Bathroom

Last weekend, Home Depot offered a $5 rebate on various paints which was all the motivation I needed to paint the downstairs basement. I asked Ben what he thought and he said that he was surprised I'd gone 3 years without painting a room. I took that as a yes.

Here's the bathroom before. The only thing I liked about it was the shower curtain and the mirror above the sink (not pictured).

[caption id="attachment_213" align="alignnone" width="200" caption="Blah Basement Bathroom"][/caption]

I picked a color called Spring Cactus and am really happy with that choice, but I'm a sucker for greens anyway. The accent colors are black, dark gray, and ivory. The only things I purchased new for this bathroom are the paint, the towels, a spool of black ribbon, and some gray velvety fabric. Everything else I already had or found at the thrift store.

Here it is after:

[caption id="attachment_215" align="alignnone" width="200" caption="Finished Basement Bathroom"][/caption]

I replaced the shell and starfish shower curtain rings with black ribbon:

[caption id="attachment_216" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Shower curtain ring ribbons"][/caption]

I took an empty frame (thrift store salvage) and hot glued some foam and gray fabric to it. Then I hot glued an embroidered 'N' in the middle, and attached a bunch of my great-grandmother's vintage pins to it. I love vintage things and am trying to be more creative in displaying them, versus letting them sit, unnoticed, in storage somewhere.

[caption id="attachment_217" align="alignnone" width="200" caption="Vintage Pins"][/caption]

Years and years and years ago, my Great Grandmother made a large tree out of some of her old jewelry. It sat in her livingroom for years. My mom and her cousins grew up looking at it and so did I and mine. It was very large and not something I would have really had a place for in my house, but I thought this was a bit of a nod to Great Grandma and her crafty-ness.