If you're aiming for a comforting look in your bathroom, the farmhouse design often just feels right. These 30 suggestions will show you how to bring a lasting, cozy atmosphere to your most personal room, using everything from simple colors to traditional fixtures.
Rustic Wooden Shelves With Metal Pipe Brackets
Along a white shiplap wall, simple wooden shelves held by industrial pipe brackets provide display space. The dark wood and black metal offer a strong contrast against the wall.
Incorporate Rustic Touches with Wooden Stool Sets
Near your shower, place a pair of charming wooden stools with simple, organic shapes and dark-dipped legs. These provide a rustic accent and a spot for a candle or a small plant, adding a decorative element that echoes the material of the wood-paneled walls.
Frame Your Shower with Shiplap Walls and Built-In Hooks
Panel the exterior walls of your shower enclosure with shiplap to create a place for hanging towels. These white-finished panels include convenient hooks.
Soften Your Vanity with Framed Botanical Art
Hang matching framed botanical prints on either side of your vanity mirror. The simple wood frames complement the existing style.
Blue-toned artwork adds a refreshing color element.
Keep Essentials Handy with a Wooden Bathtub Tray
Rest a wooden tray across your tub to keep bath essentials within easy reach. This simple addition holds a candle, a book, a small plant, or your drink, providing a convenient surface for a more relaxing soak.
Tall Vertical Shelving Unit Adds Greenery and Storage
A tall, narrow ladder-style shelving unit, made of wood and rope, holds plants and toiletries. This unit offers multiple levels for potted greenery and folded towels.
Maximize Vanity Space with Wire Baskets
Utilize tiered wire baskets on your vanity for vertical storage. The dark metal finish of the baskets introduces a textured element alongside gray cabinetry.
Wooden Vanity With Open Lower Shelf For Towels
A warm wooden vanity includes a slatted open shelf below, a convenient spot for neatly folded towels. These linens remain accessible on the shelf.
Industrial Pendant Light Creates a Cozy Focal Point
Suspended over the bathtub, a large, galvanized metal pendant light draws the eye. Its utilitarian design contrasts with the soft white tiles.
Glass Shower Enclosure With Black Frame and Double Showerheads
A glass shower enclosure with a sleek black frame defines the bathing space, featuring dual showerheads and clear glass that maintains an open feel against white subway tile walls.
Wooden Vanity With Woven Baskets For Open Storage
Place a wooden vanity with open lower shelving in your bathroom. The design has plenty of room for tucking in woven baskets filled with extra towels or toiletries.
Concrete Bathtub Surround Adds Industrial Texture
A concrete bathtub surround creates a modern, industrial feel. This solid, poured-concrete base contrasts with white brick walls.
It forms a sleek foundation for your soaking space, grounding the tub within the room.
Bring Nature Indoors with a Glass Jar Terrarium
A large glass jar holds small plants and decorative elements. This sits on your bathroom counter, creating a miniature garden display.
Paneled Cabinet Doors With X-Detail Add Visual Depth
Cabinet doors with inset panels and an "X" detail break up solid fronts.
Glass Display Cabinet Shows Folded Towels and Baskets
If you need to store and show bathroom essentials, a tall black metal and glass cabinet is an option. Its transparent doors let you see the neatly folded linens.
Show Linens in a White Glass-Fronted Cabinet
A tall, white cabinet with glass doors stores and displays your bathroom essentials. Inside, neatly folded towels and woven baskets create visual texture.
This works best for items you want visible and kept tidy.
Incorporate Rustic Texture with Shiplap in Your Shower Base
On the lower portion of a glass shower enclosure, shiplap siding introduces a warm texture. Its horizontal lines complement the modern glass panels.
Green Cabinet With Glass Doors Stores Linens and Decor
A tall, distressed green cabinet features glass-fronted upper doors to display folded towels and decorative glass bottles, while the lower section holds numerous small drawers for organizing smaller bathroom necessities.
Tall Vase of Flowers Adds a Natural Focal Point to the Window
Place a generous bouquet of fresh flowers and greenery in a clear glass vase on your windowsill. The varied textures and colors of the blooms offer a refreshing contrast to the bathroom's fixtures.
Gray Vanity With Built-In Bench Offers Comfortable Seating
A gray vanity includes a custom-built bench for sitting while getting ready. The bench is topped with a patterned cushion.
Anchor Your Space with a Black Clawfoot Tub on Dark Wood Floors
A striking black clawfoot tub sits against rich, dark wood plank flooring. Drape a striped towel over its side.
Rustic Wood Paneling Creates a Warm, Textured Backdrop
Reclaimed wood planks cover the walls and ceiling. This surface provides a natural contrast to the clean lines of the modern white sink and brass fixtures.
Rustic Wooden Bench Adds a Charming Spot for Decor
If you need a spot for decorative items, a weathered wooden bench can sit beside the shower enclosure. Arrange pillar candles and a vase of hydrangeas on its distressed top.
Opt for a Pale Blue Vanity with Arched Open Shelving
Pale blue cabinetry features arched open shelving. This offers a mix of closed cabinets for hidden items and open shelves for towels and decorative jars.
The arched cutouts work best for items you want visible and within reach.
Show Vintage Finds on Open Built-In Shelving
In a corner or on a wall, open shelving shows a collection of vintage items. The shelves hold small bottles, jars, and decorative objects.
Rustic Ladder Holds Towels and Adds Vertical Interest
A leaning ladder made from reclaimed wood offers a unique way to hang towels, with its weathered texture and simple construction providing a vertical presence that breaks up the wall space.
Concrete Sink Base With Open Shelving for Rolled Towels
Install a large, cast-in-place concrete sink as the base for your vanity. Below it, open metal shelving provides a spot to neatly roll and display towels.
Soften Natural Light with Yellow Floral Curtains Above the Tub
A window above your bathtub can feature floral-patterned curtains. Their yellow fabric, adorned with a grey floral motif, softens the natural light and echoes the pale yellow exterior of the clawfoot tub.
Open Shelving Displays Patterned Towels and a Woven Basket
The open space beneath your vanity stores folded towels. Opt for a botanical print on the towels for a natural pattern, with a small woven basket on the shelf for extra toiletries or decorative items.
French Country Chair Adds Soft Storage for Towels
A vintage-style wooden chair beside your bathtub holds a clean towel.
