Decorating Your Bathroom on a Budget
Are you dissatisfied with the way your bathroom looks, and is it just too expensive to remodel the room? Your bath’s atmosphere and appearance can really be changed without having to spend too much money. Sure, no one goes to your home just to see your bathroom, but people certainly do use it. When it comes to the appearance of your home and visitors, it all holds similar importance, even the bathroom must look as beautiful as possible. With the tips and ideas in this article you will be on your way to redecorating and updating the most used room in your home.
There are lots of people with a bathroom so small that nearly everything is touching and there is barely enough space to walk around in it. Even is this situation you can actually make the room look charming.
Paint Can Work Miracles
Paint can do nearly anything. Paint your ceiling bright white, and your walls a pale or pastel shade of sand, peach or buttercup yellow if you have a small bathroom. Paint all trim around the floors and doors white to add interesting contrast. You can use deep, rich colors instead, and you can get away with it if you have a large bathroom. A large bathroom really benefits from colors like mauve, burgundy and forest green.
Give Life to the Walls
Your bathroom, even if it’s small needs something for the walls; if the walls don’t have anything they may look dull and boring. Placing wood or wicker shelves over the toilet is something to consider. Flea markets and resale stores are good places to find these, and with a little cleaning and a bit of paint it’ll all be good to go. Top shelves with candles, jars filled with cotton balls or miscellaneous items, and other colorful accents. Top shelves with colorful accents, candles and jars filled with cotton balls or potpourri.
Mirrors are very necessary in a bathroom, especially in a small one. Something to think about is hanging another mirror on the wall opposite your vanity so that you can reflect light and add dimension to the room. Hang a large print on a single wall that is brightly colored to further lighten up a smaller bathroom. The clutter of using too many pictures, sconces and such may actually make the room look smaller.
The BEST Tip of All
Your bathroom’s appearance can be instantly improved upon, but what exactly will do that? Buying new shower curtains! Livening up the room is easy if you use a brightly colored print, but you can also use a solid colored one just as long as it complements the colors of the décor. You can make curtains for the window and a cover for the waste basket if you buy an extra shower curtain. You won’t have busted your budget, and it will make your bathroom look well put together.
A nice touch to any bathroom, no matter the size, is wicker baskets filled with soaps, rolled up washcloths and small lotions. Placing a large plant in the corner of a large bathroom should be considered. You should keep floors to a light shade in smaller bathrooms whenever possible.
By mixing in a few of your ideas with these tips, you will have a bathroom that you truly enjoy looking at.
For the past 25 years Avo Barsoumian has helped home owners with their home flooring and interior decorating needs. He is the owner of Carpet Wagon, a family owned flooring installation company in Glendale. They have a huge selection of elegant hardwood flooring, beautiful laminate flooring and plush carpeting. It doesn’t matter whether your searching for floor laminate for your new town home or cheap carpet to remodel your older home then Carpet Wagon has exactly what you’re looking for.
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