Using accessories: Transform your bathroom's look

Bathroom accessories are easily the quickest and most budget friendly way to create a new look in a bathroom. Accessories encompass everything from the fairly practical like towel rails and soap dishes to more fun and decorative items such as scented candles or ceramic accessories.

How accessories can transform a bathroom

Normally, advice about including new items in a room starts with an exhortation to make sure that it fits with the decor you have. However, to use accessories to change the look of your bathroom, you will need to use a little creative flair, and play with additions to get the desired effect.

Pick up a beautiful woven cloth from the market and drape it over the wash basket, perch a simple wooden or coloured glass bowl on the basin top and float coloured tea candles in water with glass beads at the bottom, line up a procession of shells, fat cowries, spiky, wild and rounded ones along the window sill, or simply treat yourself to a snuggly heated wooden towel rail.

Don't be afraid to try a few things out, or to change them regularly to keep the space interesting and beautiful to you. Start with a plan or simply see where your accessorizing takes you!

Bathroom accessories

The list of bathroom accessories that can create a whole new look in your bathroom is truly only limited by your imagination.

• Towel rails can be heated, wooden, steel, loops or rings or brass
• Bath mats, shower curtains, and towels can combine to create a unique and coordinated look
• Consider a swing out mirror in a small bathroom. This can be funky as well as a practical space saver
• Shelves can be painted to reflect the aesthetic you are creating. Sprinkle some accessories like statuettes, shells, candles, or whatever reflects your taste
• Toilet roll holders can be the old fashioned spike with a doily, or a beautiful woven basket that the rolls nestle in
• Try a cute or stylish soap dish. Use an old and beautiful dish or bowl, or a simple, stylish glass one
• Things like tooth brush holders, tumblers and soap dispensers needn't be the dull plastic variety. A few cents more can land you with a beautiful matching collection, or be deliberately eclectic and collect unexpected and complementary objects to do the job
• Peruse a bathroom shop or the internet for attractive and interesting practical items like toilet seats, cistern levers and bath baskets

A new look for your bathroom is only a few inexpensive accessories away, so get collecting, and have fun creating a lovely new space.

Transforming your bathroom with accessories

Giving your bathroom a whole new look with bathroom accessories is not only practical and relatively inexpensive, it is also fun and as creative as you want it to be. It is definitely the easiest way to lift your plain bathroom into a space that is interesting and enjoyable to be in, so start accessorizing!