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Powder Room Think

October 11, 2010 by Jane F 1 Comment

monochromatic traditional powder room with furniture sink cabinet, sconces and mirror - Bettancourt Solis via Atticmag
Today, the  traditional powder room focuses on a trio of key decorative elements.

Traditional powder room design is becoming as easy as one, two, three:

1. Convert a piece of furniture — preferably vintage or antique into a vanity.
2. Add a decorative mirror and a pair of sconces over it.
3. Plan a tile or wall treatment to add surface interest.

tiled wall traditional powder room with vessel sink of open table, mirror and sconces - via Atticmag
Even top pros like Washington, D.C. designer José Solis Betancourt and Southern design guru Phoebe Howard are profiting from these three steps to create pretty guest baths. But the work looked so similar, when we mixed it up here it  became challenging to unravel who did what.

traditional powder room with a vessel sink on open table vanity with round mirror - via AtticmagFor me, the issue is whether clients have been conditioned to want this “universal powder room” or designers do it because it’s the conventional wisdom and there’s fair profit in converting antiques. Nothing wrong with that.

traditional powder room - bathroom sink vanity made from antique furniture with marble counter - Trad Home via AtticmagAnd I have no argument with the tastefulness — these are all lovely. I do feel they suffer from the safety of sameness, perhaps in reaction to a troubled housing market or more likely tunnel vision on the part of the print press  — magazines — that repeat the same looks over and over.

traditional powder room - vessel sink on Mediterranean style furniture made into vanity, mirror and pair of sconces - via Atticmag
(Sources: Solis Betancourt, Phoebe Howard, Trad Home)

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