A bathroom is an essential place of a house. You probably can’t imagine living in a place without a bathroom. You use it every day to do your hygiene and grooming routine. But having the same bathroom for years can get boring, and a dark, shabby bathroom is not at all conducive for relaxing baths.

If you haven’t upgraded your bathroom in a long time, now is the right time to freshen up the place. Get inspired by these creative ways to decorate your bathroom.

Repaint Your Walls

If you’re tired of looking at the same old walls, freshen up your bathroom with a new paint job. Color is a game changer in decorating any space. For example, you can make a tiny bathroom look spacious and airy by using soft colors—like white, taupe, powder blue, or serene green—on the walls. You can also add colorful geometric patterns for a playful design.

Unleash your artistic skills, and paint a mural on an entire wall. You can create your own design or follow a theme, like nature, retro, or galaxy. There’s nothing like original art to express your creativity.

Add Lighting Fixtures

Lighting can dictate the mood of a room. Replace or add new lighting to brighten up your bathroom and make it feel large and airy. Bright lighting is also more convenient for shaving and doing makeup. Update old lighting with modern options and add style and personality to your bathroom.

Add a chandelier or sconces to make your bathroom feel luxurious and spa-like. Direct lighting can cast an unflattering shadow on the room and on your face in the mirror. Try indirect lighting or recessed lighting for a softer and more flattering glow.

Opt for LED (light emitting diodes) lamps when you change your old lighting fixture. LED lamps use lesser energy than standard incandescent light bulbs do while producing the same brightness. Plus, they last thousands of hours longer than your average incandescent light bulbs do.

For example, a LED lamp can produce 850 lumens using 10 watts and lasts for about 25,000 hours, while a standard incandescent light bulb needs 60 watts to produce the same lumens and only lasts for 1,200 hours. In short, LED lamps are the eco-friendly and budget-friendly choice.

Create a Wall Gallery

Get creative, and build a wall gallery in your bathroom. Find the perfect spot to build that will perfectly showcase the art pieces you’re including in your gallery, as well as keep them from getting wet. Choose paintings or photographs that have a cohesive design element yet have enough differences to be interesting.

The color, texture, and design of the art pieces should also go well with the overall theme of your bathroom. For the frame, you can use basic solid black or white frames for cohesion, but if you can, also mix and match different designs that go along with each other and the interior.

Use your own art to make your decor personal, but if you can’t do that, choose pieces that you love or ones that have significance to you.

Accessorize Your Bathroom

Who says you can only have toiletries and hygiene essentials in your bathroom? If you want to level up your bathroom decor, then you should add in some stunning accessories. Every bathroom should have a should huge mirror. Your bathroom is not just for doing your skincare routine, shaving, or doing your makeup, but it’s also for making your bathroom appear brighter and more spacious.

A mirror is a vital centerpiece that can dictate the overall feel of your bathroom. Depending on the mirror you use, you can make your bathroom look sleek, luxurious, or retro.

Other than a mirror, you can also use plants and flowers to enhance your bathroom’s look. Display a vase of lifelike silk flowers to add color and loveliness in the decor. Unlike real flowers, silk flowers can fare better in the hot and humid bathroom environment. Or you can also use real plants that can survive in such environments to improve the air quality inside and liven up your bathroom. 

Upgrade Fixtures

Take the opportunity to upgrade your bathroom fixtures while you’re freshening up the room’s decoration. Over time, even stainless steel fixtures can rust when exposed to corrosive elements (like chlorine, which many bathroom cleaners have) and when the chromium (which protect the steel from corrosion) concentration falls below the 12 percent threshold.

Sure, you can clean off the rust, but that doesn’t solve the problem all the time. Rust affects the quality of water flowing out of your fixtures and puts you at risk of certain health effects and injury. Save yourself the trouble, and replace your old bathroom fixtures.

Upgrading your fixtures has an added benefit of saving water and getting long-term savings on water bills. If you switch to low-flow faucets, you can reduce the use of water from 2.2 gallons per minute (gpm) to 0.5 gpm. Similarly, low-flow showerheads also use less water, 2 gpm, as compared to standard ones, which use 2.5 gpm.

If you want to take saving further, consider switching your old toilet (consumes about 3 to 7 gallons of water per flush) to a water-efficient model (uses about 1 to 1.3 gallons) with an upflush system and its own macerating pump, like the SaniPlus toilet. The upflush system makes it unnecessary to break ground to connect the toilet to your sewage system since the upflush toilet has an external discharge tank. The macerating pump grinds wastewater to facilitate a smoother flow to the sewage system or septic tank.

Final Word

Your interior design is crucial in creating a good and conducive home environment. And that applies to your bathroom too. It’s not just a place where you shower and do your business; it’s also a place for relaxation and introspection. Having a visually pleasing bathroom environment can make doing your daily routine more enjoyable and peaceful.

You don’t have to completely renovate to spruce up your bathroom interior unless it’s irredeemably worn-down. Sometimes, a few cosmetic interior upgrades will do just the job.