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These are nice, but honestly, a shower curtain is the easiest possible DIY. You can use almost any fabric if you use a liner. I've always made mine myself.

I'm trying to convince people to go with plastic or nylon because water resistant materials are simpler and more honest when used as a shower curtain. Also, since I am a wee bit claustrophobic, I don't like to shower behind a cloth curtain and a liner. It feels cloistered 19th century to me, and unnecessarily clammy.

Over the weekend, I saw something available that I hadn't seen before. The Gracious Home website (offshoot of the NYC Upper East Side store) offers the plain white but sturdy and nice to the touch nylon shower curtains that many hotels use. It's a clean, simple look but it has a luxuriousness to it. Use it with white towels and a white floor mat, and your bathroom takes on something like a Gustavian simplicity. Add flowers in a vase, or an interesting (and water resistant) collection on the shelves or walls (but not your old camera collection. Just too upsetting).

One more thought. It's nice to have an extra roll of toilet tissue out for guests so that they don't have to rummage through your cabinets. (Plus, you don't really want them rummaging through your bathroom cabinets!) If you're a clean freak, you can buy individually wrapped single rolls of toilet tissue at convenience stores, and just leave them out as wrapped on a shelf. But if you look at these individual rolls closely, you'll see that they're just wrapped in a heavy, commercially printed tissue. Take left-over tissue from holiday wrappings and wrap a roll from a 12 pack yourself. It's cheaper and it would be unexpected and fun.

I've have mine made since I like for them to be 86" long. It's a great trick for making low ceilings seem taller.

My boyfriend's sister is using the Urban Outfitters tree one as actual curtains for her room. She just tacked a bottom border of matching brown fabric on. They are very cute.

i like this: http://www.worldmarket.com/New-Arrivals/bed-and-bath/TwoTone-Print-Shower-Curtains/lev/4/productId/10310/Ne/1100001/N/27 1100094/perpage/0/categoryId/27/pCategoryId/27/gpCategoryId/27/Ns/TOP_SELLER_INDEX|1||CATEGORY_SEQ_2873|0/index.pro

i love shower curtains! they are my weakness for some reason. it's the main way to give your bathroom the look you want. i love these!