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30 Quick and Easy Bathroom Decorating Ideas

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If you’re tired of walking into your dated bathroom and dream of a change, we’ve got bathroom decorating ideas for you that are inexpensive and simple to do. The most important upgrade you can make in your bathroom involves lighting . A Swedish study found that lighting, paired with the right color, affects mood. Changing out your lighting is not difficult or expensive to do, but makes a bathroom look fresher and larger. Older lighting fixtures and fluorescent lighting cast unattractive shadows and odd color hues on your skin. If changing a fixture isn’t possible, you can upgrade the bulb with some of the new fluorescent bulbs that are similar in color warmth to the light cast on a bright, sunny day. Once you’ve upgraded the lighting quality of your bathroom, paint is the next quick and easy upgrade to the bathroom. Pick light colors for large surfaces like the walls and save the darker, richer tones for accents. Check how your color choices look in your upgraded lighting bef...

Makeover a Bathroom for Around $100

Avoid costly bathroom remodels with these affordable makeover tips! Remodeling a bathroom can be quite costly. From permanent fixture removal to plumbing, all of these expenses add up to thousands of dollars. With these six simple and affordable tricks and techniques, you can have a new-to-you bathroom makeover in just one day. From drab to fab, adding accessories and a splash of color will transform your bathroom to showroom quality. Time Saver Tip! Next time you are at the hardware store, pick out a couple of free paint swatches . Review the paint swatches next to your existing bathroom fixtures , wall color, and floor. Determine which color will look best. Then, once you buy the paint at the hardware store, you can bring the paint swatch to match up to the color of your accessories. 1. Choosing the right color paint! Inspiration for paint color is within your environment. Look around at the walls, floor, and fixtures. What colors pop out at you as you enter the bathroom? It can be...

House Tour: A Clever Kids' Bedroom & Bathroom Makeover

Names: Finley (4-years-old) and Jackson (5 1/2 years old) Location: Seattle, Washington Room sizes: Bathroom - 47 square feet; Finley's Room - 100 square feet; Jackson's Room -130 square feet The adorable Finley and Jackson of Finley and Jackson's "Modern Shabby-Chic" Bedrooms & Playrooms are back with new and improved big kid bedrooms and bathroom. Their mom, Emily, had been thinking about adding a bathroom to the upper level of their home for years. The house—Emily and Kai's Thoughtful and Stunning Seattle Home —came with only 1.5 bathrooms when they purchased it six years ago, and the only shower/bathtub was in the master bathroom. Now that the kids are getting older (Finley is almost 4 years old and Jackson is 5 ½) and out of diapers, it's clear that they need their own bathroom. In order to add it, both bedrooms needed a new floor plan—this is what Emily came up with! Emily and Kai's home is a little over 1600 square feet, and there is...

Bathroom Makeover on a Budget

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Get a new look and stay on budget If you plan your design, shop smart and invest some sweat equity, you can have a $25,000 bathroom remodel for a fraction of the price. Don't believe us? Well, we updated this bathroom with new wall and floor tile, a new vanity and top, and new plumbing fixtures . Then we framed the mirror and added glass shelves above the toilet—all for less than $3,000. And we did it all with materials purchased at home centers. For this article, we worked with kitchen and bath designer extraordinaire Lori Jo Krengel . The following pages feature Lori Jo 's advice for dramatic bathroom improvements that are easy on the wallet. Lori Jo Krengel is a Certified Master Kitchen and Bath Designer and the president of Kitchens by Krengel, Inc., an award- winning design firm in St. Paul. Lori Jo combines style and function to create bathrooms that meet specific budgets . She recommends consulting a designer before remodeling a bathroom to avoid common mistakes . ...

Black Frame Showers – Sophisticated With Modern Industrial Flair

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The showers that have black frames have a very distinctive look. They are defined by clean lines and a certain level of industrial beauty combined with modern simplicity. Black frame showers are pretty unique in this sense. They can be integrated in a variety of different types of decors. View in gallery View in gallery A black frame shower can be a main feature in a guest bathroom. In this particular example, the shower’s frame matches the frame of the wall mirror and that of the painting displayed on the wall. This way the décor becomes cohesive. What’s lovely here is the fact that the black elements are complemented by a white backdrop.{found on Maxwell and company}. View in gallery A similar type of cohesion is featured here where the shower enclosure is closed off with a glass and metal wall and a door that perfectly completes the grid. The sink vanity has the same type of graphical design, featuring a thin black supporting frame .{found on diespeker}. View in gallery In a lot...

Real homes: Two bathrooms transformed for just $3000 and $8000

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By Cherie Barber A bathroom can be one of the most trade-intensive rooms in the house to renovate – and that traditionally means high labour costs . Expect your bathroom to be out of action for anywhere from one to three weeks, depending on the scale of the reno and any unforeseen problems that might arise. A typical bathroom renovation can cost anywhere between $10,000 and $30,000 – unless, of course, you are smart with your shortcuts, in which case you can whittle your budget down to under $5000. And you’ll be talking days, not weeks, of work. Here are the five essentials of a cosmetic bathroom refresh . Retain and rework The minute you start ripping things out in a bathroom you’re asking for trouble. There’s ancient plumbing, asbestos, old electricals and decrepit walls to possibly contend with, which is why the budget on a full bathroom reno can easily spiral out of control. So the trick for a cosmetic refresh is to look at working with what you have as much as possible and rep...

The ultimate organized bathroom | Style at Home

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Whether you have a family, roommates or live on your own, the bathroom is probably the most used room in the house, so it's bound to get messy. Use these 10 products to keep this space organized, and make sure it stays that way! 1 Frosted apothecary jars Frosted glass apothecary jars will discreetly corral everything from cotton balls to bath suds. Because these jars have stoppers, you can be sure your bath salts won ’t harden as quickly as they do when left open. Restoration Hardware , $14 US. 2 Towel rack If you can spare the f loor space, a towel rack next to a shower stall or tub is much handier than reaching across the room while dripping wet. This chrome version is by CB2 (which displays Canadian pricing including duties when searching its site). CB2, $99.95. 3 Medicine cabinet A medicine cabinet is one of the most functional accessories you can put in a bathroom, and is worth splurging on for a rust-resistant, high quality unit . Kohler makes this contemporary double- do...