10 Easy Tips for Decorating Your Bathroom with Country Style

Using country style in the bathroom allows homeowners to pick from a variety of unique country decorating themes and options. Though "country décor" may conjure up images of red and white check curtains with a cow theme, country decorating can also include many other color combinations as well as different styles like "romantic country" or "French country." Here are 10 easy tips to decorate your bathroom with country style.

Tip #1 Plan Your Country Bathroom

Grab a paper and pencil and draw each wall with detail in your bathroom or grab a digital camera and take a picture of each wall in your bathroom. Remove the current décor so you can see a baseline image of your bathroom plain and empty. Use your bathroom sketch or digital images and an editing program to test out the tips and color combinations you might want to try to create a country style bathroom.

Tip #2 Select Your Country Décor Colors

Decide if you want the traditional farmhouse red and white check country curtain style or if you to keep the check pattern but change the colors to yellow and white or pink and white or blue and white. Or maybe you want to have a pink and blue country bathroom or even a peach and black romantic country bathroom with floral accents.

Tip #3 Paint Your Walls to Compliment the Country Decor

Once you have selected your country décor colors, now you can determine if you need to paint your bathroom walls to complement your new country style bathroom theme. Painting walls-even just one accent wall-is a simple, cost effective, and cheap way to completely change the look of the room.

Tip #4 Add a Country Theme Border

If your are going for a romantic country style, consider a border of flowers or roses that appear to be oil-painted. If you are going for a traditional red and white farmhouse country look, consider a border of daisies, wicker baskets, or even cows for those who just love the farm cows. Country borders can compliment wall paint or be an alternative to painting the bathroom walls.

Tip #5 Add Country Style to Your Vanity

Take a look at the color of your vanity. Oak and white vanities work well for most country bathrooms. If you have a vanity that does not work with your country color scheme, consider painting the vanity or adding a wash to the vanity to soften it up.

Tip #6 Add Hand-painted Country Accents

Add country style to almost any vanity-even a modern walnut or black one-by hand painting a complementary border or design on the vanity. Or a scene can be painted in the center of the doors. Select a country pattern or image that fits your country style, this can range from daisies for a laid back fun country, pastel roses for a romantic country, or country ducks and add the image to the vanity.

Tip #7 Bring In Country Décor Paintings

The easiest way to bring country décor into your bathroom is through country paintings and country frames. Select paintings that fit your country theme which could include scenes that mean country for you like barns, tractors, cows, ducks, baskets, flowers, or country cottages. Also make sure that frames work, use oaks frames or painted frames or other artistic frames that personify the country style. Don't slap a modern frame in a country bathroom.

Tip #8 Hang Country Bathroom Curtains

Invest in the right country curtains. You can sew them yourself or purchase them; however, if you are fortunate enough to have a bathroom window then make sure the curtain match your country theme. Country curtains come in hundreds of varieties, colors, prints, and styles from romantic country lace to prints of chickens.

Tip #9 Use Country Themed Bathroom Accessories

Find bathroom accessories that fit your country bathroom. Bathroom accessories are relatively inexpensive and are an easy way to change the look of your bathroom instantly. Select bathroom accessories in a country décor theme or that match the colors that you planned for your country bathroom.

Tip #10 Add Country Scents

Add country scents to complete your country bathroom. Country bathrooms can be scented with candles, gels, or potpourri that compliments the scent. One homeowner used rose potpourri to decorate and add a complementary scent to a French country black and peach master bathroom. Another home owner used apple pie candles to add a country scent to her country décor.

Sources:

CalFinder, Country Bathroom Picture Gallery, CalFinder
Charlotte Sneddon, Romantic Country Bathrooms Decorating, Interiors-Design-It-Yourself
Country Curtains, Country Curtains, Inc.