Tiny bathroom, big style: Amanda’s rosy reno with a spot for every jar

Since she works as a hairdresser, Amanda Kanerva has plenty of cosmetics at home. So, when the bathroom was updated during a plumbing renovation, she wanted a lot more storage.

“In the old bathroom, there was only an impractical sink cabinet, and I kept my jars and tubes scattered around the house,” Amanda says.

She sketched out the fixture design herself and had it custom-built at a cabinet shop in Turku, Finland.

Three cabinets were installed above the enclosure for the wall-mounted toilet. Under the countertop, which spans the entire sink wall, Amanda wanted drawers and an open shelf.

Because the custom cabinets’ delivery time was long, Amanda placed the order before the wall-mounted toilet enclosure was done. It was hard to predict the enclosure’s size ahead of time, and it turned out larger than expected.

“Luckily, the drawers fit. If I were starting again, I’d wait until after the enclosure was finished before ordering the cabinets. It would save a lot of worry.”

The rest of the home has subdued, earthy tones, but Amanda wanted color in the bathroom. She gathered ideas on Pinterest.

“There didn’t seem to be many bathroom photos out there, and most just showed light-colored tile. Pinterest had more unusual options.”

She might have gone for a pure pink herself, but with her partner, they chose burnt rose.

They also didn’t want the most typical option for the wall tile.

“We really lucked out finding a tile with a serrated texture in almost the same color as the cabinet doors,” Amanda notes.