By Max Bellamy
If you are looking for a quick and easy way to make over your bathroom, consider buying a new shower curtain. Shower curtains are available in a variety of styles, materials, and prices. Shower curtains can be whimsical, floral, traditional, or a host of other styles. And, of course, they can be designer.
Many of the big-name designers have taken part in shower curtain designs. Liz Claiborne, for example, offers a Cable Knit shower curtain in Ivory or Aloe. If you decide to have a Liz Claiborne master suite or guest room, matching accessories include duvet covers, towels, shams, wastebasket, lotion pump, and more.
Nautica- offers a sophisticated shower curtain in classic colors. It is offered with matching sheets, duvet, and bed skirts. Regent also offers shower curtains. Their embroidered shower curtain is multi-colored and offers many matching accessories, including wastebasket, lotion pump, tissue box, towels, toothbrush holder, soap dish, and tumbler.
Eddie Bauer- offers a nice selection of shower curtains, including a denim curtain. They also offer towels and robes in coordinating colors.
Tommy Hilfiger- has also entered the home décor arena. Their shower curtains have a retail price of $90. Hilfiger also offers many color-coordinated accessories like towels, lotion pump, wastebasket, soap dish, and tumbler.
Ralph Lauren,- DKNY, and Hotel
are a few other well-known designers now offering bathroom décor.
Many fine department stores such as Macy’s, JC Penney, and Foley’s, sell designer shower curtains. Specialty home stores, such as Linens N Things and Bed Bath and Beyond also carry a selection of shower curtains by well-known designers. While designer shower curtains can be more expensive than their non-name brand counterparts, you can sometimes find them at a discount. Overstock offers many products at deep discounts over retail. While their inventory changes regularly, it is worthwhile to visit their site and do a search.
Whether you pay full price or get them at a discount,
the look of your finished bathroom is sure to be priceless.
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Bed Bath and Beyond now gets the award for the worse customer service I've seen this year. Last night, after a long day of Christmas shopping, I stopped in Bed Bath and Beyond to return an item my wife had purchased earlier in the day and made some exchanges. I arrived at 8pm expecting long lines like all the other stores but was pleasantly surprised-there were only a few people in the store and they could have been employees. Not one person was in any of the check-out lines and no one at customer service. I quickly found out why as well I now understand why so many of our friends no longer shop at Bed Bath and Beyond. I gave the customer service girl my returns/exchanges and was politely explained I could shop first and then come back to her so that I only had to make one line. This is what I'd hoped I could work out, making only one line.
I went to the Kitchen area trying to find what I needed. The person working the department and what appeared to be a manager decided to "drop" merchandise. I learned a lot of retail lingo on this visit as all the employees were more interested in talking amongst themselves than helping me. I eventually found what I was looking for in the Kitchen area but noticed the price was much higher than I had seen it at Macys earlier in day. I started looking for alternative gift ideas working my way around the store. Then I noticed a homely lady about the height of most of the shelves hunching over like she was hiding and always on my tail. Every time I noticed her she would picking-up an item as if she was reading the packaging but obviously wasn't reading. I began to watch for her slowing my walk around the store. She was really watching me as if I was a shop lifter. To be clear, I am nearly 50 years old with twin 4 year old daughters and a professional executive that parked my Mercedes in the first parking spot in front of Bed Bath and Beyond where employees were taking their cigarette breaks. I don't think I fit the profile of a shop lifter. I had fun trying to see how far she would go slowing my pace to the point she was forced to pass me then going even slower forcing her to be more obvious. It was very insulting. Bed Bath and Beyond should just get security cameras they are more efficient and less insulting.
As I continued my search, never finding any of the items I came to Bed Bath and Beyond to purchase, I noticed not one person working there said "hello" as they do in the morning and no one asked me if I needed help and I did need help. I then conducted another experiment. I made it a point to make eye contact, smile and then pause in front of the person working in each area of the store. Three employees smiled back. By the end of the store two people had said hello, one I think was the store Manager. No one asked me if I needed any help. When I gave up and went back to Customer Service for my refund (even for my exchanges now) I told the girls I searched the entire store and could not find what I was looking for. Behind her was the person I think was the store Manager and another two employees. I made sure everyone heard me and I made eye contact with all of them. Not one of them responded, nothing, not a word or look of concern. It was as if I had interrupted a very important conversation. I felt rejected.
I am sure I will go back to Bed Bath and Beyond again. They do have a few inexpensive items that are hard to find any place else. But, I certainly understand why the people I know stopped shopping there regularly.
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