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Those are anything but tiny, all of them had room for at least a twenty five inch sink and a couple of them were bigger than both my bathrooms in my hundred year old home together.
Only the one in the DC victorian approached small. How about some really small redos?
BizG,
My friend, please visit an online dictionary before making uneducated comments. "Tricked-out" describes something that has been decorated or done extravagantly. Grammer aside, I think these bathrooms are really chic! Love it!
Tiny but tricked-out: Inside jewel-box powder rooms
By Alyssa Ford of SwitchYard Media
'Polished yet eclectic'
Designer: Beth Dotolo, Nest Interior Design
For this Dallas home, interior designer Beth Dotolo had a vision for a "polished yet eclectic" powder room. The homeowners, who operate a chic, boutique furnishings store, already owned the silver-beaded mirror and the small, two-drawer bureau. But Dotolo retrofitted the bureau into a one-of-a-kind sink vanity and custom-designed the polished-nickel starburst drawer-pulls.
Other touches include Carrera marble floor tiles; modern, wall-mounted tap fixtures; elegant, Barbara Barry-designed torch sconces; and bold-patterned damask wallpaper.
"If you use a large repeat-patterned paper in a small space, it makes the room feel large and continuous," Dotolo says.
Read: 5 reasons your powder room needs pizazz
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Tiny but tricked-out: Inside jewel-box powder rooms
Inspired by Tokyo
Designer: Brendan Kwinter-Schwartz, Kwinter & Co.
Just a block from Long Island Sound in Larchmont, N.Y., is a grand Victorian with a stunning powder room done up in black marble with an ornate, hand-painted sink.
Interior designer Brendan Kwinter-Schwartz chose the elaborate wallpaper for its Asian motif, reflecting the fact that this family of six lived in Tokyo for many years.
"The powder room is the perfect spot to make a bold statement," Kwinter-Schwartz says.
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Tiny but tricked-out: Inside jewel-box powder rooms
Can it outshine Central Park?
Designer: David Scott, David Scott Interiors
This New York City powder room overlooks Central Park and the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, but interior designer David Scott made sure the look of the space would grab attention on its own.
Scott swathed the room in fine-textured Xuan wallpaper from couture design house de Gournay. It's patterned with hundreds of detailed koi fish. A hammered-nickel undermount sink is housed in flamed granite with a base of crystal rods and polished-nickel joints. Flanking the resin Gothic Twig Mirror from Mecox Gardens are sconces of glass and polished nickel by Holly Hunt.
Partially reflected in the mirror is a vintage Fontana Arte light fixture, circa 1955.
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Tiny but tricked-out: Inside jewel-box powder rooms
Bringing the bling
Designer: Ian Bevilacqua
This San Francisco powder room includes a special wallcovering from Maya Romanoff. It is made of simple polyester with hundreds of thousands of 1-millimeter glass beads applied.
The light fixtures, from high-end vendor Boyd Lighting, add even more bling with sparkly ropes and solid crystal spheres.
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Tiny but tricked-out: Inside jewel-box powder rooms
Wacky and traditional
Designer: Jean Alan, Jean Alan Inc.
This 1920s home in Winnetka, Ill., has a classic exterior of stone, stucco and timber, so interior designer Jean Alan wanted to do something fun yet vintage-inspired for the owners' main-floor powder room.
The inspiration was daring wallpaper, City Park from Flavor Paper, that features fire hydrants, parking meters, rats and pigeons and is printed in custom white and tangerine. Alan added mother-of-pearl coin tile as a tall wainscoting and a vintage mirror she found in a flea market.
"There are so many gorgeous, fun and yummy wallpapers," Alan says. "And the powder room is a great place to let your hair down."
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Height advantage
Designers: Jennifer Mabley and Austin Handler, Mabley Handler Interior Design
This Southampton, N.Y., estate home has remarkably high ceilings — about 12 feet tall — and the powder room plays that up with a huge wash of geometric pattern, Hicks' Hexagon by Cole and Son.
Interior designers Jennifer Mabley and Austin Handler kept up the cool with a statuary marble sink by Walker Zanger, a custom stainless mirror by Room & Board and white Thasos marble slabs for the floor.
"We wanted it to be cool and crisp and make a big impression," Handler says.
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Tiny but tricked-out: Inside jewel-box powder rooms
Formal touches
Designer: Marshall Erb, Marshall Morgan Erb Design
For a family home in the Bucktown neighborhood of Chicago, interior designer Marshall Erb went for formal refinement in the main-floor powder room.
He paired a Federal and French-style-inspired mirror with ornate, creamy wallpaper by Salamandre and Uttermost sconces with oversized crystal drops. The vanity, hand-carved by Chicago artisans, repeats the circle motif seen on the door and laser-cut marble floor.
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Tiny but tricked-out: Inside jewel-box powder rooms
Marble palace
Designers: Dylan and Nicolette Farrell, Parlor Design
For this townhouse on New York's Upper West Side, interior designers Dylan and Nicolette Farrell went for a look they describe as "stately grandeur without the stodgy."
The walls, floors and vanity are covered in classic gray-veined Calcutta marble. But the wall features an upbeat, almost playful starburst oval mirror from the Thomas Pheasant Collection by Baker. Polished-nickel fixtures from Waterworks and a hand-hammered, undermount sink round out the look.
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Tiny but tricked-out: Inside jewel-box powder rooms
Fitting a Victorian
Designer: Samantha Friedman, Samantha Friedman Interior Designs LLC
This three-story Victorian mansion in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., has a surprisingly sweet powder room. Interior designer Samantha Friedman went for Farrow & Ball's classic Ringwold wallpaper in ivy green. She paired it with a sheer, tightly pulled cafe curtain, a vintage-inspired sink and a hand-cut, crystal Bagatelle pendant from Schonbek.
Even the toilet-paper holder has bling: Friedman special-ordered polished-nickel bath fixtures with fat crystal accents.
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Through the trees
Designer: Sarah Van Assche and Megan Mackey, Sarah Van Assche Interiors
For this Chicago house, interior designer Sarah Van Assche found a company that makes carved-wood and adhesive wall panels. In this room, the custom white panels illustrate broad tree branches.
To carry on the bold look, Van Assche and Megan Mackey designed a custom floor medallion in the shape of a broad leaf.
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Tiny but tricked-out: Inside jewel-box powder rooms
Glamtastic loo
Designer: Shelley Rodner, Decorating Den Interiors
This new, production-built house in Rockville, Md., goes for Hollywood glam with a dramatic, bevel-cut mirror, a mirror-fronted vanity and a Murray Fleiss pendant with crystal drops.
Interior designer Shelley Rodner also added dimensional wallpaper by Antonina Vella to pick up the blond and putty notes in the spruce hardwood flooring.
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Drama queen
Designer: Tiffany McKenzie, Tiffany McKenzie Interior Design
With its gilded, Federal-style mirror, furniture vanity and hand-troweled blue walls, this powder room in Southlake, Texas, went all-out for drama.
Interior designer Tiffany McKenzie also specified oil-rubbed bronze fixtures and a custom bronze sink.
"You want to create a strong emotion for your guests when they walk in for the first time," she says.
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