Master Bathroom Tour

The NEW Master Bathroom!

Marble floors using leftover tile.

 This house was built in 1997. The builder and his family lived here for the first five years then we bought the home and have lived here for the past eight years. I first went through the house painting and just doing minor updates. However, after we hit the five to six year mark, we started doing more major remodels. By that time, we knew how we lived in this house and what our needs were. The old master bathroom consisted of two rooms. One with carpet on the floor, one long sink vanity and a huge garden tub. And I am not a tub kind of gal. The second room has a shower and toilet on marble floor.  I love being hands on when it comes to projects of any kind so I found a wonderful young handyman/contractor that would allow me to work with him and we gutted the first room of the master bath. We then changed the door going into the shower/toilet room to be a pocket door. I couldn't find matching marble tile so I purchased limestone that coordinated and used the eight left-over tiles like a center 'rug'. We then put up bead-board wainscoting. We took the bead-board higher on the sink wall. This room is long and narrow, so I knew that pedestal sinks would open up the space but lacked in storage and surface space.

His and Her sinks with storage between.

So I purchased cabinetry and topped it with a scrap piece of Quartz from a local dealer.  Scrap pieces cost a lot less.  I then found an acrylic claw foot tub, since it's on the second story for less weight, and topped it off with a chandelier on a dimmer for mood lighting on those nights that I do want to soak in a tub. I've got to tell you, nothing hugs your shape better than a claw foot tub! Ahhhhhhhhh!  Hubby is always complaining about the heat...he says he sweats when we swims, so I also installed a ceiling fan, just for him.  But I found out that using the ceiling fan when I am in a hot bath keeps my face cool and I will stay in the tub longer. Bonus!  I painted the ceiling in a green shade that I made up mixing several paints together. I painted the upper walls in Sherwin Williams Practical Beige and the wainscoting a soft white.

Built-ins above toilet

I painted this tree on the wall

In the shower/toilet room, I painted the walls and added the hand painted tree for visual enjoyment. The shelving above the toilet was already there as well as all the huge crown molding in the first part of the room. Now hubby and I don't have to fight over the sink since we have our own. More space without the huge tub and easier to clean without the old carpet! Enjoy...

Taken in black and white...timeless!

Pillar is a garage sale find, and leaded glass window is trash to treasure

Door to walk-in closet and doorway from bedroom

I cut triangle tiles for doorways to match what is already on the main floor

Iron hall tree is a garage sale find. I also recovered and painted the vintage vanity stool

Chippendale Secretary

As I was browsing the aisles at my local Sullivan's Antique Mall, and where I have a booth, I came across an old smelly, beautiful, petite Chippendale Secretary. The price was $165.  In my gut, I knew that I could make this beaten down piece of furniture into a beauty again. But I left the store without purchasing it.  After days of it being constantly on my mind. I talked to my hubby about it and he said, "Go for it!". He knows that when I get something in my mind that I not only will do the work on it right away, no staying in the garage for years, but I will also make it work in our home. First, I had to get rid of some furniture to bring in the new old so I put an ad in the paper and sold two antique dresses quickly.  The next Saturday, I went back to the shop and purchased the secretary for $150.  Sorry, but I didn't get a before picture with it all together. Instead I thought about picture taking after I had it in pieces in the garage, sanding and cleaning before the priming and painting began. What can I say? I was excited! I didn't like the hardware that came on this, so I found some vintage pulls that I did like on eBay. I also had to have one glass in the upper door replaced. Now it lives in my Green Toile Guest Bedroom, happy and proud!

 

I'm linking up to these parties:

Cassie's Piece of Work Wednesday

Let's Talk Stools

Before...Boring!

After

Rooster #1

Today, let's talk stools...normal, boring bar stools. These were inexpensive and would tuck under the bar out of the way. I have white kitchen cabinets so the white legs would blend in and sort of just go away...just what I wanted. However, I do like a pop of color and these stool tops were just not cutting it. So out came the paints and in no time two roosters and a combo monogram for my hubby and me appeared. Now they still tuck under the bar, but have a bit of style.

Our combined monogram

 

Rooster #2

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas 2010!

I painted garage sale skates, $1, added ribbon and boa trim.

Numbered Chairs

Today's project took just a little bit of time. I took my black dining room chairs and stenciled numbers on them. I then sealed with polycrylic. Easy and fast.

Real Feed Sack Pillows!

  I am so taken, in-love, infatuated, and just frankly crazy about all the feed sack designs. The uses are many from pillow, towels, clothing to upholstery. So. So , I thought I would try my hand at this. First, I had to find a soft feed sack that I loved the graphics. Bingo, At my local antique mall, I found just what I was looking for. This feed sack (no before pic) was not only soft, but it had two different graphics, one on each side and all for only $5.  I washed it first, then began the process. Here is the outcome!

