Hey Dwojnar, Thanks for posting your picture. Our guest bathroom is a similar shape and door opening but different configuration. We will be updating this bathroom someday soon and thus I have been looking at possibilities too. I disagree with other posters and I say if you are really bothered by the toilet then move it. My suggestion is to move it to the long wall next to it. By placing it there, it is partially blocked by the shower wall and maybe it is possible to bring that wall a few more inches to further block the long view. If you keep the toilet there, then I would place something very visually interesting on that part of the shower wall just inside the door that is on the sight line to the toilet. By placing a tiled mural or something that catches people's eye, they will focus on that and not the toilet view. Another idea is to run a curtain from the shower wall to the wall by the toilet or from the toilet wall out to a freestanding pole or tower stack and block the view of the toilet that way. My last suggestion is a big large plant could go in there which would add a fresh green touch to the room along with fresh air. Have fun!

caligirl - yeah, i hear ya on the toilet. Our house is over 100 years old, so pretty sure the standards for spacing wouldn't even be possible to accomplish in our tiny space. Lol! We are used to it, so it's really not a big deal for us. I'm not sure of exact measurements on either side of the toilet, but it's not too awful. It's not spacious, but it's not the worst. In comparison to many other homes in our little town, this is considered a large second bathroom! When we went house hunting 10 years ago, we really wanted to be close to the college my husband works at since it's a beautiful neighborhood, and that means older homes like ours. And about 90% of the ones we looked at had sub-optimal layouts for bathrooms or kitchen (and often both). As quirky and annoying as some of this is, it's actually a far step above some of the awful things we had as alternative options when we bought. There's basically 3 choices in our town - 100+ year old victorian with wonky renovations or bad layouts that need fixing, 1970s homes that are horribly dated and in less than desirable neighborhoods, or really overpriced brand new mcmansions. :-/ Or building new, I suppose. Here's a 2nd floor layout. I'm going to be straight to the point: we really don't want to take on a massive project that changes the footprint and walls of our second floor in order to perfect our bathroom. If it was just me? Sure. I'm up for anything. But I know my husband well enough to know he hates change and he would never go for it. I have a hard enough time convincing him to paint a room, I can't imagine he could visualize, let alone approve, that kind of change. Lol! Things that may be helpful to know about the rest of our house: we have a 3rd floor attic master bedroom with full bath (shower, jacuzzi tub, double sink, and walk in closet), and we have a first floor bath as well. Our main goal for THIS bathroom is wanting to update it and put in a stand up shower. The one thing that I definitely think could help us is changing the door swing to the bathroom! We could have it open out instead of in.

A big improvement! I like the dark and light contrasts and the I think the flooring is beautiful!

I don't know what your level of skill or budget are, or what sorts of changes you want to make? But if you want to go more modern and have the skill, the first thing I'd want to do is change out that light (and possibly the faucet). Something like: or Aside from that...painting to a better, cooler white or other color is a good idea. I'd paint the trim, too, and the door--the brown (it looks brown on my monitor) wood feels old-fashioned to me. What color were you thinking of for the vanity? Would you do the trim in the same color? Maybe a stripe around the top of the room, at the same level and thickness as the air vent? Navy or charcoal against the white wall (or whatever color you were thinking of)? I've painted several of my tile floors, using a good primer and a porch & floor paint, and gotten good results. Dark floors look very modern these days, and I've also seen people stencil their floors to look like those concrete tiles and such, or painted them in stripes. Maybe a few floating shelves above the toilet? If you can share some of your taste, colors you were thinking of, and what kind of DIY you have in mind (like, do you mean painting, or do you mean building a whole new vanity?), we'd probably have more suggestions for you. I hope that's some help, though!