Designing a Petite Bathroom

I have been in the process of renovating my bathrooms for about one year. The guest bathroom was easier to design because it was a standard size, meaning I had I enough room to put a 24 inch vanity and a regular toilet in the same wall without having problems with inspection standards.

I had an idea of what I wanted to do for that bathroom and after doing lots of research, I was able to create what I wanted. I even added a second medicine cabinet which I now use as an apothecary in the place where I used to have an old fashion laundry basket.

For my vanity and medicine cabinet I used the Restoration Hardware's Cartwright Collection. I had no option but to use the powder room size vanity but I increase the storage with the extra-large medicine cabinet.

But by the time I moved to my master bathroom, I found lots of difficulties. Beside it being much smaller than my guest bathroom, I had weird walls and columns that I needed to add to my equation.

For more information about my guest bathroom, click here.

How to Create More Storage in a Petite Bathroom

I have been renovating my bathrooms for about 1 year, an a major problem I found was trying to find storage. With the renovation, I need to stick to building codes and as I result I need to decrease from a standard 24 inch vanity to a 20 inch wide vanity.
In that process, I had to get creative with what to do to add storage. I knew switching to a pedestal sink was going to be significant on regards storage and after lots of compromising with my husband I won the battle and got a custom made vanity 20 inch wide vanity.

Other things that we could do to add storage to a bathroom is:

• Take measurements of your vanity and see how big can you go with a vanity, if not,
• Buying a 6 inch-deep mirror medicine cabinet (rather than the conventional 4 inch deep). This way you can store more product and not sacrifice the look of the bathroom. Important to know that you need to know the cavity hole for the medicine cabinet before ordering/buying the medicine cabinet. I you don't mind the couple of inches off the wall, then go for it. But if you can't, then you can't. 
• You also have the option of adding a toilet-topper cabinet (about 9 inches deep) over the toilet. You can buy some pre-made which stand over the toilet, or you can hang one of the wall. Depending of the look you want, if you already have a mirror cabinet then you can add a mirrorless medicine cabinet there too. If it can be inset, it would look better design wise.
• You can also add a decorative tower of shelves in a corner of your bathroom.
• Add hooks where ever you need. Remember that the over the door hooks look temporary and unorganized. The sooner you decide the location and number of hooks you want to add to your door, the better it would look design wise. 
• I've seen people adding basket on the back of their bathroom doors for toiler paper, towels  spares and/ or toiletries.
• See if you can buy soap dispensers and/or toothbrush holders that go on the wall in order to clean out your vanity. It will not change the design and it will make your live so much easier.

I'm still working on my bathroom and I will eventually add pictures to this post, but if you have any other ideas to add storage in a petite bathroom, please let me know.