Bathrooms, Inspiration, Wallpaper
Image from Pinterest
Lately, I have been strangely drawn to wallpaper, which is crazy because I know from personal experience just how difficult it is to remove.
Image from Apartment Therapy
I am the same person who adamantly hated wallpaper and swore I would never do that to our beautiful plaster walls. Well, never say never…
I am considering indulging my wallpaper lust, but starting small by hanging it in our tiny powder room.
Forerunner of the modern shower.
Hajoca Plumbing Goods showers
Hajoca Plumbing Goods shower accessories
For someone needing inspiration to restore a bungalow bathroom or the old house buff who likes to get all the details period perfect, I am posting images from several plumbing supply catalogs dating from 1910’s – 1920’s. You might also enjoy seeing photos and illustrations of period bathrooms during the same time period.
These sinks were named “Filmore” Lavatory
Hajoca Plumbing Goods offered by the Haines, Jones & Cadbury Company
Bathrooms, Holidays, Restoration Diary, Valentine's Day
David’s Valentine’s Day present. Toto toilet with a walnut seat.
David is really the only person who uses the downstairs half bath. I decided it was time for him to get an upgrade!
Bathrooms, Restoration Diary, Corgi
The bathtub is just the right size to give two corgis a bath and the sides are high enough that they can’t jump out.
The bathroom project is finally complete. Whew! We are thrilled with the results.
Starting with an inspiration photo, to picking out all the fixtures, to taking the room down to the studs and slowly putting it back together again; this has been the most difficult project completed in our house. So many decisions…
The updated bathroom is the project that has increased our enjoyment of the house the most. It is hard to believe that such a little room can have a big impact.
Our contractor built a door to match the original closet door and framed out a larger storage space.
We replaced the glass in the bathroom medicine cabinet. I hid a photo of us behind the glass to be found someday.
I wrote a brief note on the back of the photo. I probably should have written something more poetic, instead I scrawled out the first thing that came to mind. Our names, the date and “We remodeled the bathroom. I hope we did a good job. We tried our best. We purchased the house Sept. 2002. The 4th owners. Will anyone even find this someday? Love and best wishes to the future!”
And I do wonder if anyone will ever find it? A part of me must be an optimist.
Bathrooms, Paint, Restoration Diary
Finding the right shade of white paint can be a very difficult process. After trying numerous whites that were too blue, too green or too just not right, I hand mixed my own color. It is a pretty, soft white with a gray undertone. The bright white trim makes the wall color stand out.
For those who haven’t been following along, we haven’t been able to bathe at home since our tub was removed. There is no other tub or shower in the house. The tub was held up in Customs and several other delays.
Our bathtub has finally arrived and is in place. Now, if we could just get ahold of the plumber. I am one stinky, cranky woman and I WILL hunt him down. Only kidding…sort-of.
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“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
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