For the longest time our guest bathroom has felt like the most clinical, cold space in the entire flat. It has white walls, white tiles in the shower area and dark tiles on the floor.
I always felt like it just looks empty, so finally we picked up a VITTSJÖ shelf for 69.95CHF from IKEA to fill the space a bit and to have a place to store our towels outside the pantry.
This was right when we bought the shelf. Since we haven’t gotten our wardrobes built yet, I later stored all our extra sheets in here as well as all of the towels from the pantry. I cleared out enough room in the pantry that I can put my sewing machines in there instead of under my desk in the office.
This room still looks reaaaallly empty to me. Even worse on photos. Especially this corner below which is your view from the throne. I kind of don’t want to paint in this room, but I want to put some color in here because it’s screaming for it.
I would like to put a big, cushy square rug in front of the shower door over there to walk out onto and maybe a nice big picture on that wall. I actually am planning on putting up art or photos at some point.
I tried to convince Kay to go for the taller white FJÄLKINGE shelf offered at IKEA for 119CHF, but he thought it looked like crappy quality and he assured me that he will be responsible for cleaning the glass shelves of the shelf we bought. Hah.
But it’s probably a good thing we went with the cheaper, darker shelf. It contrasts more with the walls and stands out a bit better even though it’s also colorless.
How do you think I should add color in this room without committing to painting?
Ok, so I know that you said you’d rather not paint, but what if you painted just a really thick horizontal stripe along the top of the room, maybe 12″ thick, centered between the top of the shower tile and the ceiling. If you don’t like that idea, what about wall decals? They are vinyl adhesives that could add just the pop you would like. I just bought one from Innovative Stencils and hope to put it up in our guest bedroom this weekend, so keep a look out on my blog next week for a post about how easy or difficult it ends up being. Also, I love the rug idea! Just make sure it’s made of synthetic or inorganic materials, that way it dries out and will not mildew or mold from water as easily as an organic material will.
Wall decals sound like a good idea… but our bathroom walls have tons of texture. I’m not sure they would even stick! I’ll have to investigate. 🙂
If you’re going to have towels on the shelf, why not have red ones instead of white?
Jep… I’m torn between the ease of bleaching white towels and getting a pop of color from towels! I’m turning too Swiss with all this white… 😛
Wall decals would definitely be a low-commitment option for sprucing up the walls.