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Unique Powder Rooms to Inspire Your Next Remodeling

Designing a powder room shouldn’t be a part of routine planning. It can become your creative outlet and a place where you can practice everything you’ve learned from experts, blogs, and magazines about interior design. It may not seem so, but powder rooms havev plenty of room for experiments and decorating.

To make things easier, start with the basics. What colors do you want your powder room in? What can you preserve? What needs replacing? Thus, you’ll quickly outline a budget, and will be able to get on with more pleasant choices.

Black & White Powder Rooms

When all the replacements are done, you can start shaping up your powder room’s design. Black and white combination is a classic and looks good in any print and pattern. Whether you’re using wallpaper or tiles, make sure to punctuate your design with bright accents and metallics for a richer look.

Black and white patterned wallpaper
Black and white patterned wallpaper powder room design by Beyond Beige Interior 
Geometric tiles in a powder room
Geometric tiles in a powder room by Brian Paquette Interiors
Hexagonal tiles in powder room design
Hexagonal tiles in powder room design via Design Inspiration
Striped black and white powder room
Striped black and white powder room via Lonny

There are many creative ways to use only these two basic colors. Painting your powder room walls in prison stripes or elegant thin ones will always make it pop.

If you want something more sophisticated, a tile mosaic pattern will definitely make your guest bathroom stand out.

Patterned Powder Rooms

The easiest way to go about your powder room design is to choose a fitting patterned wallpaper design. Thus you can keep the rest of the space neutral, and worry only about a few walls and installation. Wallpaper tends to give a powder room a more expensive designer look, and works really well with framed artworks.

Patterned powder room design
Patterned powder room design by Traci Zeller
Patterner powder room
Patterner powder room by Muse Interiors
Chic black and white patterned wallpaper
Chic black and white patterned wallpaper via Elle Decor
Patterned powder room
Patterned powder room by Mona Ross Berman Interiors
TerraCotta Design Build powder room
TerraCotta Design Build powder room

Patterns vary from simplest stripes to complicated and exotic ikat. Colors are even more diverse. In a white bathroom, use starker colors, if you want your powder room to have a visual punch.

To a neutral powder room, light patterned wallpaper can give a welcome dimension and detail.

Unique Wallpaper

Extremely unusual wallpaper designs are that much more intense, but you can use them to create a feature wall in a powder room. They are best used in the wall with a sink and mirror. Expect such wallpaper to set the tone for the entire room.

Designer powder room look
Designer powder room look via Lonny
Stylish powder room
Stylish powder room by Martha O’Hara Interiors
Powder room with graphic wallpaper
Powder room with graphic wallpaper by Kelly Wearstler
Rorschach wallpaper powder room
Rorschach wallpaper powder room by Studio McGee
Stone-like wallpaper feature wall in a powder room
Stone-like wallpaper feature wall in a powder room via Lonny

Some unique designs look great on ceilings as well, so you can take advantage of a particular pattern, and trade a traditional white ceiling for a creative one.

It may be challenging to decorate around such intense patterns and colors, but neutrals can always balance out the picture.

Vintage/Retro Touch

Powder rooms look gorgeous with vintage furnishings and a general retro vibe. You can create it with certain wallpaper designs or real vintage furniture that you can find on flea markets and special stores dealing in antiquities.

Vintage powder room by New River Building Co
Vintage powder room via HGTV
Powder room with retro wallpaper
Powder room with retro wallpaper via Lonny
Black powder room
Black powder room via Design Your Life Blog
Kathetine Power cool chic powder room
Katherine Power‘s cool chic powder room

An Art Deco pedestal sink is a beautiful alternative to vintage furnishings. And it has a distinct mid-century modern look that your can strengthen with suitable wallpaper.

Mirrors and wall decor like vintage signs can, too, help you make your modern powder room look a bit more old-fashioned and historical.

Moody Powder Room Designs

There is a trend to create dark, moody powder rooms in colors like navy, black, grey, and bronze. This is a great idea for the room that has no windows. It looks boxy already, so why not turn it into the most sophisticated box in the world?

Powder room with black molded walls
Powder room with black molded walls via Donna Dotan
Total black powder room
Total black powder room via Lonny
Dark stylish powder room
Dark stylish powder room by Studio Seiders
Unique wallpaper powder room design by Ann Lowengart
Unique wallpaper powder room design by Ann Lowengart

When there is no point to try and make your tiny powder room look bigger, you can think of any design and recreate it without a second thought.

