The Bathroom Decorating Trend That's Completely Outdating Your Home

Bathrooms are one of the few spaces in the home where you can get creative and experiment with your design skills. It's not necessarily a room where you'll be hosting your next dinner party, so there's less limits to abide by if you want to think outside the box of the rest of your home's decor. The bathroom may not be the main attraction of your home, but it still sees plenty of use from guests and your daily routines, so you don't want to risk a trendy update that ends up aging your space down the line. There are some bathroom decor trends that should be left in the past if you want to avoid any regrets in the future. Certain bathroom designs can make your home seem outdated, including the one approach that is never going to truly benefit your space — decorating your bathroom according to a specific theme.

Decor themes can feel like a fun, youthful way to define your space's style, but even toddlers eventually age out of their rooms that were thoughtfully designed to embrace their childhood obsession. Your bathroom is a place that should make you feel refreshed, but a dated theme can leave you feeling the opposite, making you itch for another renovation. Instead of opting for a theme, take a more mindful approach to introduce cohesion in a timeless fashion.

There might be certain styles or accents that you love so much you want to center all of your bathroom decor around it, but that doesn't mean that trapping it into a cheesy bathroom theme will make it shine. Instead, this can stifle its potential and diminish the appeal. Take seashell decor for example, the '80s decor trend that deserves to escape from the bathroom. After decades of being associated with dusty shell-filled potpourri bowls and kitschy accents, it's just now losing its tacky reputation. When your space relies too much on a single theme, it can start to feel one-dimensional and flatten the charming aesthetic of your home. There's a way to embrace what you love in your bathroom design without letting it take over and turn the room into a museum of relics from a fleeting trend.

There are certain rules to follow when designing your bathroom if you want to make it stylish and functional, so don't get distracted by demanding themes. Rather than repetition, it's best to aim for cohesion through soft, timeless touches of decor. Perhaps you have an antique painting of a duck that is perfect for your bathroom, so instead of plastering more ducks everywhere and making the space feel like a murky pond, you consider what it is you like about the painting. Get inspiration from the color palette, the style of the painting, or even the antique frame — and find ways to nod to these elements throughout your design.