Powder Room Plans

Happy Wednesday!
Piggybacking on yesterday's post, today I'll share my powder room inspiration board. The powder room is slightly larger than the size of a sardine can... 4' x 6'3". I wanted to use existing walls to save money, and this size would just barely meet code - so I went with it. We did have to swing the door out to make it work, but you gotta do what you can with whatcha got, right?

My goal for the bathroom was to give personality to a small space. Through a mix of materials and shapes I wanted to create a fairly masculine space with feminine touches.

The main materials in the room are wood, mirror, metal, and porcelain. It's a bathroom folks, so let's be realistic, especially in a powder room - you can't hide the proportions of the white porcelain (the toilet). So, I knew I wanted a vanity with a white porcelain sink as well.  I chose this metal sink base because of the juxtaposed feminine detailing with the industrial chic lines. And as the hubs would point out - it is functional too - the shelf is perfect to stack guest towels and the cabinet can hide extra toilet paper. Behind the vanity I am planning on creating an antique mirror wall in a grid pattern with antique brass rosetts. Though the aged mirror is definitely a feminine touch, the orderly grid gives it masculine structure, which once again, will be intersected with the feminine shape of the antique brass sconces. These sconces are made by Shades of Light and are to die for.

Now is the part where I talk about fantasy verse reality. I would love for the other three walls to be Scalamandre's zebra wallpaper in the safari brown colorway, but unless Santa's Elves are knocking off design houses, its not in the budget right now, so I'll stick with the greige BM paint color shown above. On the floor, I'll have a small overdyed rug to warm things up a bit, something like the one pictured above, which is Stark's overdyed Ikat Rug. And lastly, a small gallery wall of some of Mirko Hanak's illustrations.

Here are some larger images of Hanak's work.

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I will do a post on the finished product at some point! Wish I could twitch my nose like I Dream of Jeannie and it all be finished! Ha, don't we all...

xo, 

Laurel