Creator Spends $700 and Hours on Over-the-High Rest room Decor (Unique)

• Sarah Velush first obtained the concept to brighten her lavatory whereas sitting in her condominium
• Not lengthy after, she started sharing a number of the ornament movies on TikTok. One in every of her first viral designs featured a royal theme, with black and gold tones and a Mona Lisa-inspired piece within the background
• Since then, the content material creator’s lavatory ornament movies have amassed hundreds of thousands of views and hundreds of feedback

Scroll by means of Sarah Velush’s TikTok web page, and also you’ll discover one ASMR video after one other of the 27-year-old adorning her lavatory from high to backside with distinctive, themed decor. In a single video, she units up a mini projector and document participant subsequent to her bathroom, which is roofed in pink fur. In one other, she fills a container with strawberries, ice cream and different sweets to put on a desk beside her bathroom.

Velush, a self-employed content material creator, first obtained the concept to brighten her lavatory whereas sitting in her condominium, wanting to movie a video that created a chill-out vibe. As an alternative of filming in the lounge, she thought it might be extra attention-grabbing to maneuver every little thing to a distinct area — like the bathroom.

“Nobody had performed it earlier than, so I made a decision to strive it,” Velush recollects pondering. “In spite of everything, you possibly can calm down wherever — even within the lavatory.”

Since then, Velush’s lavatory ornament movies have amassed hundreds of thousands of views and hundreds of feedback. She says that whereas her eyes catch a number of the feedback — a lot of which criticize her for placing meals and electronics within the lavatory — she hardly ever reads by means of all of them.

“I’ve 111,000 feedback underneath one among my posts,” she says. “Most individuals discuss s— and suppose somebody’s really studying it. However the perfect technique ever is hate. And I’m tremendous profitable due to it. So no matter they’re writing, I’m completely satisfied — they’re making me well-known.”

“Even when somebody eats in the bathroom, I don’t see any drawback with that. I’ve eaten within the bathtub whereas chilling and watching films on my iPad,” she provides. “If sooner or later my bathroom routine takes as a lot time as my bathtub, I don’t see something improper with watching a film or doing one thing helpful whereas pooping. I’m not planning to dunk cookies in the bathroom earlier than placing them in my mouth, so I don’t see any drawback with it.”

One in every of her first viral designs featured a royal theme, with black and gold tones and a Mona Lisa artwork piece within the background. Subsequent, she created a menstruation-themed setup, utilizing dramatic pink hues and female touches to craft a soothing area for that point of the month. One other design featured a “kitty bathroom” with yellow water, impressed by her cat.

“Once I had him, my complete place was at all times lined in his yellow pee,” says Velush, who lives in Miami however grew up in Ukraine.

“I’d say probably the most outrageous merchandise I’ve put round the bathroom is a bathroom seat cowl created from actual fur,” she provides. “It’s actually terrible, particularly for individuals who stay with a person — pee will get all over the place! I actually really feel unhealthy for that fur.”

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When brainstorming concepts for a theme, Velush attracts inspiration from varied elements of her life. For instance, she says the village bathroom concept, full with tree decor, was impressed by the bathrooms at her grandmother’s home in Ukraine. “They’d an out of doors tree bathroom as a result of outdated homes in Ukrainian villages didn’t have plumbing,” she explains. “Individuals used to go to a gap exterior the home, type of like a tree bathroom.”

“In winter, it was tremendous chilly, and I bear in mind once I was a toddler, we’d go exterior to pee within the freezing chilly and complete darkness,” she provides. “We’d simply pee round the home as a substitute of strolling to the tree bathroom as a result of it was tremendous scary and smelled terrible! Thank God my dad ultimately constructed an indoor bathroom for my grandma.”

When filming the movies, Velush says it takes her hours to set every little thing up. Most occasions, issues normally go easily throughout filming, however as soon as — proper on the finish of a shoot, simply earlier than the final shot — the desk couldn’t deal with it and every little thing fell. “Ice cream splattered on the wall and everywhere in the carpet, and strawberries dropped on my stone flooring — there are nonetheless stains to today,” she says.

Nevertheless, when it comes ordering the gadgets, receiving them, unpacking, amassing all of the components and shopping for snacks can take as much as every week. Velush will get every little thing new for her designs from Amazon, normally spending round $500 to $700 simply on orders.

However having all of the packages in her one-bedroom condominium additionally drives her loopy, so she finally ends up returning a whole lot of the gadgets after filming.

“I’m gonna let you know the key — yeah, it’s only a video setup,” she says. “My every day bathroom seems means easier, and I’m positively not consuming whereas I’m pooping! However, , I like having candles and good smells round, nothing too additional, even in the bathroom. In my earlier home, I even had a palm tree within the lavatory. It gave that jungle vibe and actual Sattva vitality.”

She provides with a smile, “Love your self and do not forget that even your poo course of deserves consideration. A bit additional consolation in your life isn’t an excessive amount of!”