Are you thinking about to decorate your bathroom? Need some ideas to give your bathroom some personal touch? Then look no further. Here are some ideas to pep up the feeling of your bathroom. The colorings that you use for your bathroom can help create the right atmosphere for your bathroom. You could use fresh colors such as green, blue, cream yellow or other pastel colors. Light colors help soothe your mind and create the perfect milieu in your bathroom.

If your bathroom tiles have become faded or lost their shininess, then you would need to get them polished or give them a matte look. Otherwise, if they are falling apart, then you need to put new tiles for your bathroom. Keep some little decorations on your bathroom shelf. These could be the trinkets you got from a holiday visit, for instance.

Shower curtains give your bathroom a new look. The use of colors animates your shower curtains and the entire face and feeling of your bathroom changes completely. You could use one of those curtains with various themes.

Even your glass shower door can improve the looks of your bathroom immediately. You could use bright glass shower doors or stained glass shower doors with various themes on stained glass. However, you could choose to use plain glass shower doors, as they can make your bathroom appear larger than usual.

Also get drawers made for the things that you use regularly such as your toothbrush, soap and other bath accessories. Add separate holders for your towels, shower caps and other accessories. Try to make the best use of your bathroom space by including the necessary items within the bathroom. Make sure that your bathroom is a place you look forward to return to the next morning or after a long day.

Right now the hubby and I are on our 4th air bed in less than 2 months. Someone just won’t get my point about the limited capacity of airbeds. Certain activities simply should not be attempted in air beds; but… We’re using a twin sized air bed with a max weight capacity of 300. Our combined weight is around 280 pounds. Would be nice if he could gain some weight but that’s neither here nor there. As to why we’re using an twin? He came back from the store the day he went to replace the airbed claiming it was the only size he could find. We’re that poor….

So anyway, I see some sofa beds on the apt-ny.com that I like. I like the color of their mandarin logo sofa bed which they describe as smart sexy and seductive, although I’m not particularly enthusiastic about the leg part. Unfortunately I don’t have $1698.00 to spend on a sofa bed, but if you’ve got that kind of money, you can click the link below to check out the logo sofa bed. It’s very modern and according to the description on the page, is “suitable for the entire spectrum from classical minimalism to upstart retro.”

Logo Sofa Bed in Mandarin 624 / Red 622 $1698.00 by Busk + Hertzog

Just stumbled upon the blog of Canadian interior designer Patricia Gray. If you’re looking for some truly fantastic design ideas you should definitely check out her blog. Of course her slogan is “exceptional homes for exceptional people”, the emphasis on homes; but your apartment is your home for now and you’re an exceptional person so why not check out the blog? You’ll be getting great ideas for decorating your apartment from a very talented interior designer. Patricia Gray Interior Design

Photo Credit: Patrica Gray. Used with permission.

Patricia Gray’s websites

http://patriciagrayinc.com/
http://patriciagrayinc.blogspot.com/

So asking yourself “What is my decorating style?” might not be such a bad idea. And you shouldn’t just ask the question but actually take the time to try to figure out the answer. Doing that can be as easy as going online and looking at pictures of furniture, pictures of interior wall paints and home decor items and making a note of how you respond to different shapes, colors, designs etcetera. Pay close attention and measure your reactions so you know when you’ve found something you neither love nor hate, something you absolutely hate, something you absolutely love. Obviously try to go with things you absolutely love. If you find nothing you absolutely love then go with neutral which are the things you neither love nor hate. But definitely make the effort to find things you love.

But just because you don’t live in the home of your dreams, or even in a “starter home” isn’t a reason to punish yourself by not taking any interest in the home you do have. The concept of “home” does not apply to any specific type of physical structure; so if you’re one to think that only houses qualify as homes, or places you own as opposed to rent, you should consider modifying your thinking so that you can begin to appreciate that home is where you live.

I remember watching a program once that featured a group of homeless people who took that idea completely to heart. Home is where you live.

They were “homeless” but they did have a “living space”, a specific location, albeit out in the open, that they returned to every night. This was their home and they tried to make it as livable as they possibly could because it was all they had and they figured it made more sense to work with what they had to try to improve their living condition in any small way than to punish themselves for being homeless.

Just because you live in an apartment and not a great big house is no reason to be so depressed you don’t care about your surroundings. It’s not where you live that determines quality of life, it’s how you live. And it begins with you and how you treat yourself, how much or how little you do to help or harm your mental balance. There are some people who can afford to live in a house who chose to live in an apartment. There are some people who can afford all the space in the world but choose something compact because they find smaller spaces cozier. The key to being happy in the physical structure of your home, whether it’s a 10-bedroom mansion or a tiny studio apartment is to maintain harmony between yourself and the people and “things” around you.

Things are just things. They can’t bring you happiness, but things can affect your mood and alter your peace of mind. A television, for example, can be a source of frustration for someone who doesn’t like television but lives with another person who watches a lot of television. If the television is situated in such a place that the one who finds it annoying is frequently being disturbed by it, that would be an example of how a “thing” detrimentally affects mood and alters peace of mind. Thoughtful placement of the television in such a situation becomes crucial.

When you live in smaller spaces you should strive to make effective use of the little space you have. Avoid clutter. Clutter is a negative word. Everything associated with clutter is negative. Just look at this list of synonyms:

chaos, confusion, derangement, disorder, jumble, litter, mess, muddle, anarchy, bedlam, disarray, discord, disorganization, lawlessness, pandemonium, emotional upset, upheaval, trouble

The above is what clutter will bring into your life in one way or another. Maintaining order in your living space becomes more critical the smaller the space and the more people occupying the space. Disorder equals physical discomfort and physical discomfort leads to mental unbalance. People get grumpy and start treating each other poorly which leads to emotional upset. If this goes on constantly people develop depression, deep anger, contempt, hatred and home becomes an unpleasant place where no one wants to be; and it all starts with you as the head of home not caring all because you don’t live in the “house” of your dreams. A house is just a thing. You could live in the house of your dreams and have it gleaming with opulence from corner to corner and then there’s a fire and it all burns to the ground. Don’t love your place less or more because of the size of it and the price tag of the items you have in it. Love it for the people who inhabit it, and then it becomes a sanctuary; and when you think of your home as a sanctuary it becomes easier to maintain harmony and order.

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