What's your scale of ambition for this? I mean, a few hundred dollars for updated lighting and white paint for the vanity, or replacing all the brown tile and corralling their stuff by putting in recessed medicine cabinets and a new vanity with drawers?

Dual recessed medicine cabinets for more storage. If you are going to change the tile, then a recessed niche on the back wall of the bathtub. A glass shelf or train rack over the toilet is an option. Like acm said a vanity with more drawers, or if you keep your current vanity there are sliding under counter organizers.

Definitely changing out vanity - it's falling apart. Thanks for the suggestions - I agree on medicine cabinet storage, however, I worry that getting rid of the large mirror will make the bathroom feel smaller and for teen girls more mirror is good, no?

And goal here is also Light and Bright! My daughter loves vintage -

I have always found that sinks take too much valuable counter and cabinet space for the amount of time spent at the sink. You can get many more drawers and wider drawers into a cabinet with only one sink than one with two sinks. They generally use the sink for about 3 minutes to brush their teeth and then move on to doing hair, makeup etc.

I'd go for a mix of airy (which generally means white or very pale colors) and a little fun (which might mean a few splashes of sunny color), depending on the personalities of your girls. You can't really rely on kids to take good care of a bathroom, so I'd try to avoid white tile + grout if you can -- that could mean using a solid surface for the shower walls, and/or a light gray for the floor. (I'd also probably avoid marble in favor of tile, for similar upkeep reasons.)

Maybe a mostly white scheme, with a bright colored vanity and matching line of tile in the shower. Or maybe all light tones of gray and aqua (or whatever they appreciate)... here are a few pics for color scheme ideas.

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You could do glass doors on the shower, to maximize the sight lines and the natural light, or you could find a very light shower curtain to do much the same...

Beyond considering a single sink vanity the rest is mainly updating the color scheme and fixtures.

I am re-doing a bathroom with white cabinets,

Ice Queen countertop,

BM Quiet moments paint

and flooring that will match the rest of my home

One other consideration is how this will fit with the rest of your home. Some of the above bathrooms are beautiful, but will the Aqua tile, fushia tile, deep turquois cabinets work with the rest of the home, Selecting a shower curtain with fun colors and adding coordinating towels is a great way to add color that isn't as permanent as cabinets, counter or tile.

My daughter's dream of a clawfoot tub. I don't love the splash all over the bathroom from that and the shower seems impractical with such a high tub - but, thoughts on doing this in the space?

You can do something like this, with only one vanity.

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So, I would say my home is transitional with a touch of classy vintage.

Color alone would brighten that up. If you don't want to spend tons of money, just repaint the walls a pale color (sky blue, aqua?), do new updated perhaps colorful flooring. Paint vanity white, with new chrome knobs, white quartz on top, with rectangular vessel sinks that fit on surface of vanity (please not those silly bowls) and single handle high faucets in the centers. A new fantastic uber modern light fixture to replace existing one. It would look amazing for a couple grand.

Unfortunately, midcentyrymodernlove, we cannot keep vanity. Drawers are all broken and the cabinets are falling apart. But, considering keeping the mirror and just replacing the fixture if possible.

I see. Look on amazon. I found AMAZING vanities last time I was looking to replace one. I ordered two and all went well. Yes, the mirror is great; the fixture has seen its' day. :) Good choice. Amazon (and inmod) also have great fixtures. It is likely not to match the exact perimeter of your existing vanity so you will need to plan on that when doing the floor.

60" single sink vanity with sconces over the drawer stacks to light the face for make-up application. Install sconces through the mirror to bounce the light. Install a ceiling light in toilet area. Chrome hardware for sparkle. White or cream based granite or quartz remnant--shop for that first since it will be the hardest to find. To complement the counter, light-colored porcelain tile floor, large format to limit grout lines. Light-colored tile for shower. Showers are the expensive part of a bathroom so don't use trendy materials that will date it in five years. Since your teens use a lot of products, install a niche in one of the side walls where the shower curtain can hide them from view. I think a clawfoot tub will be hard to clean around in an alcove.

Any designers local to Chicago, IL? - would be interested in some design help here!

Use the Find Professionals feature. While photos and advice are helpful, there's no substitute for getting out to the stone yards, tile stores, and home design centers and looking at the materials yourself and holding them in your hands. Tile stores in Chicago should have very knowledgeable designers. It's free and gets you started. A designer can help you better if you have an idea of what you do and don't like.

Claw-foot tubs are *terrible* for showers, both because of sloping floor and because there appears to be no known way to keep from ending up with three feet of (the 20 required feet of) shower curtain plastered against your skin. Save that dream for another phase of her life. :)

Anyway, transitional/classy would fit with several of the color schemes I threw up there. Maybe everything but the patchwork wallpaper or the supermodern look. A blue vanity would very much work (I'd say that example bath has a transitional/vintage look), but of course it could be easier to stick with white and find fun colors for rugs and towels, that could easily change again in a few years when they get all serious and humorless as late teens. ;)

You don't have to have a clawfoot tub to have a soaker tub - same benefit of a deep soak, but can fit in the alcove space.

Something like this would work

I agree that these girls need big med cabs. One each! this is what Hubby and I have now and there is NO reason for clutter, and it easy to keep the counter clear:

If your girls do not use the room at the same time for getting ready, one sink will definitely do, and the more drawers, the better. If they do get ready together, you may want the double sinks. The European modern cabinets have a wealth of storage. You don't need drawer blanks below your sinks, the Europeans make drawers there that put storage on either side and in front of the sink. Don't skimp on storage, get all that you can!

As for seeing enough in the mirror, just be sure to design the space so that you don't have a high arched faucet and backsplash, and you can have the mirrors lower than I have them. I did mine this way due to my own needs. You can always put a full-length mirror on the wall opposite the vanity. As a matter of fact, they make them with storage behind them too. To save $$$$, just have the builder make a niche in the wall with shelves, then use piano hinges on a full length mirror. I have a safe hidden behind the mirror in the half bath using this method:

See the little wood edge he added to the back? It gives the hinge something to attach to and holds the mirror flat. You don't see it at all, with the frame. Click on these pictures to enlarge them. Houzz crops them when it makes them smaller.

Color will go a long way.

It also occurs to me that with all those bath products, your girls could use a Kohler Shower Locker!

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You might appreciate the easy-cleaning solid surface of Kohler Choreograph for the shower walls. Or another solid surface like Swanstone.