Your renderings don't read as baroque at all. The bathroom style is essentially bland modern in earth tones.

Baroque/roccoco has an element of fantasy and being over the top. Merely putting a chandelier in a modern very streamlined bathroom in neutral greige just looks visually discordant - at least to me.

I am a fan of combining visual elements in surprising ways but for your stated design aim, the various discrete components don't complement each other and just look as if you had a left over chandelier you needed to hang some where.

Somehow the contemporary vanity/sink doesn't fit in with the chandelier and wallpaper. I prefer B to A.

@decoenthusiaste: Great example. "Our Mom's house" is in a category of its own.

I would rethink your design concept. I'm getting a weird mix of what you're referring to as "baroque" and modern, so it's not working for me. But yes, I would tile the shower all of the way to the ceiling.

Hi Louis J-

Wow, what a challenge you have!

Do you absolutely positively have to use tiles all over?

Why is this bathroom more damp than any other bathroom?

Are there other ways to mitigate the dampness?

Can you install a super-strong ceiling fan that is (excuse my incorrect terminology) that is wired to the light switch so that it turns on every time someone turns on the light the fan turns on?

Also, can you add extra tubes of anti-mold additive to an anti-mold paint when you paint the walls? (That's what I did.)

Do you need to break the walls to see if there is a leak somewhere behind the walls?

With painted walls, you can put art on the walls, or do a beautiful damask-looking stencil technique either all over, or just at the ceiling.

Baroque-rococco can be beautiful, it doesn't have to be over-the-top in poor taste.

Rather than a modern sink, try to find a bureau that looks old fashioned, and convert it into a vanity and place a sink bowl in it.

For a mirror, instead of a new mirror painted gold that just looks gaudy, look for a really beautiful old mirror that has a wood or gilded wood frame. Look for beautiful sconces to place on either side, you can have them electrified if they are not already.

I would not do blackish-brownish just because the rest of the house is.

If you think historically, spas were filled with lovely white and grey-white marble.

The OP said ' I am trying to design a bathroom which makes use of baroque / rococo elements' . I took that to mean that he wants to incorporate SOME pieces in the bathroom, but not go whole hog.

I like your second example, but what I like about it most is the wallpaper, which you say you can't use. :-( I would take the shower tile to the ceiling.

It's the use of the tiles that's making me uncertain. I don't want the bathroom too feel too raw and unattractive.

I don't understand these sentences, separately or together. Can you explain some more?

Also, you might want to take a look at this very attractive damask bathroom (the Hers bathroom) in this blog post,

https://www.completetile.com/blog/an-exquisitely-flawless-sutton-place-manhattan-residence-by-architect-carl-hribar/

That was for inspiration, 3dogs! By clicking on the "more info" button with that photo, even more baroque inspiration rooms can be viewed, including another bath. All are chock full of "elements" that can be adapted.

Deco, Please know that I wasn't directing that to you. When I read 'elements', I took it to mean that he didn't want to go entirely rococo. I wish he'd come back and tell us what he has purchased for fixtures, and if he plans to have very modern fixtures as he shows in his mock ups, and/or what he has purchased for the room so far. It appears that he also likes a very modern style, too.

Hello everyone, and thanks for your input. I haven't yet purchased any fixtures so I'm still at the drawing board but I need to decide what to do because I need to guide the people doing the works in my house as to what I want them to do. I really can't use wallpaper because in Malta, EU, we use limestone blocks and limestone is hygroscopic / efflorescent -- to add insult to injury the two largest walls face the open air other than being shielded by other rooms, so can more easily absorb moisture. I've been told by various masons that trying to fix it would be an expensive solution and I really can't break the bank.

Having said this, I like the romantic elements of baroque / rococo style but don't really want to live inside a doll-house, especially because other parts of the house will be elegant-industrial / steampunk-victorian (call it what you want...) How do I marry these two together? In my opinion I need to keep the baroque elements at a minimum to act as accents.

Concerning tiles, I was already thinking to go for something like what JudyG Designs suggested, although I'm concerned about costs. This is a small bathroom, I don't want to go overboard.

For those who proposed to go all the way with the shower tiles, then it would look like something in the pic... I don't really see it working.

Coincidentally I managed to find a similar design as to what I had made, in terms of dark tiled shower and floor, and modern-ish vanity.

Perhaps the word baroque is not correct. Maybe you mean Romanesque??

All these bathrooms by John Saladino

Hmmm ... I agree with the majority here that the OP's original renderings don't work. It may be possible to mix "elements" of Baroque with something else, but I don't think that something else can be modern. The floating vanity isn't working at all (not in the rendering, not in the pix shared above).

I'm thinking that Baroque may be a tough sell. OP, would you consider French Country instead? It has some of the same features -- rounded edges, fancy flourishes, but they are "lighter" than Baroque, and I think they would "play more nicely" with other styles.

Malta has wonderful tile/bathroom showrooms. I would visit a few of them for inspiration.The two different tiles you have in the renderings do not compliment one another. I would first pick up the main tile you want for the focal point and than find a shower tile. Tile should go to the ceiling.

https://www.bathroomdesign.com.mt/products/flooring.html

Mixing elements as diverse as these requires a professional eye. Otherwise just a hodgepodge of unrelated weird pieces. You might consider getting a good designer in your home so you won't have costly mistakes and or regrets.

I love option C.