If you’ve ever obsessed over bathroom lighting and colour, you’ll love my warm wood and white renovation story. I’m sharing the real-life design tweaks and the secret sauce for a bathroom you’ll never tire of.

Warm Wood Bathroom Renovation Makeover

You’ve seen a few glimpses of my primary bathroom. But finally! My horizontal striped, sheer drapes were finally installed (only 2 1/2 years later 😬) so here is my official primary bath makeover reveal.

The bathroom we inherited had tiny windows installed high in the shower and the toilet room, basically a room with very little natural light. So after my good friend Jan Romanuk (who managed my entire renovation) redesigned the footprint, we installed this large window instead. It completely transformed the entire room.

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Acrylic Drapery Rod

Before the bathroom renovation

This was the before. The shower has the glass door on the left in the photo below. And the water closet is the glass door on the right. The tub in this room was located in between two open doorways. We swapped the placement of the tub and shower (below). And we created a proper closing doorway.

We needed two extra doors. One to replace the modern glass door into the water closet (above right). And another for the entrance to the bathroom. The problem was that the only spare door we had was the old closet door (keep scrolling to see more pics).

To solve this, we repurposed two doors that we removed from the two rooms I turned into my office. The challenge? They were designed for an 8-foot room, while my bathroom has 10-foot ceilings. To make them work, Jan added transom windows above both the water closet and the new dressing room entrance (which used to be a small closet and workout room). She is so clever at problem solving!

Remember the last primary bath in the rancher we lived in before this house? My vintage botanical art prints were repurposed here (above, left).

Custom Penny Tile Floor

My floor was a custom design. After the white penny tile was dry laid, I added the flowers and the border. Find more details about my bathroom floor in this post.

Below is the vanity as it appeared before. The new vanity remained in the same location, along with the water closet.

Warm wood vanity and mixed metal details

A warm wood vanity is the perfect way to add warmth to a timeless white bathroom and I repeated the warmer tones with the arched mirrors.

I also mixed metals here. Here are some guidelines for mixing metals like a pro. Because, gone are the days of needing to match ALL your metal finishes.

Here’s how I mixed different metal finishes in my bathroom. My mirror and pulls are gold/brass, but I kept the chrome faucets from the old bathroom as well as the chrome towel bars. My sconces are polished nickel. This gives the entire design a more refined feel.

Louis Wall Mirror | Margaux Kohler Faucet

More timeless white bathroom details

Another detail to note is the installation of a 5-inch matching backsplash (below right), which aligns with the height of the faucets and features an elegant ogee edge profile, continuing seamlessly along each side (below left).

Here’s the old entrance to my dressing room. We moved it to the right to make room for the walk-in shower.

Terreeia’s one request was a triple set of body shower heads — and it truly is divine. I’ve gotten so used to it that whenever I shower in a hotel, I feel like I have to run around just to get wet, haha.

And of course, no one will be surprised to see my white beveled subway tile shower. I appreciate how the finishing carpenter extended the tile visually with the moulding detail. I learned a lot about moulding details last week. Here are the most important measurements to know.

The only recessed light we have in this bathroom is one. Right above the shower. That is all you need. Any more and you’ll feel like you’re in an operating room. Terreeia requested it and uses it, I never do but she does think I’m a mole with my obsession with lamps.

Terreeia’s side of the vanity is on the right so she requested a towel hook so I looked for the prettiest one I could find in marble (no longer available).

And the beauty of a timeless white bathroom is that can add any colour you want. Just for fun, I photoshopped my water closet in an earthier green (below). So pretty, right?

I hope you enjoyed my primary bathroom makeover tour. I can help you create a timeless bathroom too!

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