Weekend Recap

What a wonderful weekend it was! With temperatures slowly rising, the snow is finally disappearing! Since it was so nice out, I took advantage and sprayed a side table for the guest bedroom. I used this nightstand in college and think I picked it up at Ross for around $20 a few years ago.




I decided to go black and leave the bamboo table as is {thanks, Joi!} The paint is still a little wet in this picture. I wanted to photograph it before I ran out of light!

Here is what it looked like before...


I also picked up a few accessories for my bathroom!



The jar is from World Market and the tray is from an antique store. I hope you had a wonderful weekend! Oh and Happy Valentine's Day :)

Bathroom: Check.

The bathroom is finally done and boy did it give us some trouble. With the vanities and mirrors, we had major problems getting things right. The good news is that it was well worth it! I can't believe the transformation this room has made! (Remember what it looked like before??)





We decided to use a white waffle shower curtain that I ordered from Target. This is an 84 inch curtain (standard is 72 inch) and we hung it closer to the ceiling to make the room look taller.



The homemade art that only cost me about $15.



Our new doorless linen closet! It still needs to be styled and accessorized, but you get the idea.



Since we don't have a window in this bathroom, I think we still need more lighting. I am thinking about having a few recessed lights installed but that will have to be another project for another day.

Want to read more about our bathroom remodel? Check out any of these posts:

Updates, And the vanity saga continues, Bathroom Update, Say Hello To My New Friend, Painting Mishap, My Husband Broke Up With Home Depot, Sassy Approves, Bathroom Before

Bathroom Before

We are coming close to being finished with the bathroom so I figured I would share a few before pictures so they end result can be appreciated even more. It was pretty bad. If you don't believe me, take a look.





There it is in all its green trim and green wall glory. It is hard to imagine someone would seriously pick out those paint colors.

Anyhoo, here are a few sneak peeks of what has been going on with the reno this weekend:

We added new knobs to the vanities! This is what they looked like before the pretty new knobs...



... and here is after with the new Hobby Lobby knobs. I'd say they look a lot like those high-dollar anthropologie knobs, don't you think??





I also found the mirrors this weekend. I have been looking for a couple of weeks and not finding anything I like for the budget I gave myself (about $50 a mirror). Well, I decided to go to Target to see if they had anything. They did. Let's just say $20 clearance. Yes.



They only had one in the store but luckily they were on clearance online, too. I just placed the order for the second.

I also made a little artwork to hang above the toilet. (Sorry for the bad picture)



Hopefully we will be completely done in a few days once the mirror comes in! Soooo close!

Want to read more about the bathroom remodel? Check out any of these posts:
Updates, And the vanity saga continues, Bathroom Update, Say Hello To My New Friend, Painting Mishap, My Husband Broke Up With Home Depot, Sassy Approves

Updates

Adam and I resumed work on the bathroom and had to revert back to the stone age to do so. The vanity tops come "pre-drilled" with three partially drilled holes. You pick the holes (or in our case, just hole) that you need and have to chisel it out to make it big enough for the faucet to fit into. (If that even makes sense?)

Here is a shot of Adam practicing the trade of our distant ancestors:



Our not-so-perfect hole:



Toilet. Check.



We chose the high-efficiency toilet that has two separate flushes; one for liquids and one for solids. It also has a pretty cool button on top of the toilet seat :)



We have also made a lot of progress on the wood floors. We have one bedroom completely done, a bedroom halfway done, the dining room and hall are seeing major progess and the kitchen has been started.





Miss Ellie has been helping a lot and is worn out! She even has a sticker from the vanity on her paw...

Wood Floor/Bathroom Update

We finally started today! They got most of the carpet/tile ripped up and laid a lot of the planks for the two guest bedrooms. Here is a picture of one of the guest bedrooms with the carpet still in it:



And the after with most of the flooring down! I absolutely love it! (we will eventually be painting the trim white/painting the room, etc.)



The dining room is still in a state of disarray after having the carpet ripped up. It looks a little scary...



We had another milestone today; the bathroom vanity tops are in! We went with the carrera marble this time and they are gorgeous. I am much happier with these tops than either of the other two. Hopefully we will be able to knock out most of what we have left in the bathroom this weekend.

Mirror Inspiration

Now that we have most of the big purchases out of the way in the bathroom, it is time to start looking for mirrors to hang above the vanities. Once we have mirrors picked out, it will be a lot easier to make the final decision on the light (I have narrowed it down to my favorite two). Ballard Designs has so many cool mirrors to choose from but are a little more than I want to spend, especially since we have to buy two!









