shower curtain: the one that got away

I've been searching for a shower curtain for the downstairs bathroom. I don't think I've ever posted a picture of the bathroom on the blog, but it has this fairly ugly dark green tile on the floor, with a matching row of dark green tile running around the middle of the wall.

My landlords must love this green, its the same as the rug upstairs.

Decorating around the green has proved challenging.  No one seems to be using hunter green as a popular color these days.  Tobi Fairley has put out a lovely line of kelly green fabrics that might work, but I can neither afford her fabrics nor does she make a shower curtain with those fabrics to my knowledge, so we will just have to admire from afar.

I found the perfect curtain at Urban Outfitters:

Source: urbanoutfitters.com via Sarah on Pinterest

Lots of green that won't clash with the green tile, but also tons of happy yellows and blues and pinks.

Aaaaaand its out of stock, never to be ordered again, according to Urban Outfitters. Can't find it on ebay, or craigslist, or anywhere else, and waaaaah.

Today I went to the Urban Outfitters website, and saw the curtain, and saw that it was in stock, and excitedly emailed my sister that HEY THAT CURTAIN WE LOVE IS BACK IN STOCK and so I ordered two, one for her and one for me, and then I was looking at my order confirmation and it said Woodland Garden Curtain.  Not SHOWER curtain, just curtain.  And I went back and looked a wee bit more closely and oh crap, I ordered the wrong thing.  Hey sister! Remember how we were all excited about that shower curtain?  Get unexcited.

The search continues.

shower curtains

Since the Mister is oppressing me by not allowing me to paint the bathroom pink, I will engage in some retaliatory shower curtain shopping.

This white and charcoal one would go nicely with the gray and yellow in that bathroom:

but I prefer a pretty pattern.

This chevron shower curtain from Maison Boutique (in yellow) is what I would love, and someday, I WILL have these (in yellow) chevrons as curtains in my next house:

But $90 for a shower curtain is over my budget.  I was thinking $50 for the entire bathroom, including new bathmats and some art.  Ok, maybe $100 for the whole thing.  Maybe.  That assumes I find something I like.   Which I probably won't, seeing as I'm not all that fond of gray.  It would be cheaper to just buy a $30 gallon of pink paint.

I did learn to sew recently, I could try making the yellow chevron one myself. (Hahahaha....) The shower stall is 48 inches wide, and the fabric is 54 inches wide....not a lot of room to make mistakes.  Which I'm sure I will.

Joi at Nuestra Vida Dulce made her own chevron curtains, with paint.  I could buy a plain white shower  curtain and paint chevrons on it, although I have my doubts about how precise my efforts would turn out. Especially since attempting stripes in my bathroom defeated me.  Imagine me trying to evenly paint a zig-zag.  Math is not my friend.

Do you think that a painted shower curtain would work in a bathroom room that gets very moist (10 points for using the M word) and steamy?  Or am I just asking for trouble?

If I can't paint the bathroom pink, I don't really want to paint at all. So I need a shower curtain that goes with gray floor and yellow walls.

So here is where I would put all the gray and yellow shower curtains I would like to put in the bathroom, except I CAN'T FIND ANY.  Seriously.  I can't find a single yellow and gray shower curtain online, except for one on Etsy I didn't like.  Seeing how freaking popular the yellow/gray combo is at the moment, and that Target has an entire bedding line devoted to those colors, you'd think they might have a shower curtain?  No. At least, not in any of the Targets around here.

Retaliatory shower curtain shopping DENIED.