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Phase One (Almost) Complete

Here are some picture of the girls' freshly painted bathroom:




The pictures prove only that it's really hard to take meaningful pictures of a tiny tiny room, but! the walls that are now blue were once covered in ugly seashell wallpaper. And we got a new light fixture and a new mirror (because my father-in-law, bless his heart, broke the old mirror while trying to rehang it). The towel rack still needs to be installed and I have to do something about the ugly blinds, but I am hopeless, utterly hopeless, when it comes to window coverings. I start looking and then get all bogged down in tabtops and valances and I get paralyzed with indecision and whether or not I need a new rod and what size and why and I just can't deal. So for now the ugly blinds are staying. Despite these small problems it looks much nicer now than it did two weeks ago.

And here is a "before" pic of my bathroom, which is next on the list:



Oops, wrong way. It doesn't matter, you can still see the wallpaper, which is not long for this world. If all goes well this will be done within the month.

I hope you all share in my excitement.

Comments

Anonymous said…
The bathroom looks very nice. I can hardly wait to see it in person! Good luck with your bathroom. Hope to see a picture of the new and improved one soon.

Mom
12:59 PM
aimee said…
I am excited! What color are you going to paint your bathroom?

The girls' bathroom looks great! When in doubt, choose tab top solid color curtains. Will look good in any room! :)
2:59 PM
Abbey said…
I love the bathroom color! Very cute and festive! Have fun with your bathroom. Ours had so many corners and nitches we paid to have it done.
7:47 PM
H Noble said…
I had an idea for the girls' curtain. Depending on if you have a shower curtain in there, you could get a matching one, or coordinating one, and cut it down and place tabs on top to make it a window curtain. They can be relatively inexpensive and if its the plastic-y kind, you can wash it just like a shower curtain. I thought it would look playful and young.
Either way- the paint looks great!
Holly
9:19 AM
Krista said…
Holly, you lost me with the words "cut" and "place"...

That's a cute idea, really. There is a very cute duckie shower curtain in there already, but the girls don't take showers, so it's usually draped over the rod. Maybe someone with some sewing ability could convert it into curtains for me...
3:47 PM
H Noble said…
That's hilarious! I'm certainly not a seamstress, but I do things like throw pillows and have done most of our curtains.

I'll work on some sketches for you and maybe SuperMom Aimee can help us out!
Holly
6:00 PM
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