing the rustic beams if you have them (8). 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8

May 21, 2013 in Bathroom

Vanity Design: Bathroom Backsplash Ideas

With tile pieces you can create a lot of different patterns. You can find tiles that come as individual tiles that you can arrange yourself to create a mosaic or they’ll come in blocks of a pattern – just like the chevron pattern in picture (1). Take a look at the bedroom flooring post for more ideas on different mosaic patterns: from the herringbone pattern to designs with borders.

You can either have a dedicated backsplash as seen in most of the pictures above, or you can have the entire wall tiled to create a more uniformed look (2)

Some unique bathroom backsplash ideas and designs include using faux tin tiles as seen in picture (3). Pebbled tiling gives a modern and rustic look (4). And picture (5) shows a marble backsplash that also doubles as a sink shelf.

Some DIY ideas include using random colorful tiles to create a more bohemian style look (9), or treated pallet panels can be used as a vanity backsplash (10). 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10