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We just repainted a bathroom (guest/boys bathroom) and the stuff that was on the wall no longer matches. I need some inexpensive decorating ideas. Pinterest usually has good ideas. Anyone pin anything good lately?
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what colors? what style? what do you have to build on? what do you like?
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What about wall decals? I've been mulling something like that for our master bath, which we repainted last year and which has a big blank wall above the bathtub. I don't have websites at my fingertips, but I know I've seen some very cute ones out there.
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I have framed groupings of postcards and hung them in bathrooms...Currently, my upstairs bathroom has a lighthouse theme and I have a group of four framed postcards of lighthouses and ships' rigging (ropes, etc. close up) on the wall.
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If you found some fabric paper/wall paper you liked, you can put that in frames, too.
You could also just find some cute frames you like and print out quotes, night time routine checklists, etc... I have a framed list of bathroom activities I want done before Breakfast, Dinner, and Bed along with the Shakespeare quote, "Bid them wash their faces, and keep their teeth clean."
I used this wall paper in their bathroom. It is a 1950s tile job, so it fits the room, and painting would have meant a lot more prep work for us. Anyway, I find wallpaper to be more affordable than the equivalent in fabric for the impact of pattern, and you don't have to do the entire room, in fact, it can be better when you don't. I just did an alcove of this paper in the boys' playroom, the rest of the room painted. In the bathroom, I have a plain roller shade and a plain gray shower curtain, and in the boys' rooms, there are just plain blinds with no curtains, but they don't feel plain because of the paper. You can also use wallpaper to cover a plain roller shade and maybe just the little bit of wall over the sink and around the mirror.
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Thanks everyone! Great ideas! The color is a light blue (on the gray side) called Morning Fog by Olympic Paint. I would would like to put in some green and/or purple with it. My shower curtain is gray that I got a year ago. It looks OK with the paint color, but they are similar and looks blah right now. Style? What's that?  I'm country but not primitive, hate contemporary, like a mix of stuff, love nature and natural stuff, and oh, I don't know. 
I have some beautiful scrapbooking paper that is 12 x 12 that I would love to frame. I just haven't figured out how to do that yet. I was thinking wooden circle frames used in sewing (really I have no idea what they are called!) but I don't know how to make it work with paper (seen it with fabric). Also, I'm afraid the paper will be destroyed since it is in the bathroom and my boys forget to turn the fan on when they shower.
This project started a year ago when I decided that I was tired of the wall paper boarder and yellow color. Once I realized the wall paper was not coming down I was really regretting my decision and that paper and color became beautiful again! Took a year to get it down, repair the wall, and repaint. Hopefully it won't take me a year to redecorate!
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I would use the paper in a frame, but probably not a wooden hoop.
You could find a variety of inexpensive frames with a bit of filigree or decorative molding, perhaps different sizes, including a round one, and then you could spray paint them all the same color so they looked like a "set." Then arrange them with the pretty paper inside 
There are also a lot of free printable botanicals out there you could frame and put in uniform frames symmetrically. Ikea has a number of affordable framing options that could make that possible.
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