Bathroom

These will help you look at your bathroom with new hope.

Sprucing up a drab, beige bathroom is no easy feat. I know from experience: My family and I moved into a four-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment provided by my husband’s employer in Cairo, Egypt. While not paying rent has its perks, being stuck with multiple dated bathrooms wasn’t ideal.

Yes, the antique clawfoot tub got to stay.

The new green paint color is so pretty.

For basically free!

The bare white walls and plain shower curtain were the antithesis of my shared style with my partner (which is handsome, colorful, and personalized).

“The original space had paneling, but it was buried under layers of paint,” the homeowner says.

The layout got a functional overhaul.

The DIYer wanted to fill it “with color, nostalgia, and early 20th-century glamour.”

The vanity area is the star of the show.

“Bring on the pinks and purples,” this designer and homeowner says.

This bathroom got a top-to-bottom redo.

The bathroom was last updated in 2007.

Now there's room for everything.

The vanity was too bulky, and the mirror was “laughably wrong” for the room.

The bathroom was last on my fixer-upper to-do list, but I finally got to it.

The makeover boasts three kinds of peel-and-stick.

“My plants love it,” the DIYer says.

Leaning into color — not away from it — will make a space feel calm, according to this DIYer.

It was inspired by something from the designer’s yard.