A powder room may be small, but that doesn’t mean it has to lack functionality or storage space. With a few tips and guidance from the professionals at RenoDuck Bathrooms, you can have a beautiful powder room with a spacious atmosphere. Continue reading to discover a collection of tips to maximize space in your modern powder room.

Create Additional Powder Room Storage

Get creative with your powder room storage options by looking beyond the floor space. The walls and even the ceiling of your powder open up numerous opportunities for optimizing storage.

Mounting floating shelves or cabinets above the sink and toilet creates a modern powder room with increased organization. You could also hang shelving or baskets from the ceiling if your powder room’s walls lack sufficient space.

Choose the Perfect Lighting

The right lighting sets the tone and establishes the ambiance in a room, especially when there is a minimal amount of square footage. A great powder room remodel idea is adding a statement lighting fixture to make the room pop.

This could be a luxurious chandelier or an artistic sculptural fixture. Wall lighting is also a good choice because it makes low-ceiling powder rooms feel less cluttered and high ceiling bathroom more expansive.

Install New Flooring

With less square footage to cover, you may consider springing for a more high-end or premium flooring, such as hardwood. Since a powder room doesn’t include a shower or bath, you won’t have to worry about water or moisture damage to the wood.

Another option is wide tiles that extend up the walls. This can make a narrow or tight powder room appear and feel more expansive.

Upgrade Fixtures

Upgrading your old fixtures is an excellent way to modernize your powder room. Installing a new vanity, toilet, sink, or vanity countertop can give your powder room the updated look you’ve been searching for.

Changing the size of these fixtures can also open up more space for storage or décor items. Explore various sizes, colours, and materials for your fixtures.

bathroom vanity with countertop and toilet seat with toilet paper holder

wooden single vanity with white ceramic countertop with round mirror and toilet seat

Add New Hardware

There are many kinds of hardware that can maximize space in your powder room while enhancing its visual appeal. For your vanity, you may think about button knobs on cabinet doors, magnetic drawers, and automatic facets without handles. Dual towel racks that have hangers with above shelving are also beneficial.

Further space saving powder room ideas include toilets with button flushers rather than handles, and sliding or pocket doors to eliminate door handles.

Save Counter Space Using Wall-Mounted Faucets

If you aren’t interested in a floating vanity, you may consider a wall-mounted faucet to save space. One of the great perks of having a wall-mounted facet is that they’re easier to clean. They also have a very modern appearance, which can help you create a sleek powder room.

Wall-mounted facets are available in a wide range of styles and materials, which means you can find the most suitable fixture for your personal taste and bathroom design.

floating modern wooden vanity with round mirror and golden faucets

Install a Vanity

Vanities combine your sink with cabinet space, which improves the usability and storage capabilities of your powder room. Additionally, vanities provide you with more customization opportunities.

You can choose the type of sink, facet, hardware, countertop, cabinets, and drawers for your vanity, as well as the materials for each. Mounting your vanity on the wall can also offer extra underneath storage along with the cabinet storage.

Consider Bold Designs for a Modern Powder Room

These days, trendy powder room designs often feature bold tiles on the flooring and walls. You can create a balanced design by installing patterned tiles on the floor and minimalist one on the walls, or vice versa.

Limiting the patterns to either the walls or flooring keeps powder rooms from feeling too busy or crowded. If you’re looking to customize your modern powder room even more, you could also design custom tiles for the floors, walls, or both.

Start Your Powder Room Renovation Today

Begin planning your dream powder room renovation with the experts at RenoDuck Bathrooms. Together, we can design and build a modern powder room that maximizes space, matches your style, and improves functionality. Reach out to RenoDuck Bathrooms and schedule a consultation with our team by phone, email, or our online contact form.

FAQs

The minimum requirements for powder room dimensions are 3 to 4 feet wide and 6 to 8 feet long. However, the average size of a modern powder room is 18 to 20 square feet. The space must be large enough for a toilet and a sink or vanity, with enough room for a single person to move around while the door is shut.

Horizontal stripes make a narrow powder room appear wider. You can achieve this by laying horizontal floor or wall tiles, painting horizontal stripes, or applying wallpaper with horizontal stripes. Using muted or light tones such as pastels, creams, greys, or whites is an effective method of making a room feel larger. In terms of fixtures and hardware, aim for slim or wall-mounted sinks, toilets, and hardware.

Both artificial and natural lighting offer sufficient lighting in a powder room. When possible, it’s definitely worthwhile to add a window or skylight for as it can improve the spacious feel tremendously. Depending on where your powder room is located, installing a window may or may not be possible. Artificial lights can hang from the ceiling or be placed on the wall above the mirror or toilet. A combination of the two is a viable option as well.

Absolutely, including greenery in your powder room creates a welcoming and vibrant space. Hanging plants, a wall shelving with succulents, or setting plants on a window are good ways of incorporating greenery into your bathroom. Remember to think about the lighting in your powder room when you’re selecting your plants. For rooms without natural light, choose plants that thrive on water and humidity.

Tips to Maximize Your Modern Powder Room