Ideas for Better Bathrooms (04)

Adding Bath Accessories
Learn how to install towel racks, soap dishes, toilet paper holders and handgrips. Site gives simple step-by-step directions explaining the use of bathroom adhesives and toggle bolts on lath-and-plaster walls. Site offers insider tips to help people tackle bathroom enhancements. A list of bathroom hardware installation tools is provided to assist people with do-it-yourself bathroom projects.

Bathroom Decorating Ideas
This Better Home and Gardens guide includes links to bathroom decorating styles that include country retreat, clean and contemporary, and time-honored tradition, all of which can be expressed through a bathroom's colors, fixtures, and fine details. The sassy sink skirts section includes homey gathering, sheer delight and center stage styles, which can cover up plumbing pipes. Whitewashed bathroom styles as well as those with color schemes are also included. In addition, nostalgic bathrooms with vintage and mixed-age materials are provided. Photos of bathroom styles complete the guide.

Fresh Spring Tips for Decorating on a Budget
Learn how to spruce up your house with this inspiring article that encourages people to renew themselves and their living spaces with easy, affordable redecorating ideas. Aside from repainting rooms, the article offers the chance to match desired paint tones into the existing materials in rooms. Using curtains, towels, window treatments and rugs, it is easy to choose a color palette. Another tip is to clean up the bathroom, even rearrange your belongings. Creating a focal point for the room also helps give it a fresh look, as does keeping everything simple.

Bathroom Decor Ideas
Bathroom decoration ideas cheap and easy are offered. Includes how to add panache to your bathroom. Creating a new bathroom for under $50 is easy when you repaint, add new towels, change hardware, install a new medicine cabinet or frame the bathroom mirror. Final article is about summer bathroom décor, and it offers summer bathroom décor ideas.

Design Tips from a HGTV Pro
Designer Nan Sloan includes unique decorating tips for bathrooms. She suggests using bath-specific stores and imagination to decorate. In the TV show episode on HGTV, she uses indirect lighting provided by a lamp on the toilet or vanity, instead of an overhead bathroom lighting fixture, to create a serene mood. She replaced traditional towel racks with blanket racks, and created a towel rack from an oar paddle in a nautically-themed bathroom.