Three Easy and Inexpensive Ways to Add Decorative Appeal to Your Bathroom

Decorating a bathroom on the cheap is not even an alternative under some economic conditions. Your lack of finances proper to decorating on a budget that those misguided home decorating shows consider inexpensive may be due to political mismanagement or just the lack of a really good job. Whatever the reason, don't let the fact that your banking account is paltry stop you from giving your bathrooms a decorative makeover of which you can be proud. I don't exact have the income of a superstar writer like Stephen King, but even I have found ways to use what I have to accomplish what I like.

Personalized Shower Curtains

A shower curtain is an absolute must for the bathroom, but they can be incredibly expensive. If you have looked around shower curtains with décor that match your specific interests or a theme you might have in mind, you will be especially likely to see overpriced plastic. Instead, spend just a few bucks on a plain white shower curtain and a few more bucks on water-resistant fabric paint. Personalizing a simple white shower curtain can range from painting symbols or words to creating works of art. If you've got a certain interest to highlight and no real artistic talent, just buy some stencils and paint words associated with the interest. They key, as I found it, is to practice on a scrap piece of material beforehand to get a feel for painting on that particular material. It's a craft more than an art and practice can make your final decorative result look much better.

Decorative Mirror Borders

Don't invest in an expensive new mirror if you've already got a perfectly serviceable one in place in the bathroom. If not, get yourself a cheap but effective and nicely sized mirror. Then get to work with some glue and anything that expresses your creativity. Using a glue gun, you can create a quick, cheap and attractive border around the mirror with anything from spare coins in your collection to postcards to seashells to pieces of ceramic pottery you have smashed. Let your interests be your guide here as well. For instance, I created a decorative border around a bathroom mirror by gluing small black and white pictures out of a coffee table book about classic movies I picked up at the library sale for fifty cents.

Use What You've Got

The walls of a bathroom are typically rather boring spaces. At the same time, you probably have collected somewhere items that are going to waste hidden in the garage, attic, cellar, closet or junk drawer. Combine these two examples of waste by recycling them into the same project. Get out those old plates that have been in the family for a century and display them on the wall either by placing them on shelves or attaching them directly to the wall itself. All those action figures that are packed away in the back of your kid's closet can be given new life by using them to decorate the wall of his bathroom. Don't be shy about using what remains hidden from view. It's a bathroom, remember. Anything on the wall that captures the interest of the inhabitant will be greatly appreciated.