The print:

The "art wall" by the tub:

The window wall:

The window wall with a lousy mockup of the print:

The print would be great for your bathroom, however, I don't like it in that location. May I say though, that the rug is FAB!

This is a tough one. I always love how you arrange your lovely art, and this is another beautiful print, but I’m not feeling it there. I feel it makes that area bottom heavy. I do think something smaller would work! But again, you have a great knack for arrangements, and I trust your instincts!

I borrowed the painting that hangs over the toilet, to get a feel for how an actual piece would look here. This painting is pretty good size but a bit smaller than the Navajo lady I'm considering.

Yeah, it's hard to get a feel for this. I like having something there and might actually consider "the potty piece" in that space. Of course, that leaves the wall over the potty naked, which probably begins a whole 'nother quest.

I love what you’ve done with the bathroom and the painting you want to hang but I have to agree, that spot isn’t working. It’s like fixing something that isn’t broke.

Oh, I like that one there!

Not relevant to the bathroom, but I'm also majorly crushing on this signed Gorman poster, which speaks to my love of Navajo art and the UK! (It's priced a bit out of my range, but not much, so it remains a temptation. I'd love to have it in our library.)

Of course you should hang it (you've already done so, haven't you?)!

It's your home, your bathroom, and your art collection!

The most memorable bathroom I ever saw (decades ago, and I've never forgotten it) was in the home of an acquaintance in Oak Park, Il. This was a half-bath. She had papered every inch of the walls floor to ceiling with neatly trimmed New Yorker covers, which in those days were very colorful and usually whimsical. She had then painted all the wood trim - door, baseboard, medicine cabinet, etc., a beautiful bright emerald green. The fixtures were white, of course, and spotlessly clean. This bathroom was a delight. People tended to stay a bit longer in it as they looked at all the New Yorker art.

I love your Asian rug and pink chair. Gorman's woman will feel right at home!

Sable, that bathroom sounds absolutely wonderful! I agree that such a room should be a place of pure joy, because... well, why not!

I'm starting to like the landscape here more and more, which sort of negates the need to buy anything. Here's another perspective...

... and I can always use this little old donkey butt watercolor over the potty.

I love the Gorman -- not the location under the window. I have one with a similar background but a woman with a basket of oranges -- titled "Naranja."

Oh, and the rug ....cheap. I think it was $80 from esalerugs.

That Gorman print is the bomb! It would be perfect for our den, which has a not-too-obvious theme of red, white, and blue with many items made, painted, carved, etc., of the American West.

It's also very collectible because of the many directions it can go - Western, Native American, theatre, flags, colors. Very nice find. One might need to budget for it!

Sable, please buy it so I can get it out of my system. It's not in my budget right now, but I'd love to see it on your wall! 🙂

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Les-grands-boulevards-La-nuit-RC-Gorman-Signed-Lithograph/154052437218?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3Dbd8c69eaa283442d8acfb0057bda9920%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D15%26mehot%3Dnone%26sd%3D282739189991%26itm%3D154052437218%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3Aa1a98490-3ccf-11eb-9967-9e53382f7cae%7Cparentrq%3A593aef301760a9c98cd1bd34fffa400e%7Ciid%3A1

I love the print, but wouldn't like it under the window. Could you put on the ledge beneath the shower wall glass or the ledge near the tub?

No, not enough room elsewhere. To complicate matters, I am also quite drawn to this...

I'm not sure if the white frame would be better under the window than the wood frame on the other piece. This one too is large, so would fill that space under the shutters.

I also don't have a good feel for how professionally it's actually framed. The white frame could be just fine in person, but I fear it could look cheap too. I do love the image though.

**AHEM**

Well?! What have we decided?!

😄

Heehee! Thank you for asking! I decided to leave the landscape in place beneath the window. The more I looked at it there, the more it tied in with the other pieces hung nearby and just seemed a better fit than any of the Gorman prints I'd seen.

I rearranged the artwork in the potty closet, and have a third piece on order from an Ebay seller that will go on the wall to the left, next to the door. Overall I'm pleased with the outcome, and only out around $25 for the new art, pictured below.

Love! Looks great! And love the new one! My dad had prints like that in the early 80s, he used to read AD and saved the issues that heavily featured Southwestern art. :)

O/T, but I just ordered this William Morris print pillow cover (for the wrong pillow I was sent) ... “Strawberry Thief”. It would look good in your library upstairs. British Arts and Craft. :)

Maire, no, I actually ordered the Morris from the A site (we aren’t allowed to post a link here) ... but I saw it on Etsy, and lots of other places, too. It’s coming Wednesday, so I’ll let you know what I think. :)

I adore that pillow! Do you happen to have a link?

Oco, I’ll try, but it’s “that” site. 🤪

Edit: Argh! It wouldn’t work! I think it‘ll come up if you search William Morris “Strawberry Thief” pillow cover and “that” site. So annoying we can post every other site but that one!

Thanks Jinx. I did see them on Etsy and thought that's where you might have found them. I have a Strawberry Thief scarf and thought about using that for a pillow but it's really too thin unless I line it .

I would put a towel rack under that window, so that towels would be convenient when you exit the shower.

