Have Fun with Decorating: Bathroom ideas

The downstairs bathroom at Better Farm is structurally sound, but lacked the details that would make it feel cozy and stylish. Here are a few things we did to combat that problem, utilizing garage sale finds and reappropriated objects.

Because we have gorgeous blonde walls, we went with the tan and gold theme. In addition to some fresh new towels, we threw in a Gustav Klimt print bought for 25 cents at a garage sale (he loved his golds!):



The toilet area was a plethora of unused space, so in addition to artwork (the Klimt print, an old family portrait of yours truly's great-grandmama, and an unused, unbacked frame spray-painted gold), we took the Bible racks off the backs of our kitchen's church pews and are now using them as magazine storage:

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A fresh shower curtain going with our color theme and a broken "Health Services" sign from a boy scout camp round out the rest of the room:

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Nicole Caldwell

Nicole Caldwell is a self-taught environmentalist, green-living savant and sustainability educator with more than a decade of professional writing experience. She is also the co-founder of Better Farm and president of betterArts. Nicole’s work has been featured in Mother Earth News, Reader’s Digest, Time Out New York, and many other publications. Her first book, Better: The Everyday Art of Sustainable Living, is due out this July through New Society Publishers.