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So you want to redecorate the bathroom with your children in mind, but here's the catch, you have both a son and daughter. What do you do? Decorating a bathroom for not only competing sexes, but different personalities can present its challenges. Luckily, there is plenty of gender neutral bathroom decor in the marketplace. Now on to the hard part, which is finding common ground.
Look to your children's shared interest. Do they both play a particular sport? Do they like the same kind of music? Do they both like animals? Whatever they can both agree on, make that your theme. Once you have established your decorating direction, you'll be able to infuse both of their personalities into the same room. Here's three examples to help you along the way.
The Rock Star Bathroom
Do your kids both like music? Do they share a favorite band. Even if there musical tastes differ, you can still incorporate both of their likes into the bathroom. Choose bright bold colors and liven up the walls with vinyl guitar decals. You can find a large selection of wall decals, many of which can be personalized, on the internet.
Use guitar picks and drumsticks to decorate picture frames or create a border around your bathroom mirror. These items can be bought inexpensively by the lot on eBay. Frame photos of both of their favorite musicians and display them on the walls. Add some tattoo hand towels, and you've got one rockin' bathroom.
Underwater Explorer
Just about every kid loves the ocean - even brothers and sisters can agree on this. So why not have an underwater explorer theme. Start your walls off with a nice shade of aqua. Why not paint the ceiling aqua too? Once again, you can decorate the walls with decals. On the internet you can decals that border on being cartoonish to completely realistic. Imagine a life-like 5 foot long great white on your bathroom wall. That'll wake you up in the morning!
Three round mirrors lined up in a row serve as submarine portals. How about hanging a pair of masks, snorkels and fins by hooks on the wall?
Next time you spend the day at the beach, make sure to have your kids write their name out in the sand. Take a picture of it and frame it. Now hang the framed photos above wherever your children hang their towels or robes. Add sea creature shaped soap and a starfish shaped sponge, and now your practically 10,000 leagues under the sea.
The Budding Artists Bathroom
If you have a couple of artists in your family they will absolutely love this bathroom theme. Start by painting one wall in chalkboard paint. Colored versions of chalkboard paint can be purchased on the internet or you can attempt to make your own with these instructions from Martha Stewart. You can take it a step further and use a magnetic primer to give your art wall a dual purpose. Add various size and shape empty picture frames to the wall. This will give your child a never ending opportunity to create new works of art.
Buy a plain white shower curtain and let your children decorate it with fabric paints. If you don't want the mess you can just as easily use fabric markers. You can display other works of art by making use of a homemade art display strip. Simply take a ruler and hot glue a clothes pin at opposite ends. Once it dries you can hang it on the wall and start rotating weekly masterpieces. There's only one thing missing from this artist's haven. Make sure you include plenty of tub paints!
Ready to get started on decorating your child's bathroom? Visit me at Kids Shower Curtains blog for fun kids shower curtains and kids bathroom decor.
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