I remember years ago being in a similar predicament and someone gave me some mirror tiles - I glued them on the the wall and thought I was very clever. They actually did look much better in my eyes. Try not to spend too much - I think everyone's idea of a shower curtain will all the bathroom colours in it would probably be the best option. You'll laugh about it in years to come and you will love the improvements you make over time. Enjoy the moment, unless you're selling soon your ideas will change after living there, so change when you can afford it - who cares it's YOURS. Good luck, it's so rewarding and so much fun. P.S. now we have a small bathroom, wall to wall tiles, dark grey on the floor and white on all the walls with a large grey tile up each opposing wall, tall mirror over the handbasin which reflects the opposite wall then a full length bath with shower over it. It works perfectly and looks great.

@urj123, Cricky!!! I knew you were going to ask that, after I looked at the sample I had that was full strength ha-ha.....AND I re-read you post and you wrote quite clearly 1/4 strength!!! I will return to the store, AGAIN, ha-ha and ask for 1/4 strength. All jokes aside, I think 1/4 will probably be real nice, as I didn't dislike the full strength but too creamy for the ceiling. My daughter actually painted all her ceilings the same colour as her walls with Hog Bristle but all the experts seem to say that a ceiling should be white or at least traditionally its always been white and I like the look of that too. I won't be back in town until next week but I'll keep in touch when I have the sample in my hand. Hubby and I are hay contractors and are at our most busy time being in tractors for many long hours but we are nearing the end and then I can take a breath and turn my focus back onto the home. Actually have 80mtrs of edging or capping tiles around the veranda to do and then the same amount of concreting to do on the 1.8m wide veranda and then we can get the colourbond roof on the house and during the cooler months, we can start to lay the limestone bricks, so there's plenty to do on the home!!! I have photo's attached in an earlier post. Best get to bed, more hay baling to do tomorrow. Cheers, Barbara

Oh C'mon V Richards...every epoch has its treasures. B4 you make a mad run for it stop a while and consider the period and the reasons for the style...it can be extremely enlightening....unless its not the period you want to escape from but from some of the opinions. I spent many years of my youth outside of Australia living surrounded by old ruins in Europe. I forgot what it was like here. When finally I returned to Australia and found myself living in some of the 60s and 70s places..I found much to admire and wonder about. I may not have fallen in love with much of it but there was a certain mistique and a feel that I can still conjure when talking about certain places. Not saying that it was all romantic and pleasant but it conveyed something of the era and the kind of Aussie from those days.

When I look at the doona images, would I be right that your choices are guided by the commonality of the colours which feature in the prints and the back wall? As they are both quite dark and the bedroom doesn’t seem that large, I think both the large patterns & the depth of colour of any of these doonas would be a little overwhelming and I’d opt for white (as oklouise suggests). It also picks up the petal colour of flowers OR, pick up the softest mauve pink that the prints contain. A white doona would be an easy to find solution, whereas a plain block colour in the pink would be harder to find - it needs to be a dusty (for want of a better world “dirty pink”) The white could also be repeated in the larger pillow at back. I did think your dog was a good addition of colour! Hence adding the contrasting cushions in a very pink tan, along with the throw. Texture could be added with these. A fluffy throw perhaps, and a wee print on the cushions. If you can sew a straight line you can sew cushions so off to fabric store for this.😊 I’d also be shifting one of the prints to another wall and hanging the other one lower, (even lower than where I drew it) above the bedside table. The bed head is quite tall and the prints don’t seem quite right above it. I’ve had a play with a sketch and enjoyed myself throughly. Kept playing with a colour palette and this is what came up so I thought I’d include.