Bathroom Makeover: Option One

Okay, okay. I know that the hall bathroom remodel isn’t more than a month over (after lasting nearly a year:), but my mind has been working on the final bathroom: the master. Now I swore I wouldn’t be touching that one myself and will dutifully save up the money to pay for someone else to do the full reno, and I have no desire go back on my word. However, that day will be years off, and probably will be the very last of the teal to leave this house.

Which calls for a mini,  live-with-what-you-got redo and I had an idea brewing for a little while. So I’m going with Option One: make it pretty on the cheap.

Option Two will most certainly have a stone countertop and tub deck, porcelain tub, tiled floor… the works.

But first, the before shots (which except for some towel bars, nothing new from move-in day):

 
Thanks to these towels from Target, I began having hope I could do some with those teal stripes:

Which got me thinking…. ya know what a great wall color would be? A pale, grey-ish, very cool green… a lot like the exact color I loved and put on the walls in the hall bathroom, Valspar’s Roasted Garlic. And… there was tons left over. Hello, free wall color.

So, away I painted. 

Now, I’m working on some wall art and a window valence to help make the make all the colors feel more deliberant… not just like I bought some towels to try to desperately “go” with the permanent teal accents. (How did this happen? I swore February was going to be the month I focused on just my quilt and not succumb to Crafty ADD)

In the next few months, I hope to find a pair of mirrors, install a new light, and swap out the light switches to crisp white.

This bathroom and I might actually start to become friends with the way this mini redo is going.

Snow Day = Quilt Day

Some surprise snow called off work, which meant I didn’t have to wait until the weekend to finish the top of my quilt. What do ya think?

All Laid Out

With a long holiday weekend that began with a quick delivery of my sashing and backing linen fabric, I was able to cut, layout, and begin sewing together my quilt top. I was quite surprised how easy it is coming together (granted it’s a total beginner’s pattern) and I ahve been able to get this far without a single mis-measure or mis-cut. As much as I love, love, love my fabrics, I love that fact even more.

Here’s my final layout spread over the dining room and coffee tables. No chance I’d try laying this out on the floor- my dogs would think it was fair game within 3 seconds. I hope to have the top completely done this weekend and be ordering my quilting foot.

 

References:

Quilt pattern and directions via Stitched In Color
Fabric choices via my previous post

Washed, Ironed, and Ready to Begin

Finally, yesterday my fabrics came that I ordered for the Colorbrick quilt I am doing. My goal this weekend is to cut all my bricks out and purchase a taupe-y, traditional linen that will serve as the sashing and backing.

To come to my final decision I read a bunch of different recommendations for how to choose the right collection of fabrics, because I knew there had to be a science to making it seem so natural.

Of course I can’t seem to find the article I liked the best now to link to, but essentially I found the *one* fabric that sang to me (the flower one in the middle) that (usually) contains the entire color family, then built off of that.

The plaid has all the same colors, but with a white base it looks more complementary than a repetition. Then I picked two darker and two lighter fabrics. I love how I have a mix of natural elements and geometry patterns too. The light blue herringbone print will be the binding and an emergency back-up choice should there be a problem :)

Fabric and designer names listed here, purchase was from Fabric.com.