We've been getting lighting for a new house so I found your post interesting. I think your first light is beautiful and can see why some thought it might not "go" with the vanity, but with eclectic mixes that are used now, I wouldn't rule it out completely--depends so much on what else you use in the room. So when you put your elements together as allison has so helpfully done, be sure to crop off those you won't be using (like the faucet) and add the color you will be using. Without that color metal in the photo, you're much more open in your choices for lighting. I had read all the same info about sizes you've been given and when I spoke just the other day with a highly recommended lighting designer, I referred to those sizes. His comment was interesting. He said that if you ask 10 different designers about sizes, you'll likely get 10 different thoughts. And while those sizing guidelines may be somewhat helpful, they're usually there to get you to size up, not down. He said that the most often thing he sees and hears is that people went too small in choosing lighting. Also with drum shade lights (or other ceiling lights), their size is much more imposing depending on the room height and if the height of the light is substantial. If the height of the drum or body of the light is only 4-8 inches or so, then the diameter can be much greater than the diagonal room measurement would indicate. I found that helpful because I was considering a 16x4 drum light for a very small room--and he felt it would be appropriate because of the room height and height of the drum shade. Just thought you might find that helpful in choosing. You're certainly off to a great start.

Not everyone can afford "mistakes"! You can only have so many stars in a room, or all will beg for attention . If you love your flooring, faucet , mirror and light!? Paint the walls a glossy deep gray! Go buy some oversized / peony art for the wall! There are MANY ways to make a beautiful powder room, and infinite ways to combine too many elements taken out of their context....... And cry real $$$$.

If I don’t wish to remove the current multiple layers of wallpaper on my plaster walls would using paintable wallpaper over them make it any easier to remove later than simply painting over them? There are parts of the old paper that would need repaired before we could do either. If you want to know the why to this question read on, its long, but I have very strong feelings about why I don’t wish to try to remove this paper. The full situation: We’ve been slowly remodeling our early 20th century house. Most of the walls are plaster except for the back half of our upstairs which was added later and is wood paneling. Every inch of the house is covered in wallpaper. The original plan was to eventually drywall the paneled rooms upstairs and to remove the wallpaper to the original plaster downstairs. Re-doing walls however is much further down our current to-do list so in the interim I’ve painted over the wallpapered-paneled bedroom walls. I’ve learned from this that if the wall and paper is in good shape you can barely tell there is even wallpaper under it, but if they are not every imperfection will show. Here is the before and after of my daughter’s room. Even knowing it’s painted wallpapered I always have to look very hard to find the seams. In our bedroom however I see the creases in the paper the minute I walk in (it’s still a 1000x better than the old wallpaper was!) I have also now experienced removing wallpaper from old plaster walls and I don’t wish to go through it again. We removed the wallpaper from my son’s bedroom in the old part of the house. The paper removal was itself was fine, but the walls were in terrible condition and covered in lead paint. Dealing with these issues took about 10 weeks. Those walls are beautiful now, but I am in no hurry to repeat the disruption and stress this caused. I am now considering what I want to do with the walls in our main living space downstairs. These have many, many layers of wallpaper on them. We saw evidence of this when taking down some crown trim and from some “helpful” wallpaper removal by our 6 month old pup. We’ve been dealing with the wallpaper, most of which, while dated is at least somewhat neutral in tone. However, we are talking about removing a fake beam in order to be able to place our TV on that wall and the current wallpaper only goes up to it. My husband has talked of putting drywall over the plaster. This not only seems weird to me but problematic in that much of our original trim would likely be damaged in the effort and we would never be able to match it exactly. At this point I feel like our best option would be either to paint the current wallpaper, or to put paintable wallpaper over it and paint that. Would it likely be easier to remove paintable wallpaper in order to restore the walls at some point if that is what is wanted or would it equally hard? I’m almost considering this more for someone who comes after us because frankly the only way I foresee us re-doing these walls the “correct” way would be if we had enough money after my children grow up and leave home to have a professional come in and do them all at once. Honestly, that seems unlikely to me, we’re older, with young kids trying to save for retirement, and college and remodel this house. We’ll be lucky to have enough for retirement and I don’t know that I’d want to stay in such a large house when the children are gone anyway. I know nothing about hanging wallpaper, but I do know how to paint it, so I think that would “easier” for me, and I also can’t imagine texture on every wall, I’d really have to find something super subtle. Anyway, I’m simply not up for removing the paper and dealing with what’s underneath, so what’s the next best thing?

Well it's possible, but their house is not your house and so forth, and their good match may not be yours. I am not trying to be an ass, that's just the reality of how light affects paint colors. When I walk into a paint store and try to find the paint color I used in my old living room I am not even on the right part of the wall. It read icy blue in my living room and is green on the paint chip wall.