A small dillema

Here are the photos of our new bathroom! I just bought that shower curtain and I'm sort of not feeling the flow. Should I return it and just go for a plain white shower curtain? I need some opinions here!

Here is a photo of the lovely purple that used to dominate our bathroom. I guess I've got some touch up to do.

Another angle


New lighting! I'm thinking that mirror needs to be flip right side up.

So what do you think?

Here are the photos of our landscaping! For the larger photos, just click to view the entire picture. Doesn't the bedlining and mulch make it look so much better? We still have quite a few
more plants to add (that's why the mulch doesn't come all the way up)



If you scroll down you can see just how much it's grown since May.

If you scroll all the way back to January you can see the weed bushes that took over our landscaping. My we've come so far in such little time!

A temporary solution

The bathroom is complete, for now. I figure if we really do the bathroom the way we would like to it will probably cost around 10-15K. I can't wait to show you photos though. We put up a new light fixture, new pictures, paint, rugs. It's hardly recognizable to us. It feels really clean, which is exactly what we were going for. I'm not 100% in love with the color but hey, it could be worse. It could be purple.

We also added about 12 new plants to our landscaping this weekend. We put in some Salvia, blanket flower, Fiesta Forsythia, and Red magic Flox. We also put down some more mulch. It's looking so good!

I had a very productive weekend- Finally.

I hope everyone is having a great summer so far!

Progress...

It's been about a month- but I finally have some news about progress. I finally began priming and painting the bathroom. This is currently the only bathroom we have in the house. It's pretty spacious but everything is crammed into one area- the toilet sink and tub. I primed all of the woodwork in the bathroom. Typically I wouldn't paint woodwork, but it's got a late 70s feel to it. It's nice wood but will look even nicer with a medium bright white gloss.

I didn't get photos in time but I'm sure most of you who've been to our home remember the lovely purple bathroom. I'm happy to say that the color has been primed. This weekend we're painting the bathroom a fresh spring green. We are also putting in a new mirror and some polished nickel lighting. It seems polished nickel is becoming more popular. People must be getting tired of seeing brushed nickel everywhere. Whatever happend to brass? Oh yeah- that's right, brass sucks.

We are also doing more yard work this weekend and I can't wait. Here are some photos of the bathroom under construction.


sky light


This is about half of the open space we have under the other arch... Oooh the possibilities