Hi friends.
So I'm finally getting around to sharing the pictures of the so far only finished room in our new house.
The downstairs bathroom.
The smallest room to tackle. At least we can say we have one room done. (For now. Some day we'd like to tile the shower but that's a ways down the road. I want a new kitchen before we do something like that.)
So this is a pic I snapped of the downstairs bath before we moved in...
And as soon as we moved in we starting trying to figure out a paint color...
I wanted to find a blue that would tie into the little bit of blue that's in the shower curtain.
After several test colors, we wound up using Harbor by Behr.
I bought the new light fixture at Lowe's.
Mr. H took down the builder mirror and we found the new one at Kirkland's.
He also painted the oak vanity black.
I'd like to paint the shiny metal frame of the medicine cabinet an oil rubbed bronze. Anybody done that before? I wonder how well the paint would stick. Now that I'm looking at this picture I really want to do that. When we moved in I took out all the shelving inserts from inside the medicine cabinet and bleached them. It cleaned up pretty nice, but the outside could use some paint. The canvas is a picture that I took from our Bad Hass Family Vacay in San Diego a couple summers ago.
I found the towel hooks at TJ Maxx. Or Home Goods. One of those places.
And we wanted more storage in this bathroom for when we have guests, so we bought this cabinet above the toilet at Bed Bath & Beyond.
One more time, here's before...
and After...
And just a keepin' it real picture for ya.
The door behind the stairs is the door to the bathroom.
On another note,
today at Target I saw this super cute aqua patio chair on clearance and I had to have it.
The navy chevron pillows were on clearance for only $10!!! I have one that I bought last month, so I was excited to buy two more on sale. And the seat cushions were pretty picked over because they are also on clearance, but I thought the red and white striped one would look good in the aqua chair on our front porch next to our red door.
I plan on getting a bench for the porch too. And I'd really like to find a yellow garden stool too. Or something yellow. Here's a quick look at what the front porch area looked like when we moved in...
While I do think those huge succulents were pretty, it was just too much. We couldn't even see the space. This was the view from inside the house looking out the front window before...
You can't see anything!
And the front of the house after...
So we had it all torn out, and Mr. Hass painted the shutters shown here and the two front facing window shutters black, and the front door went from a flat green to a shiny happy red. And this is the view from inside the living room window looking out now...
Much better view.
Eventually we'd like to get wooden shutters for all the windows in the front of the house.
For now the living room is mostly empty.
Last weekend we picked up a few plants at Lowe's for the front.
We asked my Mom for some advice on the placement of things. She's a gardening pro and I don't have much of a green thumb, so I hope my new plants stay alive!
We also got a new hose box that is much prettier than our old one we had out front.
The girls loved digging.
And I LOVE my new vinyl 'hello' sticker that I bought on etsy. :)
I'll show ya the end result when we finish up with the front.
We also grabbed these two fun red adirondack chairs at Lowe's...
And my new $10 Target clearance chevron pillows look great on them!
It all ties in with the chevron rug I bought recently too.
That's it for now.
Hope your week is off to a great start.
I'm about to go hop in the spa.
And then watch Scandal!
Are you watching it?
We're only on season 1 but it's good.
We're hooked!
