Bathroom Update

Our Powder Room, built and furnished about 1980, has never been updated.  It is my fault.  I love my little foil-papered brown-fixtured Powder Room.  It was beginning to show its age though.  It was time to do something.  There were a few areas of the wallpaper that were scuffed and even one 4" area ripped, where a child had pulled away the loose seam of the paper. 

The toilet had been leaking and Himself had worked at it several times but the day came he pulled the toilet and knew he had to replace some parts of the drain. 

The toilet is brown.  You cannot buy a brown toilet anymore.  This beautiful thing of the 1970s is no longer. 

I told Himself, when he threatened me with a new white toilet, if you put in a white toilet the whole bathroom will have to be redown.  New sink.  Ne wallpaper.  New vanity.  So rather than do that, he went to work.

He pulled the toilet.  Since the toilet was out, we pulled out the old linoleum flooring and installed some beautiful new-fangled brown marbled tiles.  Wow!  With that, I knew it was time to update the rest of the room. 

The 2-lantern light fixture looked dated.  I'd been studying on what to do about that light fixture even before the toilet repair and the new floor.  Then our son-in-law gifted us with a very nice new fixture.  That gift set off a chain of events.

 

I took down the Angel picture and the glass/gold shelves that held more angel figurines.  I had come across a dark frame and duck picture that I always liked while cleaning out the corner of the laundry room.  I found another hand-made frame back there too and having scoped out She-Nae's Repurposing Shop uptown and admiring an empty frame with some glass bead 'art', I changed out the wall decorations.  I still need to do some tweaking but we are getting there. 

 

Himself, meanwhile, had freshened up the walls with a new coat of paint. 

 

I want a darker bow to top off the glass beads and need to realign the ducks.

 

I had picked up some craft paint out to the big W store, 3 or 4 little bottles of acrylic.  I got out the water color brushes and went to work.  I painted in the missing wallpaper.  I did!  It took me all of 30 minutes then I challenged Himself to point out where the repairs had been made.  He couldn't -- and I can't either.  Slick!  The scuffs and tears have disappeared.  All right, all right.  I get it that the foil paper is still old and out of date but dang it.  It still looks good and I still like it. 

 

And doesn't that new light fixture just set everything off.  Thank you, Dana!

 I'm not quite satisfied with the wrought iron sculpture on the left side of the mirror but I have an idea that I think will make it all better. 

There!  I worked on the art work a bit today and hung a little brass mirror. 

This is better; this is getting close to pleasing my eye. 

I'll keep tweaking.