Bathroom Remodel Ideas

This bathroom went from blah to bold and beautiful.

The after feels like a breath of fresh air.

In just two weeks' time!

Dividing walls were holding this bathroom back. Tearing them out helped it reach its open, airy potential.

This small bathroom was the only one in the house—so these DIYers knew they had to make it count.

Yes, you can make a big change on a small budget!

Wait until you see the tub.

Best part? No demo required.

This transformation involved paint, lighting, flooring, and more.

It's inspired by "Psycho"—yes, that "Psycho".

The after is almost unrecognizable.

A few small tweaks totally transform this dull bathroom.

Small investment, big impact.

It's ahh-inspiring.

A small half bathroom got a beautiful makeover thanks to some William Morris wallpaper.

The project took just two days.

$200 goes a long way in transforming this dim bathroom.

Yes, that cost includes a toilet, vanity, shower, and more.

The before featured a shower ceiling covered in mold and a toilet that made the whole house stink. The after is a SERIOUS upgrade.

Carpeted bathrooms? Very un-groovy.

A dark bath gets a technicolor redo—for free!

No hammers required for this redo!

As this homeowner says, "a little goes a long way when transforming a small space."

Spending more time at home was just the inspiration I needed to give my so-so bathroom a refresher.

The before is fine, but the after will give you heart-eyes.

The wallpaper will make you gasp.

The before stunk—literally. But the after is a dream!

You won't see the after coming!

The wallpaper will give you serious heart-eyes.

You've never seen subway tile look so moody (in the best way).

One of them is a removable wallpaper that will knock your socks off.

It's literally unrecognizable.

See ya, crayon-patterned wallpaper border.

This itty bitty powder room makes a big impression.

The new black-and-wood color combo looks super chic.

These stunners will have you running to the paint store on the double.

Money-saving and seriously stylish? Sign us up.

Bold wallpaper’s a winner in our book. We’ll show you why.

This was the year of statement-making tile, and these redos are the best of the best.

This budget-friendly trick is timeless, and these stunning projects prove it.

This was a good year for bathrooms. Here, we've got a dozen seriously impressive redos to inspire you.

A couple Benjamins and a little elbow grease make for one stylish bathroom redo.

The tile in this bathroom will give you serious heart-eyes.

We'd say those 30 hours (!) of hand-painting really paid off.

Sponge painting, but make it FASHION.

The new bedroom and bathroom are a little fresh, a little funky, a lot stylish.

Let these bold changes inspire you.

Is it possible to be in love with a sink? We say... maybe.

Hello, 1995? We're here to give your beige tile back.

This family got the best of both worlds: a fresh new bathroom with a classic old-school look.

The powder room of a young downtown Toronto family got a colorful floral makeover.

Some clever DIYing turned this bathroom into a space you won't even recognize.

Let these jaw-dropping makeovers inspire you.

A few high-impact, low-cost swaps totally transform this builder-basic bathroom.

A layout switcheroo plus some fresh new finishes made this bathroom way more spacious and relaxing.

This beige-on-brown bathroom wasn't pretty, and it definitely wasn't practical.

Claire Kennedy and her husband are renovating their entire UK home—and the bathroom needed extra help. Two types of tile and a chic new paint color made it look brand new.

The main bathroom needed an entire makeover, including a layout update.

Attorney and content creator Blake Gifford jokes on her website that her Chicago rental apartment's bathroom must have been "the room they were renovating when they started to run out of money.

It took about three weeks and cost around $6,400 to complete this bold black and white bathroom renovation.

Lisa Backus and Andrea Richardson of Design Bar Detroit transformed this dark and dated Detroit loft bathroom into a bright, modern space.

This bathroom definitely had a look going on: lots of wood, plenty of lace, and baroque lights hung from chain swags. But after one week of hard work, the room is now a pink powerhouse packed full of handmade touches. Racheal Jackson—@banyanbridges on Instagram—did every single bit of this outstanding renovation, laying tile, installing a new sink and faucet, painting, creating a concrete countertop, and refacing the vanity doors and drawers.

Hannah Wilson and her husband own a home remodeling/design company called Blank Slate Renovations, and the home they currently live in is a 1,300-square-foot condo in Dallas, Texas. They had to remodel the whole space and they had to stick to a pretty low budget. Now finished, it’s got a minimal/modern/organic/Scandi/boho style.

The before version of this bathroom was perfectly functional and updated, but bland. It has great storage, but completely lacked in character. This is the first home I have owned (and lived in) in my adult life. Even as a kid, I grew up in rentals. I’ve always harbored dreams (and vision boards) of how I would customize my future home. None of it was too radical, but they were rarely rental-friendly edits.

Peggy Wang, Buzzfeed’s founding editor, decided one day a few years ago she was ready to move out of tiny apartment living. “It was like a weird sudden existential outburst in my usual lazy put-everything-off-forever mindset,” she writes. When she purchased this 1100-square-foot home in Queens, it felt like the right fit. But boy it needed a face lift. She worked closely with White Arrow—Keren Richter and her husband Thomas Richter—to remodel this home.

While there isn’t anything inherently wrong with this “before” (it’s clean, it’s white, it’s rocking some fun cabinet hardware and additional storage), we’re saying it: it’s boring. This bathroom could be in just about any house in any part of America. The “after” though…well, we’re smitten (it features one of the most stunning floors seen in all our Before & Afters).

We’ve seen plenty of impressive room conversion Before & Afters—closet to nursery, kitchen-turned-bedroom, closet to mudroom—but a balcony-to-bathroom renovation is definitely a first. The space was languishing as a slightly awkward office, when what the family really needed was a bathroom. They wisely turned to the pros for help. Let’s take a look at the full-length “Before,” so we can see both the wood-paneled sloped ceiling and the beige carpet.

Scuffed mauve toilet, periwinkle walls, mauve sink, pebbled glass shower door, yellowed shower stall—what’s not to love? Well, perhaps a few tiny updates might be in order here… Ahhhh, much better! I know there are those of you who dislike white-centric makeovers (I always love them), but in this case, the interplay between the mostly white walls and the mostly black floor is so fun and vibrant, and the room really pops.

When three friends — Amanda, Kate and Carina — decided to chase their dreams and buy a cabin in the Catskills together, they were ready to start having fun and enjoying their mountain retreat right away. But the home was built in the 1980s, and though the architectural bones were extraordinary, there were still a lot of elements from the era (like bizarre wallpaper, carpeted stairs, funky electrical work, and a mustard yellow shower).

This bathroom was overwhelmed by giant tiles, beige, and cats, but a 4-day renovation completely transformed it. It’s a small room and a big makeover . . . The after is so elegant. Project Palermo did an incredible job on this powder room, fitting a lot of style into a tiny space. The dark vanity adds drama—the Before was literally wall-to-wall beige—and the play of the petite hexagonal tiles against the beadboard is so much more interesting than the squares+squares look was.

“When we first moved in, our bathroom was COVERED in flowers,” reports Kathy Davies, a wedding and portrait photographer. She and her husband, James Binder, bought this 1950s tri-level house in Michigan two years ago and have slowly been remodeling parts of it. She continues describing what an outdated nightmare the small bathroom was when they purchased the house: “The floor, the curtains, the wallpaper… and not a pretty modern type of floral pattern.

Melanie’s rowhome had a surplus of bedrooms and a deficit of bathrooms so the math was easy to do. The actual renovation, however, was not so easy. After an extended timeline and a few plumbing snafus, they now have one newly remodeled bath and one entirely new one.