Friday House Porn - Beds and Baths Edition

Oh, yeah, baby!

( Leibowitz and McLachlan via Desire to Inspire)

( this is glamorous)

(plush palate)

(light locations via caroline ruffini decoration)

(that's my tub! or, at least, the same as my tub at mi casa via plush palate)

(susan anthony via all the best)

(airspace via dear designer's blog)

(leibowitz and mclachlan now via this is glamorous)

(Perfect English via Homes and Property)

(Bhs via house of turquoise)

Weekend Update

This week saw the start of the finicky trim work.  We're also hitting our first minor snag, which we'll have to talk to our contractor about.  And, finally, it sounds like we're going to be on hold for a while.  Why?

Because this glorious stuff here needs some time to acclimate itself to our house's humidity levels.

We have picked a narrow plank red oak floor to approximate the original main floor hardwood as best we can with today's materials.  It will be laid unfinished and then stained and whatnot once it's down.  We're going to stick with a similar glossy, dark finish as we chose on our stair treads.  The stain mix has an orange undertone so it should work well with our blue-black doors.

We also have our washer and dryer installed so no more treks to our father-in-law's house for free laundry service.  Greg's been great but I'm sure he'll be glad not to see us for four hours tomorrow.

As you can see, we have the crown up.  Looking spiffy!  It also highlights that nothing is even remotely level in our house thanks to the lack of any kind of piles underneath our teleposts in the basement causing everything to sink in the middle over the last 100 years.  While the issue is now resolved with the newly poured floor, it wasn't possible to jack the middle of the house up much more than we have without cracking floor joists.  So, we've been putting our heads together with Jeff, our millwork guy, to play with how to hang the doors to make things look more level than they are.  The other fix is painting the trim out the same colour as the walls (different texture, though, so there will still be interest).  It's funky with Kurt's closet, too and there are a few windows that also point it out.  Again, though, I'm thinking the paint will make this recede.  It's also just something you get with old houses.

 And going without crown is not an option.  It just finishes a room like nothing else.  See?  Spiffy!

Jeff, the millwork guy, is awesome.  He did great work this week hanging our doors (again, fun times in a house where nothing is remotely level) and then getting the door casings and trim up.

He did a bang up job reproducing the original door trim.  Here is a closer look.

It looks really, really good and I can't wait to get a coat of paint on it.  Unfortunately, this leads me to the thing I need to talk to Norm about.  When the electrician put in the wiring for our light switches, he didn't take into account our door trim.

Yeah...  The trim is so lovely and has such an appeal that stuff like this really stands out.  I'm super cool with things not being level (it's 100 years old!) but notches in my door trim will bug me like crazy.  The interior trim on the other two doors will have similar notches because of light switches so we will definitely need to reduce the size of the light switches and maybe put more lights on the same switch.  Regardless, there is more work for the electrician.

And last but not least, we need to figure out what we want to do at the top of the tiled shower wall to finish it.

Not sure what's up next week.  Kurt's busy at Norm's shop painting out baseboard trim.  I'm hoping we'll get the two bathroom areas finished up.  Not that, you know, our temporary basement bathroom isn't awesome.

I have dreams about this tub!  Right now, it as a 12" shower head in a box and some dead bugs in it.

Friday House Porn

Boom chick a waa waa.

(La Maison Boheme)
It's symmetrilicious!

(Remodelista)
There is nothing not awesome about this shower.

(my favourite and my best)

I've seen this before and loved it.  Lonny?  Or Elle Decor?  Not sure.  Anyways, I am on the hunt for a similar table that will be covered in similar cat snacks and then placed on the landing of our stairs to the second storey.  It will be gorgeous (until the cats kill the plants).

(Elle Decor via Shelter)
Drapey happy place with pink blanket.

(Desire to Inspire)
Lovely, lovely floor.  Maybe if the half storey hardwood is in good enough shape?

(Elements of Style)

Lurves this room.  I want to sit in that chaise.

 

(Marley & Lockyer)

Where do I get me one of these antique clothes racks? 

(House and Home)
Tripod table goodness!

(House and Home)
A long time favourite.  This was a jumping off point for our bath reno.

(Elements of Style)
Mmm, pink flowers in otherwise very neutral spaces.

My attempt at colour!

Our construction crew left us a note on Friday.  "Paint your closets this weekend.  We need to install your washer and dryer on Monday."  Yay!  No more laundromats or taking all our laundry over to the father in laws!  I've missed my washer.  It goes good work!

I have had a bit of a time picking a colour to go in the closets.  I don't really do colour so this was unchartered territory.  Originally, I was toying between a strong poppy red or a really deep turquoise.  Kurt wanted something more mellow so I settled on BM paladian blue.

 

Unfortunately, it looked way nicer on the chip and way too sickly green on the wall in the room.  It didn't photograph too badly.  Trust, in person, it was not pretty.  It almost felt a bit institutional.  Neither "sickly" nor "institutional" are vibes I'm really hoping to play up in the master suite so perhaps we need a different colour.  Or, how about the absence of any colour?

