Sitting around the campfire with your friends might sound like a dream, but heading off to enjoy nature on your own could be the next best trip. Here’s everything you need to know about solo camping to open the door to adventure.

Learn Essential Skills

Camping with friends means there’s usually someone that’s an expert in certain fields. However, going solo camping means it’s all down to us. Learning skills such as how to make a fire, pitch a tent, navigate, and set up a camp will be essential to make sure we have a fun yet safe trip.

Pack Lightly

You got it. Solo camping means there’s no one else to pick up the heavy bags or help you o the final struggle to make it to the camp spot. It might be time to take a few of those things out of your bag and pack just the essentials if you want to avoid overloading yourself with too many things.

Practice First

Sure, getting in touch with Mother Nature might sound like a tempting idea, but solo camping might not be the best idea if you’ve never been before. It might be best to head on a practice camp with your friends before you go it alone to make sure that you know what you’re in for before you arrive.

Have An Emergency Kit

Heading solo camping can be a great way to enjoy yourself at your own pace. However, it’s crucial to have an emergency kit just in case something happens. As well as having a backup cell phone and first aid kit, it’s also essential to know how to use everything in the first aid kit in case there’s no one else around.

Bring Entertainment

Nature can be the perfect place to lose your thoughts and clear your mind, but bringing a book or a pack of cards might not be a bad idea. Although hiking can fill your days, it might be nice to have something to keep you entertained when you feel like taking in the warmth of the campfire.

It might sound scary at first, but learning everything you need to know about solo camping should help to take away the fear and give us the perfect way to get back in touch with Mother Nature.

The bathroom, like the bedroom, needs extra care to make it look pleasing and welcoming. There are lots of simple hacks that help to revamp the bathroom, spice it up, and make it a comfortable place to be. In that way, the time spent in the bathroom will be enjoyable and there won’t be a need to rush out due to any type of unpleasantness. Here are some simple hacks to replicate.

One thing that adds to the comfort of a bathroom is the extra coziness. The floor of the room is already cozy and cool, but one can make it cozier and all the more comfortable.

Pom-pom and fluffy DIY rugs bring along with them that extra cozy feeling. The feet deserve such royal comfort, something soft to dip your feet in for bliss! One can easily make a personalized one with some needles, colorful wool, toilet paper rolls, and scissors. Here is a picture of a comfortable and colorful DIY pom-pom rug and its DIY process.

The wicker is a well patterned and well-designed basket made of a brownish material that resembles wood. This type of basket is an ideal tool to use as a hack in the bathroom.

Apart from making somethings easy, the basket adds to the beauty of the bathroom. It’s best attached to the wall after purchasing it. Place it near the entrance of the bathroom or a corner if the bathroom is large. The basket can conveniently hold towels and beauty care products. It’s a good alternative to shelves.

Toy stores are ideal places to visit for creating this simple and beautiful hack. Purchase a medium-sized dinosaur plastic toy at the store. Place it on the toilet and put toilet paper around its neck.

It’s good to get a deeply colored type such that the white toilet can stand out and appear better. It’s a simple way of decorating the toilet seat and the entire bathroom as a whole. See how nice and fitting it looks in the picture below.

Glass jars are sold in stores. These empty jars come in different sizes and can hold just about any object. To use them in the bathroom, the need to create holders is necessary.

The holders as seen in the picture below are should be attached to a plank of wood attached to the wall of the bathroom. The holders are usually made of aluminum. The aluminum is shaped in a round pattern and can hold the jar comfortably. Making this hack is not so simple. The holders may require the help of a professional to fix.

The first ledge/ rail holding the curtain of the shower is can be supported by another place in the inner part of the shower. Simply purchase a rod and fix it in the rear. It can be fixed with nails on screw holders to the wall and place the ledge/ rail on it.

The ledge can be used for quite a number of things. Objects can be placed on it temporarily or otherwise depending on the preference of the user. This is cheap and quite simple to fix.

The Showerhead gets dirty over time. After many months of continuous water supply, the shower will start to get dirty even without touching it physically. Some little greenish germs will start to develop over time.

The cleaning of the bathroom should always include the shower, but how is it cleaned? Get a Ziploc bag and pour some vinegar into it. Next, zip it around and shower head for some minutes. The vinegar will purify the showerhead both within and outside (since any brush cannot reach inside). A simple hack to improve bathroom quality.

The wooden rack can be made at home as DIY a project. But created by someone expert at woodwork, then the rack may not look as neat. To get a nicely carve wood, one might get a professional to make it and also fix it. Or just get it carved and fix it at home as one deems fit.

The wooden rack as depicted in the picture is useful in keeping bottles in the bathroom. It could be lotion jars, shampoo bottles, conditioner bottles, and other bottles of beauty care products an individual may own. It’s useful and nice.

