Refreshing your Powder Room without a Complete Gut Job – The Design

Published by Basalat on December 16, 2020December 16, 2020

**UPDATE** Check out the completed Powder Room Refresh!

Like many of you we are in day 23947 of this pandemic (or what it seems), and I’ve been having the itch to start a new mini home project. Our last big project, also during this pandemic, was my teen daughter’s bedroom. If you haven’t checked out this extreme makeover, see here! Looking around our main floor, the only place that hasn’t had the homewithb touch is our powder room.

Some of you may be asking yourself, “What’s a powder room?”. Well it’s a bathroom, located in the main floor, that usually only has a sink and toilet which is used mostly by guests. It’s also referred to as the half bath, or a guest bathroom.

Our powder room, is actually very very small which poses several design challenges. Since being low on space, going high on style was a must!

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Here’s what it currently looks like.

I know, I know, it’s not awful, and we did give it a quick paint job earlier this year, using Benjamin Moore’s Silver Mist. However powder room decorating should be fun and if I was going to makeover ours, it had to be bold and dramatic. If there’s one place to take design risk, its in this self-contained space. I don’t even think it needs to “match” your main floor.

For our design, I spent days brainstorming ways to decorate our powder room. I knew I wasn’t going to be changing the powder room vanity, to save on cost or hiring a contractor. Also obviously leave the configuration as is. The back wall of our powder room already has this tile feature, which I wasn’t changing either.

The best thing to do was to either add an accent wall behind the mirror wall; either with paint or WALLPAPER. Whoo hoo my love for wallpaper is always strong. Powder rooms and wallpaper go hand in hand, check out Pinterest (my board here) with tons of design ideas.

The Plan

So without further ado, let’s get into the DESIGN of this room. Here’s the things I was going to change:

• Add an accent wall with wallpaper
• Faucet
• Lighting
• Mirror
• New vanity cabinet hardware
• Accessories (towel ring, toilet paper holder, etc).

After going through countless wallpaper books, I finally picked this one.

The wallpaper was the jumping off point for the whole look, loving the bold colors and pops of gold. The gold is perfect as I was changing all the accents to a brushed gold finish.

The Design Board

I may end up changing this design, but for now I think this is coming together pretty nicely! Remember, a mini-makeover with the right touches can give a big impact. Excited to see this process through myself.

1. Existing Vanity || 2. Monogram Towels || 3. Moen Towel Ring|| 4. Vanity Light|| 5. Moen Flara Faucet|| 6. CB2 Resin Handles || 7. CB2 Lucite & Brass Mirror || 8. Wallpaper by Excusive Wallpapers

Leave me a comment and let me know what you think. Stay tuned for the work in progress and further design details. Till next time stay safe everyone.