I need to powder my nose! (Interior Design for the Powder Room)

If your friends and guests spend any time in your home,

there is one room they may need to visit!

Water closet, Loo, Washroom, Lavatory 

whatever you might call it,this is one of the 

main rooms you need to  "dress up." 

Prior to the 1900's most toilets

 were in a free standing building outside.

This is where the name outhouse originated. 

Any girls that attended Camp Echoee in

Northeast Georgia will know them as 

latrines!

Back when I was a little girl, my bathroom 

had to also serve as the Powder Room. 

My mother and her designer picked out 

pink and maroon tiles like they used in

this picture. 

But to make things even more coordinated, we had a 

pink toilet, sink and bath tub!  Thankfully 

they have the ability to refinish tiles and tubs. My

grandson, Jake, lives in that same house and that 

bathroom now belongs to him It is white and brown!

Come join me as we take a look at Powder Rooms of today!

Powder Rooms can really be a challenge to 

turn a plain box of a space, into something 

dazzling.

Hanging vanities and rectangular sinks are

popular choices right now.

Powder Rooms are good places to use wallpaper

to get some extra bang for your $$$'s.

Vessel sinks are also good choices for a Powder Room.

The designer here has re-purposed a wood

panel to use as a mirror over an antique iron table.

Faux painting lets your imagination run wild. 

In a small room like the Powder Room, the bigger

the scale of wall paper or faux painting, will 

make the bathroom appear larger. The more

background that shows the more open the room feels.

As you can see reflected in the mirror, you can 

use wallpaper and still hang pictures.

A Powder Room is a excellent place to use a 

piece of furniture for your vanity. This Biedermeier 

chest is topped with black marble and an

oval sink. If you look close they picked up the

same color finish for the floor.

Even a busy framed mirror can look fabulous on a

patterned wallpaper. A small dining buffet makes

a great place to store towels.

An accent table with a deep apron,

will work in a very small Powder Room where

room is tight. You still get the look of a furniture

piece without the weight of a chest.

This Powder Room gives you a contemporary look with 

the clean lines of the vanity and the simplicity 

of the pendants, mirror and vessel sink. 

Notice how the walls and floor are 

the same neutral. It really lets everything else pop!

This contemporary bath keeps it very simple, so that

the orange lacquered walls and the smoke Lucite vanity

are the star attractions. 

This is not a large powder room, but the designer has kept

everything in soft tones and straight lines. This offers a very 

soothing spa like feeling. 

Pure Elegance! The shimmer in the Oriental 

wallcovering reflects off the sconces and 

adds extra light and brightness.

Themes are fine in a Powder Room as long as you don't

go overboard! This ship themed bath used just enough

of the mariner lighting, rope detail, rug and porthole window

do not come across to cute!

If you have accessories you want to use and have

a basic white Powder Room. You can buy shelves to

display some of your favorites. I love how she used

just a little bit of blue wall and then 

tied it all together with her porcelain pieces!

I hope I have given you some inspiration to take a look at 

your own powder room and make it sleek contemporary,

traditionally elegant or very personal! 

Enjoy thinking outside the box! 

source: Bomeng.org, Busy Door.com, Colorado Home, David Hintgen, Digs Digs.com, Effortless Style Co., 

Element of Style, The French Tangerine, Houzz, South Shore Decorating, Southern Hospitality, Traditional Homes.