This makes me smile as well. The shower curtain and shade aren't total mismatches though. Look at the shape of the prints and their scale. Adore the tub tile! Wow, that's gorgeous. Not sure how the red shelves would fare in the shower though. Still, it gives you an idea of how to mix colours, prints, shapes and textures.

My eye is finally able to distinguish the shower curtain from the tile! I thought the tile was the shower curtain and I couldn’t figure out the clever HD shelves hanging on it!!! :-)))

Love it! And check out the picture above and between the mirrors....and my zooming powers are detecting a quirky towel holder between the mirrors smack dab in the middle of the tile flower. It’s either that or a pencil sharpener! And the towel on the toilet tank that matches the shade...

Your shelf window is going to be a perfect palette for a fun shade!

Are those flowers tile? I thought they were wallpaper....

Haha! I could get that same effect with wallpaper. I could wallpaper a wall or two, get some little red shelves scattered hither and yon, get a totally mis-matched piece of fabric to cover my shelves...

Seriously, I think that’s wallpaper, not tile.

The ironing board bar! Wow..... I don’t think that’s tile in the ironing cupboard, either, I think it’s wallpaper. I saw some like that when I was browsing.

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The kitchen is tile. The bathroom I’m not sure about! It could be wallpaper that looks like tile. But along with the shelves not sure how that would hold up in the shower.

It looks like the kitchen is tile, but maybe not the ironing cupboard. It might be too difficult to close the cabinet with the ironing board and tiles in it....but I also notice there's a repeat in the tile. I think I might use this idea! It would be cute to use that wallpaper as a backsplash.

Yeah, I wasn't thinking of putting wallpaper in the shower. Just on a couple of the walls, with the red shelve-lets sprinkled around. The ugly shower can't be decorated...

The blue color in that kitchen is gorgeous. I'm confused whether that home is in Prague or in San Francisco. Any thoughts?

Oh I know (wallpaper in shower) we know about your shower tangerinedoor, I was just adding on to tartanmeup’s thoughts on the little red shelves. Let’s not mention YOUR shower anymore, k? ;-) It will just remain the mysterious man behind the curtain so to speak! We can refer to it as “The Unmentionable” of your bathroom or “It that shall not be mentioned”.

I still think it’s tile in the ironing board closet. :-)

By the way, there is a Prague St. in San Francisco! :-)

Did you see that chandelier?!! It has a real light in the center AND real candles! Cool!

This particular blue and yellow make for a very dynamic duo. Can't imagine being depressed for long surrounded by those colours with the hits of orange and red. It's all very sunny.

I‘m not convinced :-)

(is the kitchen backsplash wallpaper too?)

The ironing board cupboard and kitchen backsplash sure look like actual Mexican Talavera tile to me (one example of a store here); while difficult in photos, there appears to be depth that I don't think wallpaper would have. I've have several of those tiles in various kitchens, baths, and laundry rooms in my New Mexico and Arizona houses.

That tile wallpaper Laura Hill came up with might be awesome in the bathroom? Well, that might be a little too wild and dizzy-making, but the idea of tile-wallpaper is not bad at all.

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That tile wallpaper doesn't have to be applied to a large surface to give that punch. You could probably use it in lieu of a painting/art. Easy DIY. (Might depend on minimum quantity you need to order but heck, they might have generous sample sizes you could frame.) Just add it to your ideabook and let it percolate on the back burner of your ideas. :)

Woah! Otterplay, those make me dizzy, but that was exactly the kind of thing I was thinking.

Now I can explore the rest of it. Even some of those less colorful "tiles" might work. And if they're stick on, I can change them if they make me want to puke!

Check this out! A wall decal that matches the shower curtain.

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Since I was into elephants all of a sudden.... I really like this one... I could probably reproduce the quirky with it, if I gave up the cow shower curtain...

Not the cow...don’t sacrifice the cow...! :-)

(I spent an hour on there the other night looking for something to go with the cow :-( )

OMG ishop, that's so sweet of you. Just for you, I won't sacrifice the cow..... Maybe I need holstein wallpaper. Hay? Milk?

There’s nice grass paper but maybe not the best for a bathroom!

LMAO on the grass paper. I could prolly get some tractors....

How about this?

My bathroom is getting fuglier by the minute. Now the builder has changed the bathroom flooring supplier and the new colors are GROSS. I'll run them by y'all when I know what they are (in the next day or so).

Ohhhhh

unfortunately, Flo, the “tiles” are vinyl, not ceramic, and they all have a gross marble-y pattern. Until now, I could get a plain black vinyl tile.

Ceramic tiles are not an option. It has to be vinyl and it has to be this vendor.

