Bathroom Style Quiz

If you currently plan to update or remodel your bathroom, you may want to use a specific theme or style as a guideline. This quiz from Better Homes and Gardens can help you decide the perfect bathroom style. Click below to answer ten multiple choice lifestyle questions, and be on your way to a new bathroom.

Bathroom Style Quiz

How to Create A Fun Kid's Bathroom

It is time to get creative! I know it is hard to find time to do home projects when you have children; but decorating your child's bathroom is different. This is a chance for you to get them involved in your activities and give them a chance to express their creative side. Now, I only suggest that you decorate a child's bathroom if you plan on living in your home for many years and if you plan on having more children who could use the bathroom. We all know children grow up so fast and their styles are going to change; so don't go to all the trouble of re-decorating if it will only last a few years.

You want to make sure you incorporate bright colors and fun touches into your bathroom but also keep it functional and easy for your child to keep clean and tidy. If you don't know where to start; I suggest Home Depot or Lowe's. They offer lots of decorating idea books. Once you have narrowed your decision to 2 or 3 bathrooms; let your child choose which one they would like to have. You can then go pick out your stencils and borders and also your choice of paint. If you want an underwater theme then turquoise would be your best bet. If you are looking for a jungle theme then a light green would be perfect. Beach theme would require light blue, sea green, or sandy beige colors. However, if your bathroom adjoins a bedroom you want to continue with the same color pattern.

If your shower door is glass (which I wouldn't suggest with a young child) you can pep it up with vinyl decals or have your child create their own stickies with a craft kit. You can also have them paint tiles with non-washable paint and incorporate it into the tile design behind the sink or in the shower. There is also something called giant removable wall stickers from Presto Chango Decor. These are great if you are thinking about changing your decor around a lot. If you let them join in the decorating process they will be proud that they helped to decorate their very own bathroom. For safety concerns you want to make sure that the rubber mat on the bottom of your tub has traction so they won't slip when they get into the tub. We suggest making it a bright color so it will draw their attention. Also if you have a mat on the outside of the shower make sure it has non slip backing and big knobby hooks for hanging robes and towels are more suitable than ones with sharp edges.In addition, if you are going to use a step stool for your children to reach the sink make sure it has non-skid rubber footings. If your looking for any other products to keep your children safe; go here. If you follow these suggestions; hopefully you can create a truly magical and wonderful place for your child!

The Decorator Is In

Since most of the videos featured have been about installation; I wanted to show you what you can do after the installation process is over. Well of course; it would be to decorate. This is where you really get to have fun in your different rooms and express your creativity and imagination. This next YouTube video shows you how to decorate your bathroom with a beachy style.

A beach theme bathroom needs to bring refreshing and relaxing feelings to yourself and your guests. Most beach theme bathroom supplies are sold in sets (with a shower curtain, towels, bath mat, toothbrush holder etc etc.) Do not buy these sets because it will overwhelm your bathroom with too much of one style. Instead go for colors that represent the beach. You want your bathroom to bring about feelings of the beach not the image of it. To learn more great tips about decorating you can visit decorator.com.




This video is from askthedecorator channel and is produced by Megan Carter. You can also visit her website that will give you plenty of ideas on how to decorate every room of the house.

3D Bathrooom Planning Tools

This will be my first contribution to the Daily Tubber and I can't be more excited about it. Today the hot topic has been tips on remodeling. I have looked around and found some very interesting tools to help with a bathroom remodeling project.

The most interesting tool I have found is the
tool which allows you to take some pre-made bathrooms from the Bathroom Design Center at HGTV.com. Then adjust them to your liking. I found it to be very useful to match up some colors for your bathroom. It helps most matching up colors for your faucets and counter tops or your sinks and bathtubs. The Design Center at HGTV is centered around Kohler products. The picture to the right is the bathroom I designed today.

Some downsides to the Design Center is the choppy graphics of all the fixtures, you can't seem to make out all the details in the products that well. Also sometimes it is difficult for it to run on your computer properly. We had some difficulties on computers here for it to work consistently. You can't choose products other than Kohler so if you aren't a fan of Kohler then you won't be to pleased with this tool. Who doesn't love Kohler though. I couldn't change the tub faucet on the tub either which bummed me out a little but I'm over it.

Kohler also offeres a design tool on their website. Kohler's program goes into a little more depth than HGTV.com. Kohler allows you to customize your room size, and put in whatever Kohler products they have on their website into your bathroom. I did not have time to play around with this tool but it appeared to be really cool and useful.

Here is another shot of my bathroom design with the listings of the products I used in my design.

1. Toilet - Kathryn Elongated Toilet 2. Sinks - Memoirs Self-Rimming Basin 3. Faucets - Memoirs Widespread Sink Faucet 4. Tub - Portrait 6' Whirlpool 5. Towel Bar - Revival 24" Towel Bar 6. Toilet Tissue Holder - Revival Toilet Tissue Holder