Best Pretty Bathrooms Ideas

SWIRLING BLUE

Java Grande wallpaper from China Seas is a bold backdrop for a Florida house's powder room. The mirror is vintage. Gramercy Glass washstand, Restoration Hardware.

FARMHOUSE STYLE

Nothing says "rustic" more than chicken wire. Utilize the screening set of glass cupboard doors to up the nation feel and show stacks of towels off.

TROUGH SINK

The boys' bathroom in a Lake Tahoe home made by Matt O'Dorisio includes a massive trough sink and a pendant from Schoolhouse Electric Supply & Co..

BRAVE BLACK

An Alexander McQueen skull pillow was the catalyst for this daring en suite bath in Chicago's trendy Wicker Park area. "I wanted play!" Says designer SuzAnn Kletzien, who notes that placing a modern, jewelry-inspired chandelier on a claw-foot bath "definitely satisfied that need."

REPURPOSED WALLPAPER

Framed fragments of Gracie's Georgian Tea Trade background have the impact of landscape paintings in a South Carolina home's powder room. The vanity is a console that is converted.

Glass Shower Door

MODERN ZEN

"The danger in doing a contemporary bathroom is that it may feel cold," says Pamela Butz, who remodeled this home near Boston with partner Jeffrey Klug. Their answer was a layout that errs on the side of simplicity, but with beautiful, natural substances that "speak for themselves."

SPANISH COLONIAL

In a powder room, a classic chest out of Provence adds a curvaceous comparison to the graphic tiles, first into the Richmond, Virginia, house. Walls painted in the China White of Benjamin Moore.

GLAMOROUS COPPER

Initially the owners were going to add a master suite, but they then looked up and recognized that the third-floor loft, with its peaked roof and exposed beams, presented an unusual opportunity. "The first thing we shopped for was that tub," states Chicago-based designer Julia Buckingham. "It is the crown jewel."

NAUTICAL FINISHES

For his Nantucket house's master bath, designer Gary McBournie chose Waterworks hardware at unlacquered brass, so that it would tarnish and era. His aim was to tie all the details back into the nautical feeling of the house.