Vintage Cottage Powder room progress, keeping a shoe-string budget!

Good Morning! Happy Monday! Hope you're all having an amazing weekend! Just wanted to do a quick post about our small powder room remodel still-in-progress! For this makeover, we replaced linoleum flooring with ceramic tile that looks like reclaimed wood (which we carried into kitchen and mudroom), added white subway tile with dark gray grout, painted the walls, gave cabinets, shelving, and woodwork a fresh coat of white paint and new vintage butterfly shaped knobs. We wanted it to be modern with vintage touches and a french industrial feel, and to use all the built-in storage to our advantage. 

The bathroom is super dinky, and is literally in the kitchen, and we think it may have served as a pantry at one time, so space planning was definitely a challenging, specifically when deciding between pedestal sink and a tiny vanity...we chose the pedestal sink, a cute modern faucet, and a skinny toilet, new fixtures etc, but again, having over-head shelving was definitely a plus for storage and organization in the powder room! We decorated the space with items I thrifted, painted, and already owned plus a couple new storage boxes from my new obsession, Hollar, an on-line dollar store with super high quality items, about which I will create a separate post. I also gave our old brown door, which we believe is original to the house, a fresh coat of aqua paint, which I'm absolutely in love with, and made a powder room sign to dress up the door!

We also painted the powder room walls several times before we settled on its current color, a gorgeous creamy light gray, which we used in our dining room. The color is called "Rhinestone" by Sherwin Williams, and it's so calming and delicious, like a milkshake! (It appears to be light green in the photos, due to the under-cabinet lighting)

We will soon be in the process of freshening up all the woodwork inside and out of the powder room with the brightest white we can possibly find, but for now...

Here is the before:

And here is the after/still-in-progress...

Pictured below is my 2 year old menace, filling cups with water, then dumping them all over the sink, spilling onto the floor - one of his normal disastrous rituals!

Look at these adorable cabinet knobs! Aren't they chic?

I created a shabby chic french mini vignette  in the window, which have french curtains on the outside because it backs up to our mudroom.

Brown doors that have seen better days? No problem!

At first I didn't want to touch these doors, in original condition, but as it occurred to me that they could benefit from a makeover that would brighten and freshen up the whole space, I decided that a beautiful aqua door is just what the space needed, and would leave the bathroom and kitchen feeling more modern, airy, but still have a vintage cottagy feel. I may carry the color upstairs because I love how bright and beautiful, but still charming the door is.

Before:

After:

Of course, no powder room is complete without a tiny froggy urinal. Thank you Jon Botbyl! In the words of Gordon Welsh, "there are good ideas, there are bad ideas, and then there's...this idea":

Hope you enjoyed our teeny powder room redo! Thanks for stopping by and please visit us again soon! God Bless!

Eggsta awesome Easter Eggstavaganza and Eggstraordinary Easter Festivities, a post long-passed due

March was super busy, April, slightly calmer in the sense that I’d at least been able to think and clear my mind for 2 seconds, for which I’m extremely grateful, and of course, May's back to insanely busy! I really wanted to make Easter special this year and made it a point to take lotsa pics and involve the kids in a couple Easter Egg Hunts and events now that they’re old enough to take part without mommy prompting, and with less chance of peer trampoling. Easter Egg Hunts are hilarious and watching parents diving over layers of caution tape to shield a pile of eggs is priceless. Here’s some footage from last month:

Egg dying is always awesome, even when my boys (son…and my husband) are too daring and mix colors till their eggs are…gray. Luckily, gray is the new…everything…as far as I’m concerned, and certainly goes with all my vintage French décor! All 50 shades of gray!

Easter Brunch at Bogey’s with mom-mom and pop-pop - a wonderful, much anticipated annual outing, consisting of Bunny visits, lots of pics, then my children slyly stalking the bunny for an hour. We love taking advantage of the gorgeous scenery and snapshotting our festivities! We also spent some time at Jon’s sisters! The following photos aren't in any particular order.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you enjoyed our Easter Post! God Bless!