Fixing It Up Your Child's
Bathroom
Making the kids bathroom unique
is fun and easy to do. Get
yourself a pen and paper and sit
down with your kids and ask them
a few questions. First rule of
thumb is NEVER ask the kids “Hey
John and Mike we are going to
decorate the bathroom what would
you like to do?” Why? Because
they are children and you will
get all sorts of colors and
ideas that might be amazing, but
then might also start a fight
and confuse the heck out of you.
So okay now I hear you asking
what questions should I ask
them? Well let me give you a
list that will give you many
great ideas:
 What
are your favorite colors?
What
are your favorite TV shows or
movies?
What
kind of things do you like to
do?
What
is your favorite sport?
What
is your favorite Books?
Okay that is enough to get you
going. Now take the ideas the
kids gave you and put them
together. First, what is your
favorite color? If you have one
child it's easier, of course if
you have more then one, things
get a little more interesting.
Let’s stick with John and Mike
for our examples and say that
John likes blue and Mike likes
green. Great now you have the
colors for the room. Two colors
can be fun. You can go one of
two ways. Number one would be
stripes, paint the whole room
blue and then, when dry, tape
off sections for stripes and
paint just those green. My
suggestion would be that if you
have a small bath area, then go
with light colors. You can get
some paint chips of different
colors you like from the blue
and green paint family and ask
Mike to pick the green he likes
and John to pick the blue.
The second way to go is to find
a border you like and paint the
top half of your wall green and
the bottom half blue and when
the paint is dry use the border
like a chair rail to cover where
the two colors meet. What
borders do I pick? Well that
goes along with the theme and we
will address that shortly.
Question number two was, what
are your favorite TV shows or
movies? Okay here, depending on
how old you kids are, may have
to help a little. If they give
you seven different shows and
movies well you may have to
narrow it down a little. Say the
boys like the movie cars, well
that's easy. You can get borders
for the movie cars at most home
improvement centers, or if you
like you can order them on line.
Shower curtains are fun and
there are also many themed that
you can choose from or if one
does not fit what you want then
pick one with fun colors that
fit the colors you already
chose.
The final question, what kind of
things do you like to do? Go to
the beach, play ball, walk the
dog. What ever it is just pick a
few and run with it. You can go
to your local craft store and
find soaps that you can make
into shapes. Sponges that can be
cut into shapes. Your toy store
or dollar store will have blow
up balls or fish, lots of
different fun bath toys. For
your sanity later on I would
also purchase a tub or bucket of
some sort to put all the toys in
and always enforce the rule that
all bath toys must be put away
when bath time is done.
You can always do as much or as
little as you want. There are
bathroom rugs, curtains, bathtub
stick-ons poster for the walls.
There are many great on line
store like allposters.com. They
are not to expensive and have
almost anything you can think
of. The sky is the limit and
your kids will think you are
brilliant.
Debbie Dee is a work at home mom
who has 3 children and 2 dogs.
She writes for Bathroom Fix and
Ideas and runs her own baby shop
online.
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