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Bathroom Refresher

November 2, 2010

If there is any place that could use refreshed it is the bathroom, always.  Right?  (Hehe.)  Well, being renters--it's hard when you can't paint, change light fixtures, or move around any other permanents things like towel racks, so redoing a bathroom was really easy.  Especially since our bathroom is tiny.  However, just by switching out the shower curtain and changing some towels and hanging a picture, it really livened things up and made it LOOK a lot bigger.

Here is the original.  Not too bad, but with a small bathroom, that brown shower curtain cut the room in half.  I am not sure what I was thinking with that green bath mat or the towels hanging...which you can't see...for a reason.  They were usually green, too.  Or white, or whatever towel wasn't being used to shower at the time--sometimes it even had bleach stains on it.  GGGrrreaat.  So maybe it was that bad. 

The new shower curtain immediately added some visual square footage, right?  Not to mention, intrigue. A couple other things I like about it:  it doesn't slap you in the face when you walk in the room AND it was free.  Yeah, free.  Kinda.  I had some old textbooks from my college days that BYUI wouldn't buy back because they conveniently stopped using the book the semester after I completed the course.  So, I have been lugging them around ever since.  A couple weeks ago, I heard that Amazon.com has a book buyback.  (Am I the LAST person to figure that out?)  So I checked to see if they would buy back any of my textbooks.  Sure enough, they did!!  And it cost me nothing!  I just printed off a pre-paid shipping label, packed the thing up and dropped it off at the post office.  Within two weeks, I had a credit on Amazon.  You can buy anything on that site.  So we picked out this shower curtain and a TV wall mount for a grand total of $1.98.  Free shipping.  Booyah.  So, yeah...I like the shower curtain A LOT. 

The brown shaggy mat (pictured above) and the towels (there is a matching hand towel by the sink) I got at Ross for a steal!  My friend, Meagan, insists that you can't beat their price on Kitchen/bathroom stuff and she is RIGHT.  The mat and pretty towels cost less than $15 combined.  I love how the towels have a nature-y print on them, it carries that theme from the curtain.  The picture hanging above is actually a print I did for my printmaking class in college.  It is of my mom and dad and the warm browns/tans with that white and gray mat really tie in the towels, mat and curtain.  WOOT!

The last little touch was just moving some vases I had in our bedroom  (Chris didn't even know we had them in there) to the cabinet above the toilet.  I usually don't LOVE things above cabinets, but I think it adds a little more height to the room and interest.  

So, there you have it.  For about $15, I refreshed and enlarged our bathroom without touching anything permanent...although I would love to get some paint on those walls.  :)

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  1. Jules. Inspiring. I'm so glad you are coming next week. We are redoing my bathroom. I too have some non-negotiable things to work around. Like pink tile. Start looking on amazon! i have textbook credit there too!

  2. Jules. Inspiring. I'm so glad you are coming next week. We are redoing my bathroom. I too have some non-negotiable things to work around. Like pink tile. Start looking on amazon! i have textbook credit there too!

  3. It looks fabulous!!! I love that shower curtain. I feel like I'm walking into a gorgeous forest!!! It is great! Worst decision ever, giving Ryan the "shower curtain purchase" job on our first apartment. BAD choice. And he agreed after I begged to get a new one. He agreed that having a plain color curtain is boring.

    Isn't Ross great??/ The one that I go to in Tallahassee, is surprisingly quiet and clean! It is a great afternoon get-away for me and Brin. I am SO happy with the purchases I made there and my mom thoroughly enjoyed the newly decorated bathroom upstairs!

  4. I love it, you did a great job. I saw that shower curtain at bed bath and beyond and thought that would be so cute, now seeing it in a bathroom makes me like it even more!

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