Tiny bathrooms need love too!

Small Room Decorating: How to Decorate a Small Bathroom

By Kathy Woodard

Decorating a small bathroom isn’t just a problem that apartment dwellers deal with, homeowners and renters alike can have this issue. Since this is a high use room, decorating a small bathroom needs to take into account function and not just appearance. Here are some top tips on how to decorate a small bathroom!

• Create both decoration and functionality by making your storage solutions as pretty as in any other room. Use attractive wall baskets for lightweight items. Instead of a predictable étagère over the toilet, install attractive shelving. Place a shelf along the top of the bathroom mirror and use to add pretty accessories and store extra linens in pretty rolls or neat stacks. Install robe and towel hooks made of brushed silver instead of chrome. Make sure a basket or bin is available to store all personal care items out of immediate site. Weave ribbon through the storage baskets for an easy bit of style and color.

• Use one larger bath rug instead of two smaller ones. Having just one rug prevents the floor from getting broken up visually and makes the whole room appear larger.

• Just because you already have a bathroom mirror, doesn’t mean you can’t add more. A collection of small mirrors hung as a group is perfect to decorate a small bathroom. The extra mirrors will reflect more light and create visual room where there is none, and they are stylish too! (And think, teens will have no excuse in fighting over the mirror!)

• Considering the bathroom mirror, add some simple style to yours. Using frosted glass paint from your craft store, tape off and paint a border around the edge of your bathroom mirror. If you are a renter, you can use the paint made to create faux stained glass and will be able to remove it when you leave! I sponged mine on for a great ethereal look.

• Small details count in a small bathroom. Add touches of lace or fabric trim to the edge of your towels. Glue pretty beads onto drawer pulls. Use tassels as tiebacks for your shower curtains.

Decorating a small bathroom doesn’t have to be boring and it doesn’t have to be utilitarian. Just use these easy guidelines and go from boring bath to bathing beauty!

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