bathrooms

The downstairs bathroom is finished!  I actually finished it a little while ago... but now it is CLEAN and finished.  It went from celery green, to way-to-bright teal, to this neutral light brown (Wicker).  I made the triangle pattern on just the back wall.  Same Wicker color, but with a higher gloss finish than the base paint.  We will put artwork up on the back wall, too.  We just have to decide WHAT pieces to go in there.

i know, i know.  We need another light bulb in there. 

subtle. 

so fresh and so clean.

Speaking of bathrooms... Mary and Ben have completely gutted their master bath.  Wowsers.  Here is what it looked like when I visited them in the spring:

there is a hole.  in the floor. 

And here is what it looks like now (well, about 2 weeks ago when I got the picture text):

the tub!!  this cell phone pic does not do justice to the wall color

Major progress!!  Can't wait to see it when it is all the way done. I should mention that while this project is going, they managed to put in a back patio and do a whole heck of a lot of other housework... and that is in their spare time.


So back to my house.  The downstairs office/guest room as been painted!  We are on the hunt for a love seat for that room.  We seem to keep finding chairs we like... but more on those later.  I plan on sprucing up the paint in the upstairs bathroom and the craft room.  I hope to focus outside for the nice days that we have this fall.  I am trying to clean out the back yard to prepare for our grand idea for an outdoor office/work space.  I have a few small projects to make the front yard look nicer, too.
Onwards!!

hex marks the spot

I finally found time to finish the bathroom wall project! Basically, I was just too lazy to bring the big ladder in from the shed.

I originally wanted to do wallpaper on this vanity wall... bridging the bedroom and bathroom together. Then, we chose a few different shades of grey paint to redo the bedroom, vanity, and bathroom areas. I still wanted some kind of visual interest on this wall, so I got the SAME color grey that we already had but in a glossy finish (rather than the flat or eggshell we already had). David made a cardboard stencil for me. I traced it with pencil, then hand-painted the hexagonal pattern with the glossy paint.

I think it came out great! I love it. It gives the vanity area depth and texture, without taking up any extra space.

Previous stages of bathroom redo: part 1 and part 2