How to decorate a bathroom?

The bathroom is the most magical place where after a hard day you can relax, take a bath and even, if you're lucky, have a cup of coffee. To make the pleasure of water procedures more complete, you need to be comfortable and cozy. It is not difficult to make the bathroom such a pleasant place, it is enough to choose the plumbing and furnishings to your liking. It does not matter if you have made a new repair or if you want to refine the old one, there is always the opportunity to change something to your liking. How to decorate a bathroom with your own hands? Consider some interesting ideas in this article.

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What to consider when decorating a bathroom?

If you decide to get down to business and decorate the bathroom with your own hands, then first of all, you need to carry out a general cleaning in it. Clean the bathtub, tile, wipe the mirror, get rid of empty tubes. After all these events, you need to look around and decide how you would like to see this place.

Consider the following points:

• Decorations for the bathroom should not only be beautiful, stylish and original, but also functional. If you decide to make any bathroom accessories with your own hands, for example, a towel holder, then it should be in a suitable shape for placing and drying textiles.

Important! Also consider the size of your shower. Do not put a huge laundry basket in a small room - it will look ridiculous, no matter how you arrange it.

• For jewelry, you need to select the appropriate materials that are not afraid of water, soap foam and steam.
• All the items that you select for the design of your bathroom should be designed in the same style or at least somehow combined with each other.
• Keep in mind that there should not be too many different things. A pile of various jars and bottles with various hair and body care products will not create comfort, but will cause a semblance of disorder and chaos. They are best removed away from the eyes in the hanging or pull-out cabinets.

Now, taking into account all these factors, you can choose the style and theme of your bathroom. Let's now think about how you can decorate a bathroom with your own hands.

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Wall decoration

There are many options for decorating walls in the bathroom, it all depends on the material of the wall covering and your preference.

Painting

One of the most popular decoration methods is wall painting. You can decorate the entire wall in this way, or you can decorate one highlighted corner. In this case, your hidden or not very talented artist will come in handy.

Important! If you don’t feel the strength to do it yourself, you can use the services of professionals.

Try to mount all the shelves in such a way that the whole picture is visible and not forced by other bath accessories, otherwise there will be no sense in your undertaking.

Important! If the picture is on the entire wall, you can create special islands depicting a sandbank or brickwork and supplement these places with shelves.

Stickers

If you are not ready for such a big change, then you can limit yourself to stickers that will refresh and refresh the bored look of your walls. Such stickers are sold in a huge assortment in any hardware store. You can choose from a catalog or make to order.

Such stickers are on different topics, of different sizes and qualities. All kinds of bathroom stickers can easily tolerate moisture. Just keep in mind that before you stick the picture, the surface must first be degreased.

Important! A special adhesive base reliably holds the image for a long time, and if necessary, the sticker is easy to get rid of.

Tile

If the walls do not yet have any coating, then you can lay them out with tiles. Any plumbing store will be happy to help you with this. The range of colors, sizes and shapes of such tiles is very large. The catalogs are full of various collections - from solid copies to compositions representing thematic paintings.

Important! You can supplement the empty walls with various hanging shelves, cabinets and even whole hanging structures.

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Decorate the floor:

• Sometimes for beauty it’s enough to just put a beautiful carpet on the floor or to make islands of different rugs in the form of flowers, shells or starfish. These rugs are designed specifically for the bathroom.

Important! In addition to single rugs, there are also whole sets on sale, including several copies in the same style.

• One-color tiles can be diluted with stickers, there are even neon ones that glow in the dark.
• If there is a desire and opportunities allow, you can make a niche in the floor, put a stained glass window or glass with a beautiful composition.
• If you haven’t done the floor yet and don’t want to lay the tile, you can make a bulk floor. Now the masters are doing real miracles. Under your feet will be a sea lagoon, waterfall or other drawing to your liking. All this is combined with technologies for installing a warm floor, since it is a sin to cover such beauty with carpets.
• In large rooms, you can place figures, figurines, vases and flowers in pots that love a humid climate.

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Decorate the shelves:

• If you have open shelves in the bathroom and you want to fill them, then put the towel rolls nicely folded there. Place scented candles, stylish figurines and bottles.
• In any supermarket you can find bathroom appliances, consisting of a soap dish, a dispenser, a glass for toothbrushes or something else.

Important! Assortment can be anything. They are made in the same style and will look harmoniously on the shelves in your bathroom. Such bathroom accessories can be made with your own hands. Find containers and decorate them in the same style, for example, using the decoupage technique.

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Decorate the window

The window in the bathroom should be impervious to prying eyes:

• This can be done with a single curtain or a combination of several.
• Will also look good blinds or roller blinds.
• To decorate the window, a stained-glass window is suitable, the main thing is that it is combined with similar patterns on tiles or other surfaces.
• You can leave the window transparent, but decorate it with a picture.

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Decorate the door:

• If there is a flat surface of the door, it can be decorated with stickers. Just stick to the general theme of the bathroom.
• The same goes for painting the door. If you do not have the right talent, just buy a stencil or make it yourself and paint it with paints.
• You can complement the design with the help of frames, segments of foam or skirting and their compositions. Paint them in the desired color, make up the composition and fix it on the door with glue.
• You can also hang towel holders made of pipe sections on the door.
• You can hang pictures, coinage or a composition of shells and sea stones on the door.

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Decorate the mirror

No bathroom is complete without a mirror. Sometimes there are such models that there is nothing to decorate. Everything is already there: both the frame, and the backlight, and the stand-shelves. Do not count the options. But there are times when you want to decorate a mirror in your own way.

Flowers

Here, artificial flowers are most suitable.Find the option that suits you in the store and decorate the mirror with them.

Stickers

For such decoration, it is better to choose a mirror without a frame at all and decorate the glass surface with stickers.

Backlight

Halogen lamps give the bathroom a special charm and the whole atmosphere looks completely different, so to speak, in a new light.

Screen painting

Pick up the stencil with the desired pattern and stock up on a spray can of paint. Everything else is the work of your hands and imagination.

Important! Fix the stencil to the glass with tape so that the picture does not move out.

Jewelry remnants

Everything that is littered with you will go here: beads, pebbles, shells, glass. Make an improvised frame out of them. Use a glue gun to fix it.

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Seashell decoration

One of the ways to decorate a bathroom with your own hands is to paste over it with shells. You can glue them on walls, sinks, mirrors and other places where they look good to you. The main thing is to remember that all of them must be clean and without biological material. From shells you can make a curtain or a panel. Shells are even sold in the form of shells, although they are small in size.

Shells for decorating the bathroom can be made by yourself as follows:

• First you need to make forms for shells. The easiest way to make them out of plaster. To do this, you will need several shells of various sizes and shapes.
• Lubricate the surface of these shells with oily cream. This is done so that the gypsum does not stick to their surface. Put these shells in liquid gypsum.
• After the gypsum has hardened, remove the shells. Dry the mold for 24 hours.
• To make the form smooth, it must be impregnated with PVA glue.
• Take the plastic mass, mash it with your fingers and fill it with a plaster mold.

Important! It is better to take a lot of white, then it will be easier to color it later.

• Carefully remove the finished shell from the mold and leave it to solidify. Then varnish in several layers.

Important! You can paint shells with acrylic or watercolor paints.

• File the back so that the shell fits snugly against the wall.
• Glue the shells to the desired surface, previously degreasing it.

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In this article, we proposed some interesting ideas on how to decorate a bathroom, its walls, floors, furniture. You can use these options or improve them as you see fit and design a cozy bathroom the way you like it.