Everyone feels most at ease when trinkets and decorative pieces are placed here and there to make their house feel like their home. Usually, one chooses decorations that are in tune with their likes, dislikes, hobbies, personal preferences, tastes, and lifestyle. Looking at the items that people put up in their homes would give you a glimpse and insight into their personalities and what they are like.
However, there are brief periods in a year wherein house decorations speak less about the people living in it but more of festivities and the overall aura of celebration. More often than not, this happens during all widely celebrated holidays. There are religious holidays, the 4th of July, Thanksgiving, and even Halloween – you name it! But, what’s arguably the longest celebrated and widely adopted by countries around the globe is the Christmas season, which when we loop together with the New Year and is commonly referred to as The Holidays.
Why It’s Great to Decorate During the Holiday Season?
The Holidays are the perfect time to put a little spring in our step and joy in our homes so what better way to do it than to put up decorations that spread the holiday cheer? It is highly likely that over the holidays that friends and relatives would come to visit, and what better way than to share the holiday spirit by making sure the joy of the holidays can be felt in your decorations.
Decorating every inch of your home from putting up Christmas Stockings on your fireplace, setting up your Christmas Village, hanging up Christmas Lights, and of course, the places that everyone visits at least once – the bathroom.
Whether it’s the members of your family, your visitors, or even just acquaintances or clients entering your home for business purposes, you can safely assume that every single one of those will get to see the inside of your bathrooms or the powder room at the very least.
The bathroom is the easiest part of your home to decorate from placing a peppermint-scented candle on your bathroom vanities and color coordinating your decorations, here are a few tips and tricks for dressing up your bathrooms for The Holidays.
Re-use old decorations
Your decorations do not have to be new every year, re-using old Christmas decorations does not mean that you are losing your creative touch, too cheap to get new decorations, or getting lazy about decorating, it’s quite the opposite.
It means you have made such a good decision when you were picking out and investing in your decorations the first time around that they stayed beautiful and in style even after being previously used.
Re-using also does not mean that you design and place your decorations the same way it was before. This is the time that you get more creative. You can always mix and match, add different complementary pieces and be imaginative of ways to spice it up for a different look and feel. Help the environment, spend less, and keep your creativity alive as you reuse your old decorations.
Use Odds and Ends
Excess decoration items don’t necessarily have to back to storage. These are perfect for your bathroom since there is less to decorate. A common experience we may all have is that when we put up our decorations there would be that extra item, an extra Christmas ball, extra bells, pinecones, and other small items that you can’t fit in your Christmas or anywhere else in your home.
Why not put them together in a vase or basket, this makes the perfect decoration for your bathroom vanity or your toilet’s water closet.
The extra Santa and Mrs. Claus salt and paper shakers that were gifted to you before can be used as figurines to guard your toothbrush holder. The extra Christmas Stocking that no one uses anymore, hang it up to your door instead of buying a wreath.
You only get to use your Christmas decorations once a year, so take them out of storage and make use of everything.
Avoid Using Cloth Decorations
Your bathroom is the only room, besides the laundry room, where it is more common to be wet than dry. This is why you have to be careful and check what material that your decorations are made of before purchasing.
It is best to buy waterproof/resistant and nonabsorbent materials so that water easily rolls off of them. Cloth holiday decorations open your bathroom to the possibility of insects living in the damp decorations, increased humidity in the bathroom, and foul odor.
By choosing the materials your decorations are made of carefully, you provide aesthetically pleasing designs at no cost to you or your guest’s comfort.
Keep Your Decors at Eye-Level
People tend to have the shortest attention spans out of all the other living things in this world, we get easily distracted by what we see out of the corners of our eyes. This is why one trick to ensure that the decorations you put up don’t go unnoticed is to place them at just the right height so that they can be seen, this is what most people get wrong.
By placing decorations overhead or on the floor, you set up these pieces to be one of the background, just something to look at when the eyes have extra time, or even a hazard because it might fall or trip someone, which isn’t what we want.
For your decorations to be noticeable and stand on their own, make use of the surfaces on top of your toilet, counter, sink, and other flat eye-level surfaces.
Decorations such as figurines and vases of assorted Christmas balls or pinecones would be perfect. This technique draws the attention of the idle mind making your decorations the center of attention in the bathroom.
Know Your Colors
A knowledge of what colors complement each other will go a long way. Take note of your bathroom’s current palette and search online or even ask around for help at the store you go to – often, the staff there are more than willing to give you advice on what will go well with your bathroom’s current design.
Making sure your chosen colors complement each other gives your bathroom a calm, serene, and even more spacious atmosphere. Clashing colors often result in a loud and obnoxious atmosphere that ruins the serenity of a bathroom – this also hurts the human eye and becomes a distraction for people using the bathroom.
You can never go wrong with the Christmas colors like green and red, or if this won’t complement your existing bathroom’s color palette, use white and silver, both of which have a more neutral feel and would be easier to match. Know your colors and make your decorations give off holiday cheer.
Choose Familiar Symbols and Figures
The great thing about the holidays is that it brings people of all color, race, and religion together. This is the one time in a year when everyone becomes inherently nicer to each other, takes time to spend quality time with their loved ones, and even becomes more generous – truly the most wonderful time of the year.
To take part in this and give the feeling of togetherness even in your own home, use familiar figures as the focal points of your decorations. Santa Claus, reindeer, a gingerbread house, a snowman, Christmas bells and socks, and of course, a Christmas tree – all these are great ideas when choosing your decorations. After all, who doesn’t know Santa Claus right?
Light Up Holiday Scented Candles
Scented candles can be found in all most every home, from being used as a centerpiece, or placed as decors on tabletops and mantles, or even your bathroom vanity or closet, it’s a very common item but should never be underestimated. It may not be much, but the perfect peppermint, fir tree, or vanilla and gingerbread scented candle may just be the pretty red ribbon that you need to tie all your decorations together and get you excited for the holidays.
Decorate With Your Heart
Lastly, the holiday cheer can only be spread if you are feeling it so make sure that all decisions you make are choices you are most comfortable with. After all, visitors stay only for a limited amount of time, but it is you and your family who move around your house 24/7. With this, never make decisions about what kind of holiday decorations to put up that you think other people would enjoy but you hate; it is your decision that matters.
Final Thoughts
At the end of the day, the purpose of putting up decorations is to spread the holiday cheer, a time for togetherness with yourself, your family and loved ones, and your community, which is why the best way to spend the holidays is to open your homes.
Celebrate with your community and give back, decorating your home and bathroom to match the holidays is just the cherry on top as you prepare for the holidays. The holidays are right around the corner, s get into the groove and feel the Christmas spirit and soon enough, it’s gonna begin to look a lot like Christmas.
