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Shabby Chic Bathroom

By: Evelina Nilsson
Shabby Chic Bathroom Vintage Decor Ideas 13

The idea of the shabby chic bathroom is to combine softness and roughness. The softness is seen from its romantic touches like flowers and feminine colors.

Meanwhile, its rustic, vintage furniture and decoration radiate the roughness in a unique, pleasant way.

You can play with ruffles or lace and then mix them up with vintage-inspired items. To inspire you, we have provided 22 examples of shabby chic bathroom ideas below.

Blue Shabby Chic Bathroom

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This example achieves a pleasant shabby chic design. The placement of the bathtub and vanity makes the bathroom looks spacious.

It provides a handful of space to move around. The baby blue paint complements the white theme perfectly, accentuating the vintage ornaments placed around the room.

Small Shabby Chic Bathroom in Attic

Shabby Chic Bathroom Shower Curtains

As a shabby chic bathroom design includes vintage items, this example wants to show off its classic ruffled shower curtain and vintage lace sink curtain. These unique features will certainly become the focus of the room.

However, to deceive the small attic space appearance, combining white and soft pink is a brilliant idea to make the room seems larger and airy. To strengthen the shabby chic feminine touch, provide pink roses as decoration.

Shabby Chic Style Bathroom with Beadboard

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This shabby chic bathroom is showing its vibrant pink color. The wallpaper is a compilation of boxes of different flowers. How cute is that?

If such vivacious accents were accompanied by plain white, it would look heavy on the top. To balance the wallpaper, the homeowner chose blue, which is a color often used as the opposite of pink.

To neutralize both colors, white still can be seen from some furniture. The choice of floral tiles is also creative. It brings a unique character to the bathroom, too.

Pink Shabby Chic Bathtub for A Girly Girl

Shabby Chic Bathroom Tiles

This bathroom looks extremely chic from top to toe. It can be seen that pink dominates the bathroom’s interior design.

It colors many things, such as curtains, walls, grey and pink checkered tiles, bathtub and even the flower pots.

Soaking your body in this tub, surrounded by such a chic atmosphere, it certainly will relax you!

Shabby Chic Bathroom Vanity

Shabby Chic Bathroom Shower Curtains

The ruffled shower curtain here looks gorgeous. It is shown pleasantly, accentuated against the white bathroom tiles.

Adding to the vintage value of this shabby chic bathroom, the homeowner has chosen a restored vintage vanity with a single sink.

Soft Pink Shabby Chic Bathroom Color

Shabby Chic Bathroom Shower Curtains

Talking about a shabby chic bathroom for your little girl, you need to come up with a youthful, vibrant color, such as this soft pink. It radiates energy and cheerfulness, which is very appropriate for her.

Enough to paint only the wall area with pink and the rest is painted in white. To increase the functionality, make sure the bathroom has large storage for either bathroom essentials or-it could happen-her dolls and other toys.

Luxury Shabby Chic Bathroom with Clawfoot Tub

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Having a large space for a bathroom?

No problem.

The spacious bathroom can be transformed into a lavish shabby chic bathroom. To accentuate the lavishness, choose a bathtub with golden claw feet.

The feet will scream an artistic value, yet the golden color itself will add luxury. Accompany the bathtub with a classic vintage armchair whose paint has been flaky and chipped. As worn out as it may appear, the chair strengthens the shabby feel.

Pink Ambience in A Shabby Chic Bathroom

Shabby Chic Bathroom

This example emits a soft baby pink ambience throughout the area.

The softness of the pink from shower amenities and the wall is reflected by the whiteness of the bathroom tiles, tub, and the wall accents.

From such atmosphere, you can truly feel the feminine shabby chic vibe.

Classic Vintage Tiles for A Shabby Chic Bathroom

Shabby Chic Bathroom

Having a vibrant wallpaper in front of your bathroom? Don’t hide it away!

Accentuate its strong lively color by applying white in your bathroom. From this vantage point, the wallpaper outside can truly be seen.

Moreover, to make the bathroom shabby, the pentagon tiles really add the astonishment.

A Modest Shabby Chic Bathroom Vanity and A Repurposed Mirror

Shabby Chic Bathroom Vanity

See an old, rustic picture frame?

Take it and transform it into a more valuable piece. Repaint it with white and make it a bathroom mirror. As a shabby chic bathroom essential, this repurposed mirror will elevate the chic vibe.

Moreover, the vintage single vanity provides not only sufficient storage but also a classic elegant look.

To give a touch of a girly feel, place a ceramic pot of roses. Even the bathroom curtain also has a red floral print on it. This example is such a perfect mixture of modesty and shabby.

A Lace Shabby Chic Vanity Cabinet Curtain

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This example shows a unique vintage bathroom vanity. From this vantage point, the vanity looks weathered. There are some scratches on the cabinet doors.

However, those scratches are left as they are and it adds to the shabby chic feel.

Besides the cabinet doors, the open storages are covered by antique white lace curtains. The lace brings a girlish feel to this baby blue colored room.

A Lavish Shabby Chic Bathroom with Clawfoot Tub

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A spacious bathroom space must be used carefully. Make it lavish by installing huge windows inviting natural light as well as giving a view for a relaxing bath.

From the tub, it has claw feet made in gold color, which is a strong yet suitable match for the tub. These golden feet are accompanied by antique and unique pendant chandeliers above the tub.

Moreover, the floral print curtains have vibrant colors, such as the bright, highlighted green on the windows and the one with huge flower print on it covering the bathtub area.

