Eight Dollar Bathroom Touch Up

Of course there are many more things to do to improve this bathroom....like a frame around the mirror and a nice backsplash.... but we must keep budget in mind at this point in our lives. This is our main bathroom and as you can see it is not very large. My wonderful husband took some scrap wood and built me this cute little ladder, we threw some black paint on it and scuffed the edges. The pictures above the potty were stored in my closet, I picked them up a long time ago for 4 dollars at a liquidation centre and the shower curtain was on sale for 8 dollars....adds a touch of funky. As you can see this room really doesn't lend itself to any one style but I feel it didn't turn out too bad considering I shopped in our home for items and the only cost was the 8 dollars for the curtain.

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Janet

Aqua, Yellow and Green

It all began with this pretty little aqua pot, and the color had me hooked...I know many have used it for a long time and of course a popular color in the 50's..

You see we have this mossy green sofa (see post below) and I have always had a hard time adding color with it, well at least color that I like. I am loving the bits of aqua and yellow and feel that they live in harmony with this sofa that I must keep for at least a couple more years....uggg! My 21 year old neice was visiting during a break from University and I welcomed a fresh set of eyes and she is one decor diva and a great DIYer. She pulled this end table together for me, I really can't take much credit, she covered a couple of old icky books in this beautiful scrapbooking paper and the lamp was a $2 yard sale find that I threw a burlap shade on. Im really enjoying these soft calm colors.

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Janet

Springing up the living room...Wow Us Wednesday Party

It is the first time I have linked up to Wow Us Wednesday Party over at http://savvysouthernstyle.blogspot.com/...fingers crossed I do this right. Many fantastic blogs to visit at Wow Us Wednesday.

I love to change things around anytime of the year, I guess you could say I'm just a tad obsessed but I will just call this my spring spruce up....

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Took down the dark grey curtain panels, and added the black and white floral panels that I stold from my dining area. They brighten up the room and added some much needed pattern, I really love them in this room.

As you can see I also have a love for white throw blankets, I have two in this small room...they always feel so bright and fresh.

The round pillow on the green chair is new....found it on a clearance shelf and just had to have it....adds a touch of prettiness!

The floating shelf also got a spring makeover, the plant pot is new..... love this color...it is a soothing color. The rest of the things I just found around the house......simple look for the spring!

thanks for stopping by
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janet

GREEN WITH ENVY....

We all feel and see color in different ways, for the past five years one of my favorite colors has been GREEN. It can be warm, cool, relaxing, energizing and just completely AWESOME!!! Many rooms in our home has green of some shade or tone, it may be just a couple accessories but it always manages to make me smile and gives me a happy feeling. Picture a fresh picked green apple, that is one of my favorite shades of green. What is your favorite color and how does it make you feel?
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janet

COFFEE FILTER WREATH....LOVE IT!!!

Wish I could take credit for this fantastic idea....but I actually stumbled across a great blog called http://thelittlebrownhouse.us/ if you haven't been to visit, its a must, so many great ideas....FANTABULOUS BLOG!!! My neice was home on reading week from University and even though she is only twenty her and I are both obsessed with home decor.....love when she comes home!!!! We decided to take on this project and we are both very pleased with the outcome. We decided to do a fourteen inch wreath and spent our saturday night building these beauties. She will hang hers when she returns home...as for me, I couldn't hang it fast enough. The wreath found its home above my night table (cabinet) and yes I should have hid my lamp cord for pictures...oh well its real life living. It was a fun project, thanks to The Little Brown House

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janet

The Weird Nooks in our Homes

However we did make very good use of our nook, we call it the tv nook. That being said, it took me a while to get it where I wanted it. I will show you the before pictures and the final addition to this nook.

At one time, we did have a floating shelf above the stand, but that one kept falling off. This shelf was a stash that I picked up a while back, meant for another wall but didn't work. The candle holders were bought on clearance....fantastic steal!!!! at 5.99 each. So the update on the tv nook was done by shopping in our own home, so tweaking will be in order. Yahoooooooooooo something that keeps this brain busy, I love things I can physically change around myself. The photo is from my 17 year old daughter she took for class, it was taken from our back deck. She framed it and gave the photo to me....what a sweetie!!

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janet

Night Stands..not always a night stand

This is my favorite cabinet, it was a 10 dollar yard sale find that we painted. On the right hand side of my blog, you will see we did use it as a tv stand, which was perfect until DH wanted a larger tv. No way was it leaving this house, so now it sits on my side of the bed. I love the storage it gives me, not to mention all the space on top. I still need to make changes to the decor on top.....(another thing on my to do list.) I have also considered moving the mirror above the cabinet.

I like to use peices in places that they were not always intended for.

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janet

TAKE A PICTURE

Just one post below you will see my bathroom post "shoe string budget" well after looking at the pictures for a bit, something was not feeling right to me. If you take pictures of your decor it can really help you see what may not look right to your eye. So at 1:30 in the morning, im in the washroom making the changes, thank goodness that 2 dollar wall decal can be repositioned.

Its hard getting bathroom pictures when a bathroom is small, but in the one picture you will see the shower curtain in the mirror (rod must be replaced) but that curtain has been inspiration for the room. There is still much to do to bring this bathroom from boring builders, my next thing is to frame the mirror out...ah just never ends.

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janet

I like this look better...what are your thoughts? and do you also take pictures to see what changes would improve your design.

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janet

A touch of decor on a SHOE STRING BUDGET

Two post back I spoke about getting motivated, well Im really trying. We all know times are tough and I don't know about everyone else but doing anything big or not so big in our home is pretty much out of the question at this point in our lives. So I shopped at the dollar store, my linen closet and around the house to add some touches to this boring bathroom, I warn you, its not fancy smancy and some may even see it as tacky, but heck it cost me a big TWO BUCKS, for this wall decal. However, a few months back we did paint the walls a soft grey. Is it my decorated dream bathroom...HECK NO!! but i do like the small added touches.

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janet

A little motivation! LIVING ROOM

This has been a challenging room as its like a bowling alley, long and narrow. There was a couple changes made before christmas. The walls were BM butter cream, now they are BM Riveria Pewter, a nice soft grey and of course the wall paper behind the tv no longer looked so great with the new color so we also hung new wall paper (not sure about the paper, reminds me of spirograph art from my childhood)

Today I moved the chair from the corner (where the sticks are now but not staying) replaced gold curtain panels with charcoal grey, added a floor lamp at the end of the sofa (christmas gift) and a new table lamp on the soon to go end table or makeover.....love my new lamps!!!

Then there is that dreaded wall over beside my horrid but much needed chair, hung a mirror that we bought in 1983, but the wall was too boring so I added a wall tattoo around the mirror and oddly enough the wall tattoo has the same colors in it as the wallpaper.

If you look a little further down, you will see in my one post a pine hutch in our eating area, that got a paint job and is now being used as our tv stand and the one that the tv was sitting on (see side pic) is now beside my bed

I still have alot tweaking to do, but at least I have started.....there was a time when I would tweak constantly and hopefully my OCD tweak will come back

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janet