While updating a tiny home in Milan, Anna Foresio and Pietro Carlino of Fo.Ca Studio decided to make the bathroom even smaller to let more natural light into the living area. But the miniscule bathroom size didn’t keep the design duo from building an alluring shower with undulating sea blue tiles, a handy niche, and a long, narrow window.
In a minimalist Park Slope pied-à-terre, interior designer Margaux Lafond made sure all three bathrooms felt like a vacation for her China-based clients. The inviting shower in the guest bath inverts a classic tile trope, featuring large-format speckled sage rectangles on the walls and small-format gray-green squares on the tub exterior and floor. The smoke-toned glass shower door reads green from all the reflection.
It’s difficult to make a rental feel luxurious, but Juan Carretero of Capital C Interiors managed to achieve a sense of richness in the bathroom of his compact West Village apartment by painting its ceiling bottle green. He embraced the existing checkerboard tile stripe, brought in some plants, and hung a color-block HAY shower curtain to give the tub shower some personality. “That’s really all you can do in a rental,” he says.