The $25 Bathroom Makeover

Yes, for only $25, a new look for my poor bathroom! Being the thrifty soul that I am, I washed my shower curtain liner. That worked out okay, but then I put it in the dryer and, well, it kind of melted. I hung it back up anyway, because Jim couldn't take a shower without the shower curtain liner. Basically a shower curtain liner with holes, is not much protection to the shower curtain. I decided that a trip to Gabriel Brothers was in order. Not only did I need a new shower curtain liner, but I had left our bed pillows in the hotel when we went to our niece Courtney's wedding in North Carolina.

Gabriel Brothers is a very cool store, loaded with lots of STUFF at super discount prices. I got a super nice heavy duty (read hard to melt) shower curtain liner and two very firm queen size bed pillows for next to nothing.

I was lamenting the loss of the shower curtain liner to Junkette #3 and she said, "Mom, I saw the coolest shower curtain at Family Dollar, and it was your favorite brand..CHEAP!!"

So we headed out to Family Dollar, and yep, there was a whole rack of cheap shower curtains. I found a really cute black and khaki fleur de lis printed one for only $6. What a steal!! At that price, I thought, why not redo the entire bathroom..so I did. I got a great balloon shade in khaki, a solid black big loop bath mat, and a really big black and khaki rug for in front of the lavatory. I traded out a print I had in the bedroom, and voila..a new look for less than $25. Oh how I love a bargain!

And by the way, the bed pillows I got were too firm, Jim and I both got stiff necks, so we're back to using some extra pillows I had in the linen closet..I'll save the new VERY firm pillows for the guest room....





This is the before picture of my bathroom...









This is the after picture of my bathroom