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DIY Modern Small Bathroom

A beautiful Modern Small Bathroom! Gorgeous bathroom layout and design ideas, to turn a small space into a beautifully organized bathroom!

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When we originally bought this house, we gave up the ensuite in our old home. We always missed having one, but didn't know if we would get one in this home. This past year we starting tearing into our upstairs hallway, and realized, that if we stole some space from the hallway, we could add our own modern small bathroom onto one of the existing bedrooms. We finally went for it this month, and I'm so glad we did!

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Modern Small Bathroom Design Ideas

There are a ton of space-saving design ideas in this bathroom that help it look and feel bigger! I started by talking through the logistics of the space with my contractor/husband, lol. We chatted about all of the possibilities! Here's a few of the things we decided to do to help the space feel bigger and still be functional:

  • A bright white paint colour (to keep the light bouncing around the room!)
  • Light coloured tiles
  • Ceiling feature to draw the eye up and elongate the space
  • Curbless shower to keep the space open
  • Wet bathroom design - no shower door or curtain if possible to keep it open and spacious
  • Built-in vanity (this was a DIY!)
  • Hidden storage (medicine cabinet behind wall and wall niches)
  • Use pocket doors

One other addition that would've been amazing for this space is an interior frosted window (because the ceilings are so high!) or a sky tunnel above the shower. Both of these would've allowed some natural night into our bathroom that is entirely enclosed, but we weren't able to add either this time for various structural reasons.

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Bathroom Renovation Video

If you want to see the entire bathroom transformation, we filmed every step for our YouTube channel! See a tour of the space when it's just a corner of a bedroom, and watch it transform into a beautiful ensuite!

Don't forget to modern ensuite before renovations

We've been using the bathroom for a week now, and we're so happy with everything we did in here! Here's a huge onslaught of photos so you can see every angle of our beautiful new bathroom!

modern small bathroom design idea

Above you can see a peek at the pocket door that we added. Definitely a huge space saver in here! This photo also gives a full view of the curbless shower. Our shower is pretty deep, and we have a rain can that lets water straight down so it would minimize any water splashing. We also have all of the floors sloped towards the drain, so the water stays in the shower area and allows us to keep the space more open.

We used a bright white tile with some dimension so that you could still get a beautiful pattern from the design, and we used a beautiful modern medicine cabinet

The modern medicine cabinet organization

built-in storage niche

The black vanity below is one of my absolute favourite features of the space! We bought a textured black bathroom vanity

textured black cabinet
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Then we loved every detail of this shower, from the 3D tile install, to the white tile niche

beautiful modern shower design
wooden floating shelves
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modern bathroom storage

acrylic frame art in bathroom

Modern Bathroom Sources

Here's a list of all the products we used in this renovation.

Malka Maison

Saturday 29th of January 2022

we are looking for "L" shape bathroom's ideas (without sink). this looks great ! can you please write the size of each wall? we will be grateful ! lots of luck!

Carissa

Friday 21st of January 2022

Where do you hang bath towels?

Lindi

Sunday 23rd of January 2022

We put two hooks right outside of the bathroom on the bedroom wall! I'll be doing a whole bedroom tour soon if you want to see where they are!

Jessica Stevens

Monday 6th of September 2021

The bathroom looks AMAZING!!! The ceiling is exactly what I'm looking for. Do you have a tutorial for it? Also, can you share what kind of wood you used? Thank you so much!!

Lindi

Monday 6th of September 2021

I'm working on a full tutorial for it right now! Stay tuned - there will be a post here and a video on YouTube!

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Thursday 26th of August 2021

It looks very good. Not to mention your hardwork I can really see what you have done. Keep it up.

Leana

Wednesday 16th of June 2021

We are constructing a new house but we have very limited space so we were looking for best space use for bedroom and bathroom and just see this article and this is one of the best use of space and now I will implement exact this design in our house bathroom

Thanks a lot, looking forward to some room space too.