Bathrooms With Julie Carlson
Spotted in a Tuscan bath: a clever hanging solution for toiletries, towels, etc. Here's how to get the look.
Above: A tray hangs in Tuscany. See more of the lodgings at The New Dolce Vita: A Reinvented Village in Tuscany.
Above: Roost of Sausalito, California, makes Galvanized Trays in three sizes; the large is 24 inches in diameter and is $68 from Collyer's Mansion. You'll need to drill four evenly spaced around the edge of the tray to create openings for the suspension chains (you could use rawhide, too). Then, suspend the tray from a Ceiling Hook from Aubuchon for $1.69, and consult Lowe's for hanging chains by the yard.
Above: Gather the four supporting chains (or leather rawhide strips) and suspend from the ceiling hook with Gruntal S Hooks from Ikea; $2.99 (for a pack of five).
Looking for more bath and kitchen solutions? Go to 7 Bathroom Ideas Borrowed from Nautical Design and 11 Kitchen Storage Tricks to Steal from the Bathroom.
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Bathrooms With Justine Hand
The overflowing medicine cabinet. The stingy towel bar that accommodates precisely half of your family's needs. The tub that's overrun with bath toys. Sound familiar? At some point we've all had to live within the confines of the tiny bathroom. Fortunately, there are easy ways to make a boxy space work better—and feel bigger. The key is to get organized, edit out the excess, and consider these storage tips.
Ditch the Towel Bar
Above L: In today's Steal This Look: The Compact Beach House Family Bath, designer Jenny Wolf uses hooks to create extra storage and emphasize the verticality of the room. Above R: Jennifer Morla and her architect husband, Nilus de Matran, use pegs instead of towel bars in their San Francisco bath.
First and foremost, when maximizing the minimal bath, you need to take advantage of available wall space. In tight quarters, towel bars are space sucks. In my last apartment, a single three-foot towel bar on the one exposed wall was supposed to accommodate the towel needs of two adults and two tots. Replacing it with a row of Shaker hooks not only quadrupled our hanging capacity but also created a nice-to-look-at detail. Another bright idea: Hang collections of antique hooks at varying heights to create a wall installation. (True, hooks don't allow towels to dry as readily as bars, but in most climates, the trade-off feels worth it.)
Add even more storage to your hooks by introducing hanging bags. See Marine Canvas Water Buckets as Bathroom Storage and Design Sleuth: Mesh Market Bag as Bath Toy Storage.
Above: An en suite bath at the High Road House in London uses Shaker pegs to maximize storage. Read Christine's summer-house discovery in How Shaker Peg Rails Saved My Sanity, and find Shaker storage sources in Objects Lessons.
Deploy the S Hook
Say your landlord is so unimaginative that he or she will not let you remove the towel bar—or your bar is built into the tiles on the wall. Then it's time to invest in some S hooks. (Or you could try a Q Hook.) Hang them over the bar, and in an instant you've created a much-more-useful row of hooks.
Above L: S Hooks lend a towel bar new hanging possibilities. Above R: With the help of S hooks, Sally Schneider of An Improvised Life turns the dead space at the end of her shower bar into extra towel storage.
Install a Running Shelf
Above: In the bathroom at Harbor Cottage in Maine (see A Cottage Reborn in Rural Maine), architect Sheila Narusawa installed a running shelf that not only creates a cozy frame for the bath but also introduces useful storage.
Above: A ledge in Sheila's own master bath on Cape Cod—modest-sized but big enough for towel bars. (See more in the Remodelista book, and explore her Streamlined Eat-In Kitchen, too.)
A characteristic feature of any bath designed by my Aunt Sheila is a shallow ledge that runs the length of the wall, usually around the entire bathroom. This Shaker-style architectural detail is relatively simple in construction and easy to install yourself.
Blessed with a prewar style bath with high ceilings? Take advantage by installing a running shelf toward the top of your wall. (Read on.)
Soar to New Heights
Above: In her tiny Brooklyn bath, Erin Boyle uses the higher reaches for a small shelf and wall-mounted mirror.
When it comes to maximizing storage, many people forget to look up. Consider installing an open shelf over the door (it's so much less cluttered looking than hanging one of those shoe caddies). Attractive boxes and a few artful objects lend a minimalist appeal.
Above L and R: Shelves on high create much-needed storage in these wee bathrooms.
Edit Right Down to the Toothpaste
Above: Beautiful bath accessories and well-packaged toiletries can be stored outside the medicine cabinet. Photograph via Father Rabbit Limited.
Organization expert Marie Kondo, author of the much buzzed-about manual, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, advises doing away with anything that does not "spark joy." This small-living maxim can be applied to everything, toiletries included. First, buy only what you need. Second, ignore the marketing blare. Separate his and hers body wash? Select an unscented neutral. Hair gels, mousse, straighteners, and leave-in conditioners? Narrow your products to one favorite. And so on.
Then invest in beautiful things that you actually like to look at. Toothpastes (see 10 Toothpastes for the Style Obsessed) and creams in lovely containers can be collected together and displayed (or stowed in a displayable box). Swap out bad packaging for good; my grandmother used to store rubbing alcohol in an antique apothecary bottle.
After you've culled your holdings and moved select items to open storage, organize your remaining unsightlies: Delilah has some great advice— see 5 Tips for Under-the-Sink Organization.
Above: Erin Boyle employs vintage glassware to artfully store utilitarian things like cotton balls and Q-tips in the open. Of course, a lively bit of green in an old tin will also make your minimal bath feel more fresh and open: See DIY Maidenhair Fern for Bathroom Greenery.
Climb the Walls
Another way to take advantage of available wall space? Discover the charms of mounted boxes and baskets.
Above L and R: Rustic wood and wire containers add vital storage to these baths.