Taking an enjoyable bath here will rejuvenate your mind as the atmosphere is very calming.

Red Roses Print Shabby Chic Bathroom Curtains

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A shabby chic bathroom is known to be very close with a floral pattern.

Sometimes, homeowners choose to apply the flower on several parts only, but in this example, the roses can be seen in many parts.

Firstly, the rollover curtains. The design is similar to those printed on the bathrobe, towel, and tiles. To make the print more realistic, on this pristine white background, several pots of actual red roses are placed near the window.

Then, our eyes are attracted to the rustic wooden plank near the tub. With such a perfect combination between the floral touch and the vintage element, this shabby chic bathroom is truly one of a kind.

Shabby Chic Bathroom Mounted Wall Storage

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The problem with bathroom vanity is the surface can be messy because one person may have a lot of things, such as bathroom amenities, skincare bottles or jars and more.

To make it neat, you can mount some antique bottle holders like the ones displayed in this example.

The details are unique and one of a kind. Especially, the pink roses placed next to it adds the feminine feel.

Weathered Shabby Chic Bathroom Drawers

Shabby Chic Bathroom Vanity

This shabby chic bathroom has a clean white background. Against such a clean color, there are the vintage shabby drawers. The drawer has been repainted with a soft pink color, but we can still see some weathered marks and scratches.

Above this antique furniture, there is an old-fashioned mirror. The mirror has a half-circle shape on the top and a square shape on the bottom. The fading silver color seems natural and accompanying the antique drawers perfectly.

Soft Baby Pink Shabby Chic Bathroom

Shabby Chic Bathroom Shower Curtains

A shabby chic bathroom uses colors that are soft and feminine. This example utilizes a mixture of white and pastel pink.

The white dominates the bathroom, while the pastel pink becomes the accent on some areas, like the detail on the vanity, floral print on the vase, cover on the stool and the curtain.

This example is suitable for your daughter as the bright color would somehow prompt her cheerfulness.

A Vintage Wooden Chair with Floral Print Cover

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This shabby chic bathroom has it all. It has the vibrant bright color that a chic room needs; white.

Then, it has a red rose printed on its ceramic tiles, making you feel gorgeous. The floral print is extended to the curtain which has a similar design pattern.

Then, for a vintage touch, the bathroom has a unique antique mirror mounted just above the bathtub. But the one that stands out the most is the vintage wooden chair near the bathtub.

The chair’s wooden structure seems weathered and distressed. Its paint also seems flaky. That adds up to the shabby chic feel in the room.

Not to mention that the chair’s cushion is covered by a pink floral pattern fabric.

A Relaxing Girly Shabby Chic Bathroom

Shabby Chic Bathroom

Other than able to alter the size of a room, color is also capable of setting an atmosphere. Hoping for a shabby chic bathroom that is full of spirit and joy?

Well, the combination of vintage furniture and the perfect choice of colors is the key. This example shows that the homeowner has chosen to utilize white and pink.

The white is used for most of the room’s parts, while pink can be seen in several parts only, balancing the brightness.

Let’s say pink is way too girly, but you’re still hoping for a calming shabby chic ambience. You can replace the pink with soft baby blue or neutral colors, such as grey.

Vintage Elements in A Shabby Chic Bathroom

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It is common that a shabby chic bathroom must possess vintage furniture. This example represents the idea. It shows a unique fanlight mirror above the modest white sink. The mirror is guarded by two mounted light fixtures.

Moving down, the outer part of the wall is unique too. It has these rectangular braces which bring an eye-pleasing sight.

Then, seeing the modern, minimalist window, it is covered by a white lace drapes which glamorously flowing from the top to the bottom. The choice of colors here is worthy of praise as well. The rose pink color brings a nice visual contrast to the white.

A Separate Bathtub and Shower Shabby Chic Bathroom

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With a spacious area, the bathroom can provide a separate section for each the bathtub area and the shower area.

Here, the bathtub area is located next to the windows, barred by the see-through curtain.

Meanwhile, the shower area is located privately behind the tub. Its entrance is guarded by the floral print curtain.

Looking down, this shabby chic bathroom feels a bit farmhouse because the room’s flooring is a hard concrete.

However, that and other elements, such as the vintage stool below the hangers, make this bathroom truly shabby.

Floor Mat Out of Old Fabric

Shabby Chic Bathroom Vanity

Since a shabby chic design prioritizes modesty, this example is truly inspirational. Having old, unused clothes? Don’t throw them away!

You can recycle them into a floor mat like this. If you want to organize the color so it matches your shabby chic bathroom theme, you can separate each color.

However, if you are flexible, then mixing all colors would be fun. This is not only creative, but also economical.


Other shabby chic style ideas to try:


Repurposed Door Knob for Towel Hanger

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Found an old, rickety door? Take the doorknob and recycle it into this functional towel hooks.

If the original paint has gone, repaint it with your desired color. Mount two hooks on the knob’s bottom.

Make sure you measure the distance between the knobs correctly. Mount the towel hooks somewhere where you feel convenient taking or hooking towels.

Checkered Tiles in A Shabby Chic Bathroom

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This shabby chic bathroom combines a pink rose color, white and olive green. The pink, especially, can be seen decorating the wall, the outer part of the tub, the flower pots and the bathroom’s drapes.

The drapes are a bit different because they have roses printed on them. They are tied using lime green-colored ribbons.

Meanwhile, the tiles become the center of attraction as well. It has a checkered pattern. The pattern here uses both shades of pink and olive green, making the bathroom looks lively!