The smaller the bathroom, the bigger the opportunity for a style statement. That seems to have been the approach to designing these pattern- and color-filled powder rooms recently uploaded to the Houzz photo feed. Click through to see the wallcoverings that give them their wow factor.
Eastside Builders Inc
1. Arch Angles
Uploaded by Eastside Builders and designed by Waltz & Wetherly, this Cincinnati powder room has a capsule-shaped mirror, a square undermount sink and softly curved cabinet pulls that continue the Schumacher wallpaper’s pattern of arches and rounded rectangular forms. Even the linear grain of the wood vanity ties into the wallpaper’s vertical lines.
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Distinctive Dwellings - Thayne Hillrichs
2. Entwined in Vines
In a transitional-style home in Keller, Texas, by Thayne Hillrichs of Distinctive Dwellings, this powder room has a wallcovering from L’Aviva Home that looks like flowering vines hand-drawn in charcoal. Emily Gilbert Designs paired it with gold-tone hardware and a concrete-look wall-hung sink with a wooden shelf below.
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Kirby Kelly Studio
3. Midcentury Medley
A stylized botanical wallpaper from Harlequin gives this powder room in Salt Lake City fun midcentury modern style. Designed by Kirby Kelly Studio, the bathroom’s gold-and-glass pill-shaped sconces coordinate with the paper’s metallic buds, the mirror’s black accents match the branches and the faucet set matches the paper’s silver leaves.
McDonald Remodeling
4. La Vie en Rose
This sweet Minneapolis powder room by McDonald Remodeling is covered in Hygge & West wallpaper featuring hand-drawn birds soaring on a rose-colored sky. The oval mirror echoes the shape of the swirling clouds, and the faucet and other black accents help make the black-outlined birds pop.
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Christine Sheldon Design
5. Swaying Palms
Christine Sheldon Design took this Hillsborough, California, powder room on a little tropical vacation (by way of the Far East) with a bamboo mirror, a sky-blue-and-white palette and a chinoiserie wallpaper covered in palm trees from Clarence House.
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Four Brothers Design + Build
6. Deep in the Forest
Four Brothers Design + Build uploaded this photo of a powder room in a remodeled Washington, D.C., home. It features a compact, warm wood vanity surrounded by Mind the Gap wallpaper in a tropical botanical design — a lush, leafy backdrop that mirrors the real greenery both inside and surrounding the house.
Natalia Avalos Interiors LLC
7. Playful Shapes
A square vessel sink sits atop a live-edge wood countertop in this organic modern powder room by Northern California-based Natalia Avalos Interiors. The symmetrical design on the kilim-style rug loosens up on the walls, which are covered in a pinkish-taupe Sarah Sherman Samuel for Lulu and Georgia wallpaper with an abstract geometric print. A midcentury-modern-style brass chandelier adds to the room’s fun mix of shapes.
Olson Defendorf Custom Homes
8. Pup Parade
Zoom in on the black-and-white Thibaut wallcovering in this Austin, Texas, powder room and you’ll see dogs of all breeds and sizes lounging and milling about. Click the photo to see the rest of the project, uploaded by Olson Defendorf Custom Homes, and you’ll find the real-life dog of the house resting in a built-in pet bed just outside the powder room door.
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Savvy Interiors
9. Flutter Butter
Savvy Interiors’ makeover of a San Diego ranch house embraces the 1970s — the decade in which the home was built. In the powder room, era-appropriate Milton & King butterfly wallpaper matches a yellow vanity with a brown-veined countertop and brass faucet, and staghorn ferns are mounted like trophies above dark wood paneling.
Bella Vista Developments
10. Jungle Cats
In a Saskatchewan powder room uploaded by Bella Vista Developments, prowling jaguars seek camouflage amid tropical leaves. A clean white wall-hung vanity and arched mirror let the wild Masureel wallpaper provide all the excitement.
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Dutchman Contracting
11. Gilded Throne
This small powder room in a 19th-century townhouse in New York City’s West Village was uploaded by Dutchman Contracting. It has a regal look thanks to its golden mirror and wall-mounted faucet and gold veins in the black stone sink and backsplash. But the jewel in its crown is the red wallpaper, designed by painter Hunt Slonem for Groundworks, which is gilded with images of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
Laplante Construction Inc.
12. Something Fishy
This tall, narrow powder room in a Cape Cod, Massachusetts, home by Laplante Construction is drenched in preppy coastal style. Sea blue paneling transitions to aquatic wallpaper from Peter Fasano at around eye level, creating the impression that one is on the ocean floor looking up at the fish swimming above.
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Allison Landers
13. Monkey Business
A bright turquoise wall-hung sink pops against the African wildlife-inspired wallpaper in this Minnesota powder room by Allison Landers and Joy Architecture + Interior Design. You can almost hear the calls of the mandrills, hornbills and hoopoes that wrap the room’s walls.
M House Development
14. Making Waves
Wavy blue vertical stripes that look as though they were painted on the wall with watercolor paints add subtle monochromatic pattern to this powder room uploaded by Naperville, Illinois, custom home builder M House Development. A wavy white mirror frame echoes the irregular stripes of the Mitchell Black wallcovering, which was applied above coordinating navy wainscoting.
Along Came Lennox
15. Traditional Charm
Designed by Along Came Lennox, this charming, traditional-style San Francisco powder room looks like an indoor garden — or perhaps a hand-painted teacup with a gold rim. Exotic birds perch on delicate branches on the Sandberg wallpaper, which stretches above wainscoting painted the color of a cloudless sky.
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