Making a natural fragrance is another way to improve the quality of the bathroom. The ingredients to use are baking soda and essential oils.

So, get a small bowl and pour a small amount of baking soda in it. Next, put some essential oils in it and let the aroma feel in the bathroom. All bad odors wound be absorbed, leaving the room smelling nice and sweet. The bowl can be left in the bathroom for days and be replaced from time to time.

This is the hack every woman will love. Imagine getting into the shower without removing the hairpins. Or removing the pins and finding it difficult to store them until the shower is over. Here is where the magnetic band comes in handy.

The band can be attached to a wall. Whenever a woman is in a bathroom with hairpins, the pins can be kept on the band. They will stick since the pins are metallic and the surface is magnetic. A hack that saves women from misplacing hairpins.

The basin in the bathroom takes in dirt both solid particles and liquid types. Over the months, the basin may get blocked from different types of debris. To unclog such a basin, use a plier and chisel to clear the basin.

Use the plier to remove the little metal objects covering the basin. Then use the plier to remove the debris to improve the flow of water.

Hanging plants is a pretty and weirdly beautiful way to improve the bathroom. If the bathroom has tall surfaces and objects, it may be a good idea to have the room decorated with plants.

To this, get a couple of jars and have them holding plants. Each jar should hold a different plant if possible. Next, attach a rope to each jar and attach the rope to an elevated surface such that the plants will dangle. This improves the air quality of the bathroom.

One thing that upgrades a bathroom is a tranquil and serene look. Many do not know that this tranquil look does not come about by scattered pieces and holes in the bathroom.

This is it. Get all your shampoos and hair liquids into uniform bottles, and arrange them neatly. Use recycled Frappuccino bottles as shown in this picture to conserve space. This arrangement gives the bathroom a peaceful and tidy look. More so, you know where the exact shampoo you need is. No unnecessary clumsiness when you need a hair wash.

Hairdryers are a few of the electrical appliances used in the bathroom. Using a hairdryer in a bathroom requires a place to store it after use. To keep it close in the bathroom area, the need to keep it from water is important to avoid damage.

To this effect, here is a useful hack. Get a net-like magazine holder and screw it to the walk door of a cabinet. This simple hack only requires a screw and a screwdriver to hold the magazine firmly in place. Easy peasy!

Get up and dust out that old dresser of a long time ago. One can easily employ an old dresser for useful and effective uses in the bathroom. As seen in the picture, there are two pictures. The picture of an old dresser and the picture of a new-looking dresser bathroom sink.

One should not easily discard old pieces in the home, they can be curated into creative upgrades. An example is a dresser in this picture. A sink was cut out on the top and other fittings were made to ensure a working dresser bathroom sink.

This a bit different from other hacks considered so far however, it’s pretty useful. When bathing, perhaps in a bid to have a warm bath or ensure total privacy, the hack will come in handy. Simply get two jars.

Then draw the curtain from within and tuck the curtain into the bath and place the two jars on it. Check the picture to get a good look at how it’s done. It’s simple to understand and replicate. The only thing to keep in mind is that the jars should not be empty or near empty.

Mirrors beautify the home. In this particular sense, it beautifies the bathroom. It is not only a complete change of a bathroom mirror that can upgrade a bathroom.

Other simple mirror upgrades can also do the trick. One can simply re-paint the frame of the bathroom mirror. What would work here? Bright colors would work here. As seen in the picture, the bright blue color distinguishes the mirror in that bathroom.

The shaving cream bottle is best turned upside down when the content is not used. On the window of the bathroom, place the bottle of shaving cream upside down to avoid rust.

When air touches the lid of a shaving cream bottle, the little cream at the bottleneck will react and give rust marks over time. However, by keeping it upside down, the large quantity of cream cannot react to cause rust. Here’s a hack that men can learn from and perform without any iota of stress.

The bathroom can in addition to wall hangers have a DIY shelf. This shelf can contain even more bathroom usable than the hanger.

One can place small buckets of bathroom things on the shelf. To make the shelf look pastoral, it should be painted with chalk paint, as seen in the picture.

A drill hack is useful for cleaning the bathroom without exerting too much stress. Well, this hack doesn’t require the purchase of a drill. It’s best for someone who owns a drill. It would be useful and improvised as a cleaning tool.

To use this hack, fit a scrub brush on tip of the drill. Once the machine comes on, the scrub brush will roll at a high speed that would thoroughly wash the bathtub and every other part of the bathroom.

Your bathroom sink does not have to look regular and drabby. One does not always have to retain the white-looking or cream-like sink color. Granite slabs have always been a luxurious addition to any furniture and space set-up.

One can give the sink that luxurious look. How easy? Very easy. A need to purchase a granite sink is not the case. What is simply needs is painting the sink with granite-color paint? The picture contains a white bathroom sink upgraded to a granite-colored one through granite paint.

