5 on a Friday!

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This week has been PURE HELL for me! Chaos at work because the frigid weather/arctic vortex crap (I just wanted my chance to say arctic vortex), picking out paint colors for my new office that I'm hopefully moving into early next week, and to top everything off I had a busted water pipe in my house on Tuesday night. Lovely. Annoying is more like it, but I'm still truckin' and counting my blessings! This girl is incredibly happy that we are facing a weekend!!

 

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In case you haven't realized this yet, I am 12 years old. And since I'm 12 years old, I'm allowed to listen to One Direction, right? This is really embarrassing considering I am truly 29 years old and I have quite the crush on sweet little Harry Styles. Wanna laugh today? I sat in on a conference call for the first time on Wednesday, totally thought I was on mute and started singing "Story of My Life".... OH THE SHAME!!! I told you, this week is treating me very well.

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Now that my bathroom floors are ruined from the busted pipe issue...I FINALLY get the chance to redo my master bathroom! I've hated those floors ever since I moved in that house like 5 years ago. Time for a change! I'm dreaming up a new, fabulous, simple master bath.

 

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One week from tomorrow I have a HOT date with Luke Bryan!!! Even if next week is hell on me, like this one, I can survive knowing I get to see his pretty face on the 18th!

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I'm so excited for the Golden Globes this Sunday! Tina & Amy are the perfect combination for hilarious hosts. I'll definitely be tweeting about all the pretty people! I love award show season!

 

Master Bathroom Re-Design - "BEFORE"

Okay so I've been talking all about re-doing our master bathroom ever since we moved in our house - almost 4 years ago. I explained all my woes about the bathroom to you guys here. You felt my pain right? I'm been promising you this post for weeks so, here it is...don't judge me based on my current ugly bathroom!

So I have years worth of built up ideas to relay into this project. Problem is, I want it to be livable, lovable and perfect for our needs and tastes. 4 years worth of ideas are too many for me to  narrow down right now. I STILL CAN'T DECIDE ON A DAMN PAINT COLOR!! That's really the last piece of the puzzle for me.

Anyhow, I just wanted to share with you the "before" pictures. This is current state our bathroom is in. Maybe this will spell it out for you exactly why I hate it. I almost cringe to put this on display to the whole Internet, but I take solace in the fact that VERY SOON it will become my masterpiece.

This is the view from our main living room area. The toilet is located to the right, and also that doorway to the right that you can barely see in the pic leads into our closet, shower area, an additional sink and also into the master bedroom. It's the "man" side of our bathroom right now. As well as the area guests use to potty when we entertain.

 

GAG ME! This house was my mamaw's before we moved in. Like I said before, the bathroom was pretty much the only room that didn't get any updates before we moved in. Including, we kept her shower curtain and hideous border.

This is the "woman" side of the bathroom AKA my vanity. That lovely cut out in the wall on the left, is from a plumbing leak we had about a year ago that has yet to be fixed. We keep saying we will fix it when we update the bathroom...
I am thinking of keeping both vanities but painting them both black (possibly black, depends on the color choice for the walls).

Light fixtures are the same on both vanities. They aren't the worst, but not very pretty either.

Another view from the main living room/hallway area. Gives you a better idea about the weird layout of this bathroom. To the right is the toilet, thru the doorway to the far left is our master closet and shower. Thru the doorway to the far right leads into our master bedroom.

UGLY, HATEFUL, HORRIBLE, SINFUL fake floor tiles that we are working with. The ones that are liable to stick to your bare feet at any given time. Granted the little flowers on there do match the current border, but I hate this more than anything else in the house.

View thru the bedroom looking into the closet. Displaying the lovely old lady looking shower curtain and matching border. To the right is my sink area, and to the left is the doorway that leads into the toilet/his sink area.

Bathroom Inspiration

We have lived in our house for almost 4 years now. It's not our dream house by any means, but it definitely meets our needs right now. We have done some pretty minor upgrades along the way. We painted the walls before we moved in, re-did the mantel above the fireplace in the living room, and tore up all the carpet in the common room areas (living room, dining room & kitchen) to be replaced with a beautiful Brazilian cherry colored hardwood. None of these tasks were monumental in time, money or effort. Luckily, Skye's dad does flooring for living so we were able to find the color hardwood we wanted at a great price and the install was free! Most of these improvements were done before we even moved in the house, and the floors were about 2 years ago. IT'S BEEN TWO YEARS SINCE I'VE DONE A HOME PROJECT! AH!

The one areas of the house that drives me absolutely insane and that I wish more than anything we'd tackled BEFORE we moved in, is the master bathroom area. Now I mentioned that this isn't our dream house. One of the contributing reasons for that is the layout of the downstairs area. Our bedroom is located just off the living room - HATE THAT, and the living room opens up to a "bathroom area" which really is a half bath with a toilet and sink. There is a door from the half bath that opens up to a larger full size bathroom area with our master shower another sink/vanity area, linen closet and leads into our master walk-in closet. I know this sounds weird, and it's very strange to explain the layout, but I will soon have pictures for you to illustrate. As much as I hate the layout, there's nothing I can do about that. What I can control is the design aspect. The bathroom though is just very plain. We didn't paint it before we moved in so the walls are stark white. I hate white walls! The flooring is a cheap stick-type of linoleum. It's a hideously ugly pattern AND not to mention it doesn't exactly stick anymore so if you are barefoot it's possible that a square of it will come up on your foot. One of my goals for 2012 is to totally re-do this bathroom area. And I prefer sooner rather than later. Four years is a LONG time to get ready everyday in a bathroom you loathe.

Yesterday I began really thinking about the logistics of this project. Here are some ideas floating around in my head - brought to you via Pinterest. (I'm new to the whole Pinterest craze so I'm trying to get into like everyone else...still struggling with that.)
I will soon be putting up pictures of the "before" of what our bathroom currently looks like....but for now just enjoy these idea images.



Love this color scheme - Plus, this master bathroom leads into our master bedroom which is a burnt orange color.



I'm definitely going with wainscoting, I love the look of it. This exact style wouldn't really go in my house, but I like the wall color and white wainscoting. This greyish color wall is a possibility.

I'm really leaning towards blue...robin's egg blue for the walls. I love this look, even though our layout isn't like this. Again, with the wainscoting. I'm obsessed.

Love the color, but this one the wainscoting is blue and the wall is white. I like the yellow accent color too.

That's where I'm at for now..I bought a couple of paint samples yesterday and put them on the walls. They are both blue-ish but darker than robin's egg. I'm not loving them on the walls.
Back to the drawing board!