Guest Bathroom

I cried my eyes out over the bathroom last night and tackled it with more tears this morning. However, I feel as though I've come out on top. What I thought was so much of a disaster, that I would have to rip out the existing tub, actually came clean after three hours of hard core scrubbing!

BEFORE:
How gross is it that people were actually attepting to get clean in here?




AFTER:


I also bleached down all the cabinets and got the exisiting hair out of it.... EWWWW!!! I'm still seriously scarred from that. It was the hair. Hair EVERYWHERE that got me! Here are som pictures I took of what I cleaned up.

DIRTY FLOOR AND CABINETS:


UNDER THE VANITY:


INSIDE THE DRAWERS: (see the hair!?!?!?!?!)


THE WINDOW LEDGES: (Can you believe mud?)


HAIR ALL OVER THE WALLS: (This is a little harder to see, but not if you zoom in. It's hair. Hair just sticking to the walls!!! BARF!!)


So, as you can see, I spent most of my day cleaning before I could even paint. I did finally get to the painting and I did get the first coat on. Here's a teaser of of my work in progress.

Dirty Dirty Dirty

In case you're wondering where I've been, duty calls outside the home right now. However, after work today, I found myself knee deep in a mess of a mess. There's only one room I've put off cleaning in the whole entire house until now. And, if you know me and you've been over before, you would know that I get totally creeped out by the in-law suit bathroom. I almost feel like it's haunted, but not or maybe it's just knowing that these people were the dirtiest of the whole group and bathrooms are... well, they are DIRTY!!!
I began cleaning the linoleum flooring and that's about as far as I got today. I reached a point where I just wanted to cry because I felt like I was being punished. I swear to God, I know that that floor has not ever been cleaned. NOT EVER!! Not once in 9 years had it been cleaned; it was so unbelievably dirty that I did not even anticipate the filth. Have I gotten my point across? I'm not even trying to be dramatic; it just brought me to tears having to clean up after someone else like this.
I started with my Shark steam mop. FAIL! I sprayed the whole floor down with white vinegar. Fail! I shook borax all over the floor and scrubbed it a third time. Fail! I didn't want to do it, but I reached a breaking point when I opened the bathroom cabinets for the first time and it looked like a nasty hairy man had crawled inside and shaved his body, leaving his hair in EVERY drawer. I really did cry this time and ran for the bleach. Straight bleach. I dumped it on the floor and spent the next hour losing my sense of smell, eyes burning, scrubbing up the deeply embedded dirt. I did leave two windows open but I still have a headache from the chemicals. And after all that, I still wouldn't eat off that floor! I followed the bleach with another round of steam cleaning and called it quits to work on something else.
I'll post pictures of the bathroom tomorrow when I tackle it and Mr Shaved Body's hair again.
My other project was settling on the final design for our new kitchen island. This was not anticipated so soon but one of our major design stores in Ohio is going out of business. So heads up Columbus, Ohio!!! The Great Indoors at Polaris Parkway is going out of business and starts it's liquidation May 15. Right now the sales are great, especially on granite! After seeing the prices, we couldn't say no and jumped into this project unexpectedly. We bought the granite and sped off looking for someone to do our cabinets. Props to "Keith" at Home Depot in New Albany for that. He quote unquote said to us, "Don't worry, I don't design things that suck". With that, I spit my ideas out and he made them come to life. Here are my inspiration photos for our future kitchen.

OUR KITCHEN:
The next 3 pictures are from the first time I viewed the house:







This is what it currently looks like:




INSPIRATION PHOTOS:

Dining Room

I don't have much to share here other than I've taken down the existing wall paper and Jeremy and I FINALLY bought the table we had our hearts set on 5 years ago. That's right, we waited 5 years to buy this big beautiful 9 piece dining set and I couldn't be happier. I can't wait to see how it looks once we get the trim and walls painted!

BEFORE: (This is from a showing and not our furniture but it was the best before photo I had.)


AFTER:

And More Play Room

I also wanted to share this really cute idea I decided on for displaying the kids' artwork. In the old house playroom, I took a simple poster frame and framed a giant drawing and it stayed that way for 2 years. The fridge here and there are stainless steel so magnets don't stick to it and, the the old place, we ended up having papers scattered everywhere of random drawings. No more messy stacks of artwork! I figured the main reason the art stared in the frames is because it was annoying to have to take a picture down and replace it after removing the old and so and and blah blah blah. Since I break g;ass all too easily anyhow, why not just use those cute little clips I used for the flash cards?
This is what I came up with: I haven't decided if I'm going to paint them or not. I kind of like the mismatched colors.


Here's a close up of the empty frame and the clips. Now, I can easily change around their art whenever I want, in no time at all!

Play Room (more)

I am STILL trying to get that playroom together and solve storage solutions like this:
Puzzle and game pieces strewn about due to broken boxes!



But, never fear! Remember this: twin sheet I used in the other playroom project?



And I'm sure you now what this is: Modge podge, (ignore the roll of wrapping paper; it was a bad idea), foam brush, and FREE flat rate shipping boxes



I just modge podged the fabric right onto the boxes after I glued them together and sealed them up.



I still need to come up with a pretty label for each box but they look like this when you're done and they match all the other projects so far in the playroom:

Home Office Part 2

Here she be... minus those two picture frames for the awards leaning against the wall. What's with me getting a room 90% done and moving onto something else? :)
Anyhow, I didn't add the before pictures or other wall since I just posted them a few days ago.

Play Room

I worked until the wee hours last night getting the playroom organized. I'm not ready for the final reveal but here is one of my favorite storage solution to date and I made it with things lying around the house! I have a huge problem with messes. I don't like pieces and parts floating about. I do love flash cards but hate the mess that comes along with them. The little cardboard boxes don't hold up and they end of here and there and everywhere. I found a bag of these plastic clips while I was unpacking. I also noticed they were sitting close to and empty picture frame and I picked one up and got to wondering what to do with the flash cards as I whirled the clip around in my hand on a nail. DING!!! Idea!
I took and old set of sheets and used the fabric to create a nice pretty surface over a piece of cardboard the same size as the back of this poster frame. Then I just nailed holes in an orderly way, sorted the pile of cards, clipped them together and here we have my storage solution!





I decided I like the idea of the sheet as fabric so much, I cut more fabric off the sheet and started gluing (with fabric glue) the same material to my existing baskets for a different look.