Notice a theme anywhere??  Yes, we love us some fantasticalness for our house.  This bathroom is the upstairs guest bath, aka my bathroom.  I love the soft green color shown here. 

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What we did:

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    • Took off the wallpaper and patched the walls.  Painted it a light green.
    • Replaced the light fixture with a new one.  As in the rest of the wall light fixtures in this house, they just took a hammer and made a hole in the wall.  There weren’t boxes behind any of them.  Morons.
    • Replaced the towel holders and toilet paper holder.
    • Took off the nasty glass tub door.
    • Made the valance and curtains.  I used the valance rods that were there previously.  It had a horrendous flower pattern on it.
    • Made the flower arrangement on the counter.
    • Replaced all the wall plates.
    • Artwork is a few Amy Brown prints (thanks Christina!), plus a few different style of prints.  One is a reproduction oil painting of A Midsummer’s Eve that Brian picked up on one of his travels.

Most of the decorating items I put in rooms have just been picked up along the way.  If you have a consistent style of items that you love, it is pretty easy to just pick things up that are on sale.  I love to shop sales and go directly to the clearance section all the time.  If there is something I love, and don’t have a place to display it at the moment, I just store it away for future use.  Plus, I like to change things ever so often, too, since I get bored of things after awhile. 

DIY Nightmares:   When we bought the house, the room was covered in wallpaper.  Very old, dirty and dingy wallpaper.  I couldn’t believe they hadn’t replaced it previously.  When we took the mirror off the wall we could see the original color and see just how faded it was.  It was a light pink on the rest of the walls, but under the mirror it was a dark pink.  Dark pink with cream seashells *shudder*.  We are thinking it was original.

Then, when I was scraping off the wallpaper and was on the floor, I looked up and saw gum stuck under the rim of the counter top every six inches.  N-A-S-T-Y.  I heard the previous owner wasn’t the best housekeeper, and she obviously wasn’t.   I had to scrape that crap off, which had obviously been there awhile.  It was stuck on pretty thoroughly.  Ick.