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What to Do With This Renter's Bathroom?
Good Questions

Q: I am renting and this is my bathroom. Help! I am allowed to do pretty much anything aside from ripping up the tile counter top. I definitely want to paint the wood base cabinets and paint the walls...

Yellow Goat Designs Beautiful Baths
Australia

Normally at the site of transparent bathtubs- we cringe. A lot. Generally at the thought of someone walking in while we're relaxing in a see-through tub, our behind all squished and visible. A transpa...

Top 10 Bathroom Tips for Renters

Apart from a great cup of coffee, a great bathroom can start your day off on the right foot. Unfortunately, if you rent, your hands are tied. You can't exactly start ripping out tiles and replacing ...

Party Lighting: For The Bathroom

When prepping our home for an evening of entertaining, we always like to pay special attention to the bathroom. It's the one room in the house where guests are left alone (to judge, peek, etc.) and...

How To: Get Out Of A Locked Room

While we were working with a client this week at their shop, we pretty much got locked in the bathroom. Yep, definitely a first! The doorknob came loose, wouldn't catch the door release and 30 minutes...

Easy DIY: Bathroom Shades

As a frequent visitor in other folk's homes, we often notice how bathroom decor gets overlooked--a lot. It's usually the smallest space in the house, yet at the same time the most used. We love that...

Cult of Personality: Toilet Decor
Featured on The Selby

As a decor blog, it's a lot easier than you might think to lose sight of what's "real" and what's...well, hmm..."relatable"? You see, when we research ideas to write posts about, we'll spend hours tr...

Three Gardrobes: The Water Closet Inside Closets

The Three Gardrobes by Tamizo Architects Group is an interesting idea: instead of cramming the utilities of the typical bathroom into a small space, the Three Gardrobes compartmentalizes the bath, t...

The Dividing Line in a Bathroom

Although the Los Angeles team of editors live miles apart, we often exchange links, posts and ideas via IM and email. This morning the buzz amongst our team was about a section of the S&A Home designe...

Matt's DIY Master Bath Vanity Project

Matt of Rancho Rehab emailed us his most recent home improvement project and it's definitely an impressive display of DIY skills: he designed and fabricated his own bathroom vanity to fit a sink orde...

Good Questions: Help With My Retro Bathroom Redo!
Los Angeles

Dear Apartment Therapy: I must paint this week and I need some suggestions on a painting scheme that will totally knock this retro bathroom up. I am game for anything and I will choose whomever offer...

One Bathroom, 3 Different Uses

When you have only one bathroom in your home, you have to be creative with it! Sometimes guest bathroom, sometimes storage space and all the time everyday life, your bathroom's style has many sides. C...

Inspiration:Chloe's Bathroom Before and After

When it comes right down to it, if you're renting, it's all about putting the least amount of work in for the maximum gain. Then there's the tiny issue of very often not really being able to do anyth...

Look! Spring Inspired Bathroom Mural

We're sorry we didn't remember this little gem during bathroom month, but from a house tour ages ago comes this amazing hand painted flower mural in a classic pink and yellow tiled bathroom:...

Look! Closet Turned Into Small Bathroom

We talked before about how to turn one of these closets into a great, hide-able workspace, but running across this image from Southern Living, we were surprised to see it turned into a tiny powder roo...

Look!: Vintage Iron Steps as Bathroom Shelving

For a bite-sized bathroom, shelving can be tricky. You don't want to overpower the room with bulky, unattractive shelving but your items still need a place to call home (preferably a spot that's out ...

Roundup: Handpainted 'Wallpaper' in the Bathroom

We love the look of a wallpapered bathroom. It can transform a tiny space into a serene little jewel box--just check out the powder rooms that Beth highlighted a couple weeks ago. But for us renters...

Favorite Bathroom Indulgences?

In a house full of people the bathroom is my secure oasis of calm and quiet. Morning and evening routines can be done in silence and help me get centered for the day ahead or wind down from a busy on...

How To: Organize Makeup

As we've mentioned before, we're not big makeup people but we still manage to have enough of it to clutter up the bathroom counter. We don't really like to keep it out, but when it gets used everyday...

Look! Art Collections in the Bathroom

Maybe it's because he's french and had a fixation with the idea of the American old west, but when I was young my dad used to drag me around to the Rose Bowl to buy awesomely bad thrift store painting...

Look! Credenza as Bathroom Counter

A couple of years ago we saw an ingenious DIY (albeit for very able diy'ers). The people moving into our old office brought in a mid century craigslist credenza, cut a hole in the top of it and dropp...

Look!: Wine Rack Repurposed To Hold Towels In The Bathroom

To round out our week of repurposing we found Paper Cake's wine rack that she repurposed to hold towels in the bathroom. Creative storage in the bathroom is a must and we love it when we find ways to...

The AT Bathroom Privacy Poll

Just a few days ago, Grace opened up the discussion about the situation of sharing a bathroom and specific guidelines that follow, whether it be with a roommate(s), girlfriend/boyfriend or spouse, an...

Brush & Rinse Water Fountain Toothbrush Now Available

A couple years ago we posted about the Brush & Rinse toothbrush, an ingenious little mashup of the common toothbrush and a water fountain which allows the user to redirect the sink stream upward for a...

Inspiration: Adding Flowers and Plants to the Kitchen and Bath

As part of the Cure one of the assignments is to begin buying fresh flowers for your apartment (along with cooking meals at home) to bring some life into the space, and in many ways start coaxing som...