Fishing Decor - Leave the Odor Outside the Home
Posted: Thursday, February 10, 2005
by lorien1973
Online Discount Mart Home & Garden Decor
It's one of the most popular pastimes around, loved by men and women, and people of all ages. So when you're re-designing a room in your house, and there's an outdoor sportsman (or woman) who can't get enough of casting and reeling them in, fishing decor is the perfect answer to your decorating dilemma. And its the perfect decorating idea that fits in almost any room you can think of!
Start with your walls and floors. If you plan to change the flooring, consider a pebble-patterned vinyl flooring, for easy clean up of water, and a natural, riverbed look. The walls can be done in two tones of blue- a deeper shade on the bottom half, and lighter on the top, with a wallpaper border featuring trout, or other fish, around the dividing line. Or you might choose to stencil the line with the fish pattern of your choice. Paneling looks good too, and gives the room a rustic look, but shop carefully first, to make sure the type you choose is suitable for a high humidity room, even if you have bathroom fans.
Keep it all in the tub, with a shower curtain that features a pattern of antique lures. Then carry that theme over to the flush. It's out with the old and in with the new, for your "loo", when you add a clear acrylic seat and lid that is set with the same antique lures. Having fun with your fishing decor? Then you'll "reel" them in with a fishing reel toilet paper holder.
Were you out fishing last summer and met up with a brassy bass? Well, you can meet them again in your bathroom, with brass fixtures for the walls, including a bass towel ring, a towel bar, and if you "reely" didn't care for the other toilet paper holder- try the matching bass holder. There are also light switch plates, and cupboard doorknobs to go with the rest of the hardware.
For the vanity, how about a matching set of accessories that say you'd rather be fishing? Basic pieces include a soap dish, hand cream dispenser, toothbrush holder and tumbler. They can be bought in dozens of patterns or styles from plastic with fishing prints, to ceramic ware crafted to look like fish baskets. Finish off the counter top decorating with a basket that has rolled and ribbon-tied face cloths surrounding a bed of fish-shaped soaps, intermingled with round bath beads to look like bubbles. Now you've been bitten by the fishing décor bug (and not a mosquito), keep on going!
Over to the linens and check out the fish-patterned towels. Or the local craft fair, where you may be lucky enough to find someone with the new computer powered sewing machines that can embroider almost any pattern, fish included, that you can think of. And add your names or initials as well!
Ready to stand back and admire your fishing decor? Not yet. A nice little rug in front of the tub, which picks up one of the other patterns such as the lures, or bass, would make a great last touch. Now, you can go hook someone into helping you do all this.
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