Using vintage furniture and accessories in the bathroom is great way to create a custom design in your home bathroom. Vintage furniture is ideal for the bathroom for many reasons. Vintage furniture is a great way to add storage to a small space. Vintage furniture in the bathroom is also a great way to add inexpensive art to the walls in your bathroom. Vintage furniture is a great way to provide seating in a larger bathroom. It seems that in the past decade or so most people have come to expect more from their bathrooms. Vintage furniture is a great way to get a custom look on a small budget or a big budget. Here are some ideas to get you started using vintage furniture in your bathroom.
A vintage wooden chair is great piece of furniture that will add seating to a casual large bathroom. Cover the seat of the furniture in vintage fabric or even in terry cloth. This is comfortable seating as well as great designer flare in you home bathroom.
A vintage dresser adds immediate storage to any bathroom. Many vintage dressers are smaller than the larger piece of furniture produced today. This small size is great for a bathroom. I know a lot people turn an old vintage dresser in to a bathroom counter, but why not do the unexpected and set it next to your pedestal sink or existing counter. The furniture can stand alone and add some additional counter space. Another option would be to turn a vintage dresser into a laundry hamper for your bathroom. Remove the drawers from the piece of furniture. Take the front off of each drawer and reattach them to the front of the dresser with screws, nails, or wood glue. Remove the top of the dresser and reattach it with a piano hinge. This will allow you to flip up the top and throw laundry in. If you have a laundry shoot in the floor of your vintage bathroom cut the bottom of the dresser out with a jigsaw and place the dresser over the laundry shoot. It adds a great vintage touch to your bathroom while serving a function.
Small vintage chairs and other small vintage furniture are great hung on a bathroom walls as shelving. One small chair over the toilet on the wall will not take of much space in your bathroom and will be very unexpected. Screw the chair or piece of furniture into the wall and place a great potted plant or some reading material on the seat. Better yet take some vintage boots, put some potted flowers inside of them and place the boots on the vintage chair. This will really impress your guests and add some shelving to your bathroom at the same time.
If you have extra floor space in your bathroom try stacking some vintage trunks there. This adds storage for items you don’t use on a daily bases while creating a unique look in your bathroom. Make sure your vintage trunks can stand the test of time in you humid bathroom though!
Vintage buckets are a great way to add storage to a bathroom. A vintage bucket set on the floor in your bathroom can hold anything from soap to towels. Smaller vintage buckets can be hung from existing towel bars with S hooks. You can fill them with bath oils, bath salts, soap, hand towels, and washrags. You could also put small toothpastes and little items your guest might forget when they are visiting you. A larger vintage bucket is perfect as a hamper, to hold towels, and to even hold rolls of toilet paper. The possibilities are endless. If you have a small bathroom why no try hanging your vintage buckets vertically to save space. This adds vintage art to the wall that can double as storage.
For a final added vintage touch to your bathroom why not try using vintage fabric for a custom shower curtain? You can find everything form old bolts of vintage fabric to vintage table clothes that are perfect making a custom shower curtain to compliment the vintage furniture in your bathroom!
