Re-Painting the Bathroom

(written before baby was born)

Yep, that's right.  I know, the hubs was real thrilled when I came up with the idea to re-paint the kids bathroom. 

I should have known!!  I really should have.

I said it before when I re-painted the Sunroom with Emily.

Yellow is just too colorful for me.

The kids bathroom was also yellow, and the yellow needed to go.   

I need neutral, earthy colors.  At least on the walls.

SO, thankfully we had a friend who was willing to come over and paint it for us since we've had a lot of other projects going on around the house and didn't have time to paint the bathroom ourselves anytime soon.

And can I just say that I adore the new color!  It's so beautiful with the white vanity and it made everything come together so much better!  All the fixtures stand out instead of being an eyesore next to the yellow.  All around it was a much better change!

The color is a dark grey.  In the pictures it looks more green than it really is.  Just so you know. 

I'm happy with it and don't see the color on the walls changing and I know the hubby appreciates that!

Oh and yes, this is totally a by product of nesting.  And another item that was knocked off the 'to do' list... it was a long list...



old color. blah!

Before                                                                                           After

Mid-Way House Tour: Kids Bathroom

It's been a while but I'm back at it to show you another room in our house.  I skipped over the entry and hallway because it's a work in progress right now and honestly a complete disaster.  Once we've gotten the stairs a little furthered along I'll show you what it looks like.  So by passing that area brings us to the kids/ guest bathroom. 

This bathroom holds fond memories.  It was the bathroom.  The only bathroom in our house when we first moved in.  It was also my kitchen 'sink' and dish washing station.  Our only water source.  But boy oh howdy was I grateful to have a bathroom!  I could have been using an outhouse and hauling water. 

It also remained our only bathroom for quite some time, up until just recently actually.  And I should have gotten a before picture, but I didn't.  I was probably too embarrassed.  It was a mess!  I couldn't organize anything because it was only a temporary situation that all of us were sharing one bathroom.  But at the same time our master bath was not finished and so none of our items had a place to go. 

Well, I am so glad that we finally got our master bathroom put together and were able to organize and put together the kids bathroom.  I am happy with how it's coming along.  I am just in serious need of a shower curtain but cannot find one that I like.  Any suggestions would be much appreciated! 

I've considered repainting it.  Yes I know, brand new house, freshly painted and I am already wanting to repaint... what?!  I knew I shouldn't have used a color as bright as yellow.  I get tired of it too fast.  But when I put the cabinet together and brought in my old set of brown towels, I was okay with how it all came together.  So we'll see.  To tell you the truth, I already bought the new paint.  It's been sitting in our basement for almost a month now!  And I think it's the wrong color from what I was hoping when I picked it out.  Yeah, I'm hopeless when it comes to picking out paint.  That's why I can hardly believe I like all the rest of the colors in my house still. 

With all that being said... about a bathroom... here it is.  Welcome to the 6th room in our house tour, the kids' bathroom.

If you look here at the layout of the house, you'll notice it's quite a small bathroom.  Thus the reason why we had the door swing out into the hallway, which you can read more about here.

When we purchased this cabinet for storage space it came with doors on in, that's why you'll still see part of the hinges on the inside of the cabinet.  Once I could start organizing the bathroom I took them off.

I got these nifty wire baskets from Target.

And I found these baskets at KMart, they are used for the kids' toothbrushes and hair items, etc.

And our homemade soap.  It smells nice when you walk into our bathroom because of these.

And for now the basket on top holds the girls bows.

I love, love, love the sink in this bathroom.  And it works perfect in this small space to make it feel more open and larger.

It has some pretty nice curves to it too

The mirror, one of my few special finds from Lowes.  Oh how I wish I had a lowes to shop at through this whole building process, they sure know what woman want when it comes to building a house!

Like I said, we are in desperate need of a shower curtain!  Especially since this is our guest bathroom as well.

Okay, so we used dura ceramic tile in our bathroom.  This was the first flooring we put in and with dura ceramic you can chose to grout or not grout. 

In this bathroom we chose not to grout... bad decision.  If you ever use this stuff, which the product itself is great, always chose to grout.  It makes it look like real tile and the finished product is much nicer!

The must have handy dandy stool.  It's a must have for my Kenzie girl at least.  Another Target find.

This was our only option for a toilet paper holder in this bathroom since we needed something easy for the kids to get to.  I actually really like it though.

And you might be wondering what in the world that thing is on the side of our toilet.  We have had many people, let me rephrase that, we have had many guys confess to spraying our toilet with it while in our bathroom wondering what in the world it was for.  You can read about it here.

And our towel hooks.

Just a personal preference, I prefer hooks over towel bars.

And a must have, totally don't need item, a bathroom heater!  Oh yes, I love this!

So there is our kids bathroom.  I hope you enjoyed the tour.  And if you find me the perfect shower curtain let me know!

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Plumbing Inspection...

Passed!!

We had the final plumbing inspection this week and we passed with flying colors and a complement that it was done well, which is great for Nathan because the plumbing was a tough job for him.  

To be ready for the plumbing we had to get one bathroom fully functioning, so we have the kids bathroom shower, sink and toilet working now and flooring put in.  It will be the one room in our home with an actual floor in it!!  I purchased a bunch of sheets from a second hand store yesterday to staple to our OSB in hopes that it will keep the dust and splinters to a minimum until our carpet and laminate wood flooring come in and can be installed which will be in about 3 to 4 weeks.

Okay, now for the bad news.  We sent in our paper work and asked the electrical inspector to come on the 25th of October.  It took us almost a full week of calling him last week just to get a hold of him.  When he finally answered our call he said he was still a couple weeks out and wasn't even confident in that.  Hmmm.  And on top of that we still need our final inspection after we are passed with the electrical inspector.  Well, our first snow is due to arrive this evening, we are at below freezing temperatures every night now and it could be a whole month still until we get our final inspection completed.  So for the safety of our family and our well being we have decided to move into our house, tomorrow!!  Everything is ready that was required by the inspector, we just can't get them out here.

Our appliances arrived this past Monday so we have a fridge and working oven!  No kitchen sink but we do have a bathtub to wash our dishes in and I suppose we'll stock up on paper plates and bowels and plastic ware for the time being to keep our dirty dishes to a minimum.  

We'll have no internet, for who knows how long.  We'll be heading back and forth to the Paulson's for things like that (don't worry Paulson's, you can't get rid of us that easily, after living with you for 6 months I don't think we'll be able to stay away!!  ;)  

It will be an adventure, and we'll have to be creative in a lot of ways as we don't have a lot of things we're used to having in a house.  But we're excited to be moving into our house and we're ready to make it our home!!

Yay!  We have a working bathroom!! (it's an important part of a home!)

Zeke ready to help dad with his new tools!

dura-ceramic bathroom floor

sink and mirror!

Lowes delivering our appliances!!

woo hoo! Can I just say I'm excited to have a big fridge!

finally, no more coils!!! 

in the kitchen where they belong and all ready to go, we just need some cabinets now...

There's our cabinets!!  The anticipation is killing me not knowing exactly what they look like.  I can hardly wait until we can put them in, it could be a while still, priority list.

and we have our first two outdoor lights installed and working off our back deck