Decorative stickers in the bathroom
The contents
Bathroom it’s easy to refresh and decorate with stickers. With a large assortment you can pick up stickers for any design style. Even if the bathroom does not have a certain style, you can create it without altering the entire room. You can also use them to hide cleavage, scratches or spots, which often appear on the surface.
Decorative stickers were first used in France, this idea was picked up by the Italians and began to produce better and more expensive stickers. Now our market a huge variety of stickers from different countries, and everyone can find an option considering your budget.
Positive aspects of decorative stickers ↑
- Such adhesive pictures tolerate various temperature changes in the room. Whether it’s the icy cold spray from the shower or the steam from a hot bath. This will not affect the labels in the room.
- Decals did not react to humidity and water. There are even drawings, which in contact with water they swell and become bulky, which will lead the little inhabitants of the house in raptures.
- A variety of pictures is very easy to use. They are so simple to use that creating a new interior, you can enlist the aid of children. It’s fun and kids will feel grown up helpers who have entrusted the important thing.
- Decorative stickers are very easy to care for. Just wipe them with a damp cloth to erase the traces of streaks or drops.
- Correctly pasted pictures that will last for years.
- Great choice of pictures, so everyone can find something of their own. Even if there is no figurative understanding what to create in the bathroom, a variety of stickers will give the opportunity to find something special.
- Glue stickers not only on the wall, it can be both floor and ceiling, and plumbing, and furniture, appliances, Windows and mirrors
Types of decorative stickers ↑
Vinyl stickers:
- Environmentally friendly. Modern PVC has in its composition of harmful chemical compounds.
- They can easily be glued and if necessary they can be removed without damage to wall coverings.
- It is made of vinyl with a wide and varied assortment of stickers may vary in size and shape, but in color.
Vinyl pictures only at first glance, seem identical, there are actually a few important differences that you should know in choosing them for your bathroom:
- Some consist of a backing paper, drawing with a vinyl coating and film covering all of it. Such images are unlikely to fit in the bathroom because the paper quickly soak in contact with water.
- Others, on non-woven, which does not allow condensation to accumulate under the surface of the sticker, that will help to avoid mildew and mold. As a result, the service life of these much less.
- The best option for bathroom stickers solid vinyl. They are completely insensitive to water and moisture, but there is a significant drawback, namely, vinyl has the ability to breathe under the surface may eventually appear mold and fungus.
Silicone stickers – on the structure and appearance of similar vinyl figures, but have several significant advantages:
- The micropores allow the sticker to breathe.
- Antiseptic additives in the silicone composition does not allow to develop harmful microorganisms.
- The lifetime of such a picture much larger than listed above, but it affects the final cost.
Velour stickers – very popular with buyers, they are velvety and pleasant to the touch. But these stickers are not suitable for the bathroom, it is better to use in the nursery or living room.
The mirror sticker is not quite the mirror in essence, they do not break and do not scratch. Some have a vinyl base and cheaper, which reduces the service life of the sticker and the worse the quality. Others, made of mirror acrylic and is virtually indistinguishable from a real mirror.
The style of decorative stickers ↑
Marine style is the most common theme bathroom design using stickers. It can be marine life: animals, fish and plants, and marine landscapes – the beach or ocean. On the floor you can stick the crawling inhabitants of the seabed or the beach that will give the impression that you are resting on the sea. Such drawings will fit into almost any style of bathroom design. Most importantly, choose colors that will not out of the General picture of the room.
Children’s style – suitable for families with children, and cartoon characters will ruin the whole design of the bathroom. These characters will bring children the joy and lift your spirits.
The abstract style is more suitable for bathrooms in contemporary styles: minimalism, hi-tech, art Deco, techno and others. They usually represent the abstraction, which transforms the space and highlights the overall style of the room overall.
Stickers window or door – suitable for any design style, depending on what the view from this window. This may be the view of the ocean or the forest, it can be output in a fairytale land or a flower field, and maybe glance out the window some animal, e.g. a horse.
Environmental style – this picture symbolizes nature. They are treated like animals and birds and trees, flowers, waterfalls and landscapes. This style of stickers are also suitable for many bathroom designs.
If it’s Provence – flowers only accentuate the subtlety of style. They will be a good yield if there is no possibility to keep the room live plants, as the flowers are one of the main design elements in the style of Provence.
Environmental style is ideal if your bathroom is made of wood. A tree or a waterfall is very good will look on the wall in a bathroom.
Text stickers – usually it’s some quotes. With their help, you can show your personality and position in life.
Black-and-white stickers – they fit well in any style of bathroom design. Often they glue, if the room is decorated in a minimalist style, high-tech, Japanese style, and others. They look spectacular, if in the bathroom design uses a single or two contrasting colors.
Style stickers for the bathroom are so diverse that allows you to pick up stickers for any bath and meet the wishes of every member of the family.
Stickers for plumbing and furniture ↑
It is possible to decorate not only the walls, floor and ceiling in the bathroom. For example, gluing to the tank or the lid of the toilet smiling face, you can lighten the mood as guests and members of the household.
Stickers on the bottom of the bath will not only delight children but also can serve as a safety measure, so as not to slip.
Sticker fish floating on the glass window of the washing machine, will create the illusion of an aquarium.
The furniture in the bathroom can be pasted hinting hints at what is inside.
How to paste the sticker ↑
- To start is to determine the location for your picture.
- This place needs to be degreased and wiped dry.
- Should make a sticker and to outline.
- A sticker to be applied not all at once, but gradually removing the substrate and pasting a picture on the wall.
- Carefully ironed by Raquel.
- Remove the protective film and wipe with a soft cloth.
Details of applying the stickers on the wall, you can see from the video
Conclusion ↑
If you want to get the original design in your room, it is difficult to imagine a more original and effective option than a decorative sticker. With all the variety, it’s also the most inexpensive option to make beautiful bathroom, execute fantastic ideas and make your own original decor.
Stickers will delight in its beauty for a long time, and if you want to change something, it’s easy to change the picture and don’t have to wait a few years.