foxy, are you still around? Oddly enough, for our next bath we're thinking of using the smaller Hollviken and Danze Parma, and here you are using the same things! (we have our big hollviken in our master bath and love it every day). Would you share your thoughts on how the Parma is holding up? Would you use it again, knowing how it's been so far? TIA -- hope you see this...OH, we're also using some mosaic tile accent in and amongst larger format tiles lol...I *swear* I wasn't intentionally copying :)

I saw a shower where one entire wall was the fancy patterned tile and the other 3 walls were plain. I think it was posted by Beth H? Maybe she will post that again. It wasn't a strip, it was one of the end walls (skinnier) of a shower.

Beautiful kitchen! Right now I am on a teal kick and I have it in my kitchen, family room and living room. In my family room I paired it with with a golden yellow and red. I found an accent pillow with all 3 of those colors in it and picked other accents around it. If you love yellow and orange, I'd run with it. And you can easily change out those colors if you get bored.

I 100% get your need for keeping the storage of this bench. Your room looks sophisticated - wouldn't change the lamps or anything else (what's wrong with a simple white comforter??) The problem is the bench looks kind of juvenille next to the rest of your decor. I would try some woven storage cubes with a bit of brown in them to play off of your head board, and a cushion with some browns or black that has a tiny bit of weave to it. It could be just as cost effective to get a new bench with storage options. Not knowing what you store in the baskets or how often you access them, I don't know if the configuration of storage in these benches works or not.