Decorate Your Bathroom Mexican in Style Decor
Posted: Sunday, July 16, 2006
by Vickie Morrow
Art Objects for the Home
Decorate your Mexican style bathroom bold and colorful. It is inviting and makes you feel happy. You can have your Mexican style bathroom with just a few decorator items and bright bathroom towels all the way to a whole new vanity and new saltillo tile floors. Lets start with the whole bathroom remodel and work our way up to bathroom accessories Mexican style.
How to create your Mexican tile rug. Use the twelve or sixteen inch squares on the entire bathroom floor except where you are placing the rug. Then make a border using smaller tiles. These can be broken pieces, colored tiles, patterned tiles or just the small saltillo tile. Then fill the center with the six-inch Mexican saltillo tiles set on a diagonal. For inspiration look at the designs on area rugs.
Mexican style bathroom walls. Paint or tile your walls in bright colors. (Keep in mind you still have to put on make up and want to complement your pretty skin when choosing your colors).
A great way to get that Mexican style is to paint a bold stripe in a chili pepper red or Tucson teal at chair rail height all the way around the room. Paint a lighter color on top and another bold color on the bottom part of the wall. You can also use bright colored Mexican tiles for your stripe or paint or stencil Mexican style designs in your stripe.
Your Mexican style bathroom vanity. Find an old dresser or buy a Mexican rustic chest or dresser cut a hole for the sink. Use a Mexican talavera pottery sink or buy a cobalt blue, sunflower yellow, aqua or red sink. Use bright solid or patterned Mexican tile on you vanity top. Or just waterproof the wood with a sealer. If you don’t change your vanity, sink or countertop paint the cabinet base either solid or with a dry brush technique in a bold color.
Your Mexican style bathroom mirror can be framed in iron, shinny shaped tin or copper. A heavily carved frame can work and can be painted. There are also the shinny tin framed mirrors with the Mexican tiles inset.
Bathroom fixtures for a Mexican style bathroom. Replace shinny brass or silver faucets with dark rustic fixtures. Look at styles in antique bronze. If you change your sink fixtures don’t forget the bathtub and shower for your overall Mexican bathroom style.
Mexican style bathroom lighting. Hang a wrought iron or rustic chandelier over each of your vanity sinks. Sconces on each side of the mirror work well too. If you use the chandelier, scrolly wrought iron sconces to hold pillar candles are totally Mexican style. Put a dimmer on the lights for those relaxing soaking baths.
Bathroom accessories Mexican designer style. Bright, bold colors, scrolly iron pieces, real Mexican serapes and Mexican pottery. Bright painted wood and Mexican woven or appliqué wall hangings will pull your Mexican style bathroom together.
Mexican style decorator extras. Paint an old chair in a bright turquoise and place a stack of bold colored towels on the seat. Take a bright serape stripe fabric to make a valance over the shower curtain rod or hand a length of south of the border fabric from the ceiling to the floor to hide the open shower curtain. Use a solid or printed shower curtain that compliments.
Hang a piece of wall art that you love where you can see while soaking in the tub. Your Mexican wall art can be a framed print, a Mexican weaving or appliqué or scrolly wrought iron. Use Mexican pottery bathroom sink accessories. Use a small Mexican flower pot or mug to hold your toothbrushes and salsa, you have your bathroom Mexican style!
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Top-level comments on this article: (6 total)You need to put pictures of some of the ideas. But the article is still great.
I agree Christina...where are the pictures? We need visual folks!!!
I have the mexican tile in my small bathroom and I am having a problem picking a wall colour. I also stripped the vanity but until I find a colours for the wall I can't stain the vanity. When my daughter lived in this house she had the whole house tiled in saltillo tile and I don't like it but am trying to decorate with it. I wish your site had pictures of decorating bathrooms that have this tile
I have this mexican tile in my kitchen and have always hated it. Recently, I painted my cabinets black and I love it. I still hate the tile, but at least your eyes are now drawn upwards.
Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for. Pictures would be great though.
I need some pictures!
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