I Don't Even Know Where to Start...

I've thought every day, "Today will be the day I can finally decorate the bathroom to duplicate my inspiration picture", but every day something prevents that from happening!  For one thing, everything....E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G...has prevented that from happening!  It just takes longer, folks, than what you'd think...certainly longer than we thought!  You have to wait for stain to dry, polyurethane to dry, plumbing to get done, pedestal sinks to be ordered and delivered (and delayed), and paint to dry, repaint and dry, repaint and dry....(you get the picture). All is well though.  I've learned to....

 

 

I have painted a LOT over the past few days.  Jim says it looks like a white bomb has exploded in the bathroom.  Yep, that's what I was going for.

 

 

             

 

 

The window had (has) layers of paint.....lay-ers!  Shamedly, I just slapped some more on....I was pretty much just painting paint!!  Before we started renovating the bathroom the window was painted shut, but Jim finally got it opened. It's probably painted shut again after today!

 

I love this window.


I did sand the door facing before painting it though. I sorta, kinda liked the look and for about half a second I thought about leaving it like this.

   

I also sanded an old built-in in the bathroom.  I had started painting it when I took this picture, but actually I liked the look of it after it was sanded too.  If I hadn't wanted a totally white bathroom, I would have been tempted to leave it as is too!

 

However, as you can see, I painted the door frame and the built-in cabinet (part of the white bomb).  I still have to find knobs or handles for the built-in.  Jim lined it and added a couple of shelves. It's big and will work great for holding towels and the such.

Fresh paint on the door frame.

Fresh paint on the built-in cabinet.

 

I don't have a picture of the bathroom door to show you right now, but Jim took it down and used the dreaded heat gun (refer to kitchen pictures for that nightmare!) to peel the layers of paint off it.  I painted it (white, of course) and it looks good....better than I thought.  The wood panel on the door isn't in great shape, but it looks good enough to keep.....for sure. Jim is going to hang the door tomorrow after the paint on the door frame dries....I'll post a picture.  Until then.