Morgan's Mydeco Bedroom moodboard

So one of my big projects on my 2012 Bucket list is my daughter Morgan's bedroom. Her room right now just does not reflect her personality. It was collected from here and there, which is a look I love, but I want it to have a little bit more of her personality reflected in it. I have been Pinning ideas for her room. Then I found Mydeco today, a website that allows you to make free moodboards! You simply install the 'clipper' (very much like the 'pin it' button) in your header, then if you see something you like, you just hit Mydeco clipper and again, just like @ Pinterest you will have an option to 'clip' as many things on the page as you wish. They will go into different files  you can create. You have the ability to drag and drop, rotate, shrink, enlarge, overlap any of your photos. You can have as many moodboards as you wish, I think I may make one for all of my bucket list!
 Here are the  2 moodboard I created for Morgan's bedroom.

The first one was a little busy, so I moved some of it to a second mood board. 

They both have some similarities, but the colors in the first one are a little brighter, a little more 'strawberry' if you will and the second one still has an emphasis on pink, but with a bit more personality than the pink in her room now. Both of the inspiration fabrics are from the Jane Sassaman Free Spirit Garden Diva's fabric line. Joanne's has them for $10 a yard.I am going to make a headboard and a duvet cover for her room. But I am going to make one a print and one a solid. I am leaning more towards the duvet being the print, but I think it will be more impactful if I do the headboard in a print. The only drawback of that is that I probably will want to keep the headboard forever, not necessarily the duvet though. In Morgan's room now she has an old chippy pink dresser with original paint finish on it (LOVE). She also has a yellow child's armoire from the late 60's that also has the original finish on it. I love both pieces, but neither of them is big enough to hold her clothes. I think I will get more space in the room if I get her a taller larger dresser. As far as her bed goes I am going to turn it sideways and push it back against the wall, like a day bed. I have an antique wrought iron headboard/footboard with brass knobs on top that I think I will use on the sides and then do a tufted headboard along the back wall. I am trying to give her little bit more floor space in there.  Here is an idea of what I want it to look like, but not necessarily the built ins on the side, but what a great idea!!

We put a chair rail in the room when we switched it from a guest room to her room. I am not sure if I want to do something like bead board wall paper on the bottom then a soft grey on top.  I am sure I will come up with a third moodboard for her room before ling, Mydeco makes it so fun and easy!!I would love your feedback if you have any ideas that would work as well.

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my dirty little secret

I have a confession I am making in the hopes that once I am exposed I can 

move forward and finally take care of my problem.

It's my Master Bathroom. 

I have neglected it for far too long, having moved to this house almost 8 years ago and I have YET to decorate it. Or organize it. Some will say, well that is nothing, some people don't get around to decorating any rooms. But I am not some people. I have redone my bedroom 3 times since moving here.And rearranged furniture in my home at least 400 times. It is what I do. But my master bath is so, uhm, blah, and is riddled with so many angles and different ceiling heights, it makes me dizzy just to think about it. 

Are you ready for some photos? Don't judge, K?

It is a little bit of builders beige mixed with a blood bath. Think I am joking, read on.

Oh, that's not so bad huh?

That red accent wall behind the sinks is kinda pretty right? I can''t remember the name of it and am too lazy to go down stairs to look at the paint can. It was some type of Berry. Or wine. From Behr. But just wait. First I will talk about the basic, builder grade vanity with cheap cheap cheap wood doors. I mean they have 2 doors on each side. No drawers. HATE it. There is no shelving or anything under the sink. Just 4 big holes. The medicine cabinet we installed. Too cheap to even have a medicine cabinet in the bathroom. In ANY of the bathrooms. The only things we have replaced are the faucets, light fixtures and the handles on the doors of the vanity. The closed door behind the sinks is the closet. IN the bathroom. Yeah, not sure what the architect was thinking when he designed this house.

Do you like my display of products? Always out to collect the dust. Now in my salon 

I have my products out all the time, but this is NOT my salon. 

But there is no room under the sinks (for now) and no room in the medicine cabinet.

And how about those cultured marble sinks? We live in an area where the water is so hard, you would have to clean your sinks everyday to keep the lime scale from building up. All that around the drain is discoloration of the metal when I let a cleaner sit over night to remove it. Well it removed it alright.

The only redeeming quality about the handles on the vanity is that they now

match the faucet and the lights above the mirror.

To the left of the sinks is a wall my daughter decided needed a little bit of pizzaz. And a few finger prints thrown in for good measure. Think I could have cleaned the walls? It's not like I have never wiped down the front of the vanity, the sinks and mirrors, why skip the walls? Ewwww

Here is the medicine cabinet we installed when we moved in only it sticks out pretty far. And the door 

swings the other way, not very convenient. This will be going in the kids bath and we have a newer one waiting in the wings.

One day I noticed a stain around the light socket. And a small one around one of the 

light fixtures. Apparently we had a leak near our chimney which is actually behind this 

mirror. We had that fixed. Did we repaint? Nope.

We still have child proof locks on the cabinet that only make it harder for us to get to them. Our son is plenty 

old enough that we have removed all the other safety locks except for these. Why? Too lazy.

