Decorate Your Bathroom Mexican Style

Your Mexican style bathroom is bold and colorful. It is inviting and makes you feel happy. You can have your Mexican style bathroom with just a few decorator items and bright bathroom towels all the way to a whole new vanity and new saltillo tile floors. Lets start with the whole bathroom remodel and work our way up to bathroom accessories Mexican style.

The Mexican bathroom floor. Never carpet. Mexican saltillo tile or a glazed Mexican tile will give you the most authentic Mexican bathroom floor. Saltillo tile in a range of terracotta colors to manganese, a rich brown color. Saltillo tiles are made in a variety of shapes. What you see most are squares, six, twelve and sixteen inch. Then there are rounded patterned ones. You can do your bathroom floor overall with one tile or you can create a tile rug using several shapes or sizes of tile.

How to create your Mexican tile rug. Use the twelve or sixteen inch squares on the entire bathroom floor except where you are placing the rug. Then make a border using smaller tiles. These can be broken pieces, colored tiles, patterned tiles or just the small saltillo tile. Then fill the center with the six-inch Mexican saltillo tiles set on a diagonal. For inspiration look at the designs on area rugs.

Mexican style bathroom walls. Paint or tile your walls in bright colors.
(Keep in mind you still have to put on make up and want to complement your pretty skin when choosing your colors). A great way to get that Mexican style is to paint a bold stripe in a chili pepper red or Tucson teal at chair rail height all the way around the room. Paint a lighter color on top and another bold color on the bottom part of the wall. You can also use bright colored Mexican tiles for your stripe or paint or stencil Mexican style designs in your stripe.

Your Mexican style bathroom vanity. Find an old dresser or buy a Mexican rustic chest or dresser cut a hole for the sink. Use a Mexican talavera pottery sink or buy a cobalt blue, sunflower yellow, aqua or red sink. Use bright solid or patterned Mexican tile on you vanity top. Or just waterproof the wood with a sealer. If you don't change your vanity, sink or countertop paint the cabinet base either solid or with a dry brush technique in a bold color.

Your Mexican style bathroom mirror can be framed in iron, shinny shaped tin or copper. A heavily carved frame can work and can be painted. There are also the shinny tin framed mirrors with the Mexican tiles inset.

Bathroom fixtures for a Mexican style bathroom. Replace shinny brass or silver faucets with dark rustic fixtures. Look at styles in antique bronze. If you change your sink fixtures don't forget the bathtub and shower for your overall Mexican bathroom style.

Mexican style bathroom lighting. Hang a wrought iron or rustic chandelier over each of your vanity sinks. Sconces on each side of the mirror work well too. If you use the chandelier, scrolly wrought iron sconces to hold pillar candles are totally Mexican style. Put a dimmer on the lights for those relaxing soaking baths.

Bathroom accessories Mexican designer style. Bright, bold colors, scrolly iron pieces, real Mexican serapes and Mexican pottery. Bright painted wood and Mexican woven or appliqué wall hangings will pull your Mexican style bathroom together.

Paint an old chair in a bright turquoise and place a stack of bold colored towels on the seat. Take a bright serape stripe fabric to make a valance over the shower curtain rod or hang a length of south of the border fabric from the ceiling to the floor to hide the open shower curtain. Use a solid or bright floral printed shower curtain that compliments.

Hang a piece of wall art that you love where you can see while soaking in the tub. Your Mexican wall art can be a framed print, a Mexican weaving or appliqué or scrolly wrought iron. Use Mexican pottery bathroom sink accessories. Use a small Mexican flower pot or mug to hold your toothbrushes and salsa, you have your bathroom Mexican style!.

Mexican Train Dominos fun games and other family members

Growing up, I liked it when our family was playing around. We would all gather around the table with snacks and drinks and playing Hearts. The time is a special place in my memories.

Even then, when life is not as hectic as it is now, seemed to pull us back together as a family. As obvious as we began educating our children, my husband and I decided we wanted to have this special time with family.

Good intentions, however, were only the beginning. We quicklynoted that with an age range YR 7 in our clan, looking for a game that everyone can understand and play () was! a challenge.

