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Covering a powder room floor to ceiling in dramatic red wallpaper is daring enough for most people. But when you add a backlit alabaster vanity and chandelier sconces, you've created an altar.
by Ernesto Garcia Interior Design, LLC
This bathroom in this gym pavilion is so fun, but it also has a lovely, light-filled simplicity that makes it beautiful. It would be so much easier to get my kids into the bath if they could swing in.
by Menter Architects LLC  
I love the over-the-top gilded look in this little space. Playing with scale and style can produce unexpected and lovely results.
by Jessica Lagrange
This dark, metallic bathroom with its lit wall of figurines and clean lines is high-drama glamour. So Miami, don't you think?
by Pepe Calderin Design- Miami Modern Interior Design
If King Henry VIII ever bathed, he did it in a room like this. Spare, grand and fit for a king.
by Sam Allen Custom Home Design
All this marble, gilt and drapery is more Napolean's style.
by erwin hawawinata
Luxury meets Wild West in a bathroom that combines natural materials, like rough-cut stone, with antlers and some very nice hardware.
by Locati Architects
More Western flair. Raw steel countertops and old license plates. It's like the cleanest, most elegant truck stop bathroom ever.
by Peace Design
A clear bathtub in an industrial white bathroom. Calming and hilarious all at once.

See more of this house and learn about this tub
by Stern McCafferty
This outrageously stunning agate wall is actually a large-scale waterproof panel created by Alex Turco. This bathroom demonstrates that sleek, modern rooms can be created with natural materials.

More: Dream Tubs for Bath Lovers
by DKOR Interiors Inc.- Interior Designers Miami, FL

Comments

Granite Grannies Incredible! I love the see through tub, the tapestry in the bathroom, and the the "gilt' take on the industrial vanity stand. The license plates are a fun take on a tiled wall.
4 months ago · ·
Sierra Jones LOVE the see-through tub! One thing though...I wouldn't be able to hide under bubbles when someone needs in...lol
4 months ago · ·
Teri Sugg Our circular shower. We are going to take out the glass skylight cover so it can rain inside.
4 months ago · ·
Sierra Jones @tsugg: That is amazing! I've never heard of anything like that.
4 months ago · ·
the_misfit Geode walls? Clear bathtubs? (I could never let cleaning the bathroom slide.) Amazing!
4 months ago · ·
Rough Linen I had better raise my game.
4 months ago · ·
Dura Supreme Cabinetry Great examples! My personal favorite fancy bathroom is this modern bath retreat...

4 months ago ·
olldroo Why when I look at fabulous rooms like this do I only think one word.......... 'CLEANING". Probably because I have to, where the owners of these rooms probably wouldn't.
3 months ago · ·
plattgail Love them all! I sincerely believe that bathrooms should be FUN and CREATIVE and even a little SILLY. My powder room is painted to look like you are underwater!
3 months ago · ·
calkelley Terri, be careful with opening that space to the outside. Last week I opened the 2 windows above the bath and when I came back to the bedroom 15 min later, 2 birds were there. And it took a lot of guiding them back out! Never mind a permanent hole enticing a clumsy raccoon or possum
I do love that see through tub. Though I'm not quite in shape to want a side view of me showing. On the other hand, parts of you would be quite perky ; )
Some great ideas that can be used on a smaller (and less expensive) scale.
3 months ago · ·
patricia beharry Was going to say something about OCD cleaning; but decided not to.
3 months ago · ·
WNUK SPURLOCK Architecture Here's a unique bathroom example for a loft we did in Washington, DC. The bath and bedroom is only separated by a glass partition allow for more natural light and a more open feel.
3 months ago · ·
logicbutton Hahahahaha that marble bathroom, oh my god.

