How to Buy a Bathroom Scale

Is one of your New Year’s Resolutions to lose weight? Do you have a good scale that will help you with your goal? Today’s scales have so many different features, including calculators for body fat percentages. Do you know which features are most important to you? Read on to get the skinny on how to buy a bathroom scale. Analog or Digital? An analog scale is the traditional scale that we all grew up with. You step on it and the dial responds to the pressure of your weight until the pointer reachers the right number. Analog scales do not … Continue reading →

Bathroom Vanities: Update or Renovate?

Bathrooms are one of those areas that provide you with the most return on your investment when you update or renovate them. So, it does pay to spend some money in the bathrooms. But, sometimes you can spend too much or too little. It is important to know when a bathroom makeover calls for just an update or a complete renovation. When we moved into our home, the largest bathroom at the end of the hall needed some serious changes. Well, it still does, although we have gotten some work done. The next piece on our list has to do … Continue reading →

Make Your Small Bathroom Feel Larger

While some of these tips may help free up a bit of space, they probably won’t add much in the way of square footage in your small bathroom. Still, they will help make it feel larger and less confining. A great way to make a small bath feel more spacious is to remove shower doors, especially those that are not clear glass. Remove the entire structure, clean the area thoroughly, and hang a shower curtain rod and curtain in its place. While most people close the shower curtain after use to allow it to dry, it is a good idea … Continue reading →

High-Tech Bathrooms

We’ve all heard of high-tech kitchens, but not very many homeowners think of integrating advanced technology in the smallest room in the house-—the bathroom. I will be the first to admit that when I stroll through design showrooms I tend to gravitate towards new products for the kitchen and larger living areas. What’s more, when I travel to hotels and run across a product that makes washing up safer and more comfortable I rarely consider installing it in my own home (in most cases I figure it’s a luxury I can’t afford). The following are some of my favorite high-tech … Continue reading →

How Many Bathrooms Do You Have in Your Home?

How many bathrooms are there in your home? Do you have 1, 2, 2 ½ baths, 3, or more? Are there enough or do you still have issues over getting in the bathroom or someone spending too much time in there? This question was inspired by my oldest getting ready for the prom yesterday. We have six people in our family, Mom, Dad, and four daughters, and we have two full bathrooms. Yesterday, my husband wasn’t even at home, so five people, two bathrooms, for all intents and purposes. Still, there was stress over getting in there to use either … Continue reading →

Even More Bathroom Thoughts

How can you make the most of whatever bathroom space you have available? The answer is not unlike that old expression about how one makes lemonade from lemons. Think about your space and how it could better reflect the personalities of those who occupy it. (Don’t go too far and ponder schizophrenia or paranoia; keep it simple.) Here are some more thoughts on a rather cluttered topic. Double Up An uncluttered floor helps a great deal in fostering the illusion of more space. (Actually, it is not an illusion because the clutter does take up space.) Consider installing two double … Continue reading →

Some More Bathroom Thoughts

The cramped world of the bathroom need not be. You have space you don’t know you have; you just can’t locate it for the same reason you can’t see the forest for the trees (or something like that. And if a tree lives in your bathroom, the following advice won’t help you at all!) ). Creating more space is not just an illusion. The mirror, sink and lighting all help to render actual as well as illusory space. So read on, even if illusion and space are two things that escape you at the moment. Mirror, Mirror, Hopefully on The … Continue reading →

Bathroom Ideology

Many of us, particularly city-dwellers, suffer from what non-authorities call the “small master bathroom syndrome.” The one major symptom of this malady is the prevalence of traffic jams both on the highway known as the hallway leading to the bathroom of your home and in the bathroom itself. What can you do about cabinets so packed nothing can be added or extracted and toiletries that seem to reproduce overnight on your crowded shelves? Well, read on, whether you believe in organization or not. According to a survey conducted by Moen (you know, those interesting faucet people) more than half the … Continue reading →

Toilet Ring Tricks and Tips

Toilets are a delicate subject, but they need attention too. Although most of us would probably prefer to hide them from view, they still should sparkle with their own particular shine. Here are some tips to keep them looking their best, no matter how you may feel about them. Toilet Ring Tricks Make a paste of lemon juice and borax. Allow to set before scrubbing. This should remove most stubborn toilet rings. Another solution is to pour a cup or two of white vinegar into the toilet bowl. Let it sit overnight; then brush well and flush and presto! Ordinary … Continue reading →

Tub Rings and Other Things

No bathroom could be complete without a bathtub, even if every member of the family showers every day and rarely uses it. Many use it to soak clothes and recalcitrant pets, children and other strange relatives, but it still has to be cleaned no matter what went down. Here are some tips about keeping that tub of yours in tip-top tub shape. Read on, no matter how you may feel about rings and other things. Wet and Dry A good habit to get into is to rinse the bathtub as soon as you are finished and dry it immediately. The … Continue reading →