| Your Mexican style bathroom is bold and | | | | you vanity top. Or just waterproof the wood |
| colorful. It is inviting and makes you feel | | | | with a sealer. If you don't change your |
| happy. You can have your Mexican style | | | | vanity, sink or countertop paint the cabinet |
| bathroom with just a few decorator items and | | | | base either solid or with a dry brush |
| bright bathroom towels all the way to a whole | | | | technique in a bold color. |
| new vanity and new saltillo tile floors. | | | | |
| Lets start with the whole bathroom remodel | | | | Your Mexican style bathroom mirror can be |
| and work our way up to bathroom accessories | | | | framed in iron, shinny shaped tin or copper. |
| Mexican style. | | | | A heavily carved frame can work and can be |
| | | | painted. There are also the shinny tin |
| The Mexican bathroom floor. Never carpet. | | | | framed mirrors with the Mexican tiles inset. |
| Mexican saltillo tile or a glazed Mexican | | | | |
| tile will give you the most authentic Mexican | | | | Bathroom fixtures for a Mexican style |
| bathroom floor. Saltillo tile in a range of | | | | bathroom. Replace shinny brass or silver |
| terracotta colors to manganese, a rich brown | | | | faucets with dark rustic fixtures. Look at |
| color. Saltillo tiles are made in a variety | | | | styles in antique bronze. If you change your |
| of shapes. What you see most are squares, | | | | sink fixtures don't forget the bathtub and |
| six, twelve and sixteen inch. Then there are | | | | shower for your overall Mexican bathroom |
| rounded patterned ones. You can do your | | | | style. |
| bathroom floor overall with one tile or you | | | | |
| can create a tile rug using several shapes or | | | | Mexican style bathroom lighting. Hang a |
| sizes of tile. | | | | wrought iron or rustic chandelier over each |
| | | | of your vanity sinks. Sconces on each side |
| How to create your Mexican tile rug. Use the | | | | of the mirror work well too. If you use the |
| twelve or sixteen inch squares on the entire | | | | chandelier, scrolly wrought iron sconces to |
| bathroom floor except where you are placing | | | | hold pillar candles are totally Mexican |
| the rug. Then make a border using smaller | | | | style. Put a dimmer on the lights for those |
| tiles. These can be broken pieces, colored | | | | relaxing soaking baths. |
| tiles, patterned tiles or just the small | | | | |
| saltillo tile. Then fill the center with the | | | | Bathroom accessories Mexican designer style. |
| six-inch Mexican saltillo tiles set on a | | | | Bright, bold colors, scrolly iron pieces, |
| diagonal. For inspiration look at the | | | | real Mexican serapes and Mexican pottery. |
| designs on area rugs. | | | | Bright painted wood and Mexican woven or |
| | | | appliqué wall hangings will pull your |
| Mexican style bathroom walls. Paint or tile | | | | Mexican style bathroom together. |
| your walls in bright colors. (Keep in mind | | | | |
| you still have to put on make up and want to | | | | Paint an old chair in a bright turquoise and |
| complement your pretty skin when choosing | | | | place a stack of bold colored towels on the |
| your colors). A great way to get that | | | | seat. Take a bright serape stripe fabric to |
| Mexican style is to paint a bold stripe in a | | | | make a valance over the shower curtain rod or |
| chili pepper red or Tucson teal at chair rail | | | | hang a length of south of the border fabric |
| height all the way around the room. Paint a | | | | from the ceiling to the floor to hide the |
| lighter color on top and another bold color | | | | open shower curtain. Use a solid or bright |
| on the bottom part of the wall. You can | | | | floral printed shower curtain that |
| also use bright colored Mexican tiles for | | | | compliments. |
| your stripe or paint or stencil Mexican style | | | | |
| designs in your stripe. | | | | Hang a piece of wall art that you love where |
| | | | you can see while soaking in the tub. Your |
| Your Mexican style bathroom vanity. Find an | | | | Mexican wall art can be a framed print, a |
| old dresser or buy a Mexican rustic chest or | | | | Mexican weaving or appliqué or scrolly |
| dresser cut a hole for the sink. Use a | | | | wrought iron. Use Mexican pottery bathroom |
| Mexican talavera pottery sink or buy a cobalt | | | | sink accessories. Use a small Mexican flower |
| blue, sunflower yellow, aqua or red sink. | | | | pot or mug to hold your toothbrushes and |
| Use bright solid or patterned Mexican tile on | | | | salsa, you have your bathroom Mexican style!. |