INSPIRATION: Put the "Pow" in Powder Room

Powder rooms by definition are short on space, but that doesn’t mean they have to be bland little boxes. Are you ready to turn yours into your own little jewel box?

This formal powder room in Dallas has a 19th-century French marquetry commode with gilt bronze mounts. The carved and gilded Italian mirror is also from the 19th century.

Traditional Powder Room by Dallas General Contractors Isler Homes

This sleek New York powder room includes wallpaper with a metallic weave, chevron-patterened floor tiles and a vintage-style sink with a marble top.

Transitional Bathroom by Scarsdale Interior Designers & Decorators Clean Design

This glamorous mid-century bath in Los Angeles features a chandelier-like drooping pendant light that produces a definite wow effect.

Midcentury Powder Room by Venice Interior Designers & Decorators Shelby Wood Design

A glimpse of an inner space — like the arched alcove that designer Anne Miller provides here — makes a powder room feel larger.

ERIC PIASECKI

Simple, no-nonsense design is effortless chic.

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This iron garden ornament was brought indoors by designers Bobby McAlpine and Susan Ferrier. A stone platform raises the urn's inset basin to conventional sink height.

Enchanted forest meets princely bower, thanks to HB Home's pairing of woodland wallpaper with an inlaid cabinet they converted into a vanity. Designer Laura Kirar adapted antique Moroccan fretwork panels to transform a dark leftover space below a stairway into an alluring Orientalist jewel box.

A Phillip Jeffries wallpaper lines the walls of a chic Monte Carlo powder room designed by Timothy Whealon.

Dark powder rooms always have a chicness about them.

This elegant powder room in Brisbane, Australia, includes a black vanity and a bold striped black and white painted ceiling.

Modern Bathroom by Brisbane Interior Designers & Decorators James Dawson Interiors

Small rooms can handle big impact items.

Powder room designed by Carleton Varney.

This eclectic New York City powder room has gone to the birds.

Transitional Powder Room by Brooklyn Architects & Building 

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