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Your Steps to a Heavenly Bathroom

If you are considering changing the current look of your bathroom, one simple tip to be recommended is to simply check out other people’s bathroom to get some ideas. Who knows? You might find something in your friend or neighbor’s bathroom that will catch your fancy and get some helpful bathroom remodeling tips from them as well. Of course you may buy those home décor magazines-even old issues. There might be a design that you would be interested to incorporate in your own bathroom.

Depending upon your taste or mood, you may opt for bathroom with a refreshing look that will definitely pump up your energy on lazy Sunday mornings or a relaxing, soothing ambiance for those tired nights or a general look that is clean, modern and sophisticated. Delegate “pamper areas” in your bathroom which is a specific spot wherein your can just do all those sort of body pampering like where you can have your own home-made or ready-made mixtures and aromatherapy oils for foot/nail/hand/body spa. Aside from installing a low-emitting bulb in the bathtub area, you may place a candelabrum and burn some scented candles while you relax on a luxurious bath. Provide small benches or rounded chairs so you can take a seat while fixing yourself in front of the mirror and it may also aid you when you apply lotion in your legs or when you shave them. Better, buy foldable or collapsible chairs for easy storage and to save space.

Speaking of space, there are plastic, see-through (for easy location and no need to label the containers) containers with covers wherein you can put various bathroom stuffs like toiletries and shower supplies, towels, toilet cleaners, cosmetics, equipment (like your blow dryer) and spa treatment materials and so on. That way your bathroom will not look cluttered. You may simply stack up the containers in spot. There are a variety of colors to choose from and pick the one that will complement with the color of your bathroom. Still, you may buy have them in different colors for a more vibrant look of the bathroom.

Most people would want their bathroom to look bigger thus better. If you feel that containers will only limit your space, you can have cabinets instead. The best ones are wall-mounted cabinets. They will make your bathroom look bigger and wider. They also save more room. If you have beautifully designed tiles, these wall-mounted cabinets are therefore useful. Place a wide mirror in your bathroom to give it that extra illusion of extensiveness. You can also put two mirrors in if you like.

If you happen to share a bathroom, there are some useful tips you might want to use. To avoid petty arguments especially in mornings, you can have sinks for the both of you. Separating the toilet and the shower is also a good idea, as this will enable the both of you to go on with your businesses in the mornings without interrupting each other. You can also install clear or frosted glass for the bathroom shower and a showerhead that is either permanently attached or can be hand held, to save more time. They must be able to function for hot and cold water.

You should always have your lightings set on the side or top of your mirror. You it is too far, you might not be able to see yourself clearly thus giving you a hard time shaving or applying makeup. If you wish to have more natural lighting in, seat the dressing table nearer to a window. Apart from this, you will be able to have fresh air in so your bathroom will also be well ventilated and odor free.

For a more modern or unique look, you may consider having a folding door for your bathroom to save space. As part of the remodeling as well, change the color of your bathroom but try to stick up to two colors only that will blend with each other (like midnight blue and aquamarine or olive green and avocado) so that the room will not be “confusing” to look at. You may also opt for wallpaper which definitely comes in more exciting colors with matching designs.

Creativity and effort on your part will bear its fruit when you see the outcome of your brand new and exciting bathroom. It will be simply breathtaking.

Please help!…. can u tell me honestly if this excerpt from a short story i made is ok?

soles of my feet press against the cold paved floor as i hurried through the corridors. they say lanterns dance amidst intervals of windows when seen from afar, and that the wind had a mind of its own, baring away curtains as a protest from us strangers. squeaks and screeches follow me. I made my way down the staircase with a candelabrum in my hand and upon reaching the last step, i trembled, as a gush of cold air brushed upon my neck. i quickly glanced behind me, and saw no one. i then looked up and saw the chandelier swaying eerily from side to side… and yet the windows were shut tight.

First of all, I would suggest posting the whole story somewhere on the web (I would suggest fictionpress.com) so people don’t have to review a small excerpt, but the whole thing, which means you’ll get more help and they’ll feel more satisfied at getting a whole story. (Plus I’m not really into reviewing small passages, are they really worth the time?)

Second, when you put a piece up for review, please go for correct grammar, punctuation, and CAPITALIZATION. If you want anyone to take you seriously, you should be able to submit an excerpt with very few, if any, mistakes. Same for your actual question. (Please get out of the habit of Internet Speak. It is a horrible disease plaguing America’s youth and when you start editing high school essays, you too will feel that way.)

Third, one of the difficulties people usually have with first person POV is that they often mix up the time of the story. There is “I remember when” time and real time. You have both. Your first sentence starts with real time “press” and ends up with “hurried”, past tense to hurry. If you kept to one way, it would be pressed and hurried or press and hurry. That problem continues throughout the passage.

Fourth, the second sentence (They say lanterns dance…as a protest from us strangers), is very interesting and looks very pretty. I assume “they” is meant to be the “they” people say when they don’t know who has said whatever was said specifically, just that it was said (as in “you know, they say cows produce more milk when in heat” < not true...I don't even think "they" say that), which usually doesn't go well on paper. Baring away doesn't make sense, so I thought you might mean bearing away, but that doesn't make much sense either. "Amidst intervals of windows" is awkward in meaning as well.

Fifth, if the narrator were being followed by "squeaks and screeches" wouldn't it be wise to think his first reaction (as well as the readers [or at least me]) would not be that a breeze from the window was the cause?

Sixth, at the bottom of the stairs you would glance up the stairs, not behind you, at the stairs, and I don't think you would feel if any air was coming at you from the next floor up. If you were at the bottom of the stairs, you would feel it from the sides or coming at you.

Seventh, I usually see gush associated with fluid or language, not air. Floors aren't paved cold, and paved ground is outside. Squeaks are more cute than eerie.

The excerpt isn't bad, though a little dramatic. You're able to set up the eerie feeling pretty quickly, but I think you might have pressed the feeling too much in your mind and as far as I can tell, the drama is very intense in a novice type of way.

You have, however, managed to grab my interest and I wouldn't mind seeing the rest of it. Good luck with the rest of it and have fun!

Oh, also, you're very consistent in making the narrator use terms that places him in the past. I can tell it's most likely not a young boy in present time because what youngster nowadays would ever use candelabrum?...Unless he was a freak...

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