Our house was built in 1968 and is your standard brick ranch. We still have the original Colonial blue tile wall trim in our hall bathroom. One of the first things we did was replace the blue toilet and sink with new white ones. I told my husband there was no way I was peeing in a blue toilet. Yeah, call me a potty snob.

I painted the walls a pale yellow and now eight years later I’m so tired of the yellow and blue scheme. Recently (five months ago, cough) I bought a gallon of very pale blue paint for the walls and I’ve been on the hunt for a new valance as I’m also sick of our shabby chic yellow and blue valance which now seems very 1998. I am keeping our shower curtain, though, which is an elegant white damask. I’m also keeping most of our silver accessories. Our cabinets are white with brushed silver knobs. I hate our vanity counter top, which is that faux ugly white marble with baby blue veins, but it’s staying for now.

I’m thinking the new bathroom scheme will be pale blue and black with silver accessories. I might frame a few of our favorite black and white family vacation pics in black frames with white mattes.

I’ve been searching for a valance that was more elegant in a black and white scheme but not toile as it’s in the shabby chic genre that I’m trying to move away from. I’d thought about trying the brown and blue color scheme that is popular, but I keep gravitating toward black and white.

I found this valance on ebay today and thought, “This is IT!” There are actually three listed and I only need one, so perhaps if I was super crafty girl, and I’m not, I could think of some way to reuse the other two valances.

What do ya’ll think? You may hate it, but I think it will look really nice. The window is small and it needs a punch of something, especially against the pale blue solid walls. Oh, and the floor is white tile.

I love the tassels and the fact that the wall in the background of this photo from ebay is almost identical to the color of our accent tile. And look how tres chic it looks. I think I may have made my decision by writing this post. Vive le tassels!

Do you have difficulty making simple home decor decisions or is it just me? Sometimes I dream of building a home, but I’m afraid I’d never be able to decide on anything. I need a decorating fairy godmother.