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.






Wood Grain Stained Concrete!

Yep! Stained Concrete!

     I may have said this before about other projects in this house, but I am saying it again here..... This may be my favorite thing so far!  Shipp did an amazing job with the feather finish - It's amazing the  difference it makes in a room! I posted previously about this miracle stuff - Ardex feather finish.

   So, here is the feather finish (left) and with the base coat (right). Pardon the toilet hole... not sure of the technical term to use, but that's the nicest thing I can come up with (blah!). I used Valspar semi-transparent concrete stain in driftwood, which is what I used in the rest of the house.  I just rolled it on with a paint roller.

   I used Valspar semi-transparent concrete stain in ember for the darker grain top coat. I is kind of a dark cool gray with a hint of deep blue - I love this color! I picked up a graining tool from Lowes. It is a funny looking little piece of magic! I have no idea how this thing makes wood grain, but it is awesome. 

* Important tip - use Valspar mixing glaze to thicken the stain. I used an entire jar which is about 1 pint of glaze with about 1 1/2 cups of stain. I love mixing glaze because you can mix it with any paint to make it more workable for faux finishes.

   You work in small areas, 2-3 feet at a time. Spread a thin layer of glaze/stain mix then drag the tool from one end to the other rocking it slowly from back to front to back. You can add variation to this of coarse, to get the desired look. The glaze allows some working time, so if you don't like that pass, just use your brush and spread it back out and try again.

   I will warn you, this is a very tedious process. The tool is only about 2 3/4 inches wide. You have to use short passes so it does not flood the tool and make a mess. You have to wipe it off in between passes and transitions are difficult. You can blend them with the tooth edge or a cheap throw away brush works OK also. This is a small area so it wasn't too bad, it took me about an hour.

  

   I'm planning to wood grain the entire master bedroom floor because I love it so much and I just can't live without it! I don't care how long it takes!



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!

Sneak Peak!!!

Sadly, I don't have any finished rooms to show you yet....:(  But, we are really close to being done with the master bathroom. I am so excited about it I cant wait until it's done to show it off! I finished taping and floating the drywall last night and will be able to texure the ceiling and walls today and paint tomorrow! Yay! Then grout the shower, then paint the floor... Its so close I can almost touch it. Shipp and David will be starting on the kitchen backsplash and the butcherblock countertops this week! Hopefully I will be able to spend Sunday hanging pictures in the hall and the girls' room. (no work on Saturday, we will be at the CHRIS STAPLETON CONCERT!!!!!) Then I can paint the girls' bathroom floor, I am dying to use the stencil I got for it! Lots of  'after' pictures to come!

 

 

 

 

Oh! The vanity! It needs polyurythane then it will be ready to put the sink back in and instal. I had a terrible time painting this one. The cherry wood kept bleeding through the white paint. I thought we were going to have a pink vanity there for a little while. I had to put on a thick coat of poly (after 3 coats of white chalk paint did not show any improvements) then paint it again and glaze after that. But it turned out great!

 

 

 

 AND, I found some dinning room chairs! They are really pretty and only $60 for all four! I am thinking cream chalk paint and dark wax on the wood and chalk paint and clear wax on the upholstry, maybe in different colors..... I am hoping to find two more captain dinning chairs for the ends.

Progress report

Last week was a very productive week for me, but that's about it.... my entire crew was sick! My sugar has pneumonia and is just now able to get through the day without fever. Poor Shipp has has gastroenteritis and an ear infection.  Somehow me and the girls made it out unscathed, thankfully. I did get to catch up on some painting and do some decorating. And we are finally ready to make the big move! The great thing about this move, which is totally different from any other time I have ever moved (and I've moved an awful lot in my life) is that we don't really need to pack everything carefully.  It's only going 10 miles so we can make as many trips as it takes. It's not really worth the effort to wrap and box everything neatly for such a short trip. I swear I thought we would move everything here one piece at a time according to necessity before we made it to this day....

The house is not finished yet, though. I still need to paint the floor in the girls' bathroom (which I can't do until we have another bathroom to use), stain the floor in the kitchen, master and mud/laundry room (floors are last), paint my closet (on my list this week), paint mud room/laundry room (no idea what to do yet), we have to finish the master bathroom (tile is underway), countertops  (next on list) and hang trim and base. Wow. All of the sudden I don't feel like I got as much done last week as I should have.....

I repainted the soffit in the kitchen. I don't know what I was thinking when I picked that other color!  I love the new color so much I used the extra paint in my tray to color wash the wall between the kitchen and dining area.  It's only about 3 ft wide and will eventually have the breakfast bar made of reclaimed wood attached where the lighter colored wood is. It was kind of scary to start, just knowing it wouldn't be easy to reverse if we didn't like it, but it really looks good.

I used about 3 to 1 parts satin finish latex paint (sorry, I can't remember the color, all I got was a sample) and water in my paint pan. I used a cheap brush to apply a few strokes of paint in about a 3 square foot area and rubbed it in with a wet paper towel and spread it evenly going with the grain. There is a rectangular section that needs some work where there used to be a phone mounted to the wall which left the wood lighter than the rest, and the part where the bar used to be attached and will be covered by the new bar soon. I love it!

Kitchen cabinets are painted - thank God.  Just need to rehang a few doors. I picked up some trim to try out adding to the door and drawer faces. It does need the crown at the top which will be one of the last things. 

Tile is looking amazing!

Junkin' Fun!

My quest for wrought iron decor was triumphant! I love little gift/antique stores you stumble upon that just overflow with amazing treasures. I have found a place for all of the pieces I got and have incorporated the things I already had. I LOVE how the living room is looking so far. I still need to find things for the mantel, but there are lots of amazing junk days and antique stores to explore! My sister and I had so much fun shopping that we decided to make it an every month event. Here is how it is looking so far.

Next post: The teal color washed wall!