Decorating Endeavors Part III: the Bathroom!

I watch WAY more design shows than is healthy.  I watch psychotic homeowners take out a whole kitchen's worth of cabinets because they are oak, not cherry, and replace them for like... $10,000 when they could have just STAINED THEM.  STAIN! Come ON people!  I watch people who don't know how to hang a picture try to flip a house.  I deviously laugh when they fail (hey, they put themselves on tv, I get to laugh at them) and I am happily shocked when they get their asking price too (I'm not TOTALLY evil, just somewhat evil...).

Anyways, the one thing people spend a gazillion dollars on and swear they will get every penny back is the bathroom.  Nevermind that they chose a shower with 50 jets and 30 speakers that play the Rocky soundtrack with corresponding light show instead of a, you know, boring bathtub.  I refuse to live somewhere without a bathtub.  Maybe I am persnickety but you can't take a bubble bath in a shower even if it can solve complex math equations and automatically wash your dog.  That being said, we spent roughly $50 on our bathroom and damnit I hope we get that back! Just kidding.

Before

I really love the 1950's look that the kitchen has.  What I do not love is that horrific brass sliding door.  Sliding doors are typically nice since it keeps water from spilling everywhere and you don't have a shower curtain attacking you whilst you try to rinse off.  BUT when one of the doors is a mirror and it is located DIRECTLY next to the toilet, let's just say that there are a few aspects of daily life that don't need to be reflected in a mirror.  Also, I would like to draw your attention to the GIANT WINDOW in the shower.  Yeah, our house backs up to another row of houses in the back.  Every single person in that row can see DIRECTLY into the bathroom, especially at night.  I see this as being potentially problematic, just a thought.

After

Dan picked the color.  I love it! I think it is one of the more feminine colors in the house (Antique Map by Martha Stewart-Valspar that they don't make anymore) but it is very very retro and awesome.  

Have I mentioned that the room is also Paris-themed?  It's the only "themed" room in the house and it was kind of completely by accident.  I also am one of those people that ends up with 10 different kinds of shampoo because I fall prey to commercials.  I wish I was kidding.  We had to put a shower curtain and some frosted contact paper over the window because the wooden window frame didn't like being hit by the shower head and we didn't want to put on a show all the time for our neighbors.  Hey, you can't get it for free!

Well all we did was paint, change the light fixture and replace the door with a curtain.  I think it was a success!