Decorating

We already covered small bathroom storage. This one is about the other half: how a small bathroom looks. Rental bathrooms tend to come with white tile, a builder mirror and not much else, and because they’re small, every item in there counts for a lot. These are the changes that make the most difference, roughly in order. The shower curtain is the biggest thing in the room In a bathroom with a tub, the curtain is often the largest surface you can change. Choose it first and plan around it. ...

Red and green will always work. But if your decorations feel a bit random, choosing a color scheme usually helps more than buying more decorations. Three things in the right colors pull a room together better than a dozen ornaments that don’t match. For each palette below I’ve suggested three pieces to start with, and they’re spread across three places in the room: something up high (a garland, the tree), something at table height (candles, a tray), and something soft (a throw, a tree skirt). Three is enough to make the colors feel deliberate without redoing everything. ...