You can also afford to use more expensive materials because your working space is small, and will not require much of them anyway.

Dramatic Powder Rooms

You don’t have to go dark. Powder rooms look especially good decorated with dramatic mirrors, vanities, and chandeliers. Of course, you can opt for any kind of unusual wallpaper, and cover every wall of your guest bath with it.

Cool powder room by Cure Design Group
Cool powder room by Cure Design Group
French-Moderne-Manor-Designed-by-Alice-Lane-Home-12
French Moderne Manor powder room by Alice Lane Home
Dramatic powder room
Dramatic powder room via Chic & Geek
Powder room interior by Julie Rootes Powder Room
Powder room interior by Julie Rootes Interiors

It may not be practical to use a creative stone sink in everyday life, but if you can afford one, why not add it to a less often used powder room?

You can also experiment with wall coverings to create a more dramatic interior design.

Tiled Powder Rooms

Tiles are still the best material for more high-traffic rooms, because they are easy to clean and maintain, and they look great. To avoid that utilitarian bathroom look, opt for a tiled backsplash and leave the rest of the walls painted.

Luigi Rosselli Architects The Pool House
Luigi Rosselli Architects‘ The Pool House powder room
Mirrored powder room
Mirrored powder room by Troyer Builders
Neutral powder room
Neutral powder room by Grass Roots Design
Powder room design by Souki Design Studio
Powder room design by Souki Design Studio

A cool backsplash in tile or stone will never fail to draw attention, and will set the tone for the bathroom’s interior.

It can also be immensely luxurious. Take note of marble hexagonal tiles in the last two designs. They make the bulk of the design without requiring any additional accessories or decorations.

Neutral Powder Room Design Ideas

Neutral powder rooms can often look bland. Usually they either lack accents or lighting. You can easily transform your neutral powder room with a bright elegant light source and a few bright-colored accessories like towels, hygiene products, or even wall art and flowers.

Patterned powder room wallpaper
Patterned powder room by Traci Zeller
Contemporary sleek powder room
Contemporary sleek powder room by Tamara Magel
Contemporary modern powder room
Contemporary modern powder room by Sage Modern

In all-white bathrooms wood and brass never fail to create a beautiful aesthetic. But while the former looks modern and natural, the latter appears ultra glamorous and luxe.

Even though they are neutral, marble and irregular tiles can, too, make for nice design elements.

Animal Wallpaper Trend

Animal patterns of all kinds have become a trendy wallpaper pattern for every room in the house from bedroom to home office to bath. Dalmatian, cheetah, zebra, and even leopard spots instantly give the room a fashionable look.

Dalmatian powder room
Dalmatian powder room via Suburban Faux Pas
Speckled powder room
Speckled powder room by Lilly Bunn Interiors
Spotted wallpaper in powder room interior
Spotted wallpaper in powder room interior by Nick Olsen

Usually available in black and white they leave a lot of ‘room’ for decor. Any bright color or metallic shade will look great with this wallpaper.

These patterns are also quite easy to mix and match with others, so don’t be afraid to try and experiment with this cool new trend.

Powder Room Wall Decor

Since there is usually no need for storage, powder room walls are often left empty. That is why patterned wallpaper works so well in powder rooms. Also you can really go to town with other types of wall decor in a guest bath.

Small powder room
Small powder room by Lindsay Chambers Interiors
Modern Mediterranean dream home powder room
Modern Mediterranean dream home powder room by Coats Homes
Creative powder room design
Creative powder room design via Elle Decor

Think panelling, artworks, photography, decals, wall sconces, and anything you can come up with. Some even hang shelves with display objects in their powder rooms.

Don’t want to go that far with your decor? Just pick a (photo) graphic wallpaper design, and you won’t need anything else.

Bright Powder Rooms

Continuing the theme of walls, there isn’t really a rule that says you can’t paint your entire bathroom in a bright color. You can. And if you don’t have a big budget for remodeling, you probably should.

Jeans blue powder room by BeylaBlue Design
Jeans blue powder room by BeylaBlue Design
Alyssa Rosenheck bright floral powder room wallpaper
Photo: Alyssa Rosenheck bright floral powder room by Emily Lister Interiors
Turquoise wallpaper
Turquoise wallpaper powder room by Jenny Wolf Interiors
Silver blue powder room
Silver blue powder room by Martha O’Hara Interiors

Powder rooms can be cool little bastions of design. If you like a particular style that you wouldn’t want to have in your entire house, this is a great opportunity to enjoy it sparingly in this little room.

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