Adorable and Stylish Ideas to Enhance Your Bathroom

Your old bathroom looks drab and tired. It probably lacks enough bathroom storage and only has the basics of a bathroom sink, toilet, and bath. It’s time for a bathroom makeover.

These cute bathroom ideas will help you breathe new life into your bathroom and give it a unique personality that matches your tastes. You can also use this makeover as a chance to organize the bathroom better so that the space feels bigger and more welcoming.

How you approach your bathroom design will depend on your budget and abilities. These decorating ideas are scalable; you can create a cute master bathroom no matter what your budget.

1. Embracing Bohemian Vibes

Embrace your inner free spirit by giving your bathroom a bohemian touch. Fill your bathroom with color, patterns, and texture. You’ll create a unique and eclectic design that embraces influences from all over the world.

Instead of mounting a floating shelf, use hemp, rope, or cord to hang it. Then place lush green plants like aloe on it. Aloe is an excellent choice because it’s useful for its skin restorative properties. Or you can have a plant that vines and makes its way throughout your bathroom. Heartleaf philodendron, ivy, and pothos are all great for this and will thrive in a bathroom environment.

If you have a larger budget, choose a bright, vibrant, and multi-colored tile to create a bold statement. For homeowners whose budgets aren’t this big, or aren’t ready to commit, keep the bright colors to the other textiles in the room. You can purchase red, orange, yellow, or emerald-green towels. Or you can place a hand-woven rug on the floor.

2. Explore Color Combinations

White bathrooms are pretty, but they aren’t for everyone. Don’t be afraid to add color to your bathroom. Choose a pale, muted, vibrant, or dark color. The color you pick can be your favorite or one that will blend well with your interior design approach. While painting the walls is also an option, it’s common, so why not look for ways you can add unexpected pops of color?

Paint a freestanding vanity. You can paint your shelving unit or cabinets. If you have a larger budget, you can replace your plain white tile with a colored one. Just be sure it’s a color you love; tile is a lot harder and more expensive to replace than paint.

Sometimes you can’t paint or replace the tile. If you rent, then look for ways to add pops of color that won’t violate your lease. Hang a colored shower curtain, place a bright bath mat, and put colorful towels on the towel bar.

3. Rustic Elegance

If you love the idea of having a cozy bathroom that feels like a warm hug, then a country chic bathroom may be the perfect cute idea for you. Look for ways you can repurpose vintage, antique, and salvaged materials.

Galvanized accessories will give your bathroom a cute country chic feel while also giving you storage space. A tiered stand made of galvanized metal is the perfect vanity tray for your countertop.

Use reclaimed wood to build storage space. Then place vintage mason jars to hold toiletries and other bathroom supplies. An antique lean-to ladder will make the perfect towel rack. Just drape your hand towels over each rung on the ladder.

An antique bathroom cabinet or armoire will make the ideal storage unit in your master bathroom. You could cut out the doors and cover the open space with chicken wire. Then give the outside of the unit an aging treatment to play up the country chic feel. The chicken wire looks cute and serves the important purpose of allowing the contents to breathe and keep the humidity down within the unit.

If your budget is larger, consider adding a freestanding tub to your bathroom. You could choose a large vintage-inspired white clawfoot tub or one with a slightly industrial feel made of copper.

4. Creative Tile Designs

Modern bathrooms and powder rooms embrace unique and creative tile designs. Because bathrooms tend to be smaller spaces, you can get more bold and more creative with the tile. Use the tile strategically and it won’t overwhelm the space.

Smaller bathrooms look cute when you keep the walls and main decor simple and then use a bold patterned tile for the floor. Having a rich color and design on the floor helps to keep the bathroom feeling light and bright.

If your bathroom is bright or larger, then you can choose a bold tile for the walls. Moroccan tiles have a unique texture and lack of uniformity that will create detail and interest without being overwhelming. They’re also the perfect choice for a bohemian-themed bathroom.

A soft pink tile will create a gentle feminine feel that is versatile enough for several interior design approaches. You can use it with French country chic, country chic, farmhouse, pastel themed, or even your children’s bathroom.

If you want to give your bathroom a modern feel, look for a geometric tile. Modern design trends call for hexagon, scalloped, or some other tile in a geometric shape.

5. Stylish and Adorable Decor Suggestions

Choose bathroom accessories that will complement the rest of your interior design approach. Some pieces can be purely decorative, while others can be both beautiful and functional. Choose a decorative shelving unit that you place a candle, small plant, incense, towels, or even toilet paper on.