The second Gorman painting is pretty in a very feminine way, but IMO the first one (wrapped in the blanket) is the better, more interesting picture. Darn it, Ocotillo, I am now seriously thinking about this. It fits our life story; my ex is a Brit now also living in the Southwest, both kids have British citizenship and one of them is a sculptor. This is your fault!

To me, a painting looks odd down there under that window...but hey, it you like it then that's what matters.

Sable, I truly hope you'll get the Union Jack Gorman! It sounds like a perfect addition to your collection, and it IS a unique piece! Keep us posted!

Lars, I rather like the idea of a towel bar there. I could always take the art and move to the wall where the other pieces are next to the sink. Would have to restack the arrangement somehow, but it could work. There is plenty of room for the larger piece on that wall, although hard to tell from the pic.

OK ... How about a towel bar in that space below the window, as Lars suggests? It WOULD be more convenient for me than what I'm doing now, which is using the bar above the tub (requiring a step into the tub to rehang the towel each day; not a big deal, but maybe a second towel bar would be a good idea).

I did a mockup:

Hmm. If you haven’t already, I’d measure your bath towels and the distance of them from a bar to the floor. I may be wrong, but I think a big towel would be nearly touching the floor or just above it.

I love the art! But I understand wanting convenience, too. I don’t know if it’s just us in Texas, but builders never leave enough space in bathrooms for towel bars!

Is there anywhere near the shower for a towel hook? That’s what we’re using. If we weren’t renting, I’d install a decorative bar/handle on our glass door. I’ve seen these hooks, too:

It's really hard to tell from the photos, but that's actually a fairly sizeable area beneath the window. It all manages to look so much more scrunched and cramped when it photographs though! I think a bath towel would likely fit just about as I have it in the mockup, but would definitely measure to be absolutely sure. I had used a clear Command hook next to the shower (on the portion of tile wall, just to the right as you exit the shower), to hold my bath towel or robe. It worked great for a few years and then fell off. I could simply replace it, and am not sure why I haven't done so yet!

It is like builders put the towel bars in inconvenient locations too. There's a towel ring affixed to the side of the cabinet that you can just see at the end of the countertop in the mockup I posted above. Why there? I have never washed my hands and reached down there to grab the towel; hence the towel draped across the counter at the sink.

I really do like the painting there, but am starting to warm to the idea of the towel bar too. Decisions, decisions. Thanks to those who have held my hand along the way with this. It's certainly not monumental, but sometimes it's those little tweaks we make that make all the difference.

Jinx, how would you install a bar on the glass? You've got me curious about that option!

Jinx, I think builders do that because I see so few towel bars used now days. We don't have towel bars in our house and our house is 20+ years old. (We do have a couple of towel rings, for hand towels.). We have a place for towels inside the shower and in the master bath, inside the large closet. Octo, if you like a hook, you could buy a pretty robe hook and put in place of your command hook.

If it were me, I'd leave that space open. But like dad said, "that's why they make chocolate and vanilla"! LOL (I just wanna look at that rug!)

Oco, some are mounted permanently, with the hardware drilled into the glass, some are suction cup types. I think I’d prefer a permanent one ... I never have good luck with suction cups! Especially with something as heavy as a towel.

I‘m still looking for pics of how it looks from inside the shower.

ETA: Apparently, there are “no drill” ones supposedly stronger than suction types, too. I’m looking into it again! :)

I love the looks of that! Not sure our thin little glass door could accommodate it, but it has such a nice, spa-like look to it.

I could always add a decorative hook to the right of the shower on the narrow strip of (non-tiled) wall there. I mocked it up and think it looks fine. The only truly "convenient" solution here is the Command hook on the tile to the other side, but that's so ... meh.

I like the hook there! Yes, looking at your door closer, I don’t think a bar would look good on the glass.

Thanks, Jinx! I think I'll order the hook and call it a day. :-)

My pillow cover came! Oco and maire_cate, I am so impressed with it! The print looks great, I like the texture of it, and the zipper enclosure is sewn on so well. And my gosh, you can’t beat $9.50!

First I put it on the guest bed, but decided no, too many pillows ...

Remembered I needed a pillow on the Mexican pine chair in my bedroom. Perfect. :)

Back:

Trying this, since we can’t link it!

Can y’all see my last post? Not the pillow pictures, but right under, a screenshot of where I got it?

Yes, I can see it. Thank you for posting that! What a nice price on a beautiful pillow cover! I have some "nekkid" pillow forms in a closet; I should definitely cover them with something pretty like this.

You should have seen me trying to stuff the slightly-too-big and overfilled form into this thing. I was using my arms and legs both. If any seam ever pops, that form will explode out of there into space. 😄

Oh! I just scrolled up and saw that you posted pics of the real deal! VERY nice! The background looks more blue than in the A----- photo, and I like that very much. I would need a 20 x 20, and the site is showing that it won't arrive until sometime in February. Dang.

Ugh! I think I got really lucky and got in right under the wire. I’m actually surprised I got it this fast.

I agree — I like how it’s more blue, too. I’m most impressed with the texture ... I don’t care for overly smooth ones where the pattern looks like an ironed-on photo, you know? And that’s kind of what I was expecting at this price point.