Tag: Bathrooms

  • Spouting Off

    Spouting Off

    Eleanor loves taking baths in our big blue tub, but we worry when her head gets too close to the spout. We needed a cover, and we figured we may as well try to find one that looked good. After all, there isn’t anything we can do about that surrounding tile and bad grout job (short of a full reno), but at least we can have something cute to distract us from it.

    Whale Bathtub Spout

    The Moby bath spout cover matches our tub perfectly, and it’s pretty darn adorable. Oh, but I should say it’s not the only cute thing in there to distract us… Especially when Eleanor makes her little scrunchy face.

    Eleanor in the Bath

  • Jonathan Adler, I Could Kiss You

    Jonathan Adler, I Could Kiss You

    Thank you my dear Mr. Adler for making your lacquer collection in pink! Did you realize how happy you’d make me? Because I’m sort of thrilled.

    Jonathan Adler Lacquered Loo

    I have some of these pieces in blue (which is not my favorite color), but I had a gift certificate to use… which everyone knows is free money. And because our bathtub and toilet were blue I was trying to make them work. But pink? My favorite color? We have another bathroom that we haven’t done anything to, other than adding a shower curtain, and I think pink might be just the thing in there. Hot pink.

  • Vintagey Bathroom (MIY: Real Good Chair)

    Vintagey Bathroom (MIY: Real Good Chair)

    Making it Yours (MIY) is all about using the furniture you have in new ways and taking pieces with you throughout your life. In this edition of MIY, our fictional homeowner has moved from a home with a breakfast nook and room for four Real Good Chairs to a new home where the chairs will have to be split up. We’ve already seen one of the chairs in a home office, and another in a modern, graphic bedroom. Now we’ll see the third chair in a vintagey bathroom.

    Vintagey Bathroom (MIY: Real Good Chair)

    First off, can i just say that I would LOVE to have a bathroom big enough to fit a chair? Yep, that would be nice. But our fictional homeowner here has lucked out and has the room, as well as a lovely clawfoot tub and hexagon tiles. The Lombard ceiling fixture fits in well with the tub and tile, and the green goes nicely with the color of the chair. The bath mat and wall color further link the colors, without exactly matching, and Supernova Modern Vases by j. mendicino are a cute touch. The shower curtain picks up on the hex tile, but in a more feminine way while still keeping the room from getting too cloying and colorful.

    Next up, we’ll see the fourth and final chair in the home’s entryway.

  • Casapinka’s Pink Bathtub

    Casapinka’s Pink Bathtub

    She just painted it!

    Casapinka’s pink bathtub

    Isn’t it great? I’m looking forward to seeing more!

  • Blue Bathroom, Finished!

    Blue Bathroom, Finished!

    Huzzah! Hooray! The bathroom is finished!

    Bathroom

    Most of the items are sourced in my last post, so check there if you want to know where everything came from.

    So, yeah. I went with option #6, with the white vanity (Bathroom Redo [Renderings]). I was going to go for option #2 with the dark brown, but I changed my mind once we switched to the new, white medicine cabinet.

    There are little vingnettes here and there, to distract you into thinking that the bathroom was not once an ugly, confused mess.

    Cuteness

    Top o' the medicine cabinet

    I actually think the bathroom is kinda cute now! And we did the whole thing for only a few hundred dollars, which was of course the goal. We also painted twice, which was not the goal (haha), to arrive at the lovely green we have now.

    Bathroom

    I even painted and brought the teal/turquoise color over by way of plastic bins to the storage area:

    bathroom storage

    That’s “my side”. It wasn’t too bad before, but I thought “hey, why not double my work?” because that is how I roll. The frames that we had hung in our previous bathroom are up there now. They’re just ads from a British magazine (for Marks + Spencer), but I love them! I think they’re perfect over by my makeup and girly things.

    Oh, and we hung a silver letter ‘B’.

    ‘B’ for Balch, ‘B’ for Blue, ‘B’ for Bathroom, ‘B’ for Better!

    The Bathroom

  • Blue Bathroom, Concisely

    Blue Bathroom, Concisely

    We’re very close to finishing the upstairs bathroom now, probably within the next couple of days. In the meantime, I came up with a little something I hope you’ll like.

    I read a lot of magazines, as I’m sure many of you do, and I especially love it when a room is broken down into its elements. I thought I’d try my hand at it, and I came up with the following:

    Blue Bathroom, Concisely

    I really had fun making it, so I think I’d like to do at least a couple more for other rooms in the house as we finish them.

    Coming soon: the finished project! ;)

    Links:
    Graphic Flowers Shower Curtain, Grundtal Mirror, Limmaren Bottles, Jonathan Adler Bath Accessories, Lacquered Cupcakes, Ticka Clock, Sanni Towels, Toftbo Bathmat