Sometimes a bathroom needs a glow up before you have the time and money for a full renovation. Fear not! With these tips and tricks, you can refresh your bathroom’s look and feel over the weekend and at much less cost than an actual remodel. Try one, several, or all of these ideas in your bathroom on your next free Saturday!

 

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Start with a Clean Slate

It’s not fun like shopping for new décor, but cleaning your bathroom is a vital first step. In fact, you might be surprised at how much better it looks once the deep cleaning is done. Don’t forget areas that often get over looked, such as:

Dusty towel bars and paper holder

Grout lines on your floor and shower tile

The floor behind the commode

Floor and door trim

Light fixtures and air vents

You may want to buy some special cleaning supplies, such as a water stain remover for your shower glass.

 

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Make Some Inexpensive Replacements

While you are going to leave the big items – shower enclosure, toilet, sink, etc. – you can swap out some components and smaller items to transform the space. There are obvious options like new towels, rugs, or even towel bars and paper holder, but let’s look at some less obvious possibilities.

Your shower door pull handle can be replaced by an alternative door handle . Just be sure that the new one is designed for the glass thickness and hole spacing on your current door.

A vanity’s style can be drastically changed by a coat of paint and new hinges and knob or pulls.

The cover plates on bathroom light switches and outlets can get grimy with time, but they are easy to remove and replace.

Many bathroom light fixtures include some sort of glass globes, which can also be replaced with something more up-to-date.

You can also add something like a sleeve over towel hook on your glass shower enclosure

 

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Update Through Color

If you want to get the bathroom more in line with today’s hottest trends, research popular bathroom colors. Incorporate these by painting the walls and ceiling, replacing items such as curtains and rugs, or bringing in new wall art. You can make your own wall art by framing something out of the ordinary like a piece of beautiful cloth, a magazine page, or a leaf collage.

 

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Unify Its Look with a Theme

Be sure that all the updates you make coalesce and give the bathroom a unified theme or décor concept. Themes that work well for a bathroom makeover include:

Mediterranean

coastal

modern farmhouse

biophilic

Colors, patterns, motifs, and individual accent pieces can all contribute to your chosen theme. And these items don’t have to be expensive – some house plants for biophilic design, seashell jars for coastal, and so on.

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