In a bathroom where kids have access to, one expects a mess. The toothpaste is one thing young ones can mess up from time to time.

To avoid a situation where the cover of toothpaste is constantly missing and the gel is smeared around, empty the toothpaste into a pump container. The shape of the container makes it press the tip get the toothpaste out without creating too much mess.

Enough of a cosmetic chest where one cannot observe the cluster of cosmetics from a distance. At least, let me relish that feeling of having a lot of cosmetics by simply seeing through a glass top.

The picture contains a cosmetic chest with a glass top along with the DIY process. All cosmetics are very visible through the glass top.

What they say about shower curtains that uplift a dampened spirit, a companion! Many times, we are stressed and irritated from something that went wrong or just a bad day in general. One goes to bed in a moody state, and the next morning, a hangover from yesterday’s depressing spirit rolls over.

Reluctant to take a shower and get ready for work. This does not always have to happen. One can simply personalize the shower curtains with favorite uplifting and memorable quotes. Here is a picture of the DIY process of a shower curtain that contains a personalized uplifting quote painted onto the curtain. So good for an early morning motivational shower!

The fact that tidiness in a bathroom brings out tranquility cannot be overemphasized. This tranquility, in turn, gives forth to a simple and elegant-looking bathroom. It is not only the hair liquids that need to be organized. Every piece one uses in a bathroom should be.

Here is an example of a bathroom organizer from the dollar store which can be used to organize pieces like toothpaste, floss, sponge, scrubs, and all. The organizer has three layers to conveniently contain your usable. This way you clear up more space and get all tidier.

A potent bathroom upgrade trick is the type of mirror you use. Many of not notice, buy a mirror beautifies the bathroom, especially a vintage IKEA design. This can be easily built.

Materials needed are the IKEA Grundtal mirror, rope, large eye hook, doorknob, glue, and some fitting nails. All you just need is to search the web for how to assemble an IKEA mirror since the materials are available. As seen in the picture, the mirror oozes elegance in simplicity as it is hung up by vintage ropes. Simple and classy.

Double shower curtains make the bathroom look grander than it is, no matter the size. When it comes to upgrading tricks for a bathroom, luxury and elegant designs cannot be overlooked.

One does not have to go purchase gigantic and expensive bathroom fittings to achieve this. The beauty is in the elegant simplicity. If the bathroom is very small, what is required is to simply cut a shower curtain into two and hem the edges. Simple. The big-feel look can be achieved in a tiny bathroom this way.

A pastoral and antique look is a great and beautiful uplift to your bathroom. Many times, a lot of people think that they must be super creative in elegant colors to achieve a beautiful bathroom upgrade. This is not the case.

A sleek pastoral look would do. One can get a decorative ladder to hang towels, as seen in the picture. Looks even way more creative and simpler. Apart from the design upgrade, ladder towel-hangers also enable towels to give off their humidity faster.

It is all about simple and luxurious pieces and wholes to upgrade a bathroom. Putting simple bathroom pieces in luxurious storage, that’s the trick! Little bathroom pieces can be made to look grand and luxurious by what we put them in. One bathroom piece that can be made to look grand is the mouthwash.

Why leave that mouthwash in that drabby tube? Simply pour it all out into a beautiful crystal decanter as seen in the picture. Not only has the mouthwash been given a beautiful facelift, so has the entire bathroom.

This is a very nice upgrade trick for a bathroom in recent times. Many feel that the main purpose of a bathtub is to host baths. They are right though. But that is not the only luxury. One can spend hours in a cool soapy bath reading some novel and sipping wine.

Glorious! Even a small bathtub can give this extra luxury. As seen in the picture, all that is needed is to install a bathtub tray on the bathtub. The picture contains a thick wooden tray that can easily contain some novels and wine glasses.

In other to make the bathroom look tidier and arranged, most shower liquids and materials could be moved under the bathroom sink.

This is especially great if one stores a sizeable number of shower materials. As seen in the picture, four ring compartments are fitted under the bathroom sink for such storage.

The wall is there for us to use. Let us use it to our fullest gain in beautiful bathroom upgrades. This bathroom upgrade is mostly useful for the female gender, especially ones that are very particular about their make-up and facial adornments.

For easy accessibility and enhanced arrangement, a good upgrade. Make-up cups are not only good for storing make-up materials, they are also great for designing the wall. This also clears up the blandness on the wall.

Another bathroom upgrade trick which many rarely think of is this. One thing that is quite paramount in a bathroom is privacy. All that needs to be done is to blind the windows by using contact papers.

As seen in the picture, the bathroom window is covered with contact papers. One thing that is also visible is that the contact papers do not blindly out rays of light. Vision is still very much possible despite these contact papers.

