Black and white decor in small bathroom
A college dorm bathroom is a small space that you have to share with at least one roommate, making it a decorating challenge. Once you get to know , sit down and discuss the creative potential in your bathroom and decide together on a theme. Decorating your bathroom gives you a neat space to escape and start your day in a positive manner.
Chalk or Cork Board
Purchase a large cork or black board that can cover the majority of one wall of your bathroom. Using heavy-duty Velcro tape, secure it to a blank wall or door in the bathroom. Provide colored chalks in a cup in the bathroom to allow guests to be creative and draw pictures or leave messages while in the commode. Change your "decor" weekly by washing it off and starting over.
Hang your large cork board over a toilet tank or on the back of the bathroom door and supply with plenty of colorful thumb tacks. Hang pictures of friends, test schedule reminders and notes and cards from friends back home. You also can use this space to remind a messy roommate to clean up her half of the bathroom.
Color Code It
Since college dorm bathrooms usually are shared spaces, help keep things separate but equal by agreeing with your roommate to color code your bathroom. Purchase two different colored bins and containers to hold make up, shampoo and other bathroom toiletries. Purchase solid-colored towels in two colors, so you won't have to wonder whose wet towel is on the floor. Select a coordinating rug and shower curtain to tie it all together.
Vacation Getaway
Although college is fun, it's also stressful, so create a little getaway in your dorm room bathroom. Hang a travel poster of your favorite getaway spot and coordinate your towels and shower curtain to match. For example, if you like island vacations, select an island poster, then coordinate with sea blue rugs, towels and curtains.
Mirror, Mirror
Create a super cool and eclectic bathroom by hanging an assortment of framed mirrors on all wall surfaces. Find a variety of sizes, shapes and frames (the older the better) and hang in a collage manner by mixing sizes and displaying in a nonlinear way. Not only is this a fun way to decorate your bathroom, it provides a way for light and images to bounce around the small room. Use a silver shower curtain and black rug to coordinate and finish the look.
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