Bathroom Makeover, Pt 2: Hanging stuff up!

Yay! Bathroom makeover is mostly complete! Ok, well the painting and stuff is done, I'll be slowly working on adding stuff to hang on the walls as I get more to hang up. Problem is I haven't found things I'm willing to spend the money on at this point to hang on the walls, but the walls need...SOMETHING... but that will come in time. But yea, moving on. So, on Wednesday I came home armed with a teeny tiny paint brush, you know, the type that come with the kiddie paint kits and I cleaned up the edges. Our ceiling has texture on it and it meant the tape didn't lay quite flat so the edges were bumpy and that was just irritating me. So what did I do? I took a teeny tiny paint brush to it. So I was up there on my step-ladder listening to The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan as I was fixing up the edges (To be fair I was also listening to it during the main painting.. and when painting the trim, it's freaking amazing. Seriously, go listen to it). So I did that. Then on Friday after Snickers got a bath so she no longer smells like a Basset Hound who possibly was rolling around in goose poop I taped up the bathroom again and painting the trim, and the inside of the doors. It looks like a whole different bathroom. There is one little issue we didn't think about. The shower and the bathtub are off white so it looks a little bit odd, but not enough to truly bother us.

So today we hung up the new mirror. We were a little worried it might be too small but I think it is JUST right. I think it would look nice with some small (and I mean really small-possibly just seashells) around it. I also put the storage baskets back up. I got that idea off of pinterest and used the shower curtain hooks that I got from my Mother-In-Law to hang the baskets on the towel racks. You can't see what is on them, but they have penguins on them. The bathroom is now a penguin/beach theme. It works way better than one might think because these are surfer penguins. Think of the movie Surf's Up.

Last week Superman installed our new showerhead. We were far more excited about this then mid-twenty year olds should be. It was even more fun since the previous owners had used a type of plumbers' glue to get the old shower head on. So we had to make another run up to our home improvement store in order to get the right wrenches (instead of just pliers) to get the stupid thing off. But once we got that it took no time at all for him to install the new one. Doesn't it look nice? We also have sticky sea shells on the walls of the shower. Those were meant to help keep us from slipping in the shower but they won't stick to the shower floor. BUT they will stick to the walls so TA-DA! We have shells on our shower walls. Yeaaaa...don't judge us k?

I also was pretty excited to hang up this awesome carved wooden turtle we bought from a homeless man in the inner harbor up in Baltimore, Maryland. We were up there for a show, I don't remember which one, we've seen a lot in Baltimore, I'm leaning towards Phantom of the Opera but that might have been when we bought the painting from the homeless guy. Anyway that's not my point. The turtle was bought from a very talented homeless guy at the inner harbor and he's been migrating to different locations since we bought him with the intention that SOMEDAY I would hang him up and well, today was that day. I love the turtle! He's TOTALLY AWESOME MAN!







CHECK OUT THIS toothbrush cup. Ok, I'm not sure if it was actually MEANT to be a toothbrush cup, seeing as they had another shell with the holes that usually say "Hey, put your toothbrush here" but I liked this one better. I think I'm going to go back and get the soap dispenser that goes with this set. I resisted that day but I don't think I can for much longer. It's really quite a pretty set. Yay seashells!

I also got new bathmats because our old ones were blue and that would have been entirely too much blue. But now we have pretty shell ones as well as the surfer penguin one from my Mother-In-Law. Pretty awesome right?




So there you have it, these are the things I bought for our bathroom makeover, and the things we've gotten hung on the walls. We'll be getting new light-switch plates and a new plate for around the electrical outlet, I just haven't ordered them yet. We'll also get a new towel rack but meh, that also hasn't happened yet. For now we'll keep sticking the towels on the edge of the tub.
Here are a few more pictures of the bathroom though that aren't things bought or hung up for this project, but they show how pretty the bathroom now is. YAY for room makeovers! Next up....the bedroom....

These walls CLEARLY need something... possibly tentacles looking like they are coming out of the wall? WATCH OUT FOR THE KRAKEN! Also notice the awesomely big bag of seashells that my Mommy bought me, cuz I love seashells and the ocean. (Can't you tell?)














I'm happy this area turned out because when I was painting the area around the shower top had white splotches, but as it dried it evened out so it's all good now. Also notice how nice and even the paint at the ceiling looks.






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