The things that drive us . . .

 Ever since we moved into our house I wanted to change the bedroom and bathroom, but I haven’t done so because of several reasons . . . our bedding matched the decor of the room already . . . our bedding hadn’t had it’s 5th birthday yet . . . I didn’t want to strip the wallpaper off the bathroom walls . . . too much money . . . I/we couldn’t decide what bedding/color scheme we wanted . . . too much money . . . too much time . . . too much money . . . too much time . . .

We finally agreed on bedding and after about 25 paint samples (literally) we decided on a color for our room.  I knew it was going to be a big project, because all of the trim needed to be painted too.  We still aren’t done with the trim in the bedroom and we haven’t even started the “shower/toilet” bathroom so you will have to wait to see those pictures. 

 

This is the closest I can come to a before picture of the vanity.  This one is in our other bathroom.  It is just like the one we painted.  I scratched the gold off the handles to give it a “brushed nickel” look for FREE!

This is the paper that was in the bathroom.  It is still in the “shower/toilet” room . . . but not for long!

 

This is what we were doing in the 5 o’clock hour this morning (Jason is wet with sweat from his 5 miler)

I worked ALL day on Saturday on just this little room in the bathroom because of all of the trim.  I decided to paint it with flat black paint and the go back with gloss paint of the same color and create stripes to add dimension.  I didn’t get the stripes done on Saturday so I decided to tape up the walls last night.  It took me three hours.  At 9 pm I finished taping only to discover that my tape was coming off the walls!!!  I did NOT spend all evening taping stripes to have all of the tape come off the walls!  I went to Walmart at 9:30pm to get the paint I needed and started painting at 10pm.  Jason was sleeping because he planned to get up at 5 am and run.  I finished the stripes at 11pm and went to bed.   I was determined to get it done!!!

I also spray painted the light and the towel rack to get rid of the gold and replace it with a more updated “brushed nickel” on a budget. (You can’t really tell it on these pictures, but it does look a lot better.)

The finished product

A sneak peak of the bedroom . . .

We still haven’t decided what to do with the “shower/toilet” part of the bathroom . . . any suggestions?

~ by legmaker on June 17, 2008.