Think about it: Given its sheer size, your shower curtain is an inevitable focal point. Changing it to a pattern or color you love will instantly upgrade your space.

In Mullen’s former bathroom, hanging a shower curtain that matched the color of her newly white ceilings and marble floors tied the room together. And in that case, she actually used the new curtain to disguise an unsightly, old glass door — not as a replacement for another curtain. She installed a black tension rod in a position that allowed the fabric to hang in front of the glass: “The white color of the curtain brightened things up a lot more than the beaten-up sliding doors.”