House Tour 2012: Master Bathroom

You guys are awesome.

Period.

Your encouragement means a lot to me.

And hearing from you makes these posts much more fun!

Okay... here we have the master bathroom. Which... I don't think I have ever shared before(?). At first, I thought I'd just post the pictures and offer absolutely no commentary. Because... what is there to say?

Yuck?

But, then I took the photos and uploaded them. Looking at the photos, I thought of something to say...

Photography is amazing.

That's what I have to say.

Because these pictures make my bathroom look waaaay better than it does in real life. Seriously. It's not nearly as bad as it could be... I've gotten it pretty clean (but I'm not showing you the shower... I don't even use it... I use the NEW one) and the colors are not really offensive necessarily. It could be worse than a glittery toilet seat and strangely yellowed flooring. I try to forget that it's probably because of previous owners smoking like chimneys. So, it's not as bad as it could be. But, it doesn't really look this good, either. Photography is amazing.

Keep that in mind when you're browsing through blogland. If a blogger is a really good photographer, that's at least half of the appeal of their blog. At least. Depending on how good the photographer actually is, it could be more. It's also good to keep in mind when flipping through rooms/homes that have been professionally photographed. Don't get me wrong... those rooms are really beautiful rooms. But, the photographers deserve as much credit as the designers, because quality photography takes a great space and makes it look incredibly amazing.

Not that I'm all that as a "photographer". And not that this bathroom is going to knock your socks off. But, a decent camera helps.

Here we go...







This would be me trying to stay out of the picture. I was still in my jammies and, while they aren't really immodest, there was more of Jacci showing than I felt like plastering all over the world wide web.





A while back, I was testing paraben-free face stuff to try to find something emollient enough for my super dry skin. Well, this winter I used that coconut oil on my face every night... and I loved it! I tend to use the Trader Joe's moisturizer with SPF for daytime.





If only we had the time to change the lightbulbs.



That blue trashcan is cracking me up.













I'm not joking about the toilet seat. It's a light gray... irridescent... with little flecks of silvery glitter. Over the last three years, I have at times thought it was a little bit pretty.

That freaked me out.

I don't know why I didn't just replace this. I cleaned it about 43 times with harsh chemicals before we moved in, but didn't just go out and buy one. Actually, I do know why. Because I didn't think I could find a gray that matched.

Good grief.





I must really like you people.

That's it. Now virtually anyone in the world has the potential to accidentally stumble upon photos of my master bathroom.

Lovely.

Now, I have got to go! Like, read to my kids or something. It took a small forever to load all those pictures. They've been tying each other up downstairs.

No joking.



Anakin and Padme... in the arena.

But, you knew that right away, didn't you?

Brother told me that it's okay if they play like they're going to get married because there is NO KISSING.

ha ha.

Tomorrow, we'll leave the upstairs and take a tour of the main level... the living room, entryway, and kitchen.

See you later!

on the calendar: bathroom remodel

It isn't going to happen immediately, but we have our first bathroom remodel in the inspiration/planning stages now. Probably at some point this fall, we'll actually bust out some tile and have a whole lotta fun reworking one of the upstairs bathrooms. The other, we hope, will follow soon after this winter.

I've been saving some images and thought it was time to share them with you all. We're drawn to a vintage-y, "old house" feel, but we have to be careful about trying to pull that off. This isn't an old house, after all. I'm skeptical that we could successfully integrate a claw-foot tub into our split level home, for instance. So, we aren't going to try. We are, however, planning on making some less dramatic, period-inspired choices that we think will go a long way. Things like sinks, fixtures, lighting, tile floor patterns.

Well, I'll just let these inspiration images give you an idea of what's grabbing our attention. If you click on the pic, the photo's source will be mentioned in the address bar.












Don't you just want to take a long soak in a tub, now? A pretty tub? I do. Right now we only have one bathtub in the house and it's in the children's bathroom. I admit that I miss the soaking tub we had in our previous house. I love taking baths and that thing was huge and very, very comfortable. I'm thinking a bathtub in the master bath is a pretty high priority. If at all possible.

We need to figure out what configurations are possible, exactly. It won't do much good to plan to move the toilet if the plumbing can't be done or to put a tub in if there just isn't space. So, a floor plan, Stan. That's what we need to start working out.

More soon :)