Until recently, unique shower curtains were not even an option, and even now the diversity seems to fall along genres like horse or beach shower curtains. We want to see this branch out even more, not because we don’t like themed shower curtains, but because we want to see even more diversity and customization available for everyone. We want to see the boundaries pushed, because we have homes, just like you do, and we know that we really like to be able to express ourselves in their furnishing. We figure you do to!

• Drab Color Scheme: Every area and store has a different avalability of southwestern shower curtains.  You want to choose one that has brighter colors and is vivid.  While southwestern creates the image of the early West, try to avoid a curtain that appears to actually be from the time period.
• Animal Print: Cows are definitely southwestern, but a cow-print curtain is not southwestern.  Stay away from trying to bring the open range home with an animal print shower curtain.
• Lack of Appealing Accessories:  As previously discussed, choose accessories that are accents of the southwestern time period, such as clay pots.  Stay away from all things tacky, like glass Indian figurines that hold your toothbrush.
• Incomplete Theme: Simply purchasing a southwestern shower curtain is not enough.  If you’re unable to fully invest in the theme (i.e. wall color or accessories), as discussed in our previous post, you should avoid purchasing a shower curtain like this.  Instead of bringing the southwest to your home, you will be bringing a bold, uncoordinating curtain to your bathroom.

We hope that a southwestern shower curtain is for you, but we know it may not be for everyone.  If one of above points seemed to ping you, walking away from that southwestern curtain that has your eye, may be the best thing for you and your bathroom.

-ang