I agree with groveraxle, with a small caveat - if you're not very experienced with how paint colors change in different rooms with different light and so on, then I like to try out a couple of samples of colors I THINK I'm likely to want before I go shopping for furnishings/art/etc. (I just paint on thick card or something so I can move the sample around in the room and between rooms.) My reason for this is that it can be quite hard to make some color schemes work in some rooms and I don't want to be in love with a rug/piece of art/etc. and only find out once I try to decorate the room around it that the room itself is fighting me. (For example, my parents have a room which only gets REALLY warm natural light due to the angle of the sun when it hits the windows. So some colors look VERY different in there compared to elsewhere in the house.) For example - I have the idea I probably wanted my new bedroom to be some shade of gray. What I'm going to do is get some sample pots of gray paint that looks appealing to me and test them in the room. Some will probably appeal more than others in the room, so then I'll let those guide me in looking for other items - not trying to match the paint, but looking for a light cool gray versus a darker warm gray, that sort of thing. Then once I have the soft items selected I'll find the exact shade of paint I use from there. (Which might end up being the sample I already had, or might need a custom mix, etc.) I think if you're a designer or do this a lot you start getting a better idea of how rooms will influence colors and can just imagine it, so you don't need to do the first step as much. You can just look at a room and tell things are likely to read warm or cool or whatever.

I've been thinking of you,Fragle - I remember those sleepless nights when the babies first came home and everyone was sleep deprived but life-as -always still had to go on, esp for Mommy. So happy for you that you have a 'good' baby, I love the name too:-)

About your plumber saying "plumb layout is confirmed". That is a load of rubbish. It's fairly easy to move drains around (yes he might have to rip up some walls, but he can also do off-the-wall installations to avoid that). In a small bath proper placement is of the utmost importance!!! If you have the bathtub and shower next to each other that will be much better and then the glass separator idea should work. padmaramachandran's (see post above) setup sounds more reasonable to me as well (see first picture below). This is similar to your setup but as you have more space you could put in bath tub and shower where the picture only shows a bath tub. Also if you do it that way you could theoretically have a bidet or a wider wash basin (small double perhaps too). Example layout: Do you need a bathtub in the guest bath? If not you have a lot more room to work with. E.g. for a double wash basin and large walking shower and a bidet (2nd picture). Example of off-the-wall installation for toilet and bidet and a large walking shower. Finally if you ignore this advice and do it the way you planned ;) then I suggest you really thing about that glass separator. Doing it right will make a lot of difference (see 3rd picture). Good luck!

Hi! What was your final decision? I am also working on my tiny WC and came to the following conclusions (after 2 months spent in tile shops, looking through houzz and pinterest photos). The tiles in small spaces: 1. Should reflect. The space should not be matt and absorb the light. The glazed tile reflects the objects like a mirror and creates depth. 2. Should not be oversized. When you like the big tiles on the photo you posted - just adore them at the picture. they will not go to a tine space. Compare the size of the bathroom and the size of the tile. Try to imagine the pattern. 3. Don't be mislead by professional designs and photos (like the ones you posted and you like). Most of them are the bathrooms which are really huge in size. So the tiles that are on the picture will not go for your project. You want a small SPA oasis? Forget about concrete and metal look and all the things like that. I took a sample of concrete tile in my bath... really you feel uncomfortable, when you step on the concrete barefoot, Though I have floor heating , I wouldn't go barefoot. Its concrete!:))) Concrete is good for a big loft or industrial design, I think. 5. For a SPA - look I would opt either for the mosaic (which is classical for SPA, but be careful with that. May be monochromatic or achromatic) or wood optic tiles combined with warm white tones. 6. Much color in small bathrooms is not a good option. It is better to add it with accessories. Moreover you can change the look just by replacing your turqoise towels by grey ones. You can add dynamics only by choosing not a typical size of the white tile and making an interesting pattern. For example, for my tiny WC i have 25x75 cm tiles and will put them in a brick wall style. What I have chosen for my tiny WC is a wood optic (very light) tile for the floor and white tiles for the walls. They will cover the wall by 120 cm. The rest of the wall will be covered with wallpaper (navy blue or dark gray). Or may be just painted. Wish you good luck!