bathroom: mini makeover

when keith and i moved into our new place we had a lot of things to do. we had to combine our items, decide how we wanted to decorate and then actually decorate (on a budget). where we live now is the first place we have ever lived together, and while we don't own it (it's just a 2 bedroom apt we rent), i still wanted it to look great! i wanted to decorate a little, but not go crazy because we will not live here forever, and i did not want to buy stuff i could not later use. one day...we will buy a house and decorate it from top to bottom and i cannot wait!

one of the big challenges we (i) faced was decorating our bedroom and bathroom. i wanted to to be a place we both liked, therefore i did not want it to be too girly, or to manly! it is hard to find bedroom/bathroom stuff that is gender neural, it tends to either have flowers or manly stripes. for our bathroom, i decided to stick with a gold/yellowish and gray. i found towels i loveeeeeed at anthropologie, and absolutely had to have them. i decorated from there.

if i actually owned this place and could paint, i would FOR SURE paint the walls of the bathroom, but since we will not live here for long, i didn't want to paint, only to have to paint over it in a few months. like i said, one day i will own a home and will paint everywhere!
here is what our bathroom looks like...

you can see a bit of the gray and yellow. i bought paint for a piece of artwork you will see, and i also decided to paint the mat of the picture you see. it was a nice way to bring the yellow to that part of the room.

the shower curtain is actually 2 panels of a regular curtain. i could not find one i liked so i just got a clear shower curtain, and the regular curtains work great! you can also see my artwork here...a close up is next!

i have always loved the canvas artwork where small canvases make one big picture, i was excited to finally try it! i tried to mimc the pattern on the towels in the artwork.

and last, a mirror to make it look bigger. this was a white mirror and i added some rub n' buff to the edge to add a bit of silver!

hope you like the bathroom!

on a side note, my friend, mia, saw my bathroom and loved the painting i did. she requested one for her house and here it is!

i think it turned out ok. can't wait to see it hung in her house!