Fall nesting??

I have had this wild hair up my butt lately to clean, clean and do some more cleaning. Is this was nesting is all about? I only thought people nested when they were pregnant... {and no im not preggo}. I remember I was cleaning everyday it seemed like once I hit my third trimester with my son. So bad I was down on the floor, scrubbing the grout with a toothbrush at 36 weeks ha!

For reals though, I think it's the changing of the seasons. In the summer I don't like to spend so much time inside, therefor I don't clean as much where as when the weather gets colder, the days appear more dreary and the sunlight only lasts so long, I think that is what sparks my 'nesting' to go into over drive.

Yesterday I spent 3hrs cleaning the bathroom.

WHO does that?!

I do apparently.

I started with the bathroom closet first. I have a love hate relationship with this closet. for the most part it has lots of room for everything but because there is so much room it's hard to keep everything completely organized on each shelf.

You like our ghetto curtain? i.e- towel hanging over a tension rod. I seriously have to think of something to do with that window. I tried the frosted glass {the valspar spray} but after about 3 showers, the frost started to chip off from the water and humidity from the shower and since our master bathroom is still being worked on, this is the only shower we can use.

So I pulled all the little caddies out, cleaned them, sprayed them with lysol and then put each product into a specific caddy as shown.

I know the 'Mama and Daddy' one makes us look like we have some 'issues' but don't worry. I usually throw any prescribed medicine out after im all better but Josh never throws it out. Some of that medicine is almost 4yrs old and hasn't been used in about.... oh 4yrs. BUT since Josh wasn't home, I didn't want to throw any of it out, would much rather wait for him to go through it and discard of what he doesn't need.

So all of our 'medicine' caddies I put on the very top shelf so I know little hands wont have any chance of getting to it {the actual medicine is also pushed all the way to the back}.

The second shelf has the insanely big towels, like beach towels... towels that don't get used regularly.

And since we don't have a formal linen closet, the bottom shelf has fitted sheets, top sheets, pillow cases and a blanket.

I had attached a little shelf to the inside part of the door awhile back and this is mainly used for the daily essential items that you saw in the ghetto shower/window pic. {shampoo, body wash, toothpaste... etc}.

I didn't stop there folks. Oh no sir-y.

The handles on the shower faucet have been bugging me because of that nasty grime you see the arrow pointing at.

Yuck.

So I popped the little caps off and unscrewed the actual handles.

Yum.

best. scrubber. ever.

end of story.

while the handles were drying, I decided to take the 80's style plate things that were on the inside of the caps, out.

I used my little exacto knife, dug a hole into the middle of the silver plate thing and popped it out. Then I scrubbed the inside of the cap.

All clean now!

That sonic scrubber I have? I also used that to scrub the chrome pieces of the faucet. They had some stained on water spots that wouldn't come off with a regular scrub/sponge, so I sprayed my cleaner on, let it sit and then used my sonic scrubber and 98% of the water stains came right off.

BUT I didn't stop there.

The wall to the right. the toilet wall... this wall is oddly long and very bare. I wanted to warm it up a little so I added some artwork.

It doesn't make the bathroom seem so cold now. That one little frame I had above the toilet in the 'before' photo just wasn't cutting it. Now it has more character and when you sit on the toilet, you can look at the mirror in front of you and have all of these lovely things to look at ....to pass the time you know.

kidding!

But that is what happens when you spend 3hrs cleaning a bathroom.

{for real... who does that!?}

Have you been nesting lately?

Guest Bathroom Intro

Our Guest Bathroom is a really nice space with tons of potential. It's actually a fairly large space and oddly enough it's larger than our Master Bath and even more oddly enough it has double sinks where as our Master bath does not. I have always wondered why our Guest bath has two vanities... granted I'm not complaining by any means, but you usually don't find double vanities in a Guest bathroom, right?

Here is the bathroom, standing out in the hallway looking in. Sorry I wasn't classy enough and I forgot to put the toilet seat down for this special photo-op, but I'm sure you don't mind. ;)

This is standing over by the toilet and linen closet, looking towards the hallway. There is also this large space/area to the left of the photo, next to the toilet. It's just empty space. Dead space as I call it. I'm still not sure what to do with it. Josh had mentioned adding another linen type closet and taking the door off the [current] linen closet and leaving those shelves exposed... or vise-versa. It could work.

Ah... The double vanities. They will be staying and we won't be changing anything about them, or the mirrors. I really like the mirrors. They kind of remind me of a mosaic style mirror. If you look in the reflection of the mirror, on the side of the toilet where that white shelf and green vase is? That is the dead space I was previously talking about. It's really odd. In a way kind of fun to guess or wonder why it's there. We think that, at one time, the washer and dryer used to be in here [closed off] but than they moved that and opened the wall up and now we are left with this large empty space in the bathroom.

 

These are two major inspirations for the 'look' I'm going for, for the bathroom. Clean, white subway tiles within the shower, except in ours I want them to go all the way to the ceiling. Maybe some more shelving like shown in the first inspiration pic.

For the floor, right now we have 8x8 tiles that, in all honesty, look dirty. Their in the beige family and are also textured but they have darker 'beige shades' within the different textures of the tile and if anything it just looks like built in dirt [if dirt could be built in? ha!], but it's really not... after spending almost an hour on my hands and knee's with a toothbrush, bleach, spray and a magic eraser, it is indeed... the tile.

At first I was thinking of maybe a black and white mosaic tile design but than I thought of the fact that our bathroom is fairly large and the black and white, small tiles might make it seem a little dizzy when walking in there. We don't need guests passing out from black and white tiny-tile overload, while meeting with the porcelain god.

I think the Carrera Marble Hexagon tiles are perfect. They are small [I have a teeny little obsession with small tiles and love this look on a bathroom floor]. Yet they fall within the same color/shade and will fit just right within the size of the space we are working with.

As for color, I was thinking something with some blue, or some shade of yellow, or something with a hint of green. The 3 colors above I really like... They don't have names [unless of course you consider 9ec1bd a name for a color]. I'm sure I wouldn't have a hard time trying to match something close to one of those.

The color of the bathroom now is 'Aqua Ice' and it's a lot brighter than it should be. Or at least according to the little color swatch it's a lot brighter than it's supposed to be. It should have been a little less 'BLUE' and have a little more 'white' to it. I figured since we will be re-doing the bathroom, no use in painting the wall over now.

So what do you think? Hopefully the fact that we aren't knocking down any walls, replacing fixtures, sinks and vanities... we will save some moolah!!! - And how about that dead space? What would you do with a dead space in your bathroom?

All images from Decor Pad