Molding in the bathroom is an often overlooked design feature. Who thinks about crown molding or raised panels in the john? But our question: Why wouldn’t you?
As much design poetry you’ll read with words like ‘oasis’ and ‘refuge’—and it’s true—what gets lost is what we really use the bathroom for. Everyone knows what happens next when you say “I’m going to the bathroom”. Note: We all know you’re not going to ‘oasis’ in there 99% of the time.
It’s for this reason molding in the bathroom makes the mundane magic—along with the few moments of bubble bath and whatever other booya happens in your area.
In fact, I’m now on a mission. I’ve hung a lot of crown molding, for example, in dining rooms that get used once per year. Heck, the bathroom gets used more on that once-a-year day than the dining room.
So you see where we’re going here. And we like to start with molding that gives you the design options to make nooks and wide-open spaces destinations for the eye and the soul (yes, we’re talking about going #2 and the soul all at the same time; we’re that good).
Pilasters, cornice and panels can make a tub that (A) almost never gets used or (B) that always gets used a focal point to either highlight or hide it. With urethane moldings like the Fypon shown here, the water that splashes out of the tub (yes, we have children) will not destroy it.
For the crown shown below, one of the things that makes molding in the bathroom a challenge sometimes is the major humidity swings. Urehtane is stable and your caulk beads will stay closed and cool looking.
From the fancy to the DIY, molding in the bathroom makes #2 a #1 design priority in our book.
