Thursday, 5 November 2009

Easy Changes To Make Your Bathroom More Attractive

By Connor Sullivan

Are you tired of your bathrooms? If you want to freshen your bathrooms, you can go two directions. You can hire a Fox Valley handyman to remodel the entire room or a Fox Valley bathroom remodeling company to do the job. Or, if you want to invest a more modest amount of money, you can just change the decor.

The first task in changing the decor of the bathroom is to decide on a decorating scheme. A good starting point might be to strip it down to the bare walls and start totally from scratch. You can then either keep the scheme but change the colors or go in a totally different direction.

Once you have stripped the room bare, start with the walls. There are a large variety of ways that you can cover your bathroom walls. The simplest is just to roller on a new coat of paint. You may want to choose a light color for a small bathroom because a dark color may make the room appear oppressively small and give you claustrophobia. If you want more than just a flat colored paint job, you may want to apply either a faux finish, a graphic or mural. There are so many possible ways to apply a faux finish that you may want to get a library book on the topic so that you stimulate your imagination. Another simple wall decoration is a wallpaper border. You can put this at ceiling level, slightly lower, or at any other level of the wall. The main difficulty with border is getting them straight and even. If you want to do a bit less measuring, put part of the border high and part at chair rail level. Then you can place two diagonal strips between the high area and the low section. Even simpler are the single wallpaper motifs. If you like things even and uniform, you can measure and mark before you apply them. If you are lazy, you can scatter them randomly. Maybe you would rather apply wallpaper. You can just do one wall, or you can do the whole room.

Then you can decorate the walls with pictures or knickknacks that match your decorating motif. If you can see yourself in the mirror while sitting on the toilet, you can create an amusing effect by hanging a hat or floral wreath on the wall behind your head. Then, when you look in the mirror, you will see yourself in a hat. If you place shelves on the wall or bring in a shelf that sits on the floor, you can place small decorative objects on the shelves.

The next step is easy because it just involves your color scheme. This is the point when you can buy your new towels, rug, shower curtain, and window curtains. At the same time you can add complimentary soap dish, toothbrush holder, and cup.

This decorating advice makes the assumption that you are satisfied with the floor and plumbing fixtures. If you plan to make changes to these items, you need to complete this work before you begin the redecorating process.

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