Your bathroom decorating decor reflects your style and personality

Enhance your bathroom's performance and comfort with careful attention to detail

When considering your bathroom decorating plans, remember that the goal of any room is to reflect the lifestyles and personalities of the persons who live there. Function and comfort, along with affordable touches of luxury, are the words that describe today's trend in bathroom decor.

Take Time to Analyze Your Present Bathroom Area

Zoning is the latest trend when updating or building bathrooms

When thinking of your bathroom decorating plans consider ways to separate different areas of the room. Placing toilets, bidets, or vanities in a private, separated area makes them feel more user-friendly, while making you feel more protected and less exposed. Here are a few ideas for creating some private space between areas:

• Decorative screens
• Curtains
• Glass bricks
• Bead screening
• Half wall dividers
• or even be completely separated by doors.

Another advantage to zoning is that the room can be shared and used by more than one person at a time. If the family is large and time is limited, any extra time that can be gleaned in the morning rush is appreciated by all concerned.

With New Fixtures Available Today, You Can Decorate a Spa

• Saunas
• Steam baths
• Whirlpools
• Hot tubs
• Tanning booths
• Environmental booths (if you don't know what these are,
  I know you haven't been shopping in this area for the last five years!)
• Bidets
• Molded tubs, soft tubs, tubs that open so you can walk in

All of theses fixtures and more are available to everyone in every price range. Items that once were out of reach for the average homeowner are now affordable due to modern manufacturing methods. Think about incorporating one or more or these fixtures if you are doing major renovations.

An addition of just one of these items can give an incredible sense of luxury to your bathroom decor. With the addition of one or two of these items, along with a few small luxuries such as heated towel holders, top of the line plush towels, and a few high end personal bath products, you can decorate a spa room. This will also add value to your home when you are ready to sell and move on.

Make the most of a small bathroom

If your home is an older model built when bathrooms were much smaller, how to make the most of your space is most likely one of the priorities of your bathroom decorating project.

One of the easiest ways to give the illusion of a larger room is the generous use of mirrors. Reflections of the outdoors or other walls enhance the sense of being in a larger area. If your window faces a brick wall or other uninviting view, or if it is on a dark side of the house, consider painting it with glass paint that will let the light in and then hang a mirror in front of it.

A glass shower or tub enclosure will add to the openness of a small bathroom. Corner shower stalls and sinks free up some additional floor space.

Rather than mounting shelves and medicine cabinets on the wall, consider shelves built into the walls between the studs to make the room look more spacious.

Using light colored paint, paper, and tile surfaces in your bathroom decorating will help to visually expand the space. If it is the master bathroom, carrying the same color scheme into the bath from the bedroom will also make the space seem larger.

Efficient storage should be considered in your bathroom decorating plan

An overstuffed medicine cabinet or cluttered sink counter can be irritating and a hindrance to starting the day off in a stress free environment.

Go through the cabinets, drawers, and under the sink storage. If you are like most people, there are probably items in these areas you haven't used in years.

Throw out that $40.00 bottle of perfume that smelled great on your best friend, but made you smell like skunk cabbage. Get rid of the marvelous creams that were going to make you look 10 years younger, but needed 10 years worth of applying to work. Old medicines, half-filled shampoo bottles you'll never finish, and dirty bent Q-tips are of no use to anyone. Visit this site for a wonderful selection of cosmetics and beauty products from around the world.

Once this is done, you'll find you've eliminated half of your clutter. Now as part of your bathroom decorating ideas, start thinking of efficient and decorative storage solutions. Here is a list of storage ideas:

• Keep small items separated with draw dividers
• Hang a shower caddy in your shower or over the rim of the tub
• Hang clothing hooks on the back of the bathroom door
• Mount an antique corner cupboard in an unused niche
• Place baskets on the toilet ledge to hold small items or soaps
• Use wire baskets under the sink area to keep items organized
• Use open shelving over the toilet area for towels and linens
• Use heated towel racks for an added touch of luxury
• Large floor baskets can contain towels and facecloths,loofahs and sponges

There are no limits to the way bathroom decorating ideas can be carried out. Don't limit your shopping to bath supply stores. Bookcases, bamboo shelving, small bureaus and desks can all be used for storage.

A bathroom doesn't have to be large or elaborate to have a welcoming, relaxing ambiance. Details that are well thought out and developed with care can make your bathroom special and a restful haven of peace and relaxation.

Flowers and Greenery are always a welcome touch to Bathroom Decor

Green plants and flowers fit naturally into your bathroom decorating ideas. Ferns thrive in the humidity of the bathroom, as do philodendrons, coleus, pothos, and begonias. With water handy for watering and the damp warm atmosphere, even brown thumb gardeners can enjoy the serenity of green growing plants in the bathroom.

If you have a larger bathroom, a sumptuous touch to your bathroom decor is a comfortable upholstered chair where you can relax, surrounded by greenery, while you wait for the tub to fill or the face masque to dry.

Look for ideas in books, magazines, and the Internet

There is an abundance of decorating books and magazines available. Check out your local library or the Internet for more ideas. When looking at the pictures, don't look at the whole room. Look for a new way to use accessories, or what type of containers you might like to use for holding all your makeup brushes. Look at how mirrors and art are used as wall decorations. Notice how towels are stored, and what type of lighting is utilized.

By taking a room apart, you can find many ideas to stimulate your creativity and inborn sense of design. You'll soon have friends asking you how you came up with such a clever way of using accessories or what made you think of that interesting window treatment.

Above all, experiment, have fun, enjoy. That is what home decorating is all about!