Find brass a little too brash for your taste? Consider using nickel finishes, one of my personal go-to’s, for a crisp metallic option that is a touch warmer and more refined than cool chrome. Feel free to use a brushed finish to hide prints and spotting on elements you will touch, and a polished finish for those you won’t (such as lights). However, it’s best to keep the finish of your items consistent across each category: lights all in one finish, fixtures in another consistent finish.
Rug Don’t think rugs are fit for the bathroom? While a moist space does have its considerations, a durable rug can make an excellent addition to a bathroom — like a bath mat, but with more style. Besides giving you a cushy place to plant your feet (especially appreciated on cold winter mornings), a rug can also add some color, pattern and texture, making it a decor triple threat. Olefin is a good material for bathroom rugs because it appears similar to wool, but as a synthetic, it won’t absorb water.
Texture One key part of a design palette that sometimes gets overlooked is rich, inviting texture, and this element is especially easy to forget about in a bathroom space, with its many hard, glossy surfaces. You can see here how this space has a very simple color palette but already looks inviting just from the elements of grassy woven textures.
Keep everything off the ground and you will expand the sense of floor space. Opt for a floating sink, toilet and even furniture, and the edges of the tiny room will be out of view beneath the suspended fixtures, making the floor area appear larger. It’s easier to clean too. Visually elongate the floor
Beth H. : To get the distressed look on her cobalt-blue doors, Heim-Shelton stained the doors and then painted them using milk paint in four shades of blue. Before the top coat of paint, she added tung oil to give the finish more sheen. The hardware for the doors came from a 100-year-old house; Heim-Shelton painted it gold.
She made the teak shelves out of a 6-foot teak board that cost $150. “While watching some reno show on HGTV, I saw that it cost someone $800 to have two smaller floating shelves installed in their kitchen,” she says. “And it wasn’t even teak!” She bought the encaustic tile at half price from a company in Florida.
Beth H. : “When I designed this new bathroom, I wanted the vaulted ceiling with a skylight so that light would pour down on my plant wall,” Heim-Shelton says. She may decide to install shower doors down the road but says that the open shower feel works well as is. She doesn’t miss having a tub. “I don’t take baths,” she says.
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