Thread: Small Bathroom needs big impact

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I think I need to get it in gear decorating my bathroom.

I also started the Bat Room, the inspiration was from looking at Ghostess' pictures. I never decorated my bath room before, just had not gotten that far yet. Now it gets decorated for halloween & xmas. I hang bats all over the wall & ceiling, those cheap plastic scene setter ones.

I also hang some small bats from the ceiling. I have a black pumpkin shower curtain, & hang black netting around the shower curtain & I use blue lights in there. Next year 2010 I'm gonna focus more on polishing up my bath rooms & making them a bit more spifee.

I guess the idea really got started when the kids started coming through the house & needed to use the bathroom, thats when the idea sparked to start doing something with it, then came Deanna's pictures with great ideas. I love what she does to the other bathroom, where the skeleton is in the tub with what looks like a bubble bath,........didn't that skeleton have a bath cap on too!?lol

Originally Posted by Frankie's Girl

I hid the whole thing (cd/speakers) up in the air vent and no one could hear it until they shut the door... and it freaked every single person out. And even if they did figure out where it was. they'd need a ladder and screwdriver to get it to stop.

I really want this:
ThinkGeek :: LED Faucet Lights

I am stealing your "music in the vent" idea...genius!
And I just bought the led sink light

Thanks!!!

Frankie's Girl, you stole my idea! And now I feel like I am copying you since you posted first! LOL I am also having the Butcher Shoppe in one of my bathrooms. This will be in my master bath. It is a pretty good sized room with a corner jetted tub. I bought the Butcher Shoppe sign from Dollar Tree and four different blood clings---band and food prints and two kinds of spatters. I also picked up a hatchet with blood gel in the blade there. I have double sinks in a long wooden vanity. I haven't decided what to do with the large plate mirror. Each sink has a four light wall sconce above it and I am leaning toward colored (red) bulbs in them. The ceiling light can't be changed since it is one of the weird ones with the small energy star plug in thingys. I guess I could cover it with red saran wrap for effect.

I also picked up a gory doctor costume at a Resale Shop for only a few bucks. I haven't figured out how to add the photos, but here is a link to one I found on the web.
Zombie Doctor Plus Size Adult Costume - Adult Costumes
The one that I bought didn't have the mask, but that is okay for the price. Plus this is a butcher shop room.

I am placing the costume in the corner tub (maybe on a shower stool or just draped across the back ledge. I also picked up some severed gory feet at Dollar Tree.

At the same thrift store I bought a gauze head that is covered with bloody gauze and has a huge rat on it. It will be dropped in there someplace, too.

The Dollar Tree was out of the severed hands, but I hope to find some. Plus, I have numerous other mask heads and hands that can add to the butcher effect.

I think I will look for chainsaw recordings for in there.

Oh yeah, I have some torn creepy cloth from DT.

All in all, I think this will be hit.

The other bathroom will be a Bat Room. It is a long bath that has a large glass shower that is the size of the old bathtub area. I will hang the Walgreen's vampire bat in the shower and have a lighted bat and various other bats to hang and sit around. It also has a large five light wall sconce and I may replace the lights with blue or purple bulbs. I don't want the black lights. LOL

I am getting so excited with all the planning. I went back to the same thrift store today and they have more stuff added today again. I picked up a few more items. They are SOOOOOOO cheap.

you could always use the black party lights that aren't the ones that cause things to glow that's what I used in my bathroom last year and often you can get them for a dollar or so at walmart.

You are not alone...in the bathroom! How about making it appear that you are being watched? Eyes (clings) everywhere - walls, floors (those eyes through the vents clings are great), ceiling. I have done this in the past and it really freaks people out. use dim lighting, such as candles only or replace regular bulbs with flicker bulbs (love those things). Put some glowing/blinking lights behind a sheer shower curtain (tattered of course) and hide a CD player that is looping some heavy breathing or wheezing. Oh, and try one of those motion-sensor laugh boxes right beside the toilet. Nothing is more unnerving than to hear creapy laughter when you pull your pants down. This is my favorite bathroom theme and I have used it (with variations, of course) many times. I always have 1 'safe' undecorated bathroom for the kiddies of course. And don't forget to stash some sort of motion sensor novelty (whatever you have) that make a loud sound inside your medicine cabinet so as to embarrass the snoopy guests (we all get them). That's always fun!
This is actually my first post here. I have been reading and stealing ideas from you all for about a year now, but never took the time to post before (lazy, I guess). you guys are brilliant and Iappreciate all your amazing ideas!

Oh! I started a similar post and "lost" it halfway thru. So if someone finds a half-written, unedited post similar to this one floating around - Sorry, my bad!

'Eyes' is an awesome idea!!! oh dang it!!! now I want to change themes!! oh oh oh wait I'll do the eyes in the master bath!! hehehe
Thanks!!

Originally Posted by Witchie Woman

I am stealing your "music in the vent" idea...genius!
And I just bought the led sink light

Thanks!!!

...and it arrived yesterday. It is awesome...big impact and "cool factor" for $20.

I saw a prop on Halloweenasylem.com that was of a demonic girl that can be put on a wall or ceiling. Creepy as hell. If you combined her with a hiden sound effect up in the air vent it would be over the top combined with the tub and all.

Okay, I'll just tell you all right now that I'm stealing EVERYONE'S ideas for "years to come!" ha ha ha. I am such a dork that I keep "an idea file" stashed so when I run across things or randomly think of them, I jot it down and reference it for next year. Some ideas stick, some don't.

I like the "eyes" thing too, and the medicine cabinet motion activated something or other sounds fun as well! Sink light I found as well online for $20 and I'm still looking for flicker lights. Anyone know a good reputable source? I have those small ended lights, maybe they are called "candelabra" lights? Not sure. Need to "regular" sized end ones too, one for the hallway and one for the porch light at the front door.