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How to Decorate A Master Bathroom

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If you have a master bedroom attached to a master bathroom you are probably looking for decorating ideas that can help coordinate both rooms.

The easiest way to do this is to match the colors of the linens. For instance if your bed sheets are blue and your walls are brown then you might also want to have blue and brown towels, soap dishes and other accents in your bathroom.

Different patterns can also play a part on the overall look of your decorating scheme. For instance, if your bedroom has wallpaper that has stripes then you may want to continue this motif onwards on all of the walls of the master bedroom.

You could also be more subtle and simply also have a striped curtains picking up the motif of the bedroom.
Another way to deal with a pattern is to have stripes or polka dots or whatever pattern suits you and have them be one color in the bathroom and another in the bedroom.

For instance you could have pink polka dots on the coverlet and curtains in the bedroom but the towels, bath mat and shower curtain in the bathroom could have blue polka dots. Items also do not have to be all of the same color in order for you to be able to “riff” on a decorating theme.

These rooms can also be coordinated in terms of what materials you use to build or decorate them with. For instance if your bedroom consists of heavy wooden mission fixture then a wooden countertop and wooden toilet seat might look good in your bathroom. Instead of tiles, stones or pebbled tiles also might look better in the bathroom. The great thing about wooden furniture is that it suits just about every type of flooring and wall covering including plush carpets, tiles, stone, hardwood floors, brick and plaster.

Another way to decorate is by era or style. For instance, a retro seventies style bedroom could contain a round bed and also boast a red and orange color scheme. The bathroom could also have a red and orange color scheme as well as modular shaped bathroom accessories to suggest the seventies. Clear plastic accessories such lamps, garbage pails and soap dishes could help unify the look of both rooms so that they appear authentic.

Also remember that both rooms do not have to absolutely match to signify a totally coordinated effort. It only takes a few similar design accents to give both rooms a pleasant unity.

Decorative Wooden Boxes

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When it comes to decorative wooden boxes you have almost no shortage of themes or motifs to choose from. This is because a plain wooden box of any size or design is one of the most versatile of fashionable objects that exists. You can put a box like this in any room to add a touch of rustic hominess or exotic Asian elegance.

If you go shopping for decorative wooden boxes you will note that they come in many different types of hand painted styles. You will also note that you can buy plain wooden boxes made of wood. You can varnish this type of box yourself or put a decoupaged image on it to make it more elegant. You can also get all kinds of different closings for these boxes including latches, leather snaps and interlocking parts. If you are really handy with glue and a needle you can also line this type of box by yourself with velour, silk or cotton.

Perhaps one of the oldest and simplest of styles is the Chinese lacquered box, which usually does not have much detail but rather concentrates on a single symbol or motif from nature. Many of the Chinese symbols painted on wooden boxes symbolize different virtues or qualities. For instance a wooden box painted with peonies symbolizes love; a crane symbolizes longevity and a goldfish symbolizes money. It is very common for wooden Chinese boxes to be lacquered and painted with scenes of royalty as well.

However do not buy these if you do not like the Asian look for your home – this is not the most versatile of wooden box styles.

It is very, very common to find wooden boxes that have wooden floral motif painted on the top. This is a kind of country or western style of box that has become very popular over the years. Usually the floral design is of a rose and it can be painted on a decorative wooden box of either very light or very dark colored woods. In the Depression era it was not unusual to find boxes painted black that had been decorated with a floral motif (usually in pink or gold.) These are quite classic and traditional looking boxes.

As wooden boxes are more valuable if they have inlaid designs it is also quite common to find boxes that have been painted with what is called “faux marquetry.” These are boxes upon which checkerboard or other designs are painted to resemble the real thing. You can also find boxes that have been painted with a faux wood burl or faux wood grain. The irony is that some of these beautiful painted boxes are so artistic that they are almost worth as much as the real thing!