The light fixtures like I said are newer. Filled with compact florescent bulbs that go out ALL the time, not the  10 years they say they do. HA! What a joke. My husband says now the new 'thing' is the LED lights. I wonder how long they will be the 'new, energy saving, best to buy for the environment' before they start burning out too. If you are thinking maybe it is the light fixture that had a small 'water'stain on it that may be causing the problem, we have the same issue with the CFL's all over the house.

I can't believe I am showing you under my sinks. how embarrassing this is!

I think it is easy to just shove stuff our of the way when you don't have any pride in your room. (and those baby locks help hold back all the 'stuff')

More unorganized mess.

Like my futile attempt at storage solutions using old shoe boxes? 

Man, we have a lot of vitamins under this cabinet!

Just sayin...

Yep, there is carpet in the bathroom. Not much else is as gross as carpet in the bathroom. I bought these throw rugs in an attempt to brighten up the beige carpet. Didn't work.

This picture is kinda blurry, but you get the idea. That is stained carpet in the corner. Stained because the previous owners apparently never changed the air filters during the winter. I spent a ton of money the first year we lived here trying to get anyone who could get rid of the dirty edges. After the 3rd Carpet cleaners fessed up and said you could eat off my carpets, but the stains were there for good.

We bought Bamboo flooring for the bathroom about 6 years ago and it is still in our closet, where we left it. 

I don't think time is an issue, cause who could not have found the time in 6 years? We happen to have a corner tub that has a curve to it that the thought of cutting flooring for seems a little intimidating. And I have not pushed the issue. 

Behind the sinks we have a nice accent wall. The towel  bar will be replaced. This one is 

ceramic  (with a nice plastic bar in between) and really made to be installed in tiled bathrooms.

Looks pretty good until you look further and it appears to be splattered blood. My poor husband worked so hard on this wall, all 8 vertical feet of it. MANY coats of red later, lets just say he started to get a little sloppy.

 Did we touch up the blood stains or leave em? Your looking at them aren't you?

The tub is so uninviting to me that I have just let the kids claim it as their own.

Even my poor plant looks miserable. Apparently it has taken a bath with the kids a few times too!

The curtain rod (Lowe's) and the curtain ($3 at a thrift store, and I LOVE it) were added in late summer. 

The curtain is a tone on tone cream Damask and there was only one curtain. I bought it figuring if it didn't 

fit, I could find something else to do with it. There used to be a buttery yellow valance here. The window does have a shade but we rarely use, it. We back up to woods, so we already have privacy.

Next to the tub is the shower. My only complaint is the shower head. I wish it had stronger water pressure.

And that the shower fairy would clean it more often.

Then there is the toilet area. It is so monochromatic and not in a good way!

I painted the cabinet above the toilet that used to be 'golden oak' white this summer, knowing 

the walls were going darker at some point. Or COLOR at the very least.

It is also the only area where there is flooring other than carpet in the bathroom.

BORING beige walls. Boring beige floor.

The same big clunky ceramic toilet paper roll holder is in here as the other 2 bathrooms.

So now you know. 

I am ashamed that it looks like no one has cared WHAT it looks like.
Well no more. For weeks I have been plotting and planning my mode of attack. 

Here are my plans.

I am still not sure about the red, if I should just repaint the trim and leave it or cover it and forget 

it ever happened. The bedroom is a beautiful medium beige and I was thinking of going a shade 

or two darker than that.

Here is the bedroom just off the bathroom so you can get a feel for the color. It is in the middle of being redone, but I am much further along with it than the bath.

I have been keeping an eye out for a used 72" vanity. Anything will be a step up from what we have. Something with drawers in the center would be ideal. Either way I will be painting it. Not sure If I will use Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Old White on it or a dark Chocolate or black.  They will also be cleaned and organized, if not a newer vanity, then some shelves installed in this one.The hardware will also be turned to Oil Rubbed Bronze. The faucets will have to be new, unless you know of a way to make ORB spray paint permanent on metal. The light fixtures above the sink will get a coat of ORB but the fixture over the toilet will be replaced with something a little more up to date.

If I find a nicer sink top, I will get one, but if not, these sinks although are 'faux' marble, are just fine. I will also be adding trim to the mirror and that will be painted ORB as well.

I bought a newer medicine cabinet at The Habitat Restore that I will paint.It will be recessed in too the wall.

I also got a towel bar and a toilet paper roll holder there for next to nothing. Good old spray paint will keep all the metals in the bathroom the same. 

The tub wall will be getting a large beautiful decorative mirror and a few shelves to display some pretty's on. Gonna take back that area from the kids and make it a little more calming and relaxing, as a bath should be!

Some art on the walls and comfy rugs on the floor will bring this bath up to the 21st century. If I have missed anything or you can think of some different suggestions, by all means speak up!!

Whew!

I feel a whole lot lighter now that I got THAT out into the open. 

Do you have any dirty little secrets YOU would like to share??

