Inspiration for a transitional powder room in Melbourne with multi-coloured walls, a console sink, black floor and wallpaper.

Matthew Millman
Photo of a contemporary powder room in Los Angeles with flat-panel cabinets, black cabinets, a wall-mount toilet, multi-coloured walls, medium hardwood floors, a console sink and brown floor.

Photo of a mid-sized traditional powder room in Houston with multi-coloured walls, slate floors, a console sink, marble benchtops and grey floor.

Eric Roth Photography
Inspiration for an eclectic powder room in Boston with open cabinets, a one-piece toilet, white tile, purple walls, marble floors, a console sink and marble benchtops.

Martha O'Hara Interiors, Interior Design | REFINED LLC, Builder | Troy Thies Photography | Shannon Gale, Photo Styling
Inspiration for a mid-sized traditional powder room in Minneapolis with a console sink, a two-piece toilet, dark hardwood floors and brown floor.

Villa Marcès - Réaménagement et décoration d'un appartement, 94 - Une attention particulière est apportée aux toilettes, tant au niveau de l'esthétique de de l'ergonomie.

I am glad to present a new project, Powder room design in a modern style. This project is as simple as it is not ordinary with its solution. The powder room is the most typical, small. I used wallpaper for this project, changing the visual space - increasing it. The idea was to extend the semicircular corridor by creating additional vertical backlit niches. I also used everyone's long-loved living moss to decorate the wall so that the powder room did not look like a lifeless and dull corridor. The interior lines are clean. The interior is not overflowing with accents and flowers. Everything is concise and restrained: concrete and flowers, the latest technology and wildlife, wood and metal, yin-yang.

Photo of a contemporary powder room in Yekaterinburg with flat-panel cabinets, beige cabinets, beige tile and a console sink.

Inspiration for a contemporary powder room in Florence with green tile, white walls, a console sink and multi-coloured floor.

Design ideas for a traditional powder room in Salt Lake City with light wood cabinets, blue walls, light hardwood floors, a console sink, brown floor and white benchtops.

Andrea Rugg Photography
Small traditional powder room in Minneapolis with recessed-panel cabinets, white cabinets, a two-piece toilet, white walls, a console sink and white floor.

Reed Brown Photography
Design ideas for a transitional powder room in Nashville with purple walls, a console sink, marble benchtops and white benchtops.

Photography by Daniel O'Connor
Photo of a small eclectic powder room in Denver with a one-piece toilet, blue walls, porcelain floors, multi-coloured floor, flat-panel cabinets, grey cabinets and a console sink.

Design ideas for a small transitional powder room in London with blue walls, a console sink and brown floor.

Meet Meridith: a super-mom who’s as busy as she is badass  — and easily my favorite overachiever. She slays her office job and comes home to an equally high-octane family life. We share a love for city living with farmhouse aspirations. There’s a vegetable garden in the backyard, a black cat, and a floppy eared rabbit named Rocky. There has been a mobile chicken coop and a colony of bees in the backyard. At one point they even had a pregnant hedgehog on their hands! Between gardening, entertaining, and helping with homework, Meridith has zero time for interior design. Spending several days a week in New York for work, she has limited amount of time at home with her family. My goal was to let her make the most of it by taking her design projects off her to do list and let her get back to her family (and rabbit). I wanted her to spend her weekends at her son's baseball games, not shopping for sofas. That’s my cue! Meridith is wonderful. She is one of the kindest people I know. We had so much fun, it doesn’t seem fair to call this “work”. She is loving, and smart, and funny. She’s one of those girlfriends everyone wants to call their own best friend. I wanted her house to reflect that: to feel cozy and inviting, and encourage guests to stay a while. Meridith is not your average beige person, and she has excellent taste. Plus, she was totally hands-on with design choices. It was a true collaboration. We played up her quirky side and built usable, inspiring spaces one lightbulb moment at a time. I took her love for color (sacré blue!) and immediately started creating a plan for her space and thinking about her design wish list. I set out hunting for vibrant hues and intriguing patterns that spoke to her color palette and taste for pattern. I focused on creating the right vibe in each space: a bit of drama in the dining room, a bit more refined and quiet atmosphere for the living room, and a neutral zen tone in their master bedroom. Her stuff. My eye. Meridith’s impeccable taste comes through in her art collection. The perfect placement of her beautiful paintings served as the design model for color and mood. We had a bit of a chair graveyard on our hands, but we worked with some key pieces of her existing furniture and incorporated other traditional pieces, which struck a pleasant balance. French chairs, Asian-influenced footstools, turned legs, gilded finishes, glass hurricanes – a wonderful mash-up of traditional and contemporary. Some special touches were custom-made (the marble backsplash in the powder room, the kitchen banquette) and others were happy accidents (a wallpaper we spotted via Pinterest). They all came together in a design aesthetic that feels warm, inviting, and vibrant — just like Meridith! We built her space based on function. We asked ourselves, “how will her family use each room on any given day?” Meridith throws legendary dinner parties, so we needed curated seating arrangements that could easily switch from family meals to elegant entertaining. We sought a cozy eat-in kitchen and decongested entryways that still made a statement. Above all, we wanted Meredith’s style and panache to shine through every detail. From the pendant in the entryway, to a wild use of pattern in her dining room drapery, Meredith’s space was a total win. See more of our work at www.safferstone.com. Connect with us on Facebook, get inspired on Pinterest, and share modern musings on life & design on Instagram. Or, share what's on your plate with us at hello@safferstone.com. Photo: Angie Seckinger

Mid-sized transitional powder room in Portland with white walls, dark hardwood floors, a console sink and brown floor.

Interior Design: Lucy Interior Design Builder: Claremont Design + Build Photography: SPACECRAFTING
Transitional powder room in Minneapolis with multi-coloured walls and a console sink.

Design ideas for an industrial powder room in Moscow with a two-piece toilet and a console sink.

Donna Dotan Photography
Inspiration for a traditional powder room in New York with a console sink, a one-piece toilet, black walls and mosaic tile floors.