The Final Reveal!

Today is the day! I'm so excited to show all of you lovely readers the final reveal of my daughter's bathroom makeover! Forgive me for the quality of the pictures, its rather difficult to fit into the bathroom to take pictures and the lightning is less than ideal. Adding a pop of color just makes this bathroom so much more fun. So without further ado, here is the rundown...

I would say about 10% of the bathroom was purchased and the rest was reworked with what I had on hand. I bought a plain pink shower curtain at Bed Bath and Beyond and used Amy Butler fabric I had purchased to sew the ruffles. What a fun print right?! It was my inspiration for the entire bathroom. :)

I also added some lace in between the ruffles for some interest. I was kind of excited with the way it turned out. The cost of a shower curtain with just an Amy Butler print on it at Bed Bath and Beyond was around $45! Are you kidding me!? I made this one for around $35 and I customized it with ruffles. Biggest splurge in the bathroom, but well worth it! :)

Please excuse the toliet in this picture. ;)

Some closeups of the ruffles. I cut 2 1/2 inch stripes of fabric, did a zig zag stitch on both edges and ruffled by pushing my strip through the sewing machine faster than it could sew to create pleats.

I made these fabric rosette shower curtain hooks by painting some plain round ones I already had blue and hot gluing the rosettes on them I made with leftover fabric.

 The frames on the wall above the toilet are meant to offset the random towel bar in between the toilet and sink. I painted the frames and shabbied them up with some fun colors. They looked like this before...

This is what they looked like after I painted them...

My sweet friend Stephanie gave me these adorable soaps that fit into the theme perfectly! I just love them! They make the bathroom smell good too!

Using a trash can I already had, I printed out "TRASH" in pink vinyl and stuck it right on that baby! A simple facelift, I think made a big difference. :)

I made the "bonjour" sign by taking a cheesy shabby chic "welcome" sign I bought at JoAnns for like $3, painting it white, then blue and vinyl stenciling "bonjour" in pink. I roughed it up a bit with sand paper and voila...a sign that cost me nothing! :)

I spray painted this little birdie blue and added some green polka dots.

Phew! I'm pretty happy with how it all turned out and the most important thing is that E is pleased with it. Her reaction was: "oooohh I love it!" so I guess I did alright. :)


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Sneak Peek of E's Bathroom Makeover

We just recently moved to this cute little townhome near DC and I have been having the time of my life decorating it! We can't paint any outrageous colors because we are renting but I'm learning to use little pops of color here and there amongst the details. With the exception for E's bathroom. ;) Its all kinds of color! With inspiration like this...you can see why...

Isn't Amy Butler fabric just lovely?!! I never tire of how bold and breathtaking her patterns and colors are.

Before I share with you a little sneak peek of a project I worked on for her bathroom, lets see the before pictures, shall we?

Totally boring! Its such a small space, I could barely fit in to take the pictures so I'm sorry they are so lame!

And now for a little sneak peek...

I made this fun little picture frame by spray painting it aqua, hot gluing the glass inside the frame and putting a vinyl silhouette of a little girl from my Cricut cartridge: "A Child's Year." I also used some leftover fabric to make rosettes and hand stamped "bonjour" and "hello" on muslin. I rather like it. :) I think it ties the bathroom together nicely.

I can't wait to show you the big reveal! :) Until then...


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Have You Ever...

Reached a point in your life where you have decided you hate the color scheme of your home and feel the need to change it immediately?! That is so what happened to me! I had a paradigm design shift <----or at least that's what I like to call it. I came to the conclusion that I hate red and no longer wanted to see it in my house anymore. Perfect timing too, because we moved right then. When we moved to this cute little town home, it started speaking to me and I started listening. Do you know what it said? It said: "Get rid of the red!" I mean what do you do when your house tells you to get rid of something you were already sick of? you can't argue with that! I'm such a nerd, when I get a idea for the house, I draft it up in my notebook.


Remember my subway sign?

I knew I wanted to hang it up in the house somewhere but I wasn't quite sure where to put it. I finally found the perfect spot but it felt...well...lonely. Until I revisited this idea from Pinterest a while back...

Aren't they just perfect!? Funky Vintage Lovely knows how to make some darling frames, that's all I have to say. I also want to say: thank you for the fantastic idea! :)

So I made my own...

My frames are a bit thicker because I used what I had on hand but the project from start to finish only took me like 10 minutes...seriously! You can do this! I hot glued picture wire on the back and found some small clothes pins to hang the pictures up with.

Here's the formula...

Hot glue gun + Picture frame + Picture wire = a cute way to hang pictures :)

I don't think my subway sign feels lonely anymore. ;)