Triangle wood is a cool design that can be replicated anywhere and it fits just about any place too. For the bathroom wall, these triangle designs are fitting although not so easy to make except for some that enjoy working with wood.

To make this, get some good and neat wood. Use a plane to smoothen it out. Next use a saw to cut it to equal length of small woods. Get glue and join the wood in a triangle shape. Make as many as desired to be hanged or glued to the bathroom wall.

Something that happens very frequently with curling hair irons is that their cords tangle very often with other bathroom pieces like sponges and all.

What can be done to avoid this clumsiness? As seen in the picture, simply get a mounted PVC pipe in which a curling iron can fit. This way the cord and the iron itself can stay rigidly in their place.

The beauty is in appreciating the fact that pieces and wholes that are not useful now would most likely be useful in the future.

If there is an abandoned reclaimed window in a bathroom, do we just abandon it still? It can be turned into a store for medicine and capsules.

This bathroom upgrade trick is very useful in all ramifications. Apart from the artistic effect, it gives the bathroom, it is very useful in outlining one’s daily tasks. Many times, we often forget that we have something important to carry out and the time for such.

This upgrade is a whiteboard white gold frame on which daily tasks can be written. Beautifies the room and at the same time, we are reminded of tasks. Important! The picture shows off an elegant-looking DIY bathroom dashboard. Just write your tasks for the next day, wake up to see them the next morning upon stepping into the bathroom to have a bath.

Not many might like the idea of a ladder towel-hanger. It might be too bland and boring for some. For upgraded artistry and creativity, a target antler is a great upgrade.

The picture contains a target antler attached to the bathroom wall. On one of the antlers, a towel is hooked. This is more artistic. Prioritize artistry over simplicity? Then this is it.

This DIY upgrade is a gem to the walls of your bathroom. To spice up the loom of your walls, simply design these wall accents.

Only cardboard shapes and mirror settings are needed to come up with this beautiful piece. The picture contains the DIY process.

Spelling out words on board is simple and easy to do. This DIY hack can be done with paper to form words or shapes. It mostly fits the entrance to the bathroom.

Placing it inside the bathroom could damage it due to water which may splash when bathing. Use the papers to create shapes or letters age tape the word or shape to ant part of the wallpaper. This is a lovely modern bathroom hack that adds beauty.

The bath doesn’t have to carry a common theme all time. Flowers can just be the design to spice the room up. The faux milk glass hack can be done with just simple tools. Glass bottles can be purchased at a cheap price from thrift stores.

Next, spray paint, newspapers, and glove are other important tools. To get started, clean the bottles well to remove impurities. The next thing is to spray the bottle’s paint while wearing gloves and using the newspaper to reduce mess. After spraying, let the bottles dry they are ready for use.

That feeling when one can easily stretch out a whole lot while having a shower is golden. You let out all those feelings and emotions of the day through a cozy night shower.

Apart from the emotional feeling, showers are physically elegant when there is enough space to move and stretch. An affordable curved shower is readily available. One can even get it for as low as $18. This is one of the sleek miniature upgrades a bathroom can get.

Avoid leaving the bathroom blank with no touch of beauty or a refreshing sight. If the bathroom has a dominant bright color, a stalk of the plant will do an excellent job of refreshing the room.

This is not difficult to do, simply get a sizeable green plant and place it in a small vase with little soil. The plant to use however must be one that requires less sunlight and more sunshine. It’s not difficult to come by such plants. If it ever becomes a challenge to get it, speak to a local botanist.

This hack works best in a professional facility where many people share a big bathroom. A towel shelf is a good object to color and label. Here’s how to do it.

Get paint and brush, and gently apply the paint to the edges of the shelf such that the paint shines brightly. Next use a label made from brown paper tape to demarcate each section from the other. It’s a simple hack that improves the overall look of the bathroom shelf without spending too much or exerting too much energy.

One thing is very certain, there can never be too much organization in a bathroom. One can do more by purchasing a second curtain rod to place behind the initial bathtub curtain rod.

As seen in the picture, one can hang pieces like tissue paper, scrubs, shower caps, and the likes for extra tidiness. As an additional perk, bathroom usable dry faster when hung up. This is an upgraded one that can easily perform, no technical design knowledge is needed at all. Just purchase and install it onto the bathroom wall.

This trick would make the bathroom look even more luxurious and elegant. Whoever thought of a pebble mat for the feet’s comfort in a bathroom, sheer creativity! One can easily come up with this creative brilliance.

Materials needed are an outdoor rubber matter with drainage pores, a waterproof sealer, and some smooth stones. For a safe by step explanation on how to make this pebbled mat, visit tattooedmartha.com. The advantage of this pebble mat is the comfort and massage it gives the feet. More so, it beautiful in the bathroom.