The one room all guests see: the bathroom

No matter who your visitors are, chances are high that the person will want to visit your bathroom. Chances are that while they are visiting the bathroom, they will have a few minutes to survey the room. If you have a guest bathroom, they will likely see the usual guest hand towels and the neat little basket of hand soap. This room is likely quite small so it won’t take much to make it an outstanding room.

By the way, if you do not have guest towels, don’t bother getting a set. They can be relatively expensive and no one really wants to use them because they tend to look too perfect. Hang up a hand towel and matching face cloth instead. If you don’t have a container with fancy soaps, look around the house and find a pretty little basket or bowl and fill it with fancy soaps. For some reason, everyone seems to have fancy-shaped soaps around and no one wants to use them.

Your money is better spent on elements that can create a much flashier guest bathroom than guest hand towels can. Guest bathroom are often painted in a neutral color such as beige and they are typically quite small. Painting this small room is an option but something that is much faster, cheaper, and more dramatic is a combination of wallpaper trim and artwork. One of the most attractive guest bathrooms I ever encountered had a colorful trim around the top of the wall and three 4×6 frames holding pieces of the wallpaper trim arranged on the wall. Another equally attractive technique is to place the wallpaper trim around the bottom edge of the wall as well.

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