All of these mirrors are gorgeous! Now the trick is to find something similar at a much lower cost... wish me luck!

Bathroom Update

I had this great idea that we were going to take off the door in the linen closet in the bathroom because it would be pretty simple to take of the little door jamb piece, sand and repaint. Well... like everything else with this bathroom remodel, it wasn't that easy.

This is what I wanted to happen:

image via younghouselove.com

This is what happened:



Good thing my amazing husband was there to save the day. While I was having a mini panic attack, he was at Home Depot buying the supplies required to do this:



All we need is a little paint and our new, doorless linen closet will be up and running!

**I have to share a picture of Ellie sleeping... it is too cute not to! The baseball hat is to show you how big she is.

Say hello to my new friend...

..the mitre box and saw!



This guy little guy helped me do this... (still needs caulk to make the joint seamless, but I would say it is pretty good for my first time)



I haven't ever even cut anything but decided today to try my hand at making the mitre cuts required to put baseboard down in the bathroom. After using the hand saw for a while, I must say I am considering splurging on the electric version to make the job a little easier. Or I guess I could just assign Adam to this task in the future. Still, it was fun conquering a new "skill."

**Color Update: I know you must have been a little worried about my design ability after the glow in the dark paint I chose for the bathroom, but those fears should be eradicated after seeing the new color on the walls. I love it! Here is a sneak peak:

Painting Mishap

With the whole vanity fiasco and having to order different color vanity tops (now a cream, yellowish marble), I decided to go a different direction with the paint color. I was thinking a light green because this bathroom poses a challenge since it gets no natural light at all. With the dark brown marble floors that we already put it, I wanted to keep the paint as light as possible. Well here is what I initially came up with...



It is pretty scary. Adam said, "It's not bad, I kind of like it," which means, "It isn't great but I really don't want to go through the trouble to pick out another color so lets just keep it the way it is." Well, I couldn't. This paint looks like the glow in the dark paint before it is glowing in the dark.

Today I went back out to Home Depot, True Value and Sherwin Williams to pick out a bunch of different swatches so I could look at them with the bathroom's light (something I should have done the first time). This is what I started with.



I then narrowed it down to these.



Finally, the final two.



Decision:
Behr Sage Tint for the walls (bottom in picture)
Behr Wisdom for the ceiling (top in picture)
Also, I am thinking I might want to paint the linen closet coral for a bit of fun every time we open the door. (I am going to need to go in search of that soon)

My Husband Broke Up With Home Depot

Adam took the vanities back to Home Depot to turn them since they misrepresented the color. He had a little trouble. They had no problem taking the vanity base back but didn't want to take the granite back. Eventually an hour and a half later, after climbing the corporate ladder to talk to someone who could do something, they took everything back with no restocking fees.

Back to square one, Adam refused to look at Home Depot again so we went to Lowe's. They didn't have anything in stock that we wanted but did have something in one of the books we liked. We ordered it and the ETA is 2 weeks, which is a little depressing but it will have to do.

Here is a picture of the new vanity base we ordered. It will have a different color marble top and a different sink and faucet.



Speaking of sinks and faucets, the ones we ordered came in and they are perfect!!!





So at least another 2 weeks until the bathroom can be finished, but it will all be worth it in the end!

Sassy Approves!

Grout went in yesterday but wasn't able to go in until today to look at it. I approve and so does Sassy girl! She loves the way the brown marble floors looks with her color :).





Before we remodeled, every time we turned on the shower there was a high pitched squeal. I am hoping, since we bought new fixtures, that the squeal is gone. I haven't tested it yet but am excited to see the conclusion. Anyway, here are a few pics of the new, sleeker fixtures.



Can't wait to use this rain shower head!

To do list

The grout is in and just needs to be set and cleaned up. Though we have come a long way, there are still many projects to be completed in order to be finished.

1. Paint: I am thinking of going with the same paint color that we have in our kitchen. It is called winter's evening and is a light blue-gray, which I like against the deep brown.

Here is a picture of the paint color in a bedroom to give you an idea. (BTW- this bedroom is GORGEOUS)



2. Trim: None of the existing trim was saved in the demolition process so we will also have to whip out our paintbrushes again to paint some baseboards creamy white.

3. Attach granite to the vanities: We picked up two of these bases from Home Depot and two black granite tops (not exactly like the one pictured). So, we need to attach them. Apparently all you need is a little silicone and it's on there!



These are just a few of the items on the to-do-list. We also need to transform the piece of mirror that once hung into two framed mirrors for the vanities. On top of that we will be adding a new ceiling light, vanity light and trim to the doors to give them a little architectural detail.