Bathroom Decor, The Back Story
Think the Garden of Eden or the Roman Baths. Your bathroom, guest bathroom, or powder room can be one of the most fun rooms in the house to decorate. Although, we take bathroom sets (like toilets, sinks and bathtubs) for granted, bathroom decor was not always the way it is today.
In the Middle Ages, baths were public places for socializing, celebrating, swimming gossip, etc. Kind of like modern day health clubs. However, when the plagues came, baths went out of fashion.
Don't tell your kids but King Louis the XVI (1754-1793) is said to have had only two baths in his life, both leading to him getting sick. Luckily, there was revolution in bathing around the time of the French Revolution. In Paris in 1790, there were 150 baths but by 1800 there were 300. Neverthless, bathing and bathrooms weren't exactly de rigeur. An 1801 survey showed that among 66 mansions, only 21 had private bathrooms.
Queen Elizabeth had a bathroom. The flush toilet was invented for her in 1596 but it was not until the end of the 19th century that the invention began to appear in British homes. (Even today, the British are not known for their bathroom plumbing.)
Leave it to Benjamin Franklin to bring the basics of bathroom decor to this country. He brought the first bathtub to America and used to write in the bathtub. Early to bed, early to rise. When did he get into the bathtub?
It was not until 1810 that the first 3 piece bathroom set arrived in America(toilet, tub and sink). And not until 1851 that The White House had a bathroom set, for which Millard Fillmore was widely criticized. Such spending excess! Imagine, a bathroom set! What the tabs would have done with that!
You don't have to be a President, a King or a decorator, or excessive, to enjoy our bathroom sets or to spruce up your bathroom decor with some of our guest towels, scented candles, or decorative hooks.
Bathroom Accessories As Seen In...
Decorative Things has We've been making bathroom accessories for many years. Our bathroom decor has been featured in Elle Decor, Domino, House and Garden, House Beautiful, Real Simple, Country Living and others. Our signature bathroom sets are wastebaskets, tissue boxes and vanity trays made of fabric. But we've branched out to mirrored bathroom accessories and cork accessories too. Our mirrored wastebaskets, mirrored tissue box covers and mirrored vanity trays are totally glam but are also quite neutral. Mirrored bathroom accessories really goes with a lot of bathroom decorating schemes.
Our cork wastebaskets, cork tissue boxes and cork vanity trays are eco-chic bathroom decor. They make a handsome bathroom set. But cork wastebaskets are attractive in lots of other rooms besides bathrooms, like a study, a mudroom, or a den.
Once you've picked out a wastebasket, other bathroom decor can orbit around it. Our selection of Caspari guest towels is broad enough to go with almost any of our wastebaskets. The black and white stripe guest towels are super with the mirrored wastebaskets and the ferns look great with them too. Putting fern guest towels with mirror makes it look like you have plants in your bathroom decor.
Combine our bamboo fabric wastebaskets and tissue box covers in your bathroom decor with our bamboo guest towels for a bamboo theme. When choosing bathroom accessories, it's fun to mix and match materials like paper, cork, fabric and mirror and it keeps bathroom decorating interesting.
Use our mirrored vanity trays, cork vanity trays or laminated fabric vanity trays to hold our scented candles, guest towels and other decorative details you want to mix into your bathroom decor and other decorative home decor.
Whether it's a hot bath or a cold shower, bathroom accessories add to the experience and help make your bathroom decor, refreshing, rejuvenating and refined. There are complete books about different bathroom decorating. Marble, cedar, tile, brass, silver, the materials are endless and absorbing. Ahhhh...bathing is a wonderful ritual. The whole point of all this decorating is to enjoy the simplicity of a bath. Sometimes an outdoor shower is the best of all. |
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