more bathroom progress...

I have all of the current tonque and groove primed in the bathroom. Brian is installing the trim but ran out. Another trip to the ReStore is in order.



I'm starting to add some accessories that I've collected because I can't wait. You can see the painting I picked up at Goodwill that was my inspiration for the colors peeking out above the toilet. There will be a aqua colored shelf below it.



Here is that same view months ago:


You can see all the posts about the upstairs bathroom by clicking here.

2nd bathroom progress

Me: "You have nothing to do? Well I have something you can do..."

So began Maddie and Ava's adventure today in spackling all the tiny nail holes in the upstairs bathroom.





Brian has almost all the tongue and groove put up except for around the built-ins. We also need to install the quarter round moulding where the ceiling meets the wall as there is no room for traditional moulding. Then on to priming and painting the paneling. I'm painting it all Polar Bear White which is a Behr color which I will have color matched in Miller or BM paint. Since there is no natural light up there, it should help to really brighten it up.



Before:



We also need to finish the countertop and I need to sew a skirt to hide the pipes underneath until we decide how to finish off that space. The fabric will soften it up in there and add some color.

I'm going to use Amy Butler's Fresh Poppies as I already had it in my stash and it goes perfectly with the pink paint I used on the mirror. I don't have enough so I'm going to see if I can find some cheap coordinating fabric at Joann's or Goodwill. Cheap is the word around here as we try to finish the bathroom using little to no money.


Here's that same angle a few months ago:




My cute mirror that I painted as it was hanging on the wall. I need to glaze it to tone down the color some. This is one nook we are building in. There are two more underneath.

I'm going to be working on stenciling the dining room and Brian will be working on finishing the built-ins. We hope to have it at least primed by Thanksgiving!

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crafts and projects...

Just a few things we've done around the house.

More paper garland for the living room...




Made over this desk with a chalkboard top, couldn't find room for it and sold it on Craigslist.




Found this cute 1940's platter at Goodwill for $2.99! Goes great with my cuckoo clocks.


Made velvet pillow covers for our bedroom. I love the channel stitched pillow covers from Pottery Barn but didn't like the price. So I made these for $15 total. The back is just a gray twill and the front is velvet that I quilted.



I also made a lumbar pillow.


And the most exciting part is we now have two fully functional sinks in the upstairs bathroom. We bought both sinks at the reStore. They are both Kohler but they aren't the same style. That is how I wanted it. We went back and forth about the counter top and didn't want to spend a lot of money. Since this bathroom won't see a lot of use, we opted to go with an oak plywood that I painted and sealed with Polycrylic. The plywood was $50, paint $12 and Polycrylic $9. Deal!



Now we can start framing the built ins, putting beadboard on the walls and painting. The girls are already using the bathroom but it will be nice to have it finished.

two things...

Finished up this cute table. For some reason I can not find a before picture but it was just all the wood color showing beneath the stencil. Boring!


I painted it a white/gray color (one of my samples I didn't like on the walls) and put a vinyl sticker on the top which I painted over. When it was mostly dry, I peeled off the sticker to reveal this. I admit I totally copied the idea from another blog but I can't remember which one. So if you know, let me know so I can give credit.

I coated it in poly and am waiting for it to dry. I bought the table to resell but I really like it so I might keep it.

We also finished putting in the floor in the new bathroom. I'm coating it with poly as well and it will be ready for the toilet Saturday. Yipee! We got the toilet free on Craigslist after buying a $220 one at Lowe's. Needless to say, we took the Lowe's toilet back.





Kind of a weird angle since I took this picture while the floor was drying and had to just point the camera and hope for the best. The floor looks darker because I had to use the flash. We used some cheap pine flooring from Lumber Liquidators ($1.20 sq/ft) and I stained it before we installed it. My goal was to make it look like it was old and worn down.

Here is what it looked like a few weeks ago.




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new project started

We live in a 1938, 2000 sq foot, 1 bathroom house with 8 people. Yes we do. Since we homeschool, scheduling showers/baths is no big deal. What is a big deal is having 7 of us home all day and one toilet.

There is a fairly small closet upstairs that we have been wanting to convert into a half bath for years now. Well, we hired a plumber to come and set up all the plumbing for a toilet and two sinks while we were on vacation. Worked perfectly!





We are getting it inspected this week (hopefully) and then we can reinstall some drywall, put down our new floor and plunk the toilet down. We'll be finishing the bathroom a little at a time during the evenings. I want to cover the walls in horizontal planks painted a crisp white and the ceiling in beadboard painted turquoise. We'll have a couple of places for built in shelves but since it is a half bath, there isn't a huge need for storage. Brian will also have to custom built a cabinet to hold both sinks due to the plumbing and heating ducts running along the floor.





I have so many ideas to decorate and can't wait to get to that part. Rugs, accessories, paint, faucets, lighting, oh my!