20 Design Hacks For Your Vintage Bathroom

If you’re in the midst of designing a vintage inspired bathroom you might have recently found yourself short on creative ideas. Typically the easy part of the project is the larger design elements. Fixtures can be figured out by way of the Internet.  Flooring can be designed by visiting one of our locations and talking with our consultants.

But when you get to down to the details it’s sometimes tough to reimagine ways to use things that will look good in bathroom inspired by design from a century ago. Fret not! Here are 20 snazzy ideas for ways to decorate and store common bathroom items!

1. Old, wooden step stool with 2-3 steps used as a towel rack.
2. Old, wooden crates to hold magazines.
3. Vintage wall mirrors hung over the sink.
4. Small drawers removed from an old wooden desk to store toiletries.
5. Old-school hard sided suitcase for extra toilet paper and bathroom sundries.
6. Crystal knobs mounted on the wall to hang towels and clothes.
7. Chalkboard.
8. Baskets hung on the wall facing outward, like shelves.
9. Glass jars with tin lids for Q-tips, cotton balls, etc.
10. Tin pail to hold a plant or flower arrangement.
11. Antique laundry washboard hung on the wall as décor.
12. Bath products with vintage, apothecary style labeling.
13. Apothecary cabinet for storing and neatly organizing toiletries.
14. Antique hand held mirror(s) lying on a surface or hung on the wall as décor.
15. Vintage lace curtains.
16. Soaking tub rack that fits across your claw foot tub and holds soap, a candle, reading materials.
17. Antique chandelier.
18. Old, tall wooden stool for setting things on or for leaning on when needed.
19. Repurposed vintage door.
20. Old sink faucet handles mounted on the wall to hang things.