Decorate Your Bathroom with Towels

If you're looking to decorate your bathroom on a budget, there are a few small changes you can make that won't cost you much at all. Forget paint, shower curtains, and changing the tiles. Forget knick-knacks, fuzzy rugs, or designer light-switches. Sometimes, all you need to decorate your bathroom is a good set of towels.

Not sure where to start? Here are four ways to use towels to decorate your bathroom on a tight budget:

1. The Fresh White Solid Towel. If you're looking to decorate your bathroom in the style of a luxury spa, nothing freshens up the look of a bathroom like a set of crisp white towels. Even luxury white towels won't set you back more than about $17 a piece. And most white towels are less than that. If you're trying to decorate your bathroom to look clean and welcome your guests to take a shower, don't bother with off-white or cream-colored towels. Buy the whitest of the white. And the fluffiest of the fluffy white towels. This is the simplest change you can make in decorating your bathroom, and make a bigger difference than you expect.

2. Patterns and Themes. Maybe you'd like to decorate your bathroom with a western theme. Or perhaps you're thinking of decorating your bathroom in a more exotic way. Remember, towels come in patterns ranging from black pony fur to contrasting wildflowers. By using a patterned set of towels to decorate your bathroom, you can set the tone and add visual interest. Moreover, by placing the towels strategically, you can give your bathroom a more cohesive design.

3. Embroidery and Borders. Towels don't just come in patterns. Towels can also serve as the focal point in decorating your bathroom with embroidery, borders and embellishments. Whether sea-shells have been hand-stitched onto your towels, or an elegant tasseled fringe has been sewn onto the bottom, decorative towels can make a huge difference and give you the decorating flexibility that wallpaper never could. And don't forget, you can sew embroidered fabric onto your towel yourself; add any pattern you like. For example, a strip of white and black embroidered pharaohs on an orange set of towels can serve as the foundation for an Egyptian themed bathroom. An embroidered leaf could help you decorate your bathroom with a botanical theme.

4. Double Towel Bars. When you decorate your bathroom, don't settle for the usual single towel-bar configuration. A cheap and easy way to mix things up is to add another towel bar about three feet above the original one. This allows you to decorate your bathroom by arranging more towels in artistic ways - you can put them on display. Basic towel bars will cost you about $2, so there's no reason not to splurge.

So there you have it. Four quick and easy ways to decorate your bathroom with towels. Now, get shopping!