My thoughts can by no means be nonetheless. I’m at all times pondering, at all times planning, at all times dreaming. And after mentioning the opposite day that I wish to make some adjustments within the hallway toilet, I haven’t been capable of cease fascinated with it. It’s been our essential toilet ever since we purchased this home. It’s been the one toilet for showering and preparing for the day for 9.5 years now. However now that we have now an actual, completed, functioning grasp toilet, this room solely must be a visitor toilet.
So with its new function as solely a visitor toilet, it simply feels proper to make some adjustments. I made a decision that I needed to do some updates as a result of, after dwelling with the self-importance in its present colour for a few years, I’ve determined that it’s simply too orange for my style. I’d prefer it to be a bit extra pinkish coral. Right here’s what it seems to be like now.
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After which I shared that the bathe curtain is just a little too “major colours” for me as properly. I dug into my cloth stash, discovered the leftover cloth from the lounge pillows (aka, my favourite floral cloth ever), and draped it over the bathe curtain rod to see what that might appear like. I added this image to the submit just a few days in the past, however I added it as an edit later within the day, so a lot of you could have missed it.
It’s good. I like that cloth a lot, so I’m positively going to make use of that. And that provides me a number of colours to select from for the brand new self-importance colour. I’ll select a colour from these huge pink flowers.
Effectively, after I shared these upcoming adjustments just a few days in the past, I remembered that I nonetheless have half a slab of the Vicostone Elysian quartz that we used for the grasp toilet counter tops. I needed to buy an entire slab, and so they solely used half of it for the lavatory. It’s been sitting on the countertop place with my title on it, and I’m certain they’d prefer to get it out of their approach. The plan had been for them to ship it to my home, and for me to retailer it till I’m prepared to make use of it (I had been fascinated with our future laundry room), however I might use the remaining within the hallway toilet!
I nonetheless have to go decide up the pattern and try it out on this toilet, however I’m very hopeful that it’ll work. The ground and the accent tile within the wainscoting each have grey in them. I’m simply hoping it’s the appropriate grey.
Right here’s a reminder of what that countertop seems to be like…
It’s grey, but it surely reads as mild and shiny, somewhat than darkish. Whereas I’ve beloved the heat of the wooden countertop in that loo, and I’ve been completely amazed at how properly a pine countertop has held up in there (particularly contemplating that it’s been our essential toilet all this time), I believe I’m prepared for a change. And for the reason that slab is already paid for, I’d simply should pay fabrication prices.
I’m undecided what to do with the wooden ceiling, although. I nonetheless love the best way it seems to be, and I like the heat it provides to the room. However y’all can inform me what you assume. Maintain the darkish stained wooden? Or paint it white just like the music room ceiling? I really feel like as soon as the wooden counter tops are gone, the wooden ceiling will appear just a little random because it received’t relate to the rest within the room.
Right here’s one other peek of the room as it’s now the place you possibly can see the ceiling…
And for comparability, right here’s the identical ceiling (each are made with 1/4-inch plywood minimize into 4-inch strips) painted white…
So you possibly can let me know what you assume. Maintain it stained, or paint it white?
I additionally talked about the opposite day that I wish to change out the fixtures to gold/aged brass. This toilet is the one room in the home that has brushed nickel steel in it. The remainder of the home has both black or gold/aged brass steel. So I’ve spent just a little time taps and sconces.
Taps aren’t that thrilling, however sconces are very enjoyable to buy. I’ve been maintaining my eye out for some fairly sconces whereas I scroll Instagram, and the opposite day, I used to be stopped mid-scroll by some superb sconces in a toilet. I finished instantly and looked for them to see how a lot they price. Right here’s the sconce…
That’s the Visual Comfort Alberto wall sconce in Plaster White, and it prices $439.00. In fact it does. And y’all know me higher than to assume I’d think about paying virtually $900 for 2 sconces for a visitor toilet.
After which I noticed this one by the identical firm. That is the Visual Comfort Alberto wall sconce in the medium size, additionally within the White Plaster end.
I appreciated that one much more, but it surely’s $579. As a lot as I like it, I might by no means justify paying $1158 for 2 sconces. They’re little artworks, so there’s nothing unsuitable with their worth. I’m simply not their goal buyer. I’m extra of a Goal buyer. 😀
However I wasn’t fairly prepared to surrender on the concept of flower wall sconces, so a bit extra looking out led me to this sconce…
That’s the Meridian Lighting 19-inch LED wall sconce from 1-800Lighting. Do I prefer it as a lot because the Visible Consolation mild? Nope. It doesn’t have that hand sculpted plaster look to it. I doesn’t look as substantial. And it doesn’t have the gold contained in the petals. However at $122 (on sale proper now for $103.70), it’s extra in my funds. And if I actually needed to, I believe I might do some DIYing and make the cheaper sconces look extra just like the costly ones.
The entire sconces additionally are available in a gold end. Right here’s what the cheap one seems to be like in gold.
After seeing what the costly sconces appear like in a gold end (a extremely lovely gold leaf look), the cheap sconce in gold seems to be low-cost to me. The humorous factor is that I most likely would have beloved it had I seen that sconce first. However seeing the costly ones first set my expectations too excessive.
In order of this second, I’m leaning in the direction of the cheap white ones with some DIYing to make them look extra just like the costly ones. I like a problem. 🙂
I nonetheless don’t know once I’ll make these adjustments. I’m actually centered on the house gymnasium proper now, and I don’t wan to lose momentum on that. And I actually do have to get my studio completed. However the studio shall be such an enormous job, with extra cupboard constructing than I’ve ever executed, so I’d have to take just a few days right here and there to give attention to different enjoyable initiatives in order that I can keep motivated. I’ve a sense that it’ll be throughout these breaks that I’ll deal with these initiatives within the hallway toilet.
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