Work In Progress

For those of you who have been to our house, you know about the nasty main bathroom. The walls were painted sky blue and had those 70s lights that hung from long chains (my iPhone took the picture below so that is why it is weird looking). A net was attached to the lights that had seashells in it... Interesting.! 

Our main bath isn't exactly what we envision but we have other projects that need to get done, so this will have to do until we get around to it again. So this is a BEFORE and WORK IN PROGRESS and not a BEFORE and AFTER.

BEFORE

 WORK IN PROGRESS

We painted the walls Fate {in satin} from Kwal. 

 {sorry for the odd angle. that was the only way to get a "bigger" picture.)

Remember this Deseret Industries (DI) mirror from here? I primed the mirror, painted it white {satin}, distressed the edges with sandpaper {with my own hands not a machine}, and stained the mirror for an "old" look with the same stain I used here. I had two rags to stain with. The first rag was a clean rag and the second the rag to dip in the stain. The rag to dip was only dipped a small amount {to control how much I put on} and I wiped on the distressed areas and especially areas that had a lot of detail. I used the clean rag to wipe of the stain. This kind of staining is something that we can't learn from anyone but ourselves. I was very uncomfortable on my first "real" project, but eventually I started to get the hang of it; it still scares me though.

I bought my chevron-print bath rug from Ross; aren't the colors FAB?

The counter is still in  need of being removed. I don't plan on keeping green counters (even though they look yellow). YUCK.  Not to mention the siding of the counter on the wall; it WILL be gone when it gets its second round of work in the future.

We got a NEW light. Home Depot always has a light clearance section. We got the light for a great deal. {We still need to paint around the light.} 

 I bought that owl {from DI} even though it had a weird opening and holes all over it. It works great as a toothbrush older.

We still need to touch-up some areas on the ceiling (look below). My advice: get a wet rag and wipe it up right when paint gets somewhere it isn't supposed to be because I said I would get back to it and never did. The paint is now dry and I have to fix it.

 That cut-out area is where the old toilet paper holder was. We decided that we need to get a different holder because the old one is not functional. Westy is going to patch it up with some drywall. The fun part: I need to figure out how I am going to decorate this area.