Hall Bath - Finished

This is our first room we've remodeled start to finish. I am really proud of it and relieved it's over. There were so many times along the way we could have just called it "good enough" and moved on. But I don't think there's anything we did only once, we just kept re-doing and figuring things out until we got it right. So I'm proud of that. And I'm happy to be able to give Arden baths again and to have a bathroom for visitors to use that doesn't embarrass me. Instead I'm like, oh thanks for coming over do you need to go to the bathroom you probably should just in case.

We kept the Kohler toilet that was in here. The sink and vanity are new from Ikea, the faucet is old (vintage?) Ikea. This Godmorgon vanity is fine, it's very simple and the drawers are nice storage-wise. Kind of too white over here.

Here is the also beautiful shower tile. I love it so much. This is 2x8 Daltile Natural Hues in Mint. For me it was the perfect mix of mid century style as far as color, but also modern in terms of tile size and installation style. And also, this is technically the kids/guests bathroom so I wanted it to be fun and colorful. I ordered it from Salt Lake Tile, who were amazing and so helpful and let Arden eat all their candy like a candy psychopath, and let me take home their single sample mint piece and carry it around and hold it up next to everything else I ordered for the next month like a tile psychopath.

I will never regret paying someone to install the tile.

But the real winner here is the person that gets to walk on this tile every morning. My favorite thing about this bathroom times a million. It is from Fireclay tile, 6" hexagon in carbon. Since I failed the initial tile install and had to order an additional 5 square feet, I worked with their customer service people who were so nice and got my order to me within a few weeks even though they said they couldn't rush orders. Shh. Thanks fast tile makers! And you just can't beat handmade tile. It is so dimensional and fancy and perfect. Buy it, love it, but don't try to install it yourself.

 
Love you bathroom! So glad you're mine.

bathroom before

Hallway Refresh - Finished

The hallway was a project I worked on while the bathroom projects were going too slowly and I needed to fix something anything. I had given the hallway some love in the past but it just wasn't working. It started an avocado green which just made everything look sickly and grimy. Then I tried to be trendy and painted it a navy blue. I gave that a good 2 year run but I could just never get into it. The blue was too dark, and I realized that blue isn't very mid century and I'm just not that into it. Sorry, dark blue. I love you in everyone else's house. So I painted the ceiling a fresh white (Behr ultra white), the walls the same white as the rest of the house (Behr painter's white).
Pretty rug from our trip last month to Marrakesh.

Flush light from Lowes, isn't it pretty? I think it looks like a Jonathan Adler light.
Frames from Target. Love those big mats.


Most of the changes were really boring. I switched out the air intake vents for fresh white ones. I took out the bulky smoke and CO2 detectors and switched in a pretty Nest one. Except it keeps giving me false smoke alarms which is going to cause a heart attack. I also patched and painted the trim, that was really tedious but looks so much better.

Here is a terrible before picture from a different angle, sorry. This is actually the main reason we did the hallway refresh, is because I wanted to take out that bulky swamp cooler vent since we took out the swamp cooler when we put the new roof on 2 years ago. And you can see how bad all those detectors and doorbells look. Now everything is gone except the doorbell and one detector on the ceiling. And just look how dark blue that dark blue is.