Dye your own colour-coordinated bath salts
Bath salts are the best. I mean first, there’s the obvious joke about the drug with the same name. Not only do they make baths way more relaxing by helping your sore muscles, but they double as decor. And with these tips you can ensure that they are colour-coordinated to match your orange octopus bathroom? Or how about pink bath salts for a super pink bathroom? Or maybe you need them to be a pop of colour in a black bathroom? I will show you how!
Shower curtains: Make your bathroom shine without paint
Cary asked: “My new husband, and I rent a heritage house in Vancouver BC. Unfortunately, the bathroom has been subjected to a cost-conscious (rather than a design-conscious) refurbishment. It functions perfectly well, but it brings us down to have to go into such a ugly place each morning. Surely there’s something we can do that goes beyond painting to make it a less utilitarian space.”
Yes! There is! My easy answer is: get an awesome shower curtain and invest in matching accessories. Here are a few of my favorite shower curtains full of personality.
Say “bye!” to soggy soap with a waterfall soap dish
This slanted soap dish drains excess water away from your soap and into your sink or shower.
Whales, ships, tentacles, and mermaids! My new shower curtain rules
I’ve had my eye on Danica Studio “Odyssey” Shower Curtain for months, but it’s always been sold out. (For obvious reasons of fucking awesomeness.) But it came back in stock recently and I jumped on it. I’m super excited that I did.
Before and after bathroom: Orange octopus-style
Ever since I talked about how octopodes make great towel holders, I’ve been wanting to see more tentacles in your bathrooms. Well, Homie Sara came through by uploading photos of her awesome octopus-themed bathroom makeover to our Flickr pool.
Reader Round-up: Puppies, tentacles, home decor, and LA picnics
Remember Offbeat Home’s reader round-ups? I’m bringing it back y’all! We finally have enough Homies submitting enough pics to our Offbeat Home Flickr pool to do more round-ups now and then. Included in this round-up we have a good idea to help change your eating habits, a kitchen moment that makes me particularly happy, more bathroom tentacles, and a peak into how I spent this past weekend…
Create this apothecary-themed bathroom
I found Izola’s Apothecary Pattern shower curtain and thought THIS would be a great start to a vintage-style apothecary-themed bathroom. If you’re in love with the apothecary aesthetic, you may want to think about turning your bathroom into a vintage pharmacist’s dream with these products…
Mustache-themed bathroom with a bonus ‘stache frame how-to
Homie MetalMaggie uploaded pics of her mustache-themed bathroom to our Flickr pool along with a special step-by-step instruction on how to make her nifty ‘stache frames. I was also thrilled to see some of our “great ideas” in action!