The square pillow was made with black and white check back and piping.

Fun graphics on square pillow!

This side graphic was very stained. I first coffee stained to help mask the stains. Then brush fringe was used for the edges.

Buttonholes and buttons were used to be able to insert pillow form.
I'm linking up to these parties:
Saturday Nite Special
Pillow Challenge @ CSI Project 

Green Toile Guest Bedroom

I purchased this stool for $8. Hubby made it sound (no wobbles), I painted it white,
distressed it and used fabric from room to reupholster it.

This is our Green Toile Guest Bedroom. I decorated it using old antique finds turned into new uses. Here is a door made into a headboard...the crystal knob is still attached
hiding behind a pillow!
An old foyer chandelier into a teacup chandy.

I took an old foyer light fixture, just used the center combined with an old lamp shade form and made it into a new fixture. I covered the wire shade in heavy fabric and made ribbon roses.

This is the inside of an old foyer light fixture. I added the teacup and crystals. I hung it from an old birdcage stand and covered the cord with a toile fabric sock I made.

I made the curtains. I also took an antique board from the back of a dresser
and turned it upside down.
Painted it white and distressed it and added the vinyl lettering.

Chair was purchased at a thrift store already painted green. I love the look of feed sack material, so I made my own and then upholstered this cushion for the wicker chair.
I also made the pillow from scrap fabric used in the room.

Bed tray and items on it from garage sales except the teapot, it's from TJ Maxx.
I made the dust ruffle, toile coverlet and all the pillows.

I made the ribbon roses on this sugar bowl turned hat pin holder.

I added the tin-type baby photo to the plate using scrap-booking flowers.
All garage sale finds.

I purchased this antique secretary ($150) at a local antique store. I painted it white
and put on new hardware.
What a great find and adds so much character to the room.

Inside the secretary...I cross-stitched the bear and painted the mini rocker
(on the bottom shelf),
but all the rest are from garage sales.

I purchased this antique vanity chair from eBay. I reupholstered it...(there was horse hair under the old fabric when I stripped it down)! I also purchased the table 
from eBay and painted it white,
I also painted the top with embellished vines and a cute bird.

The bird is hiding under there somewhere!

The window came from an 1880's farmhouse in Kansas. My hubby put on the crown and architectural finds. The shutters are from a garage sale. The table was from a garage sale and I painted it black and white.
The lamp was in the FREE pile at a garage sale!

Sold the black table and replace it with this table I refurbished.

More garage sale finds...Lamp, Free; lamp shade, $2; biscuit jar, 50¢,
hankies (in the jar), $3; Sugar bowl, 50¢

I found these three old cabinet card baby pictures at an antique store. The same baby in three different facial expressions (crying, laughing, looking). I framed them using garage sale frames. Plates also from garage sales. Green egg and dart wallpaper border left over from another project.

Antique christening dresses I collect.

Three antique christening dresses (middle one for a doll). Shutter shelf built by hubby with hooks made with old silver forks. Framed pictures are of hubby's grandfather and grandmother as babies. Middle frame is of old birth record spoons that I've collected and made into a shadowbox.

Top of door headboard. Antique baby shoes and christening dress.

Instant ancestor (purchased) in an antique frame.

Doll chair from garage sale that I painted and hung on the wall.
Photos of my daughter as a young child and of me with each child when they were young.

Found this old picture at an antique store in Kansas. It had some damage on her head, but she was holding lilacs so I just used scrap-book paper and made more tiny lilacs and put it in her hair were the damage was.

This needlepoint bell pull was found at a thrift store for $2. I added the fringe and tassel.

All plates from garage sales.

Old picture of a woman in white dress.

I purchased this dress from an antique dealer for $40. It is a wedding dress from
1910 that she purchased
from the son of the woman who made and wore it here in my town.

Old high top button baby shoes to tie in with my collection of other antique baby items.
Old frame was purchased at auction for $5. It's done in gold leaf.

Old dresser pediment turned upside down.

Purchased this old milking stool on eBay and painted the legs. Broke old plates for mosaic.
Paris picture from a garage sale for 50¢.

Old hat that I just loved from antique store.

Four french 'man and woman' scenes that are framed, found at a garage sale for $4.
I tied with ribbon and hung in a row on the wall.

Birdcage and stand from a garage sale. First baby outfit my hubby wore as a baby. Second outfit I wore as a baby and third outfit my daughter wore and my sister made it for her from a doll pattern.

Now the bell from below is a new tassel.

I hammered the old silver spoon flat then painted the front in checks,
I painted a rose and the words,
"Love a good book" on the other side. It is supposed to be a bookmark.

Parties I linked to:
Charm Bracelets Toile Party
Strut Your Stuff @ The Saturday Morning Blog