A friend of mine used to have a Mondrian-themed shower curtain but in spite of that I never thought of shower curtains as an art form until Bored Panda posted forty different ones that elevate it and now I can’t stop thinking about how whole dissertations could be written just about the simple shower curtain. There’s the not-so-subtle eroticism in the way it conceals and the knowledge the person behind it is wearing, at most, a layer of soap suds, there’s the fact that it’s the size and shape, more or less, of a large painting, and it’s a utilitarian object but not really needed if you’re taking a bath or if you angle the shower head the right way. And that’s only scratching the surface of what a shower curtain says. I haven’t even gotten to the fact that what most of them say is “I was on sale at Target.”
Here are a few of my other favorites and I find it interesting that there seem to be some recurring themes:
I’d love any one of these but the bookcase one is really my favorite. I may never live in an old manor with false bookcases that hide secret passageways but at least with that one I could pretend I did.
Source: Imgur
I keep begging Ken to make me a secret door that looks like a bookcase but he’s too busy with the porch rebuild, so that shower curtain would be perfect! I love all of those–so much fun!
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I guess the porch rebuild is a higher priority than a secret door, but the shower curtain would be the perfect thing to hide the entrance to your writing nook.
I bought my husband an IKEA curtain that was white with a line drawing of shower head and water droplets in black. He swapped it out at some point. I need to find it and use it for my bathroom this winter.
Why would he swap out the curtain with the shower head? That sounds both aesthetically pleasing and like a nice nod to the purpose. No accounting for taste, I guess.
We’re going to have to redo our fancy-shmancy shower upstairs, Chris, so maybe we’ll do something much simpler and funnier with a shower curtain like these! Thanks for the inspiration.
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I look forward to seeing whatever shower curtain you pick. Simplifying the fancy-shmancy shower seems like a great opportunity to pick a possibly pretentious curtain that nods to how the shower used to be. Or perhaps something simple that nods to how it is now.