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As The White Rabbit says, "I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date...."

Sorry, I'm late. I needed to take some last minute photos of my latest project, but my son was asleep in that very room. Good excuse huh?

I once again am drawing inspiration from the great Pottery Barn. I fell in like with this set of mirrors, but as always.... at $149 for the set, I just had to slobber on the pictures a little.

You may slobber as well. (isn't that a gross word?) Are they not worthy of it though?

*sigh*

So on to mine. Now I have still not filled these little fellows with mirrors yet due to the fact that I haven't found any cheap enough.

I used frames (half off) from Hobby Lobby that were bulky and slightly resembled pressed tin. The openings are 5x7.

I painted them with some layers of white, scraping as I went along.
I then mixed some rusty brown paint with water and brushed it on the raised spots and where the paint had "peeled" off. I did the same with a shade of gray but I just brushed it on randomly for a scraped and weathered look.


I wish I would have been able to find bigger frames. No such luck though.

So anyway, the final cost you ask? $25 dearly departed dollars. It was worth it though since I'm going a different direction in my room and needed something more versatile above our bed. Oh, and as always, I used my trusty acrylic paints. Also, one of the frames was gold so I didn't want to scrape back to gold, instead I actually painted on the "peeled" stuff. Crazy I know, but whatever works.

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Do you ever get those moments in life where you truly feel like doing nothing? Or, in my case I have so many ideas and things to do that I don't even know where to start, so I just don't start anything. Ugh.

I spent the day yesterday with my friend that's redoing her bathroom. We came up with lots of ideas and I can't wait to see how it all turns out. I took a bunch of before photos so it will fun to post about it once progress is made.

Instead of boring you with more jib-jab, then I will take myself off to the outdoors to get busy. I hope to soon wow you with wonderful photographs of all the stuff I am not doing, so stay tuned to this station. If you start to hear just static though, well ya know I didn't ever get off the sofa.

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Happy Wednesday!

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Here is just a few of the amazing bathrooms I came across. It's ok to drool all over these, they get cleaned pretty regularly.

Enjoy!

traditional bathroom design by seattle architect Bosworth Hoedemaker

traditional bathroom design by san francisco architect Gast Architects

traditional bathroom design by san francisco architect Gast Architects

traditional bathroom design by other metros architect Frederick + Frederick Architects

traditional bathroom design by other metros architect Chad Cooper

traditional bathroom design by seattle architect Bosworth Hoedemaker

traditional bathroom design

traditional bathroom design by new york architect SchappacherWhite Ltd.

How much do you hate doing garage sales! Not shopping them, actually hosting one of the lovely little things yourself.
Sooo, that's where I've been the last few days. I'm glad to have a semi-empty spot in my garage and a few bucks in pocket but.... shew! I gotta tell ya that I don't look forward to doing that again for a loooooong time.

So anyway, to sum it all up, that's where I disappeared to and am now back and ready to get to work on my pool house again. I'm also going to be helping out a friend with a bathroom remodel, so stay tuned for that update as well. When I was looking at Houzz for some ideas then I came across some great bathrooms. I'll share a few of my favorites later on.

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