10 Ways to Update Your Bathroom
10 Decorating Tricks to Easily Redecorate your Bathroom
Apr 29, 2009
A luxurious bathroom is something a lot of people dream of, a special place where you can slip away from the world and relax in blissful comfort. Use the following tips to turn your luxury bathroom dream into a reality without spending a lot of money or time.
New Faucets
Rather than spending a ton on a new bathtub or sink, simply purchase high end faucets. They’re one of the focal points in a bathroom and a bit of luxury here can help the entire fixture look new and expensive.
Monochromatic Palette
Bathrooms automatically look luxurious when they’re bathed in one color. Monochromatic color schemes are particularly useful in a bathroom and soft neutral colors are very relaxing.
Adjustable Lighting
Have all of your bathroom lights set to a dimmer switch. Flooding a bathroom with light makes it seem clean and fresh when you’re getting ready for work in the morning, but being able to turn down the light during a bath and creating a restful environment is inexpensive and definitely a treat to the senses.
Good Fabric
Select a good fabric with a small floral print to give a touch of softness to your bathroom. Use the fabric for curtains, a shower curtain, as a border, to hide exposed storage, anywhere you can think of putting it.
Work With What You’ve Got
Don’t fret if you have an ugly tub, sink or toilet; try to make it seem on purpose by using complementary or contrasting colors and patterns to give it new life and pop.
Add Tile
Bathrooms are usually fairly small in relation to the other rooms of the house so an investment in tile is more practical and a bit of tile can go a long way in a small room. Add tile where you can, the floor, as a back splash, or around the shower.
Radiant Heating
As long as you’re ripping up the floor to put in tiles, you should go the extra mile and add radiant heating, it says bathroom luxury like nothing else.
Give it Life
Adding a living element breaths life into your bathroom. Consider adding live floral arrangements, a plant, or even a small fish bowl with an aquatic critter to add the vibrant energy of life.
Add a Seat
Find a way to add a seat to your bathroom somehow. If you don’t have the room for a comfy chair, use a stool that can tuck under a vanity and if you don’t even have room for that consider a seat installed in your shower.
Little Touches
Get those little spa luxuries like a towel warmer, fragrant soaps, expensive lotions and hair products. Create attractive displays for these treasures. In this situation a little touch really can mean a lot.
To give your bathroom and elegant touch you can choose one, a couple or all of the ideas listed. The real key to creating a luxury bathroom is allowing yourself to have those little treats, you don’t need to go wild and the smaller the bathroom the less you need to do.
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