At about the time I decided I needed to improve my drawing skills I started becoming discontented with our en suite bathroom.  We travel a fair amount, and seeing this is the 5th country we have lived in, and it is unlikely we will settle here the house we live in is rented.  It is more than adequate and we are very happy here, but it has just been built for the rental market and is, as a result, put together with cheap and neutral tiles and fittings.

The beige green tiles in all the bathrooms are the same floor to ceiling generic, boring made in China tiles one finds at Dragon Mart.  The tap and bath fittings are cheap, and not very cheerful, and most likely also from Dragon Mart, and the bathroom mirror, is in my mind, an absolute eyesore.  Bottom line is, it needs replacing and upgrading!  That wasn’t going to happen, so an alternative solution was required….

I figured hands are always attached to a body that usually plonks itself down on the sofa in our living room so there would always be someones hands available for drawing, and if I were to draw enough of them, why not put them in Ikea frames and hang them on the bathroom wall to distract us from a very beige and boring bathroom.

With cohesion and unity in mind, I chose the same frame and had a dark green olive mount cut to make the Ikea mount a little more exciting and varied the poses of the hands.  The result was very pleasing indeed, and a better, much cheaper solution to what was a very boring, dated and uninteresting bathroom.  And best of all, I had an excuse to practice my drawing!  Not everyone can draw, but a similar solution can be created from calendars, photographs, your kids works of art, doodles, pressed flowers… Anything really that appeals to you!