Seasons > American Independence Day > Home Decorations > Bathrooms

Dollar store flags make a good valance for a small window or door. You can drape them over an existing valance, or, in this case, over a tension rod for easy seasonal changes. The stars are plastic Christmas tree ornaments hung from hooks on the window frame.. Stars could also be cut from felt, EVA foam, heavy paper, or cardboard, or a light air drying modeling compound such as Hearty, or buy unfinished wooden stars at a craft store and paint.

Dollar store flags turn a red hydrangea wreath into a patriotic decoration. Use florist’s wire to hold in place if they don’t stay where you want them by just poking them into the foliage. More plastic Christmas tree ornament stars embellish the white cafe curtain in this bathroom window. The wooden star on the wall rounds out the theme in this room.

Tiny flags on toothpicks usually get poked into hamburgers, but I made a row of them in front of the bathroom mirror by standing them in little wooden blocks with a hole drilled in each. (These were from a hundred yen store puzzle that had the elastic cut to separate the blocks for other purposes, like flag stands.) The red white and blue stars were also purchased at a hundred yen store. If you can’t find any similar items nearby, make them out of cardboard, heavy paper, or EVA foam sheets.

Here is a slightly different variation with small American flags hanging in front of the white cafe curtain. Since there are so many flags, the ones on the wreath were removed.

One final variation uses a star garland as a wreath, and decorative fire crackers made from paper towel tubes and mylar “sparkles.” I included these variations, even though they are similar, to demonstrate that many different decorations can be used to achieve similar looks, so even if you can’t find the exact same decorations as I have shown here, hopefully they will inspire you to use what you can find locally.