My own upstairs bathroom would be pretty unremarkable if not for the 12-foot vaulted ceilings and large skylight. That room accounted for about 40% of my decision to buy this house and I have been fantasizing about how I'm going to redecorate it ever since. Mark my words, in five years or so that bathroom is going to be featured in ideabooks like this one.
3 months ago · ·
patscats2 Love #3. Hate all those antlers, looks dangerous and ridiculous to have all those points at your face.
3 months ago · ·
Bubba Cantrell Playroom/bedroom/bath cool idea if you can find a industral garage with Iron I-beams,though adding them wouldn't be that difficult. It needs a tire swing,if you want an up grade you can buy premade horse tire swings.I wonder what the alabaster shrine would look like if the walls were eggplant purple?
3 months ago · ·
Teri Sugg Calkelley, Good point about the birds... Though I have yet to see a bird land on our white butterfly roofs for some reason. We are in Hawaii, so raccoons and possums are not a problem.
3 months ago · ·
calkelley Aha - how about a mongoose then? Don't you have some pretty scary snakes?
3 months ago · ·
waterbabies They are some fantastic bathrooms! I love the backlit alabaster vanity, it's visually amazing as is the glass bath! But I think my fave is the bronze bath fit for a king (or a queen!).
3 months ago · ·
Kathy Ellis That gilded bathroom is in my ideabook for my private girly upstairs office. I looooove the shimmer of anything metallic, so glamorous! I am using silver and lavender with some bright yellow thrown in, all things sparkly and mirrored are a must. I will probably never leave my office!
3 months ago · ·
CAROLE MEYER These are all gems!
3 months ago · ·
Teri Sugg Calkelly, Nope, no snakes in Hawaii and mongooses can't scale the walls. I think we are safe... except for maybe the birds. We shall see. When it gets a little warmer again. It's cold now, for Hawaii anyway.
3 months ago · ·
frenchdecor I think due to odd refraction of light in water body in the glass tub will look pretty weird, as "broken" tea spoon in the glass.
Fun bathrooms.
3 months ago · ·
olldroo Teri and Calkelly, you crack me up, how about a turkey - we have 6 wild ones that run our roof at night.
3 months ago · ·
olldroo frenchdecor - any 'weirdness' to my body could only be an improvement!!!
3 months ago · ·
frenchdecor Are you kidding, it like body cut in two pieces. Check with clear glass water and spoon or straw, if you have nerves.
3 months ago · ·
calkelley look at the water running out of the faucet in the clear bathtub - it looks separated by 4-6 in. Yeah, you would look a little freaky. The good thing? I would be the one taking the bath and couldn't see it!
Sigh, it does look like one of those things that is cooler in premise than in reality...
Terri - what about a hurricane? Or a toilet seat falling from an airplane (how the main character died on 'Dead Like Me')? Or a rat - those do climb...
3 months ago · ·
Laurel Ennis LOL. The more I look at the last image, the more it looks like a woman giving birth to quartz, which is an uncomfortable notion. Too much imagination, I guess.
3 months ago · ·
olldroo Well, I was sort of hoping the bits cut off would be excess ones I can do without.

Calkelley - I think you are suffering from Houzz overdose.
3 months ago · ·
Bubba Cantrell The talk of window and birds flying in reminds me of living in England were there were no screens on the windows here in the states we have screens, a kind of air filter to let in good stuf and keep out bad stuff.Though, a brid is a pretty thing,,if it doesn't do nasty on the floor or any were else.
3 months ago · ·
Teri Sugg Oldroo...The Turkeys like roosting in nearby trees, so far none on the roof or in the house. My husband has to chase them off our bedroom lanai practically every day though. He opens up a big umbrella and they think he is a bigger turkey than they are and they run away
and wow, Calkelly, I never even THOUGHT about a toilet seat falling out of the sky. The rat might be a problem. Our cat refused to move with us and adopted the next door neighbors instead.
3 months ago · ·
olldroo Teri, I didn't think for one minute you would have turkeys!!! Ours LOVE to run the roof at night - sound like a 747.

Bubba, I can't leave anything open for a minute, I have a lovely family of Magpies who will just walk in and stand beside the fridge waiting to be fed. If the door is closed they use their beaks to knock. Would be nice if you could housetrain them though.
3 months ago ·
Jackie Nooner Even though most of the bathrooms are too much for my taste, they all exhibit such wonderful artistry and/or creativity. And please don't let me mislead anyone: I'd take a bath or shower in ANY of these bathrooms.
3 months ago · ·
A & D Glass Inc. plattgail, I painted my kids' bathroom with an undersea/surf motif. There is a (painted) surfboard rushing overhead that my daughter stuck surf stickers on lol. She was about 12 at the time, and I teased her about having Sponge Bob too. She said "sure, why not", so I painted him peaking around her cabinet. It's my favorite room, since I had to paint over her jungle bedroom!
3 months ago · ·
rachie35 For some reason, the first one reminds me of Phantom of the Opera.
3 months ago · ·
Hunter & Ivy I really like the agate wall bathroom and some elements of the gym bathroom. All the others leave me cold, I'm afraid.
3 months ago · ·
Lise Berube I love the see through tub, don't like the others ;)
3 months ago · ·
Marcia Crumley Fine Art The alabaster wall is simply gorgeous!! A true work of art!!
3 months ago · ·
erwin hawawinata Tq Samantha
2 months ago ·
jennifernordstrand Teri, could you do a screen like on screen door? Light, rain and air through, but no friends?
2 weeks ago · ·
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