Looking for a small bathroom with shower ideas to help spruce up your bathroom? Well, you’ve come to the right place for simple solutions to your design needs.
Moving into your first home with a challenging bathroom space or just trying to spruce up your existing bathroom? If you’re anything like me, you’re doing all the research to create the bathroom of your dreams. Using these 17 small bathroom with shower ideas will turn your bathroom into a functional, yet dream oasis.
After this post, you will have some small bathroom storage ideas, small bathroom designs with shower and toilet, small bathroom lighting ideas, and more. These tips will be the perfect starting point for your next bathroom design.
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Genius Small Bathroom With Shower Ideas
Small bathrooms can be challenging to remodel or redecorate. However, breaking up the room into small vignettes makes it much easier to work with.
Do not be intimidated by the challenge. The plan is to take things in small sections. Whether you have storage or design issues, there’s a solution here.
1. Corner Shower Stalls for Small Bathrooms
It may not sound appealing, but if your bathroom has to have a corner shower stall, install the tile up to the ceiling. This makes the shower space more expansive due to its visual height. Believe me, you won’t feel as claustrophobic as it may appear.
The clear glass installed with the tile up to the ceiling is the trick you’re missing.
2. Subway Tile
The beauty of subway tile for your bathroom is its price. It is budget-friendly and comes in many different colorways. Your installer can get super creative in laying the tile.
You could lay them in the traditional bricklay pattern, shown in the image above, or the same bricklay pattern but vertically.
3. 5 x 7 Bathroom Designs
Having a 5 x 7 bathroom with a walk-in shower layout is more common than you may think. A lot of traditional homes built in the 50s and 60s were accustomed to those dimensions.
More than likely, there was a tub/shower combo. However, if you want to update the space to something more desirable, then a walk-in shower is the way to go.
Adding natural light is always a win for brightening up the space but if you’re not able to, overhead can light with sconces is the next best option.
Bonus Tip: Install your tile to the ceiling as well. Tricking the eye with visual height gives the illusion of a taller space. Believe me, your 5 x 7 will feel like a high school gym being doing so. Okay maybe not, but you get the point!
4. Storage Cabinet
When space is limited and you want to keep your items organized, install a tall storage cabinet. Not only does it look sleek and modern, but it’s functional.
The storage cabinet could double as your toiletry cabinet and linen closet.
5. Small Bathroom Shelf
Decorating a small bathroom shelf would be for all your “pretties.” This would house your cologne/perfume, candles, or trinkets.
This would also be a good place for your Q tips and cotton balls in a glass jar, for easy access. Keep your messy items enclosed.
6. Bathroom Vanity
Depending on how small your bathroom is, it may be more appealing to have a floating vanity, versus a vanity with more visual weight.
However, this would be ideal for a guest bathroom or a half bathroom, and not necessarily your primary bathroom.
The reason is the storage is extremely limited. If you are a minimalistic person, this would be more of your style. But for all my maximalists, this design is not for you.
7. Small Bathroom Decor
When planning your small bathroom decor, have fun and play with color and/or pattern. It’s always ideal to install wallpaper in your small guest or half bathroom for that fun experience your guests get to experience while handling their business.
However, you deserve just as much fun if you’d like to install the fun and funky wallpaper in your primary bathroom as well.
Explore textures like grasscloth or pattern to transform your mind when you enter into the space.
8. Small Bathroom Mirror
Proportion is important when deciding which pieces go in your bathroom. Ideally, you would want your mirror to be 2/3s or the entire length of your vanity.
This is important for the scale of your bathroom. Overall, this creates balance and harmony.
9. Small Bathroom Vanity Decor Ideas
When choosing your decor for your vanity, keep in mind function. Ideally, you should keep things light.
Adding a vase for flowers or potted plants is a beautiful way to add life to your bathroom.
Be sure to add a place for soap and a designated area for your everyday items like deodorant, lotion, and jewelry (if this is for your primary vanity). Guests get flowers, soap/lotion, and paper towels.
