Evolution of a Bathroom

Well, we’ve been in our house for over a year (still haven’t had that housewarming party – oops!) and we are slowly tackling projects. Rick painted Mallory’s bedroom right when we moved in (she wanted “three walls pink, one wall purple”) and then we did our guest bath (I think I blogged about that?) and we (or rather Rick) finally moved on to the kids’ bathroom. It was the only room that really needed to be painted except I’m growing to hate all the other colors of paint in the rest of our house – but not enough to paint them myself. At least not yet.

But, we Rick started painting the kids’ bathroom a few weeks ago. We were good and got some samples, painted some spots on the walls, and picked the one we liked the best. Then Rick went and got a gallon of the paint we picked out and started painting and unless we are idiots or the Lowe’s guy is an idiot – I think we didn’t get a gallon of the paint we wanted. Luckily they were all close enough that it wasn’t worth starting over but we still need to figure out if we labeled the samples on the wall wrong or if Lowes labeled our sample cans wrong.

We I also have been talking about wanting to do board & batten somewhere in our house and this room won. So Rick started painting the top of the wall Chalkware (or Vanilla Bean) and the bottom of the wall white.

Then he started putting up 1×3 at the top of where we wanted the board & batten to be (I think we I picked 48”?) and a 1×4 at the base (oh and he also ripped out the old baseboard since it was wavy at the top and wouldn’t have worked with the square bottoms of the vertical boards) and started cutting the vertical pieces – which we decided to space every 16” (so they’d be nailed directly into the studs).

Here are all the pieces nailed to most of the walls!

We Rick still has a lot of work to do but luckily from here on out it is quiet work so it can be done with Sleeping Beauty and her brother snoozing in the rooms next to the bathroom. Rick had a noise curfew of about 7.30p each night during this project where he had to stop using the nail gun and saw and vacuum.

Doesn’t it look AWESOME? I’m so excited about how it turned out and I might end up wanting to do it in my whole entire house. Would that be overkill?

All that is left is to use paintable caulk in the nail holes and along the top and bottom edges of the horizontal boards (we will have to do some research to see if we are supposed to caulk the vertical pieces).

Carson’s room is getting painted next weekend by a real painter (I love being able to trade photography for services!) and then I’m excited to actually decorate his room. Poor kid has had green walls & with another shade of green ceiling with absolutely nothing decorating his walls since we moved in. I might try to time this with a move to the toddler bed (since our new bedtime routine is going so fantastically well).

TTFN! I have some playing to do with my new silhouette machine (making an appliquéd shirt for Mallory). If it goes well, I’m going to start selling them. If it goes poorly, I’ll be mad that I just bought so many fabric squares. I need the dryer to hurry up so I can get moving. Yeah! More projects & crafts :-)