Ooh.. I like those cranes....

Wow on the cranes, seriously...

...and they look like eyelashes too!

Your a trooper tangerinedoor! Can't wait to see your finished space! Glad you posted those roll in showers, I may have to consider one for the future!

Flo got me on a black-on-white kick. The cranes are a little spendy for me, though I might come around... I’m thinking these might add some quirk to the bathroon consistent with the Russian living room.

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I love that bed and bedside table, too.

I still kinda like the holstein wallpaper I had above, too. It’s a take off on ishop’s idea to have cow(s) since I have a barn door going into the bathroom.

That fabricis spectacular. Maybe I can afford a pillow in the living room.

I thought otterplay was half-joking about painting a vinyl tile floor, but I went on YouTube and it's a thing! I might try it.

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I'm all about quirky, but there's a fine line between quirky and crazy cat lady. You want it to look cheerful but still dignified. "More color and pattern" does not equal quirky. It equals Sanford & Son if you're not careful. I have a craptastic 50s bathroom that we're redoing on the cheap and I like a playful aesthetic too (think Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic" in bathroom form), but I'm being cautious about ensuring some of the basic finishes (flooring, wall tile, vanity) match and are neutral in shape and color. I can go nuts with wallpaper (GREAT idea), paint, grout, artwork and linens...but the floor and any other tile in the room are gonna be a "basic bitch" so we can sell the place someday. I'm trying to get a sense of what you're working with, here. Just so it's clear: you're doing a white barn door, a plain white vinyl pop-in shower/tub, vinyl marble-esque ("mar-belle" as my mother calls it) tile (square or rectangle? what size?), and drywall on the walls? No wall tile, etc. What kind/size/color style vanity do you have and are you also putting in lighting or other fixtures? If you have a barn door and are innately gravitating to cows and buffalo check wallpaper (which you appear to be doing), you're a Joanna Gaines Farmhouse Person whether you like it or not. Embrace it, it still works and the look is everywhere and therefore affordable. Black and white is an excellent idea. Do whitewashed barnwood (removeable) wallpaper to match your barn door. Add a pop of Russian Red or teal paint and you're good to go. I think the barn door is gonna define the space more than anything, and the whole Mexican/Talavera tile thing is just gonna look bizarre (...and I love talavera...).

When I started this post, I was finalizing design work. That's done now, so I can focus on the embellishments.

We were also entertaining each other above, throwing out ideas 'til I arrived at the right concept. Which I never did quite, but I'm working on it!

If I find something I enjoy, I'm fine with being quirky and/or crazy dog lady (forget the cat thing).

Natural alder barn door. No vanity. Wall-mount sink (easy disabled access). White toilet. White sink. No tile. White fiberglass roll-in shower. Black marble-y looking vinyl floor "tile". It'll be very plain.

Gosh, Lisa G, that idea about barnwood wall paper is very interesting. I hadn't thought of that at all.

I may even just get a design change to a lighter tile floor and then paint the walls black or something else.

Yesterday I spotted a mini 1940's chest of drawers for $20 at the thrift store. I can see painting it a glossy bright color (like dark aqua) and using it to store toilet paper and/or in lieu of a vanity.

Your choices sounds great tangerinedoor! Glad it finally got finalized! What was the verdict on the window?

I was thinking about you and your new home recently, tangerinedoor. Glad your design is finalizing and hope you'll keep us posted with pics of the embellishments pondering and the like. :)

Yes we’re looking forward to getting back to the fun stuff!

ishop, I put in a window. Actually, at my last meeting with the builder, I felt like they were railroading me into choices. Putting in the window was one. At that point, I was worn down and didn't care any more. It's not a big deal. They also wanted to eliminate my rain shower and insisted I not have black kitchen cabinets (which were at the base price, along with some other icky choices).

Then they eliminated the black-black flooring from the options, and I got kinda fed up.

Unlikely that these decisions will be important to me later.

However, I wouldn't let them eliminate my rain shower or my barn door. They seemed to think the rainshower was insufferably extravagant, but I insisted. So, at least I kept one nice feature in the bathroom.

We somehow managed to get a full 5' wheelchair turnaround in that bathroom....one of my major goals.

I really ended up liking that wallpaper above that has the holsteins. It just might work really well in that bathroom, without looking too busy.

So, I'm still deciding, but I will probably wait for final decisions 'til after the house gets built in July or so.

In the meantime, I have options for yellow couches (which was our other Christmas-time adventure in home design!) I found a spectacular yellow velvet at apt2b.com and joybird.com

Thanks for the update!! What a hard process, but you did great!