An Epic Shower Curtain Fail: a house log

Well, it is not truly epic. More like Not So Bad Fail. Or No Biggie Fail. But we like to share our trials along with our triumphs, so here ya go.

We were in HomeGoods scouting night tables, rugs, pillows and whatever else hoped to come home with us when we spotted this baby for a mere 12 beans.

It is a shower curtain.

Lively modern pattern? Check. In line with the gray & yellow color scheme for our guest bathroom? Check. On sale? Checkity-check-check. So we brought it home (our only purchase of the day, in fact, but that is another story) and threw it right into place.

At first it felt like the ideal step it waking up the vintage yellow tile of yesteryear and making it feel more current. But then we looked down…

Something about the busy Scrabble-esque pattern on the floor combined with the gridded wall, combined with the semi-small-scale busy modern floral pattern simply felt like too much going on. Oh well. At least we gave it the ol’ college try.

So we took it down, packed it back up, relieved our bathroom of its pattern-y overload, and returned it to HomeGoods (on the bright side, we grabbed some pillows for the bedroom while we were there – more on those later). We are thinking we need to find something plain (like a white or soft gray waffle knit curtain) or something with a quite plain or subtle large-scale pattern (tone on tone wide gray stripes perhaps?) so it does not compete with all that tile. But since we do not have any overnight guests in our near future (knock on wood) we are in no rush to hunt anything down tomorrow. Perhaps we will even take our time and Hands-on something with a stencil or some fabric dye. We promise to share every detail when and if we do…

Psst- Wanna see something we do not regret buying? Check out our BabyCenter post this week (with another Clara video, because we are those people).