Keep things minimal (less to clean up/organize once your guest departs).
10. Small Bathroom Paint Ideas with No Natural Light
If your small bathroom lacks natural light, you can choose between two approaches: light and airy or dark and moody.
Primary bathrooms should always have a light and airy approach to being able to see when applying makeup.
Light and airy allow the primary bathroom to feel spa-like. Imagine coming home after a long day at work and you’re able to take a nice warm bubble bath to unwind.
However, if your guest bathroom or half bathroom doesn’t have natural light, painting the room dark and moody is more about the user experience than the actual function.
11. Black and White Small Bathroom Decor Ideas
Choosing a black-and-white color palette for your bathroom can stand the test of time. Black and white are classic colors and you will rarely get sick of the combo.
Look into choosing a larger field tile (the main tile on your bathroom floor) and a smaller tile, like penny tiles for your shower floor.
Although it’s annoying to maintain, having the many grout lines makes it easier to grip when showering. Nothing would be scarier than possibly slipping when the tile gets wet from the lack of traction.
12. Bathroom Tiles for Small Bathroom
Go Bold! But most importantly, have fun with your tile. Even more important to choose a tile that helps complete your design story.
Whether you are organic modern or traditional, select tiles that tell your design story.
Nothing is more confusing than having traditional decor with a super sleek modern bathroom with 12″ x 24″ polished tile.
Try to stick with tile that has character and longevity. For instance, those handcrafted subway tiles or natural stone to name a couple.
13. Small Guest Bathroom Decor Ideas
Selecting decor for your small guest bathroom or any room in your home should always have a starting point.
It’s always best to start with artwork or some sort of pattern from a rug or shower curtain.
Those decor items should have 3 colors or more. If your jumping-off point is a piece with only 2 colors, that means you will only have those 2 colors to play around with when choosing other decor items.
Otherwise, it won’t make sense where you’re pulling those colors from.
If you notice from the artwork above, the black pulls in the black hardware, and the orange ties into the wood finish, lastly the blue comes back in through the rug.
14. Cozy Small Bathroom Ideas
The key to creating a cozy environment is warmth and one of the best ways to add warmth is through wood.
Adding a wood vanity like pictured above will give your space character as if you intentionally curated the bathroom experience for either you or your guests.
Another unique way to create a cozy bathroom is by hanging family framed family heirlooms. In some cases, it becomes a conversation starter while in other cases it helps complete the design.
15. Small Bathroom Decor On A Budget
If making a statement in your small guest bathroom is the goal for you, then a tile accent wall should be the way to go. This can be accomplished with a decorative tile, that’s on clearance.
Or maybe you’ve scored the bold runner from Facebook Marketplace.
Allow those bold pieces to be the main characters in your space and have simpler supporting characters like painting the bathroom yourself or framing photography you’ve taken on your travels.
Start with browsing Facebook Marketplace with inspiration. You may come across someone selling tiles from a project.
16. Small Modern Bathroom Ideas
Modern translates to clean lines. This means instead of laying tile like the traditional brick lay, you would install them stacked vertically (shown above) or horizontally.
Sleek faucet with just one nozzle. Remember you want clean and nothing too fussy.
Simplicity is the key to mastering this design.
17. Small Half Bathroom Wallpaper Ideas
Wallpaper is one of the easiest ways to transform a space if it’s within budget. The pattern you choose instantly changes the energy in your bathroom.
Peel-and-stick wallpaper is a cheaper alternative to the traditional wallpaper.
There are many peel-and-stick wallpaper online companies but don’t forget to check Amazon for easy access.
Understand the design you are trying to communicate and choose accordingly. The first step is to order samples to narrow down your options.
Not too many or you will have decision fatigue. You should narrow down up to 3 choices; 5 of you are having a hard time, but even that is too many.
This post was all about small bathroom with shower ideas and how you can incorporate simple suggestions for your unique bathroom.
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