A great bathroom should, of course, be visually pleasing, but most importantly, it should serve its purpose well: adequate storage for everything from bath products to towels, lighting that serves the tasks performed in a bathroom, and finishes that are resistant to humid environments.
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Nothing is worse than having your medicine cabinet so packed that everything falls out as soon as you take out one moisturizer, or applying makeup in your bathroom just to find out upon walking out that you've caked on too much foundation due to poor lighting.
Are you making these bathroom decorating mistakes? Find out from these best and clever solutions.
NEGLECTING STORAGE
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Overwhelmingly, every single designer agreed on one major mistake: not having enough storage. Here are some different preferences:
Focusing on the vanity: Make sure to either custom make or purchase a vanity that has plenty of storage to hold things like your hair dryer and makeup. Also, make sure you have plenty of counter space if that is something you like.
The importance of towel storage: Make sure that you have allocated space to keep fresh towels. I like keeping bath towels in an antique armoire in our bathroom and washcloths rolled up in a pewter bowl on our vanity so that I have a fresh one daily. I always suggest having a few robe hooks placed around the bathroom instead of towel bars—this allows you to have a place to dry multiple towels or robes.
Be creative with storage solutions: Even if you don't have room for a vanity with serious storage, it doesn't mean that you can't sneak in some extra space elsewhere with a vintage apothecary cabinet, a train rack, or even recessed medicine cabinets for keeping toiletries out of sight. A clean and uncluttered bathroom is always better looking. The more you can get put away, the better!
JOMOO Cabinet
OVERLOOKING LIGHTING
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The other main bathroom design offender: lighting. There is nothing worse than a poorly lit bathroom. People often forget that they need multiple light sources and end up with a single dull sconce—which basically ensures you'll leave the house with scary clown makeup. Try to incorporate both decorative and task lighting.
It is always preferred to make sure that a bathroom has a good source of natural light as well as strategically placed overhead and vanity light. If your bathroom suffers from poor lighting, add a table lamp, floor lamp, or chandelier.
CHOOSING TOO MANY FINISHES
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In most circumstances, more than two finishes in a bathroom can look odd. Try and flow the materials in a digestible way—keep all the floor materials the same and change up the walls. If you want a statement pattern or color, use it on the floors or tile the inside of a recessed shelf instead of putting it everywhere.
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PLANNING ELECTRICAL TOO LATE
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Remember, electrical planning needs to be done very early in the process. For example, a hard-wired makeup mirror is great mounted on the wall, but you need to remember this in the early phase. It is so wonderful to have outlets in drawers—for hair dryers and straightening irons so they can be tucked away quickly and neatly. If you forget to do this, you can have someone cut a grommet hole in the drawer and use an extension cord from the wall outlet. This is a game changer!
CHOOSING SLIPPERY TILES
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PHOTO: Diana Relth; DESIGN: Studio Life.Style
A common mistake is using cool, decorative tile on their bathroom floors that aren't made for getting wet, which can make it really easy to slip on. This can be fixed by either making the flooring slip-resistant which can be done with treatments or making sure that the tile you choose is suitable for bathrooms."
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FORGETTING PERSONALITY
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People forget that bathrooms can have a personality just like any other room in your house. The fix: Add a fun and unexpected light fixture, chic art, or even wallpaper! Bathrooms are typically smaller spaces, so it doesn't take much to really spice them up and make them cohesive with the decor of the rest of the house.
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NOT CONSIDERING HUMIDITY
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PHOTO: Roger Davies/Trunk Archive
We can all agree that adding wallpaper to any bathroom can immediately warm up space. We love using wallpaper in all the bathrooms we design, but the biggest thing we always keep in mind is that the wallpaper needs to either be made for bathrooms (like a vinyl for example), or the backsplash needs to be high enough so that the wallpaper won't get damaged.
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