1/2 bath reveal

When we moved into our current home almost 8 years ago, our 1/2 bath was covered in Sunflower wallpaper. Needless to say, it had to go. I was pregnant with my daughter at the time and my mother in law was nice enough to do the work for me. She scraped the paper off, taking some of the wall with her (I would have done no less in my removal of stubborn paper). She then applied the hastily chosen sage green paint I picked out and I have 'lived' with it since then.

Well, no more.
I started to redo the bathroom over 3 months ago, before the start of this blog, so no photos of the before. But it is a tiny, no window, oval mirror glued to the wall, over a faux marble pedestal sink, generic bathroom with builder grade light fixture and a big chunky ceramic toilet paper holder and towel bar. You getting the image yet?

Here is an inspiration photo I forgot I put on my Pinterest board marked 1/2 bath makeover. It is a place I could gather all my ideas for the bath all together. To view the whole board, you can go to here.

These TP and towel bars are meant to be used in a tiled bathroom. 

The only benefit they had for us was to show the dust!

These photos are of the same ones we replaced but in my kids bathroom.

These will be getting cut out as well!

First my husband  we cut out around the towel bar and TP holder. After patching and many layers of sanding later, it was ready for some paint. I am a green girl, I have it in almost every room of my home. I have gone from a very dark, rich green many years ago to a more pale and soft green of recent years. I am kinda over it, so I went in a totally new direction for me. Blue. I was a little worried that a darker color would cause it to look smaller, but I am not sure it could get any smaller. I thought about a really great wallpaper, or even a stencil, but I have so many things I want to get done, that I decided another time. I may still do a stencil over the blue paint. I also toyed around with the idea of Bead Board or Board and Baton, but my laziness sensibilities talked me out of that.

The paint I chose was Behr Premium Plus Ultra Liberty. I love Behr paint and the fact that is is a primer and paint in one is a big plus! My home is a newer home, so the walls do not need any special care, I find this paint is just as good as Sherwin Williams.

Here is a very strange angle of the finished bathroom. It is very hard to photograph, 

so excuse some of the photos.

The medicine cabinet was also a Craigslist purchase. $10. Solid Oak. The finish on it was pretty bad though.

Someone had attempted to crackle finish it, and it ended up more like 'your face melted off ' look. I should know. I have had those looks in the past when crackle finish was in it's infancy! 

The hardware was painted so thick, it had to be cut out. But it was actually easy to remove the paint from it. If it is a water based paint, just soak the hardware for a few days and the paint will just peel off!

I did not want to strip this piece, just sand off all the layers of paint and give it a couple quick coats of Rustoleum Ultra White Satin. I think it wold have been quicker to strip it. It took many many hours of sanding with a hand sander. But I am happy with the finish.

Instead of painting the inside, I wanted to do a fun paper in there. I chose some scrapbook sheets from Hobby Lobby and just added Mod Podge to the front and back of it.

Can you tell the paper was not long enough and I had to piece it together? Me either!

The handle I picked up at Hobby Lobby for 50% off, so I think I payed a total of $3 for it.

Since we removed the towel bar from the wall, I needed a place to put guest hand towels, far enough out of the kids reach! I found this little hand made shelf with towel bar at a thrift store for $4 and took it from a bright green to a crisp white.

The metal towel holder next to the sink used to be off white. I sprayed it with Krylon Silver 

Metallic foil. The monogram towels I got at K-Mart when I went to pick up spray paint I 

walked past them and loved the font on them. I also got the matching soap dispenser.

TP roll holder, Walmart, $3. I went to Home Depot and Lowes, but I could not find anything 

I liked better and you can't beat the price!

The Fleur de lis mirror I bought last month out in the country on a trip to The ten Mile store, you can see that post here. I just diluted some silver rub & Buff and applied with a brush. If you have a larger area to do with the Rub and Buff, it makes it go a little further, but gives you the same coverage. The oval mirror that had been glued to the wall when the house was built is still glued to the wall. I just got lucky and hung this 30"diameter mirror OVER it!

Here is a better shot of the mirror with the lights out, again, excuse some of the photos.

The light fixture is newer as well. $15, Home Depot.

The pedestal sink was replaced with a newer one bought on Craigslist and had sat in our garage for about 4 years. Yep. 4. It came with the gorgeous faucet and we paid only $50 for! It is a much better sink than the cultured marble one that was original. We also changed out the off white light switches and electrical sockets as well as the covers to white. THAT is a cheap thing to do, and I think it makes a big difference if you are accenting with white. The toilet was the only thing in this entire bathroom that has not been changed.

Bathroom cost break down:

Gallon Behr Paint + Primer $29

Pedistal sink and faucet $50

Medicine Cabinet $10

2 cans Rustoleum white Satin Spray paint $8

Knob $3

Paper for inside Medecine Cabinet $1

Towel Bar with shelf $4

Hand towels $3

Soap dispenser $3

Toilet paper holder $3

Light Socket and Switch $2

Switch plate and socket plate $1.25

Fluer de Lis mirror $15

Bathroom light $15

total spent on bathroom $147.25

The Silver Rub & Buff, patch kit, Spackle and Mod Podge I already had.

I wish it wasn't such a small room so you could get a feel for the makeover, I love the new color, all the new things and the crispness of the white and silver.

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