These timeless bathroom designs will bring a retro feel to your home while keeping function in mind.
Vintage bathroom styles range from cottage-cozy to sophisticated glamour, and everything in between.
Discover our favorite spaces that combine weathered patinas, nostalgic style, and meaningful mementos with timeless color schemes.
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Embrace Color and Pattern
Tamara Flanagan
Much like long-ago lavatories, thissmall bathroomoptimizes every inch of space.
Tall cabinets flank the oversized sink, providing necessary storage while furthering the vintage feel.
Layer Antique Mirrors
Nathan Schroder
A collection of ornateVictorian-stylemirrors provides a distinctly vintage feel to this bathroom.
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Incorporate Salvaged Materials
Jay Wilde
Look to tag sales forantique pieceswith handsome forms and hardworking functions.
The old-fashioned furnishings provide storage and display space that enhances the bathroom’s utility.
Quaint relics, such as the framed wall art and antique stool round out this room’s vintage style.
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Some are ready to use, and others can be retrofitted to bring bygone spirit to your bathroom.
Here, a gold faucet steals the spotlight in this neutral vintage bathroom.
Vintage Bathroom Built-Ins
John Gruen
Outfit your bathroom with old things for a new purpose.
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Here, an antique armoire serves as a faux built-in cabinet for extra storage.
The chipped paint adds character and charm, while a pristine standalone tub adds a touch of modern elegance.
Vintage Bathroom with Beadboard
Werner Straube
Vintage bathrooms often take acharming cottageturn.
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Vintage Bathroom Fixtures
Annie Schlechter
Every vintage bathroom can benefit from a metallic accent.
A tapered leg and crystal foot give the circular sink a fashion-forward feel.
A metal chandelier and antique mirror weave in old-world forms and finishes.
Wood floors, woven baskets, and breezy curtains introduce informal textures to the lush blend.
For example, rather than sticking with typical light switches and plates, consider installing the old push-button versions.
you’ve got the option to find plenty of reproductions made for modern wiring.
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Mixed Textures
Laurie Black
Textiles are a significant vintage bathroom idea in this space.
These homeowners created a fresh take by incorporating greenpenny tilesin the black-and-white borders on the shower and bathroom floor.
Retro daisy motifs on the floor and black horizontal accent tiles in the shower energize the primarily white bathroom.
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Architectural Bathroom Features
Marble-tiled floors and finely paneled wainscoting formalize this charismatic bathroom.
The pedestal tub and capiz-shelllight fixturepresent equally sophisticated silhouettes in modern profiles and materials.
Here, tall beadboard references early-20th-century beach houses and showcases green and gold accessories.
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The sometimes-forgottenwall above the commode displays artwork, foliage, and a scallop-edge shelf with a towel bar.
Gilded touches add chic shimmer, which underscores the room’s collected appeal.
Splashes of bright green and shimmering silvers break up the sea of black and white.
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Sea-glass-green paint on horizontally set boards creates abeachy backdrophighlighting mirrored sconces and faucets with retro silhouettes.
A prism chandelier contributes flashes of sparkle.
A wide, wall-mount sink accommodates two faucets, while a factory stool with an aged patina is repurposed.
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Vintage Bathroom Accents
Everybody needs more storage in their bathrooms.
Welcoming Bathroom Decor
Blue walls create a peaceful perimeter that accentuates this bathroom’s vintage components.
The soothing hue showcases glossy white woodwork, classic black-and-white floor tiles, and a silver-adorned footed tub.
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An old-fashioned light fixture and made-over mirror above the pedestal sink reinforce the style.
A beat-up metal table takes the place of a vanity countertop; a wood crate below contributes distressed texture.
Marble floor tiles and subway tub and shower tiles contribute time-honored forms to the design.
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Ledge-like moldings and a shelf align midway up the wall to supply spots for showing off sea-inspired collectibles.
Mirrors behind the shelf amplify light, set glass canisters sparkling, and make the room appear larger.
it’s possible for you to give these pieces a new purpose by utilizing them as bathroom storage cabinets.
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