Painted soap dispenser

Follow the pastel craze with chic DIY bathroom accessories

A simple way to upgrade your bathroom is to introduce a few hand-decorated accessories. Pastel tones in a wide variety of shades are really fashionable right now so, in keeping with this creative trend, we’ve extended our gloss paint marker range to include four new delicate pastel colours. Ideal for decorating almost any home décor item made of glass, plastic, metal or paper, these pastels look amazing on dark, smooth surfaces – like this soap dispenser, for instance. Add a fashionable outer space design and it quickly turns into an eye-catching feature. You can now choose from pastel yellow, pastel rose, pastel blue and pastel green. And there’s no need to worry, because all the colours are smudge-proof and waterproof, so they’re perfect for bathrooms!

Category: Bathroom
Products: Paint markers
Materials: Glass and mirror
Plastic and foil
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

For our example we used the edding gloss paint marker in pastel rose (colour code 138), although a combination of different pastels can also look attractive.

Step 2

Before using a gloss paint marker, you need to activate it: Shake the marker vigorously with the cap still on. Remove the cap, place the nib on absorbent paper and pump it up and down a few times until ink appears in the nib. Now you’re ready to get started. (And don’t forget to always store the marker horizontally after use.)

Step 3

Using the gloss paint marker, decorate your soap dispenser with stars and graphic patterns any way you want. If the ink runs dry, pump the nib gently as described above until the ink flows again. If you want to use several colours, always let one colour dry briefly before continuing with the next.