Ditto for sheets If you feel you must expressBath curtain your personality with wild colors, do it on the wall. You can paint over the mauve walls when you’re ready to move out. But the mauve-and-blue sectional will still be with you longer than you think, and yes, I’m speaking from experience here.

Do not buy 10 orange bath towels to match the cool psychedelic shower curtain you bought for the bathroom. Those towels will still be withBath curtain you 10 years later, and your future spouse will hate them. They will never again match any future bathroom decor. Go for white or cream.

Ditto for sheets. I am still using sheets my mother got sick of and unloaded on me when I went to college. Some of these sheets were manufactured in the ’70s, and they unfortunately refuse to wear out. They are ugly and I hate them, but what can you do? I’ll tell youBath curtain what I’m gonna do.