Thread: Does anyone decorate the bathroom?

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we had a bath of blood with hand prints down the shower curtain & on the mirror and it took weeks of scrubbing with bleach to get the stain off, so be warned! looks amazing though as guests dont expect it.

I did have vasaline on the mirror before the blood went on and that didnt stain. May take a lot to grease up a whole bath though.

Yeah, i had the same problem with the bloody clings staining my cabinets in the bathroom. I had permanent red hands prints on them that wouldn't come off. Now i put them on my sink, mirrors, toilet, and bath tub with no problem though.

Originally Posted by harrison36

please watch out when using those gel stick ons. i put one bloody handprint on my tile (its like an unpolished marble) and it left a little stain. and it wasnt on the tile for a long period of time.

Thanks harrison...maybe I will rethink getting those. I have a white marble counter in the power room and would be horrified if the gel cling left a stain!!

We didn't put any clings or coloring on any of the tub/tile areas due to posts about them staining... but the shower curtain was bloody enough to get the point across!

We did a bloody shower curtain like this:

1 cheap clear vinyl shower curtain from the dollar store
1 can red spray paint
latex gloves (had some leftover from a relative, can be purchased at med supply places or even beauty supply stores for applying hair dye) MUST be the tight-fitting ones!

Hung curtain in back yard on line strung up (clothesline, twine between two trees...whatever)

Put on gloves.

Arterial spray blood streaks
Spray can no more than 2 inches away from the surface, closer is better. Sweep arm in a horizontal movement leading down and trail off the paint spray. Let drips run.

For all other applications, you'll be spraying your hand (thus the gloves):

Handprints
Spray surface of palm until covered (but not drippy) and then lay it flat onto the surface of the curtain. Use the other non-sprayed hand behind to make sure to get the paint hand in full contact with the curtain. Draw hand downward if you want the handprint to streak slightly. If you don't have tightly fitting gloves, this won't look like hand prints. Also try grabbing wrinkles of the curtain and streaking down - looks pretty cool.

Bloodflecks and splatters
Cup hand to catch paint, and spray into hand until you have a small amount in your cupped hand. Fling at the curtain, without coming into contact with your hand. Paint will splatter and run depending on how much paint you had in you hand.

Flick fingers at curtain to cause paint droplets to splatter across surface.

Let curtain dry completely and you'll have a lovely bloody mess to hang in your bathroom for roughly $3 that will last for years. I used my shower even while this curtain was in place, and the blood didn't flake off at all.

I did the same thing except we used red acrylic paint. Hadn't though about spray paint. Good idea.

And you're right, it makes a big statement.

This year i'm doing a psycho bathroom. I'm making a pvc frame "mother" or mrs. bates to lay in the bathtub. Going to have the blood clings everywhere. My mother in law is making towels with the monograms BM. I'm going to put a mp3 player with a speaker under the sink in the cabinet and have looped the psycho theme song and sound clips from the movie. And i recently bought this light up sign to hang in the bathroom or on the door.

Originally Posted by AmFatallyYours

I did the same thing except we used red acrylic paint. Hadn't though about spray paint. Good idea.

And you're right, it makes a big statement.

This year i'm doing a psycho bathroom. I'm making a pvc frame "mother" or mrs. bates to lay in the bathtub. Going to have the blood clings everywhere. My mother in law is making towels with the monograms BM. I'm going to put a mp3 player with a speaker under the sink in the cabinet and have looped the psycho theme song and sound clips from the movie. And i recently bought this light up sign to hang in the bathroom or on the door.

Last year we purchased a "screaming" shower curtain at K-Mart. It has a printed silhouette of a figure with a raised knife and is covered with bloodstains. It comes with a motion activated box that plays the Psycho theme and screams - very loudly! We placed it under the cabinet and it worked like a charm whenever anyone turned on the light.

We saw it this year at a store called "Country Junction" in PA...

I want to do the spider den for my guest bathroom as it is a half bath and it is so small so it will definitely add to the creepiness of spiders everywhere.

My dilemma is I'm worried that if I do spiders there I shouldn't put bugs or spiders elsewhere. Is this valid or is it okay to use them other places too?

i couldnt see this posted anywhere else, its my first post , but what about a chainsaw massacre bathroom theme. ??

we're trying that this year , did a psycho theme last year which went well, most of which you guys have tried in the past . tip: dont use the fake blood on white tiling, very difficult to remove, had to repaint our tiles, ( rented house..ooops!)

So i thought id do some research and A) found this forum, and B) found this ...>>

http://www.texaschainsawmassacre.net.../realcolor.JPG
http://www.texaschainsawmassacre.net...hyourhands.JPG

hope this inspires you as much as me..... ive also bought the dvd so i want to rip the soundtrack have it playing in the bathroom..chainsaw noises included.

My daughter doesnt like blood and gore so the bloody shower curtain wouldnt work for me.. We are doing a Bat Room... I didnt want to spend a lot of money or time so heres my $2 and 15 minute shower curtain Im doing creepy not cutesy so the fact that its a little rough looking is ok with us. Since the curtain is clear we'll still be able to see whatever we put in the tub. Oh and the bat 'stencils' will be reused on the walls. It occurred to me that since the shower curtain was only a dollar this might be a quick and easy way to cover walls in my hallway, I dunno, just a thought

Originally Posted by Chalice

Some more advanced ideas we've used:

- We took down all the artwork in the bathroom and wrote all over the wallpaper with glow-in-the-dark chalk- mostly crazy, scary messages "We are coming to get you", "Mother why won't you leave me alone?", etc. It took a lot of elbow grease to clean it up, but it was worth it. Note: Please experiment in a small area of your bathroom before trying this. You don't want to be stuck with crazy messages on your bathroom walls all year....or do you?

Hehehe, when we bought our house, I was a crazy student and had gotten hold of a jar of glow in the dark paint. I wrote on the ceiling in the guest bedroom "I'm Under the Bed".

That was over 7 years ago It's still there, and it still freaks people out to this day, despite the fact they all KNOW it's there I think I'd have to do it again if we ever move, it's kinda part of home now!