The Tale of the Teeny-Tiny Powder Room - 4/23 Wallpaper is up
When DH and I went looking for our next house, I said I need at 1st floor Powder Room. It's OK if there is not a full bath on the 1st floor, but there has to be at least a Powder. And so there is a powder room, albeit a teeny-tiny one.
Actually it is completely fine. It is located well within the floor plan and it serves its purpose. It is boring and I think it needs sprucing up.
This is my floor plan. The powder has no windows, a pocket door, toilet, corner sink.
This is my inspiration.
The trim is in great shape as is the tile floor. The tiles are navy-ish, there is a bit of striated texture with some brownish-black tones. Those are not changing. I plan on installing beadboard panelling and painting the current trim color and wallpapering the remainder .
I havent really picked a wallpaper yet, these are two I like and that DH also liked. I would love your thoughts on the concept and suggestions for wallpaper too.
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Comments (17)This is the fan image from Lowes.com which is where I bought two of these fans. Visit the link because there are 17 reviews of this model, mostly satisfied, very few have any problem at all with it. And the sink in my bath I bought from Vintage Bath. It is a Porcher ELFE. It has good reviews too. Built in Canada. At the Vintage website, you can find specs. It measures 9.5" deep, 20" wide. I had selected another larger sink for this spot, but once the contractor took 10" off the depth of the bathroom, I had to find another option. This is the tiniest sink in the tiniest 3/4 bath in the WORLD, at least in a house not a boat! I would choose the gooseneck faucet for it though, to give better access to the small basin area. It is drilled for single hole and has no overflow, so my drain plug is the popup kind. Of course there is not a lot of room, but we have no trouble navigating the space to dry off after a shower. There is adequate room between the front of the toilet and the sink. Here is a photo of the bath with the door closed (French door panes not yet sprayed though) and the straight-on view into the space. I hesitate to call it a "room," you know. :) Showing the space between the sink and the toilet: ....the space where the sink and shower meet If the door to your powder room is not exactly in the corner, but even as little as 9 or 10 inches away from the corner, you'd have room for the ELFE sink mounted flat on the wall. The other sink I had originally purchased, also from Vintage Tub was this one, 14" deep x 24" wide. Since I had it, I decided to put it in our master bath, not completed yet. It is the Cheviot Nova wall mount win a side shelf, very convenient. I put another Price Pfister faucet on it. There are many good ratings for this sink also, so visit Vintagetub.com to read them, if you have the space for this sink. Hope I did not miss answering anything. Lots of pretty powder rooms pictured in this thread. Good luck making your choices. Here is a link that might be useful: MonteCarlo 24...See MorePowder Room Professionally Staged and I'm still unhappy with it!
Comments (49)Hi extremely patient GW virtual decorators, I took rosewindÂs advice and found a few inspirational bathrooms and/or powder rooms. I love the last two bathrooms the best!! I found them on Rate My Space and what I like about them is their simplicity and clean lines. I included bathrooms with pedestal sinks and/or bead board with the same clean lines. This is my dilemma, aesthetically speaking, should your home be decorated in a cohesive manner? Can I paint and decorate this room as a separate entity of its own or should it blend with the rest of my home? What IÂd like to do is paint it either grayish blue or grayish green so that the molding and baseboards pop. IÂd then paint the mirror frame metallic silver and change the toilet paper dispenser and towel ring to match the mirror. IÂm still not sure what to use to store extra toilet paper. IÂve included pictures of my entry, dining and living room since theyÂre the rooms surrounding this one. The powder room is to the left of the stairs if youÂre facing it from the outside. All this trouble for one teeny tiny room. Thanks...See MorePowder Room artwork?
