Flowery Shower Curtains

Fuchsia Orchids Over Bamboo Canes and Wet Stones

Flowery Shower Curtains suits the bathroom that is quietly trying to be a treatment room: fuchsia orchids arch over a stack of black river pebbles, green bamboo canes fill the background, and the lower edge of the image dissolves into still water. It is photographic rather than drawn, so you look into it rather than at it. The greens are backlit and slightly blown out at the top, which pushes the orchids forward and keeps the composition from flattening under bathroom lighting. Orchid stems arch in from the right edge toward the center, and the pebbles are stacked in a deliberate cairn rather than dropped, which gives the eye somewhere settled to land in an otherwise busy frame.

• Sizes: 59 x 71, 71 x 71 and 71 x 79 inches
• Fabric: woven polyester, opaque
• Header: 12 metal grommets, silver tone
• Included: 12 hooks
• Print: photographic orchid, cane and pebble scene
• Treatment: anti-stain and anti-mildew finish
• Water: repellent surface, quick to dry
• Care: machine wash at 86 F

Building a Treatment-Room Corner in Green

A room with a bath tray, a plant on the sill and warm-white lighting is the obvious home for it, and the print does better beside honed stone or matte grey tile than beside gloss white, which competes with the water in the image. Keep towels in one green rather than several. It is among the busiest of our colorful shower curtains, so it wants a plain floor, and for the same botanical mood organized into calm horizontal rows instead of a photograph, Palm Leaf Shower Curtain is the alternative.