Create a Crafty Border
In this Roman apartment pieces of mixed marble are fixed to the wall to create an intricate border. Don’t have marble offcuts? Try tile, porcelain fragments, or even shells.
Go for a Bold Color-Block
In an Upper East Side apartment designed by Patrick Mele, the walls and ceiling were painting in a grid of varying shades to add playfulness to the powder room. Don’t know what colors to choose? Check out our designer-approved list of bathroom wall colors.
Make Bathtime Fun
In the kid’s bathroom of designer Michelle Smith’s New Orleans home a tiny painting and foam letters add a colorful and playful touch to an all blue bathroom.
Add a Sculptural Artwork
In a bathroom, less is often more—especially if the artwork is as bold as this look in Elad Yifrach’s Lisbon home . In the primary bathroom, artwork by Sebastiao Lobo pops against walls painted in Skylight by Farrow & Ball.
Incorporate a Pretty Screen
In a Toronto home designed by Kelly Wearstler a stained glass partition was incorporated to reflect golden light into the powder room. Achieve a similar look with a chic lacquered or paneled folding screen.
Try a Tiled Mural
In jewelry designer Matthew Harris’s Lisbon apartment hand-painted Portuguese tiles, which show a man in 18th-century clothing, were used in the primary bathroom.
Try a Tiled Backsplash
In composer and conductor Jonathan Sheffer’s New York townhouse decorative tile by Popham Design adds a little something unexpected to the primary bathroom amid the largely monochrome palette.
Add a Single Masterpiece
In the all white primary bathroom of a Virginia home designed by Darryl Carter a small framed painting makes a statement against all of the Carrera marble. Your bathroom might not be clad in marble, but the same concept applies to an all-white WC.
Add an Unexpected Mirror
Designer Mark Grattan covered the walls in a textured Élitis wallcovering that adds dimension to the powder room of Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird’s SoHo apartment. But the diamond-shaped mirror is the room’s true surprise.
Incorporate a Mirrored Wall
Or, cover your walls entirely in mirrors. In the powder room of a Paris apartment designed by Pierre Gonalons the walls and ceiling are tiled in mirror, adding a touch of disco to this jewel-box loo.
Add Creative Lighting
In the primary bathroom of a San Francisco home designed by Nicole Hollis the walls and ceiling are accented with a neon mirror by Agape and light fixture from Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery. You can achieve the same in a small bathroom with an all-black, high-gloss paint job along with minimal neon wall art.
Incorporate a Gallery Wall
In the primary bathroom of designer Lorenzo Castillo’s Menorca getaway the walls are covered in a collection of framed prints. To accent the ocean views the windows and doors are painted in Farrow & Ball’s Stiffkey Blue.
Add a Wall Sculpture
Add dimension to your bathroom with an abstract 3D wall sculpture. Here, a knot-like wall hanging by Katie Gong floats above the tub in the primary bathroom of a California home designed by Atelier Davis.
Supersize the Art
Instead of a gallery wall, try a single statement piece. Here, a large piece of artwork by Gerald Incandela accents a wall in the primary bathroom in designer Robert Couturier’s French manor home.
Let the Views Shine
In a Los Angeles home designed by Studio Mellone, and with architecture by Woods + Dangaran, a primary bathroom wall was substituted for an accent window with a view. Who needs art when the views are this good?
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