Decorate your bathroom so it looks like you're on a relaxing, tropical vacation.
Perhaps you want to remember your favorite vacation, when you relaxed soothed by ocean breezes and swam in salt water. Or maybe you simply like the look of lighthouses on rocky outposts or the sight of dolphins frolicking in the waves. Whatever scenes appeal to you, decorating your bathroom in an ocean theme opens a world of possibilities.
Tiles
One way to decorate a bathroom with an ocean theme is to use natural stone flooring. This creates a warm look and feel in the bathroom that's reminiscent of relaxed island living. Another idea is to use ceramic mosaic tiles on the walls or floor to create almost any image possible, including an underwater scene, waves crashing on sand, a sunset or tropical palms. Some tiles are available with ocean themed images already painted on them so you can choose to use these instead. Or be even more creative and, instead of using tiles, create a border of real seashells and sand dollars around your walls using grout.
Paint
Paint a mural of an ocean scene in your bathroom if you don't want to use tiles. Choose a design that covers most of your bathroom walls or create a focal point by painting one wall. Some scenes to choose from are underwater life, a lighthouse, a tropical beach or sailboats out on the waves. Alternatively, you can use paint to stencil seashells, waves, fish, starfish, turtles, crabs or seahorses or a combination of these images to create a border or a random pattern on your bathroom walls.
Window Treatments
Keep the window treatments in your ocean-themed bathroom simple. Avoid using window treatments with prints and use the same color for your curtains as you do for your walls. This is especially important if you have a small bathroom because the continuity in color helps to make it appear larger. However, if you don't want to use the same color, stick with neutral colors such as beige and white. Choose natural materials such as bamboo blinds or woven wood blinds. Shutters are also appropriate as window treatments.
Accessories
Accessorize with seashell candles, glass jars full of seashells, sand dollars and dried starfish or soaps shaped like fish, seashells, seahorses and starfish. Another way to use seashells and starfish in your design is to place some in a shadow box that you can hang on the wall. Decorate with a mirror framed with seashells. Hang ocean-themed prints on your bathroom walls and place rolled hand towels in a woven basket. Use a clear plastic shower curtain if you feel that your bathroom looks too busy but otherwise, you can hang a printed shower curtain with an ocean theme. Choose towels in colors that remind you of the ocean or choose white or beige towels reminiscent of sand and seashells.
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