A day at the antique mall

Sunday afternoon I decided to go to one of the antique malls.  I went to the one closest to my home called the Colorado Antique Gallery.  It felt good to get out of the house for awhile.  For the past month I have been spending my Sundays working on the bathroom so now that it is almost done I thought I would treat myself.  I found a few goodies that I couldn't resist taking home.

There are a few of booths that I always enjoy looking at every time I go there.  Some of my pictures didn't turn out to well since I was using my phone. This booth is all decked out for Halloween.  It gave me some great ideas.

I love the two booths that are all plaid.  I guess you could say plaid is my favorite color.  You can tell that the same person owns both since they have a lot of the same items.

I love this wine cork idea. I think I will have to make one for myself. I have tons of them. 

Here are the items that I bought. 

 I love the colors in the blankets.  I probably won't use them this year for my Fall decorating but they will be used next year along with the hat.

I love plaid and these will be used on my front porch for Christmas.  I saw some wool blankets that will work nicely there too.  The will get them the next time I go.

I spotted this basket within the first couple of booths that I looked at.  I was drawn to it immediately.  It looked very familiar.  That is because I have one just like it but it is smaller.  The one I have has been in my family as long as I can remember.  When I moved out of my parents house my mother let me have it.

 As you can see mine is just a little bit shorter.  My mother used it for rags and I so do I.  It fits nicely in the closet in my laundry room.  The new one will work nicely for blankets.  You never know what you will find at antique stores.

Mercury glass Halloween

I usually don't decorate for Halloween but for some reason I felt like it this year.  At least on my dining room buffet.  I always loved Vincent Price movies that were based on Edgar Allan Poe stories when I was little and I still do.  So I thought I would do my favorite The Raven.

Now for another update on the master bathroom.  I got the panels painted around the tub and the window sills.  I really like the way it turned out.  My hubby says it looks too dark.  What do you think?  Should I repaint them white or leave them the way they are?  Here is the before.

Now the after.  I like the after since it matches the vanity now.

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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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