Whatever decor you go for, make sure it’s moisture safe. Bathrooms experience a lot of humidity, so decor items will eventually mold, rot, or decay if not looked after. You can also prevent this from happening by ensuring you have good air circulation that filters the excess moisture out.

6. Creating Playful Spaces

Decorating your kids’ bathroom is a chance to have some fun and inject whimsy and humor into your bathroom. Choose colors that are bright and mood uplifting, such as bright sunny yellow or fresh orange.

Pick a shower curtain with a fun design. You can even pick something that appeals to your child’s interests. Then continue this theme throughout the entire bathroom. A matching rug, bath towels, and bathroom vanity accessories will give the bathroom a cohesive look.

Hang fun artwork on the walls that shows off your child’s initials, or features your child’s favorite things. Finally, finish the bathroom decor with several bath toys.

One easy way to give your bathroom a fun and cute twist is to choose a creative bathroom wallpaper. There are several modern wallpapers that are easy to apply and come with a wide variety of patterns.

7. Inspiring Lighting Ideas

The lighting you choose can completely transform the feel of your bathroom. Hidden LED strip lighting will help to give your bathroom a modern feel. You can run a strip of it along the floor or the top of your walls to illuminate the ceiling. You can hide the strips behind crown molding too.

For a more luxurious feel, hang a chandelier in your bathroom. It can be one with crystals and a silver or gold finish. A chandelier will also look beautiful in a French country chic interior design.

If you have a country cottage-style bathroom, you can use antler-crafted lighting or other items from nature. This will give your bathroom a hunting lodge feel. A farmhouse bathroom looks beautiful with lighting made from repurposed farm equipment.

Modern bathrooms benefit from sleek and minimalist lighting fixtures. They have minimal details but offer plenty of light. You’ll also find them in modern shapes, such as geometric or round.

8. Maximizing Charm in Small Spaces

Most small bathroom ideas focus on creating more storage space and making the room feel larger. Neither of these is hard to accomplish. If you want to create more storage space, look for dead or wasted space in your bathroom. Most often, this is the under-counter space.

Try replacing your vanity with one that has a cabinet or shelf underneath. Another great place to create storage is above the toilet tank. You can hang a shelving unit or place an over the toilet cabinet.

Instead of hanging art on the walls, you can hang mirrors. The large reflections will give the illusion of the bathroom feeling larger than it is.

9. Wall Decor Inspiration

Have you found a wallpaper that you just love, but don’t know where it fits in your home? Put it in your bathroom! Bold and intricate patterned bathroom wallpaper works perfectly in tiny bathrooms and half baths. The trick to making this approach work is to fully commit to the wallpaper. Hang it on all of the walls.

When you walk into the bathroom, you’ll feel as though you’re being surrounded by the pattern. That’s okay, though. Once inside, the continuity tricks the eye into thinking the bathroom is larger than it really is.

If this is too much for you, then consider a half-wall approach. Tile your powder room from the floor to about halfway up the wall. The height you choose will depend on your taste, budget, and bathroom setup.

10. Serene Simplicity

All-white bathrooms will never go out of style. They are easy to style and, since they don’t hide dirt and grime well, you’re forced to keep them tidy and clean. Unlike colored and patterned tiles, you’ll immediately notice when your white tiles and grout need a good scrubbing.

To keep your all-white bathroom from looking too sterile and hospital-like, add natural and black accents. You can also look for ways to add texture to the room. This will break up the all-white bathroom visually so that your eyes have something to focus on.

Plain white tile works well on the walls. But choose something else for the floor. White marble with veins of light grey is perfect. It’s still white but has subtle detailing and texture.

You can add accents of wood by choosing a light or dark wood vanity unit. Or you can lay wood flooring instead of tile. Another option is skipping the wood altogether and using woven baskets in the bathroom for storage space. Line the baskets on a shelf under the sink counter or place them on white or glass shelves hung on the walls.

FAQs

How can I decorate my bathroom for cheap?

Start by choosing the right color for the walls. Then choose a bold option for the cabinet knobs and drawer pulls. Pick a large mirror for the wall to help the bathroom to feel larger. If you can’t afford one large piece of artwork, try buying two smaller pieces and more affordable abstract work. Then hang them next to each other with one rotated to be slightly different.

How far up the bathroom wall should I tile?

The traditional design approach is to bring the tile 34 to 54 inches up the wall. The average is 36 inches. Then finish the top with a decorative edge. But don’t be afraid to be different. You could tile the entire wall up to the ceiling.

Should the bathroom floor and wall tiles match?

You don’t have to use the same tile for both, and you don’t have to make them perfectly match. But the tile should look cohesive together. Hold the two tiles that you plan to use together next to each other to ensure they look appealing together.