Functional doesn't have to mean boring. These unusual bathrooms feature creative designs and memorable details. For even more inspiration, check out 100+ genius bathroom ideas.
"If you're going to do color, why not go intense?" designer Erin Martin says of this swanky pool house bathroom. She set the sink atop an intricate 1920s Turkish relief panel and covered the walls with vivid glass tile.
The arched window and the view from this California bathroom were so magnificent designer Ohara Davies-Gaetano didn't want to put a big white porcelain tub in front of it. Instead, she designed a sunken bath made from slabs of marble. "Imagine lying in the bath with the flames flickering and the sun setting over the Pacific," she says. "What could be more relaxing?"
The medicine cabinets in this Michigan lake house bathroom are hidden behind the mirrors, a trick that works because they're so overscale. "Be sure the frame projects just enough off the wall so you can open it with one hand," architect Bill Ingram says.
Designer Peter Dunham added an unexpected twist to this bathroom in a Los Angeles home: a fireplace. "I flipped the positions of the bedroom and bath, which is why the bath now has the fireplace," he says. "It's extremely sexy and luxe, isn't it?"
Editor Zim Loy painted a vintage dresser black, added ring pulls for a campaign-chest look, and turned it into a vanity for her Italianate house in Kansas City, Missouri. She also fitted the piece with shallow drop-in sinks, so even the top drawers are usable.
To create a spa-like feel in a North Carolina bathroom, designer Barrie Benson added a pebble floor. "Feet have the most pressure points in the body, and standing on smooth cobbled stones is very relaxing, even therapeutic," she says. "I had a good laugh with my client when she told me that stepping on those pebbles 'rocks her chakras.'"
An Amanda Weil photo on glass creates a window where there is none in a Park Avenue master bathroom designed by homeowner Royce Pinkwater. The rest of the bathroom is done in pure white marble. "I like harmony and consistency in a home," she says.
"I don't believe in very many rules, but I do love the idea that a powder room should always have loads of personality," designer Mona Ross Berman says of a bathroom in a New Jersey beach house. "And we took turquoise as far as it could go in this one."
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