The Fabric Floozie

I guess about 2 weeks ago, my husband headed out to Vegas on a work trip. I was really upset at first because as much as I hate to admit it, my husband and I are a little codependent.

Okay, fine. I’m a little codependent. He’d probably fare just fine without me (although, he is visibly worn down and relieved every time the kids and I come back from a vacation without him), but I always get very upset and lonely when he’s gone.

With 2 kids to worry about, a house to prepare and a birthday party to do final planning for, I didn’t have time to be lonely. You see, my husband was flying home on Friday night at 11pm. At exactly the same time his mother was flying into town for our daughters birthday. So when he got home, he’d have his Mom with him. Which meant ALL the cleaning/organizing was left up to me, to be done before his arrival home. On top of that, on Saturday morning, our home would welcome a dozen family and friends to celebrate Lily’s 2nd birthday. Yikes. So much to do!

Along with the normal “clean bathrooms, vacuum, mop floors” to-do list that is inevitable when you have a get together at your house, I decided to give myself a few fun jobs to do. Things I’d WANT to accomplish, but also really needed to be done.

One of those jobs was to redo the kids bathroom. Their bathroom is a nice sized room for a secondary bathroom, and includes a tub/shower and single sink. It’s nothing amazing, but it is roomy and it had potential if we could just pull it from the clutches of the builder basics that held it hostage. Beige walls. Plain cupboards and counter tops. Big cheap mirror and ugly light fixture. Don’t get me started on the brass doorknobs (those will be the death of me in this house).

So I headed to Lowe’s, armed only with a shower curtain I already had on hand for that room, and 2 screaming children.  I picked out a color by Olympia called “Turquoise Mist” and grabbed a new pack of roller heads. On the way  home, my 2 year old informed me that not only am I mean, but I’m “not da boss”. Can you say “nap time”?

So we headed home, I tucked the kids into bed for naps, and I tackled the bathroom.

After painting all the walls turquoise (half of a $24 gallon), I rehung the shower curtain and liner (Curtain: Free from a friend who didn’t need it anymore. Liner: Already had on hand, from Ikea $3.99. Rings: Already had on hand, from Home Depot. $2.96).

I also applied some fun Vinyl I’d picked up at Hobby Lobby during a 50% off sale.  It went up okay, but nothing compared to the easy applications I’ve gotten from Samantha at Goin’ Vinyl (BTW, if you place an order with Samantha, tell her you heard about her through TFF).

Hit up the towel closet and picked out a mixture of bright towel colors that I had from my college days. LOL

Then I grabbed a green plastic bucket I got years ago filled as a gift basket, cleaned it all out and filled it with some basics for our house guests.

And Ta Da! The bathroom is done!

Overall, it cost me $34.00 to redo the bathroom, and I still have paint left over for other projects. Not too shabby The hubby was very impressed.

Thanks for following along!!

If you haven’t yet, be sure to enter this weeks giveaway! CLICK HERE to read all about it.