Some ideas

Sure, I have some suggestions! We found a very funny game last year called Mexican Train Dominos. Easy to learn, fun to play and play some people - for a family of seven and always some friends to strangle. The rules for Mexican Train Dominos, we have learned are different from thosewas that the game, but it worked better for our group.

Apples with apples (which are available in junior version) makes it easy and fun for all play, because the asset is the subjective opinion of the court - does not read right or wrong answer.

Another new game in our game room (the very grandmother who bought holiday last year), is Blokus. This fun tile game for four players and includes the ability to see, such as smartTheir children are, how to use their critical thinking skills.

All these games are relatively inexpensive and robust. Mexican Train Dominos, etal are some must-haves for your family evenings. Enjoy bringing the laughter and memories will be!

How to Play Dominoes - Mexican Train Domino Rules

We have learned a new game called Mexican Train Dominoes. But we learned it differently than what the rules that came with the game say.

So I have decided to share our dominoes rules of Mexican Train since it is simpler for our youngsters to learn.

The Mexican Train Dominoes start at double 12's. You can also purchase these dominoes with actual numbers on them to replace the dots. This might work better if you have a young counter as you will see later on, they will need to be able to count the dots in their remaining tiles. To start - each person takes a set number of tiles (determined by the number of players) and the person who has the highest set of doubles starting with 12 begins. The next round starts with the next lower doubles. The play goes clockwise with each person starting their leg - looks like a spider - with the same number as the double or picking one tile which they can play if it is a playable. From there you play on your leg each turn with a couple of exceptions.

1st - You can play on another person's leg if after they have picked, they cannot. You know it is open to play on because they must place a plastic train - which comes in the set - on their leg when they can't play. Then when they are able to play on their leg again, they can remove the train. We like to use M&Ms as the train marker, then eat them when you get to remove it!

2nd - If you have a tile that has the same number as the double that was used at the beginning of the game, you can start a Mexican Train. This is a leg started apart from the other legs and any person can play on it. Just one Mexican train per round.

A couple of side notes - playing a doubles tile requires a "proof" meaning you must also play another tile on it in that turn. You don't have to pick if you can't play but the next person to play must either play on the double or pick to try to. No one can resume play until the double has been proven. This requirement can thwart your prelaid plans. And don't get discouraged if you get stuck drawing tiles well into the game to get started. Because you have the potential to play up to 12 rounds (your choice), it seems most people will get the same chance.

To win the round, be the first to play all your tiles. Everyone adds up the total number or dots on their remaining tiles. The total is their score on that round. The winner of the game is the person who has the lowest total after all rounds are completed.

That is a fun and easy way to play Mexican Train Dominoes. The dominoes rules can be followed by pretty much anyone. This fun family game makes for a great Christmas gift too!

Mexican Train Tournament Double 12 Domino Set

Product Details

These are the thickest, largest and best dominoes available in the world, which makes for easier handling and standing on edge. Dominoes measure 1 3/32" x 2 3/16" x 1/2" thick. They have large uniform sized bright color coded pips. Packaged in a heavy-duty, black, ostrich-grained Leatherette case with a snap lock closure. Electronic Choo Choo train sounder, eight train markers and a free centerpiece for starting Chickenfoot and Mexican Train are included.

• 91 White Dominoes with recessed color dots. (Ninety-One dominoes make a set of Double 12's)
• Play Mexican Train Dominoes and most other variations with this set.
• Tournament Size Dominoes are largest commercially available size. Measure 2 3/16 inches long
• Superior Quality, Nice heavy feel, color-coded for easy discrimination between different counts.
• Packaged in vinyl covered, snap-close, average quality case.

Mexican Train Deluxe Number Domino Set

Product Details

The newest, easiest, and best way to play Mexican Train, Chickenfoot and all your favorite domino games! This Mexican Train Deluxe Number Domino Set comes complete with 91 Double 12 Professional Number Dominoes, electronic dual-sound centerpiece with a train sounder and a rooster sounder for both games, 9 glitter train markers, 50-page score pad, rules for 8 games, and the Collector's Train-Shaped Game Tin. These dominoes are easy to see across the table and are easy to add when scoring. Once you have played with Number Dominoes, you will never play with Dots or Pips again!-

• Large numbers replace the dots
• Easy to count and tally scores
• good for players with weak eyesight
• Professional size
• Rules to 8 games included