It's not that our house necessarily NEEDED a revamp, but it's because when we first moved in, I was so excited to finally have a house to decorate, I said,
"hey, let's paint this room green, and this room bright orange, and this room brown......."
Yep..... head in the clouds.
I got smart though, and started looking at LOTS of ideas so that I could hone in on what I like.
BEFORE
See the yucky brown color and sliding glass doors??
I knew those sliding doors and brown paint were gonna be the FIRST things to go! And funny, that
my brothers took care of both of those items for me:
Brother #1: I hate sliding shower doors cuz of all the build-up they collect. I had planned to get ride of them....sometime. Well, SOMETIME finally came rather unexpectedly back in June when my little brother Jared got home from serving his mission in Chile for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. We picked him up at the airport and he came over to our house along with the rest of the family for a little family party. He had gone for like two days without showering (long plane rides). He jumps in the shower and ten minutes later we hear a loud bang followed by him yelling:"Ahhhh, HELP!" Rather than burst right in, I frantically knock on the door asking if he's ok. He yells that it's "safe" to come in and to hurry. I open the door, hahhaa, (funny image coming back) and he is standing there stradling the tub with the sliding shower doors on top of him. hahaha. We lifted them off him wondering how the heck that happened. He said they just fell. rrriiigghhhttt ;) Luckily though I hated them in the first place so....shower doors removed, Check!
Brother #2: I HATED that nasty brown color. What were we thinking when we painted that??? I guess it was a LITTLE better than the yellow color it was when we moved in....but not much. I decided on gray, a light neutral color. My little brother Jason came to visit Dustin and I for a few days. He got bored so I told him he could paint the bathroom if he wanted to, and I'd pay him. We had 1/2 a gallon of gray paint which we added white paint to, to make the color lighter. He did a GREAT job. Thanks Jason! Nasty brown color gone -- check!
DURING
I decided I wanted paneling -- NOT beadboard, and not really board n' batten, but paneling.
It was a little more difficult than we thought because we had to cut around outlets, the toilet paper wall insert, and yeah.... Dustin was really good with this. I told him what I wanted and he did it all :)
We put up the paneling with Liquid Nails,
nailed it in place,
& added fancy baseboard/trim to the top and bottom.
Busted out some wood filler since the outlet was tricky!
After LOTS of caulking, and white paint:
I drilled towel hooks (all by myself while Dustin wasn't even home -- I know, I'm good ;) ha.
Spray-painted some mirrors, made the sign
(details here), and bought new towels from Target.
I bought the teal ruffle shower curtain online from Amazon for 20 bucks. Love it :)
Dustin hung up the shelf and I added the decor. We make a good team ;)
I got the jar and frame at Goodwill,
I painted and distressed the frame,
then added cute scrapbook paper with a clip to hang a pic if I choose.
Hung a hand-towel we had and a string of pearls.....and picture perfect ;)
My favorite part is that the hand-towel hides the outlet :) muahaha
I gotta add a little spice of realistic life in here. Dustin painted this picture....well, WE each painted this exact same picture at a 3 hour class we took, but his turned out sooo much better than mine. haha.
Mine is...well....sad.
Hence, here hangs HIS :)
I also love this rug (Target). It ties in with the gray walls.
Wahoo :)