Above: Even items like a tissue box can be mounted on the wall, an old-fashioned approach worth rediscovering as shown in this design from My Scandinavian Retreat. (See Design Sleuth: Wall-Mounted Tissue Box.) Find more design tricks in 11 Tips for Making a Room Look Bigger.
Want more advice for making the most of your bath? See:
And read about how a family of five shares a single small bath in Carmela's 7-Step Plan to Clutter-Free Living.
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Home Inspiration With Margot Guralnick
Enough with the skimpy Turkish fringed foutas. True, they work well as sarongs, but for lounging in the sand and drying off, we prefer towels with a bit more bulk. Classic bands of color, too, please. The good news: Even though July is only just under way, beach towel sale season is now starting.
Above: Made of Japanese cotton terrycloth, the oversize Narrow Stripe Beach Towel from James Perse is available in gray/white and black/white; $225 each.
Above: The Vertical Rugby Stripe Teach Towel from Lands' End is $19 (down from $29) and comes in 10 color combinations.
Above: Serena and Lily's take on the Fouta Beach Towel is a combination of flat-weave cotton and terry. Shown here in kelly green and navy, it's available in five other colorways and is $38 (marked down from $48).
Above: The Belize Stripe Beach Towel in charcoal has one terry loop side and one cotton gauze side; $46 (down from $69) at Restoration Hardware.
Above: The Hudson's Bay Blanket Company is now applying its signature stripes to beach towels; $40 from Hudson's Bay. Read about the company's origins as a trading post and learn where to source the blankets in Object Lessons. Photograph via Camille Styles.
Above: Apolis's Hand-Loomed Beach Towel is made in Mumbai of Indian cotton lined with terry. Shown here in olive/white, it also comes in navy/white and red/white; $48.
Above: The extra-large GBC Positano Toweling—39 by 71 inches—is made in Portugal for Guideboat Co.; $55.
Above: New York textile design studio Todd Heim Projects specializes in color-blocked Irish linen for use as towels, picnic blankets, tablecloths, and bed covers. This Linen Beach Towel measures 40 by 80 inches and comes in five palettes; $160. Heim also offers twice-as-large striped beach blankets. See some of his designs made in collaboration with Fredericks & Mae in The Ultimate Houseboat in NYC.
A summer house to go with your beach towels? Go to Beach Style for ideas, including 12 Summery Spaces, Horseshoe Crab Decor Included and Ideas to Steal from the Scandi Summer House.
Find your picnic blankets on Gardenista.
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Bathrooms With Margot Guralnick
"I fell in love with the look of this apron sink from Home Depot and built the design around that," says Jenny Wolf of the compact main bathroom in her family's East Hampton cottage. She transformed the 55-square-foot space from dark to light and from worn-out to shipshape, courtesy of whitewashed, wood-paneled walls and accents of "mixed metals." Wolf runs Jenny Wolf Interiors of New York and kindly detailed her sources. Here's how to re-create the look.
Above: The space is just big enough for a glass-enclosed shower and is shared by Wolf, her husband, and their young daughter. Lumber for the shiplap paneling—cedar five-inch planks on the walls and two-inch planks on the ceiling—came from Home Depot.
The Basics
Above: Kohler's Bannon Wall-Mount Cast Iron Sink is $693.83 at Home Depot, available online only.
Above: The Rohl Country Wall-Mounted Bathroom Faucet is $392.25 in polished nickel from Faucet Direct.
Above: Restoration Hardware's aluminum-framed Submarine Inset Medicine Cabinet opens to reveal glass shelves in a mirrored interior built into the wall. It comes in two sizes and is currently on sale starting at $550 (marked down from $735).
Above: Kohler's Memoirs Toilet is $324.56 at Home Depot.
Above: The Franklin light from Schoolhouse Electric comes in three finishes, antique black (shown), matte bronze (closest to Jenny's version), and polished nickel; starting at $79. She pairs it with a Silver-Tipped Bulb; $7 from Schoolhouse Electric.
Finishes
Above: Shiplap five-inch vertical wood planks are painted in Benjamin Moore Decorator's White; Ben Interior Paint starts at $37.99 a gallon.
Above: The floor is tiled with 2-by-12-inch Montauk Black Natural Cleft Slate from the Complete Tile Collection, laid in a brick pattern. Inquire about pricing.
Hardware
Above: Rejuvenation modeled its Classic Brass Coat Hook after a 1910 design; $20 each. Also consider Brass Hat and Coat Hooks, $6 to $8 each, from The Hook Lady.
Above: Not identical but a good choice for the room, the Onefortythree Tissue-Roll Holder, $30, is made by Logan Hendrickson in his Las Vegas workshop, Onefortythree. For more colors, see Top Brass: A New TP Holder for the Glamorous Bath and check out our roundup of Indie Toilet-Paper Holders.
Above: The Ashley Norton Windsor Knob in a dark bronze patina is available via Simon's Hardware; inquire about pricing.
Accessories
Above: Cotton Honeycomb Tassel Hammam Hand Towels are $6.99 (marked down from $10) each at West Elm.
Above: Crate & Barrel offers Glass Canisters in three sizes; the small (shown here) is $16.95. A set of three (one in each size) is $59.95.
Above: The Cotton Woven Bath Rug from Restoration Hardware comes in four sizes; the smallest, 17 by 24, is $27 (marked down from $39).
See more of Jenny Wolf's work at Jenny Wolf Interiors.
For more design inspiration and sourcing ideas, explore our DIY Bath issue.
And find small-space-living ideas in 13 Radical Tiny Cottages and 10 Houses Made from Shipping Containers.
This post is an update; it originally ran on February 3, 2015, as part of our Humble Abode issue.
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