Comments (19)OK, below are two of my bathrooms. The powder room has a grouping of three (like I suggested in my above post,) while the other larger bathroom has one medium size print. Not shown, but in the powder room section of our Master bath, we have a long water color about the size of the one lmalm53 shows. I don't consider any of the above shown artwork to be on a LARGE scale. I thought the OP was asking about a large painting that would cover most of her wall space (like a 40" x 50" painting.) That's about the size of mirror that my SIL put up. One other thing. Don't forget to hang your artwork lower in a bathroom. The viewing will be mostly seen from the potty. You don't want guest having to crane their necks too much to see what's in front of them. lol Entrance to powder room with artwork to the right side (that's Tatouage on the end wall.) Trio of pressed flowers seen through mirror on opposite wall. Medium sized art in sink area of full bath....See Morewallpaper in tiny powder room
Comments (22)I really like the console sinks. (And I hope all these pictures come throught!) if you can swing getting one of these (and they come in diff styles, sizes, gold/black/chrome/ or white or black marble) I'd get one. another console shot and Picture frame trim molding on the inside of board/batten wainscot. This was painted in a glossy finish. If you do black, so at least a semi-gloss i photoshopped your paper onto this taller wainscot done in a more refined beadboard finish. you'd ned the gold metal though. this chrome does nothing w/that wallpaper you've picked. Here's nother photoshop of that black marble/gold console from my previous comment. Another angle. Put in the paper above the black wainscot. They have a black/white marble mosaic floor. I'd prob do the black marble basketweave flooring w/this combo. I have it in my bathroom with a gold schluter metal edge (to seperate it from the other flooring). here's a close up of it wouldn't this black marble look killer w/the black wainscot?? I did another one, below: I did photoshop your paper onto this picture w/the black tile wainscot. I really like this. (what is your flooring going to be? Pick that first) What do you think of this one? I'd still like it better w/the console sink, and I think I like the gold better, but this is very pretty. If you wanted the white wainscot, here a shot w/similar type of paper above it, white marble basketweave floor tile and the gold mirror/sconces. I don't like this vanity. This wainscot is a board and batten, a double pattern. this one would be eaiser to do. Just a simple rail and stile layout w/a piece of chair rail molding on top. (to figure this out it's basic math to determine the spacing and size of your molding. plenty of how to's and tutorials online) I found a lighter green color w/a console sink so I shopped in your paper, mirror/sconces. This is a bit more vintage/traditional. but I wanted you to see it w/the lighter green color. So here are some colors you can look at. you mentioned it was teal or green base, so either go w/those colors or find a black with the green or blue undertones. for example, this DE color Midnight Spruce is actually a black, but w/a deep green undertone Looks great w/the paper and the gold and marble sink. I gave some other dark teal/green undertones in the corner if you want something lighter: Raccoon Fur and Cheating Heart are both BM blue/blacks. The 4 colors at the bottom are either the green or the blue/teal tones. You could actually paint the ceiling w/any of these colors, even if you decide on a black wainscot. The blue or green ceiling paired w/a cool gold light would look very nice what about this look? I love the thick black baseboard. So you could do the entire thing in your paper, or just do the one wall in the paper, or do the whole room in the black wainscot w/the paper above. But I prefer this type of sink and the marble mosaic floor. (this one, or some of the others)...See More
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last yearEver since I was looking at wallpaper for this PR, perigold keeps popping up ads. I came across this one ... way too spendy, but something so interesting about the birds...
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last year@Funkyart asked for an update on another thread, so here goes. :)
First off, I acknowledge I am SLOW. We are actually still not done, but we've done lots(for us).
New faucet is in, beadboard is in, finished the trim, all is primed, painted, there is a bit of touch up needed and you will spackle spots. I have purchased an adorable mirror. I wanted a narrow mirror which I will mount in the corner. I've decided what art work I want to hang in the space.
No wall paper yet, or maybe ever. DH is strictly in the no wallpaper camp, he is scared by some of our earlier houses where I scraped wallpaper off the ceilings and walls of several rooms. Of course, I am still mulling wallpaper. I still like the Queen Anne's Lace one. I found a colorful one I like, but I think it is too contemporary(house built in 1905). And, I found a vintage butterfly one that has no words on it. I initiallywanted butterflies, but DH nixed the one I found because it had words.
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last yearHave you checked out WallpaperDirect? It is defaulted to UK but there is dropdown menu option for USA.
They have lots of bold paper. There are quite a few of these type prints, must be a name for this design, but IDK, that feature figure or animals in the design in such a way as to not be the main feature, but the way they are used to make a design, like a geometric, for instance. here are just 2, some are less obvious than others.
ok, pic is too big, but at the site just type in unicorns, of all things, lol. you'll have to trust me, it's stunning.
I can spend hours at this site. also, each paper will show in about 5 different rooms, including powder rooms. plus, scroll down to see all the colorways it comes in. I usually search by color. would love to know if this sort of design has a name?
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