Master bathroom mini reveal

Here is the only room in my house that I had been embarrassed to show.  Our master bathroom looks like it is from the 80's when actually our house was built in 2001.  Don't you just love the teal counter tops? 

I am not a fan of white tile on the floor.  Yes the grout lines should be white.  The two pictures above are from the original listing when we bought the house.

We don't have a door on the bathroom from the master bedroom it is just an open archway and if you believe it they had saloon doors in the opening.  I didn't even think about taking pictures of it.  The minute we moved in I had my hubby remove them.  I was able to find a picture from the original listing showing the master bedroom from the bathroom and if you look at the bottom right hand corner you can see the louvered door.  And yes the mirror and drapes are gone also.

Now back to the bathroom. Here is the shower area before the demo.

This little nook is across from the tub.  It has a cable hookup so I guess you could watch tv in the tub.  We are going to take out the medicine cabinet and add shelves. 

 

The floor is done.  Now on to the next project.

I wanted to replace the vanity cabinets but we would have to special order the drawer sections so we decided to raise the height and paint instead.  We took down the huge mirror.  We were able to save it so it will go in the basement work out room. Now what to do with the wall.  It didn't get damaged much but we decided to add tile instead of patching and re-texturing. 

Now here is the shower/tub area before the shower enclosure is installed.

We have just a few more things to do before this is all done.  I still need my hubby to install the shelves above the cabinet across from the tub and I think I will go ahead and paint the panels around the tub dark brown.  Once everything is all done and decorated I will get it posted.

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Fall hutch and bathroom update

This weekend was very hectic for me.  My husband decided that he wanted to get a line of credit on our house and we were informed on Friday that they would do the appraisal on Monday morning.  At this point the bathroom tile still wasn't done and my house is a disaster area.  So needless to say that I had to kick it in high gear for the weekend and of course we work on Saturday so I didn't get started until after 2 o'clock as that is when we close the shop.  We were able to get the rest of the tile done and I got the trim painted on Saturday.

I spent all day Sunday grouting tile, painting, cleaning and straightening up my whole house.  Today I got up at 5 o'clock to finish what I didn't get done yesterday.  Boy am I beat!  I felt like I was having a showing today.  I was throwing stuff in the washing machine and closets.  Somehow I managed to get my last bit of Fall decorating done the in basement in between.  So here the hutch.

Here is the table by the door.

Now for the update on the bathroom.  Here is what it looks like now.  I still need to do some caulking and we are still waiting on the shower enclosure.  At least I can use the tub now.

Here is the last area we need to finish.  My hubby still needs to get the shelves installed and then I can start with the decorating.

Now I need some help from you.  I am wanting to paint the panels around the tub and the window sills that same dark brown as the cabinet but my hubby says that I am going too far.  What do you think?  Should I paint them dark brown or repaint them white?

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Simple Fall mantel

Our fireplace in our living room is two sided.  The other side is in the sitting room that is off of the master bedroom.  This is the first year I have decorated this mantel.  I decided to keep it simple since no one really sees this room but us.  I still need to finish decorating the room so all I will be showing right now is the mantel.

I am not a big fan of all white on a fireplace.  I would like to change the tile out but I might decide just to paint the mantel instead.  I think I will also add some more detail to it with some moldings.

I am also glad to say that the bathtub is out of the dining room as of today.  I think that I am going to miss it.  It has been there for over two months now.  We just have a few more projects to get done in the master bathroom.  We have the shower enclosure ordered now and the tub will be officially installed in the next few days (we have to fix a few tiles in the tub area).

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Outdoor Fall decor

Well I had a very busy weekend.  We close the shop at 2:00 on Saturdays so the minute I got home I headed straight for the master bathroom and got the grouting done in the shower area.  We were able to get the tub area tiled on Sunday but we still need to do the wall area by the tub.  The tub was harder than the shower since there were more angle cuts and smaller.  I did manage to get the front yard decorated in between.  I didn't go too crazy with the pumpkins this year.  Last year when I bought my pumpkins the cashier asked me if I was going to have  a pumpkin patch.  I was able to scale down this year with only about 18 pumpkins.

Saturday the sky was perfect for  Halloween.  We were out shopping and getting ready to come home when I noticed the sky.  I was hoping that I would be able to get a few pictures of it before the sun went down.

Here a few pictures of the tile work in the bathroom.  The shower is grouted and I will be sealing it tonight so it will look a little darker.

Here is part of the tub area right now.  I would like to get the wall area done tonight if possible.  Please excuse the mess in the hole.  I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel now.

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Fall foliage

I can't wait for all the trees to change here so I can take a nice long drive.  I was going through some of my old pictures that I took a few years ago.  Here are a couple from a neighborhood called Cherry Hills Village.  It is one area that I would love to live in.

This area reminds me of living in the country only that your neighbors are close.  Here is one of the homes that is one of my favorites.

The next pictures were taken in Sterne Park .

This next one is my favorite picture that I have taken of a landscape.  I need to go back this year and see if I can get more.

This last picture is one that I took in a neighorhood near our shop last year.  I wish my trees in our front yard were this big.

Some of the trees here have already started to change and unfortunately lost most of their leaves from the hail storm we had earlier this week.  That's Colorado for you.