Now, I have a love on for the door colour. Might be kind of ridiculous to paint the interior of a closet black but I do have pot lights going into each bank of closets so I'm guessing we'll have plenty of light to be able to find our clothes...

I'm kind of digging it!  I have to say that this paint doesn't quite photograph true.  In person, it's quite apparent that the paint has a lot of blue and magenta in it as it is almost more of a deep, deep muted indigo than a black.  It is delicious!

And Kurt REALLY digs it!

So he starts in on his closet.  This was the paint colour I originally suggested for his closet interior, by the way.  He had said I was crazy pants.  But I know what's going to appeal to him.

First coat is done!  You know, I am so not good with colour.  I really, really tried here.  I mean, we went so far as to buy the paint and apply it!  I thought perhaps putting it in a space that will only be visible on occasion would be a good foray into living with walls that are not neutral.  Guess not.  The allure of the most lovely of black paints was too strong!

The interior fittings from the closet will be from Ikea.  I'm glad I haven't ordered them yet as we were originally going to go with white drawers and shelves.  Now, I think we'll go for the solid birch ones, give them a bit of a rough up, install some shaker moulding to the front of them as well as a shiny crystal and chrome knobby and paint them black as well.  The cabinet doors and trim will all be in glossy white.  As well, the floors are getting painted with the white floor paint we have leftover from the stairwell project.  The next morning, we came upstairs to view our handiwork to see the bottoms of the closets covered with dusty kitty feet markings.  Considering mine is made to stand in to even reach my clothes, we're going to need something that hides foot traffic a bit better!

Perhaps I've been peeing too long next to the cats?

I don't know if it's because I've been sharing a bathroom with my cats in the basement for too long but I am really getting excited about our powder room.

It's a teeny little room but I think it has a lot of possibilities.  Remember, this is what it looked like before:

Egyptian hieroglyph madness with paint test swatches

And here it is as of today needing a second coat of wall paint, moulding, trim paint, a door, toilet, sink, lighting, mirror and artwork.  It does, I have to say, have one heck of a spiffy looking, yet economical, floor that is in keeping with the period of our home.  The addition of grout really makes the floor kind of mellow out and improves the awesomeness of the room.

And here’s my inspiration!

(Supermarket Sarah via Design Sponge)

Just think about how much fun it would be to pee in this room!  I know!  Exciting!

First off, we are doing an art wall.  I mean, you need something to look at and enjoy when you're "in the moment" so to speak.  We have some exceedingly fun prints from a variety of most talented artists on Etsy.  We have a lot of very, very pretty prints.  We also have some that just made me laugh.  I think it only fitting the powder room features a collection that might make a person tinkle a little from a good giggle.  “Gornack feel pretty today” will have a fine new home!  She will be joined by the dog who “hearts” various things, a fish doing a Turkish get up and a portrait of a badger.  There may be others that are also pretty just to keep it from getting too weird.

 (from retrowhale's shop on Etsy... check it out!)

We have a ginormous Umbra hub mirror that has spent the last five years leaning up against the wall in my half storey.  And it spend the three years prior to that above a console table in the entry of my first house.  It looked hot there, it did!  Soon, it shall hang out over my Canadian-Tire-gift-certificate-enabled-purchase pedestal sink and flanked by two simple sconces.  I think the mirror will fancy it up a lot.

Here is a photo from Umbra of a similar mirror over a boring black sofa. It's gonna look way better over my sink!

Beside it shall rest our Canadian Tire special toilet that was also purchased via the same gift card given as the pedestal sink.  We've been holding onto these for a while as I do believe it was given to us by our realtor when we bought our house five years ago.  So exciting, I know.  Above said toilet will be ubiquitous chrome hotel-inspired towel holder complete with lovely decorative box to hide things one likes to store beside one’s throne but not advertise too loudly.

And to provide privacy, we're doing a roman blind out of this smart Amy Butler fabric c/o Melody Smartt's Smartt Fabric Etsy fabric shoppe!

We're getting plumbing fixtures installed at this point.  

Wall where the tub is going and our shower

More of the shower!  You can see where the rainshower head is getting affixed!

Supply lines for the washstands.  Not sure why they have little condom thingies on them... 

Also, I'm not sure what it means when these following things show up in our house but I'm guessing it's millwork next.

Three saws!

A big ass work table and some wood.

And MORE wood!  I think those are for my closet!

EXCITING!!!!

And then there was tile!

We're about two and a half weeks away from completion at this point.  Yesterday, the floor tile was laid.  Today, we're getting it grouted.  This weekend, we should be able to get in and put a first coat on the bathroom built ins and maybe a second coat in both bathrooms on the walls and ceiling?  Will have to check with Norm on that.  Don't mind the quality of light in the photos.  It was right at the end of the day and we were using the temporary lighting that's installed. 

(shower and floor in the bath)

(window seat in the bath)

(powder room)

Kurt also got the first coat of floor paint on the stairs.  They're looking mighty spiffy!  Not at all like the stairwell of death we used to refer to them as.