Well, Christmas has come and gone and so has the New Year celebrations. While January is a month to reflect on the past year, it is also a time for new beginnings. As changes are being made in our lives and resolutions come to be discovered, why not apply some changes to your home? The winter always tends to bring out the tendency to hibernate and most people wait till the Spring or Summer to start projects around the house. However, once the nice weather makes an appearance, everyone wants to enjoy the missed sunshine. When I was contacted about redecorating this bathroom, I was delighted...what a great time to give any room in your house a makeover!
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| From the doorway looking into the bathroom |
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| Window Treatments and Accessories |
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| Vanity |
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| Bathtub/Shower |
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| Yes! That is carpet flooring...Quite the fancy bathroom in its day! |
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| Wicker towel stand |
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| The only accessories being salvaged is the beautiful antique jug and basin set, which is difficult to see with the busy wallpaper pattern |
The function of this room is mainly for guests when they come to visit. This bathroom is one of three in the home, as there is a bathroom on-suite in the master bedroom and a gentleman's bathroom in the finished basement. While, this bathroom is in immaculate condition and quite spacious, the decor has not ever been changed in over 30 years. The layout is long and narrow, and while we aren't rearranging the layout of the shower, stool or cabinets, almost everything is being updated! As this is the most current project, here are some pictures to keep you up to date with the changes being made.
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| As the paper comes off....the walls begin to crumble |
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| You never know what you are going to run into...but it was coming off slick as butter |
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| The room opened right up! |
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| After washing walls and scraping off extra glue ...then taping the trim |
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| Clean white canvas |
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| Repaired walls and ceiling painted |
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| Shower ceilings painted |
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| Coat #2 of ceiling paint: Benjamin Moore "Acadia White" Coat #1 of wall paint: Benjamin Moore "Cable Knit" |
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Coat #2 Complete!!!
More pictures to be posted as this bathroom makes more progress. |
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The Mud Room
This is a room that I began envisioning back a year ago. My aunt and I were in a Winner's (my aunts favourite store) shopping and we found these pillows. Of course, what caught our attention was the embroidered birds on the front (If you didn't already know, I live on a farm that specializes in birdseed production). Immediately I was drawn to the black and white ones while my aunt, to no surprise, was drawn to the turquoise set. I knew I had to have these pillows and so I decided I would have to decorate a room to display them properly. Immediately I decided I would decorate the front add-on room to our home. Previously it had been used as a "Sun Room" for reading or sipping tea. The one downfall, it had never been insulated. Therefore, its freezing in the winter and sweltering in the summer. So, due to the fact that it is a room that people usually enter and quickly pass through, I thought I would change its function and make it a "Mud Room."
Not long after I had bought those pillows, my aunt and I were shopping at the store Urban Barn (my favourite store) and we found more black and white pillows with birds printed on them. These were slightly different then the pillows from Winner's and they would compliment perfectly! To my surprise she bought them for me as a birthday gift.
I also found some very inexpensive pillows at the store JYSK. They were tone-on-tone black and had a raised velvet damask print on them...SOLD!!!
This summer after we started de-cluttering that room, I was shocked to see how big that space really was. It had always been so full of unwanted furniture and junk. At times, it even resembled a closet space with a little pathway carved out to walk into the house. Once empty, we were happy to see we had 110 square feet to play with.
The walls were wood paneling from the 60's and the flooring was a bluish gray carpet glued down at some point in the 80's. The worst part would be the trim that framed the windows and doorways, as it was painted hunter green. Needless to say, all of these features were going to be replaced! I selected a nice warm white colour called "Swiss Coffee" by Behr Paint and away I went. My precious puppy Freddy also thought he would contribute to the room by knocking over the gallon of paint. This meant the carpet was coming up sooner than later. We picked an inexpensive laminate floor, similar in stain colour to the original wood flooring that ran throughout the house. After a long day of instillation, contributed by our great friends, the room was beginning to come to life.
Where it all began! The black and white pillows from Winners
Black and white pillows from Urban Barn
Black tone-on-tone, velvet raised damask pillows from JYSK
Awesome pillows I found at Walmart for $5 each...reversible sides...couldn't resist!
The room moments after the bluish gray carpet was pulled up.
Beauty! Glue on cement....and hunter green trim.
After the laminate flooring was installed by my friend Alex Purich.
After about 4 or 5 coats of white, the green trim is finally covered
The dirtiest part is almost over. The radiator will not be fun, but the end is in sight!!!
