Bathrooms

How to Design One of Vancouver’s Most Photographed Bathrooms

Inside a gorgeous French café in Vancouver is a bathroom you can't help but take photos of: here's how the designers made it happen.

By Neal McLennan /

One welcome surprise of Vancouver’s Mon Pitou is how much people—and Instagram—love the bathroom. We asked Alanna Dunn of Reena Sotropa In House Design Group to give us her “recipe” for a perfect WC. Here are 7 of her best tricks. (For more of this space, check out the full story here).

1. Lots of natural light.

2. An oversized floral arrangement atop a charismatic antique side table.

Bathroom with an oversized bouquet of flowers
Hakan Burcluogu

3. Carrying through Mon Pitou’s brand colour via hand-glazed emerald subway-tile wainscotting.

4. A thrifted antique hutch displaying Jesse’s collection of chintz pottery.

Pottery
Hakan Burcluogu

5. Refinished original elements of their century-plus-old building—like the repainted door and window.

6. A charming floor-tile mosaic reminiscent of the City of Love.

7. A quirky collection of art sourced at the Vancouver Flea Market.

Vintage art
Hakan Burcluogu

READ MORE: A Look Inside Mon Pitou (It’s More than Just a Bathroom, Obviously)

Neal McLennan

Neal McLennan

Neal McLennan is the wine and spirits editor for Vancouver and Western Living magazines, where he susses out the wonderful (and occasionally weird) options for imbibing across Western Canada.