Budget Style Ideas to Liven Up Your Bathroom

You go to the bathroom every day and you are tired and bored by its old design, but the thought of employing trades and making major changes is too daunting for you. Relax, applying a few smart design ‘tricks’ can still give your bathroom a fresh new look on a budget.

Old painted walls may need to be repainted and you can brighten a small area with a coat of white or a light color of your choice. Using wallpaper in a few areas can create a touch of interest, but you don’t need to wallpaper the entire room (unless, of course, you want to, which will also look great), as this can involve mobile accessories and it is most appropriate when you are making major changes to your bathroom. Wallpaper ideas include adding some wallpaper as a backdrop to bookshelves or above the dresser with a hanging mirror.

A design feature is a clever way to draw attention away from the less attractive parts of your bathroom. Wallpaper, a new paint color, or perhaps a whimsical piece of art will add to a fresher new look for your bathroom. A piece of art, something you can buy for less and have it framed to look fancy (a $10 poster can look just as good as a $1,000 poster if you pick the right poster) or maybe you can display your child’s masterpiece . If people are looking at the unusually colorful artwork hanging on the wall, it will take their attention away from the old, stained tiles, the ivory bathroom, and not to mention the outdated toilet with a plastic cistern.

Another bathroom idea is display storage for colorful soaps, lotions, scented candles, baskets, and towels. Luxury bath and skin care products can create a fresh “spa atmosphere” that is perfect for relaxing and enjoying your bath. Other storage items that will help hide and contain clutter include toilet paper canisters, cotton ball holders, toothbrush cups, soap dishes, soap dispensers, and shower caddies.

Some bathroom fixtures, like the toilet or shower enclosure, can be quite expensive to replace, but try to find other things that you can change yourself without too much cost. The obvious choice is bathroom accessories. If you still have the wooden toilet paper holder from the 1970s or the apricot plastic towel rack from the 1980s, it’s time to replace them. These are pretty awful in terms of contemporary design and can cost very little to change. New chrome bathroom fixtures don’t have to be very expensive, and you can avoid labor costs as long as you know how to use a screwdriver or wrench.

If you change your bathroom fixtures, consider changing the door hardware as well. Handles should match your new accessories. Make sure the replacement handle covers the holes that will remain from the old handle. If the new handles whose cover up any existing holes, this can be easily corrected with some putty or filler in the hole which you then need to ensure is well concealed.

The shower head is another item that is easily replaced. If your existing shower has a spout thread (this is where the shower arm is screwed to the wall) coming out of the wall at the correct height, a quick and easy fix is ​​to unscrew the old shower and replace it with a new one. new. head. One thing to keep in mind if you make this change is to make sure the new shower sits at the correct height, for example if the thread in the wall is at eye level you will need a shower with an adjustable arm or if the thread is quite high, you may need an ‘L’ shaped arm so that the head is lower than the water outlet.

There is always a better and cheaper way to spice up an old bathroom and you can have a fabulous bathroom straight out of Home magazine just by thinking outside the box and who knows, you might be on your way to creating the bathroom of your dreams. dreams. !