The Most Important Room in the House

My bathroom has been a work in progress for a while. When we bought the house, the bathroom was baby blue. EVERYWHERE. Even the ceiling!  You had to do your business in a blue box!  Now, I believe there is a time and a place for everything---even the color blue!  However, I was NOT feeling it in the bathroom!!

The first thing I did was upgrade the mirror. The mirror in there was big and plain, so I framed it with  stained 1 X 4's to give it a framed, double mirror appearance.

Not too long after that, I found a cute shower curtain and used it as inspiration for the wall color and painted the walls and ceiling. Take a look:

ALSO---My bathroom was featured on a cool blog called Mochi Home. If you submit pictures to them, they will photoshop several decoration options for you to look at. It's pretty cool seeing someones else's take on your room potential. Although I wound up not going as bold as I had orginally planned, their ideas were pretty rad. Maybe the next time!   

http://mochihome.com/bathroom/painting-a-small-space-bold/

I love lamp

On the same trip to Goodwill when I found my little mirrors (see post below), I found this lamp.  It was $5.00.

The base of the lamp is really nice and solid, but the lamp shade was old and a bit tattered.  I had some fabric laying around that I had picked up at Hobby Lobby (I really just had to have this fabric although at the time I had no idea what to do with it). 

I recovered the existing lamp shade with my cool fabric using a hot glue gun. 

On the inside of the shade, I wrapped orange and white ribbon around the edges of the fabric for a cleaner look---- well, really to hide the hot glue mess!

Now I want another big heavy lamp for the other side of the couch, but I'm thinking that this $5.00 bargain was a once-in-a-lifetime find!

Mirror, mirror

I found these mirrors at Goodwill for $2.00 each.  They were still in their original packaging and I just knew I could do something with them:

It just so happens that a few months earlier, I had gotten two free samples of Glidden paint testers in the mail: 

One was called Dark French Chocolate and the other was Walnut Bark:

So, I painted these mirrors with one of my free samples.  I used the Walnut Bark sample. It was the perfect amount of paint. 

I put the finished product in our bedroom:

Not bad for $4.00!