The Complete Bathroom Buying Guide
Bathrooms are small, which makes them one of the easiest rooms in the house to genuinely transform without a big renovation. Here's where to focus.
Wallpaper is the highest-impact purchase
Because a bathroom is a small square footage, it's one of the best places in the house to commit to a bold wallpaper pattern. Our Tempaper x Novogratz collection is steam and moisture resistant, so it's built to hold up in the humidity a bathroom sees daily. Daisy Bloom brings graphic, oversized personality that makes a real statement even in a small powder room, while Family of Cranes in Waverly Green offers a softer, more natural feel for a primary bathroom.
Choose your wall carefully
Peel-and-stick wallpaper needs a smooth, satin or semi-gloss painted surface to adhere well, which most bathrooms already have thanks to that finish's own moisture resistance. It's meant for walls, not surfaces that get directly and repeatedly soaked, so think vanity wall or the wall opposite the shower rather than the inside of the shower stall itself.
Consider a smaller pattern for a powder room
A powder room is usually the smallest bathroom in the house, and often the best candidate for your boldest pattern choice. Zebra Marble brings abstract, graphic movement in black and white, while Painted Lips, a collaboration piece with loose, hand-drawn brushstrokes, makes a genuinely memorable statement in a space guests will actually notice.
A single roll often covers the whole room
Because bathrooms are typically under 30 square feet of wall space total, a single roll of wallpaper, at roughly 28 square feet, is often enough to cover the entire room, making this one of the more affordable full-room refreshes available.
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