Laundry room

In this room I used pallet wood on the ceiling. There used to be a closet on each end, I tore one of them out which left a whole in the drywall on the ceiling. The popcorn texture is impossible to recreate, so I had to remove it. I am planning to go back one room at a time and remove it throughout the house, but I thought this would be a good place to start. It actually wasn't that hard. I used a gardening pressure sprayer (just a cheap one) to spray the ceiling with water.  Let it set for a few minutes, then use. Drywall knife to scrape the texture off. If it's wet enough it comes right off. It does require some prep work - hang plastic from the walls down and on the floor because it's a nightmare to clean up! My fiance, David, helped me cut the pallets apart with a reciprocating saw and metal cutting blade. I just left the nail heads in the boards. I stained them a weathered oak color mixed with provincial. I didn't sand the boards at all, I wanted them to he very rough looking. With a finishing nail gun I nailed the boards up just directly to the drywall. The pallet boards were light enough that they did not require any strips of wood to attach to between the rafters. I did not plan out the boards before putting them up. I just measured what length I needed and cut them to fit one board at a time. U found some 3/4 inch long boards in the barn that I ripped down to 2 1/5 inches with the table saw and stained to use for trim. David helped me cut out what we needed to for the light fixture and the new fixture screwed right to the pallet board. I painted the paneling in a light grey satin finish and the trim in gloss finish snow white. All of the signs I did myself on wood that I found in the barn. I'm pretty proud of this room, I did it mostly by myself. Including the cabinet for the laundry baskets. It was my first build!  No doors or sides,  just a frame and shelves. Painted and distressed with plywood top.  The French doors I found at an antique store. They are exactly the right height and fit together to cover the water heater. U used mod podge to glue scrap book paper over the widows so you can't see the water heater back there.

Rustic Chic Master Bath

     Well, after the post about the wagon wheel chandelier David and I decided we would call this decor style "rustic chic" or even "rustic glam".....!!! Lots of repurposed things, vintage flare, wood, wrought or cast iron, grey tones and cool neutrals with a twist of teal, turquoise, bling, sparkle, and fabulous! Since we live in the country - I mean WAY out in the country - but we are not ranchers and we do not have horses or cows. Our style is rustic without the horse/cowboy theme. I'm not sure if someone else has already defined this term or if this term has already been claimed, but from now on this is what I am going to call it. Rustic chic. Yep, perfect. I am finally ready to post about a finished room! Both of the bathrooms are complete - even down to the caulking the trim.

This is the first wood grained stained concrete floor. I just finished doing the entire master bedroom, so I'll be posting about that soon! Here is the post on how I did this.

This is my bathroom! I love it! The vanity is the one I found on a local classifieds site and repainted. It was already repurposed into a bathroom vanity so it needed only paint. We did cut the legs off to make it more comfortable for me to reach - it was pretty tall for a cabinet.  I used a paint roller to roll orange peel texutre after I taped and floated the drywall. The walls are Valspar satin finish in dover grey.

The floor!!!! Was purely an experiment at first. I used Valspar semi transparent concrete stain in driftwood for the base color and emory for the grain color, then a gloss finish sealer for concrete floors.

I am in love with this door! We knew we would have to have a custom cut door for this shower because the entrance is so big. I kind of got a crazy idea to do a barn door style shower door. I asked around and looked on the web and couldn't find very much information about it, only pictures. So I called a local glass installer, Paul Holmes, and asked if he could do it. He said he had never done one, but would like to try it. So I purchased the hardware from amazon. It is just wood barn door style hardware. I think I paid about $135 for it. (the glass hardware is crazy expensive!) We took it to the installer so he could see where he would need to drill holes in the glass once he recieved it in the size we wanted. The handle is also for a wood barn door. We used 1/8 in tempered glass. I am very pleased with how it turned out. Eventually there will also be a sliding barn door into this bathroom as well as the master closet.

This shower is HUGE, y'all! It is 4 ft by 6 ft straight in from the door to the wall, then another 4ft by 8ft back to the left. Three shower heads - one handheld on an adjustable track. This one shares a valve with the rain head on the ceiling. Then a seperate fixed height shower head. Two drains, a bench (specific height built for me) and two built in cubby compartments. I like to just hang out in there sometimes. If you can't find me that's where I'll be.....

These shelves are opposite the vanity. I stained them with rustoleum stain in ebony mixed with minwax weathered oak. The boards are just rough cut cedar from the local hardware store. We used just ripped down 1 by 2 scrap wood for the supports since this will be more decorative than heavy storage.






A Little Something I Did This Weekend

This little darling here! I bet it took me two weeks of intense searching and 10 minutes of work to put this together and it may be one of my favorite things so far. The wagon wheel light fixture was already hanging in the dinning area when we bought the house, but without bulb covers and covered in dust. I thought about painting it, color washing it or just taking it down. The blue mason jars were a Christmas gift from my amazing mother in love. I tried them without the burlap and it just seemed to be missing something. I found the burlap garland on Etsy and I looked into making them myself, but I decided I have enough projects right now and for less than $20 they were definitely worth it!




I added some adorable burlap roses and chandelier crystals hanging from twine to give it some rustic GLAM!