20 Beautiful White Bathroom Ideas

Bathrooms are rooms that aren’t only one of the most used rooms in the home, but they’re also often forgotten rooms when it comes to decor themes. It’s easy to forget about bathrooms when you’re busy designing the rest of your home. With as much time as you spend in the bathroom each day, why not make it a beautiful space to inspire you every time you use it for getting ready for your day, and ending each day. One of the most beautiful and relaxing looks for a bathroom is to keep it white. White gives your bathroom a spa-like look and feel and can really lighten and brighten your bathroom, especially if it’s a small room. With a beautiful white bathroom theme, you just might find yourself spending more time relaxing in a warm bath, or enjoying a long hot shower. Here are some ideas on how to design a beautiful white bathroom in your home.

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Use texture for depth

When using all white for a theme in any room, it can be hard to establish depth to your design. When colors are used in decorating schemes, that’s where a lot of the depth for the room comes from. In your white bathroom, create depth by using texture in your materials to give the room a better visual appeal. You can do this through things like your tile and flooring choices. Subway tiles on the wall paired with a beautiful white marble flooring donning thin, delicate veins is a good combination. Geometrical shaped Mosaic tiles, for instance, hexagon shapes are a beautiful appeal to the floor or walls. Mirrors are another way to give dimension to a room.

Consider your metal choices

You may not think so, but your metal finish choices can add color to your bathroom, and therefore, character and depth. That being said, you’ll want to consider the overall look you’re trying to achieve for your bathroom. If you’re wanting to keep the bathroom crisp, clean and very cool, stick to chrome finishes. If you want a little more dramatic affect, you may want to go with nickel or a brass finish.

To add color or not to add color

While some designers who love the all-white bathroom think keeping pops of color should be limited to stick with the true look of an all-white bathroom, others think color contrasts can work in an all-white bathroom so long as they are neutral tones, such as light gray or light shades of peach, among others. Avoiding harsh contrasting colors keeps things simple and within the perimeters of the “timeless,” “ageless” look a white bathroom exhibits. Outside of obvious bursts of bold colors, use your choices of cabinetry, tiles patterns and designs, coloring in your marble and other elements to add enough color to satisfy your color palette. For instance, in a transitional or modern themed bathroom, choose a dark cabinet color as a bold contrast to the stark white.

Glass can add texture and visual space

Small bathrooms can benefit from lots of light and elements that help create visual square footage, and to keep the flow of the white bathroom theme, consider installing glass for shower doors to help keep things open and airy and allowing unobstructed views of the bathroom to make it feel more open and spacious. If privacy is an issue with clear glass doors, frosted doors can give a similar appeal but with a bit more privacy.

Lighting

Lighting is an important element in any bathroom due to the need for multiple types of lighting. Task lighting for the tasks you do in front of the mirror, and ambiance lighting for a soothing atmosphere when soaking in the tub, to name the two most important lighting types. Bright lighting created by using layers of light, not only help give your white bathroom a whiter, and brighter look and feel, but helps to eliminate shadows and glares from your white tiles, walls, marble floors and counter tops, and glass elements.

To give you more ideas for designing a white bathroom, take a look at the following 20 beautiful white bathroom ideas for more inspiration.