It's A Private Space, Right?

Hey everyone!  Is anything off-limits to a blog post?  Okay, I think I may be pushing the envelope here, because I'm taking you into the bathroom.  Eek, I know, could be gross!  Well, I plan to keep it as clean as possible, but I really want to share with you how we've changed up our guest bath.  You may remember how it looked after I "dressed" it when we first moved in:

I used everything from our previous home's guest bath to decorate this one, which was okay.  I knew I would be making some changes down the road.  Well, that "down the road" time has finally arrived, but it's nothing "earth-shattering" or "super-grandiose," just some pleasant updating.  So here we go!

Bathrooms are certainly not great rooms for photographing, & sorry, no way to avoid the toilet!  This is as much of an overview of the finished room as I could get.  The lighting was changed quite some time ago, but we just recently removed the shower door.

It's so much roomier with a shower curtain & brighter, too!

It's very difficult to find an extra tall shower curtain, so I found one I really liked and took it to JoAnn's to find some coordinating fabric to add additional length.  You can't really see it in the pic, but the fabric I found has a tiny brown dot on the turquoise which looks perfect with the florals and butterflies of the curtain.

More toilet scenes -- YIKES!  What I really wanted you to notice is the window with glass blocks.  I have such a love-hate thing with those.  I love the light, but hate everything else about them!

Okay, this pic is all about Abby.  She likes to open that bottom drawer and play around with all the little guest soaps, shampoos, lotions, etc.  The Man actually put extra-heavy-duty magnets on all the lower cabinets throughout our home, because she was constantly opening them.  Try as she might, she can't open those, so she has moved onto the drawers!  Okay, enough of Abby!

See what's now covering the glass blocks?  Yes, shutters!  We are so happy we made the decision to get shutters made for both bathrooms.  The master bath has a much bigger glass block window that now has a shutter, too.  I'll be revealing that room some time in the near future.

We are ecstatic over how much nicer this looks -- much more finished!

Tired of looking at it, yet?  Sorry, just thought you would want to see it with the light on.....lol!

In case you haven't noticed, I really like turquoise!

I really like turquoise and green mixed together!

I love having this wrought iron tiered basket filled with all kinds of things that guests might need.

The candle flavor is "Island Getaway" and smells wonderful!

I had enough fabric left over from the shower curtain to add a band to some white towels.  The framed art above the towels was a bit of a craft project.  I loved the dark frame, but had grown tired of the print.

I removed it from the frame (boy, did that glass need cleaning inside and out).  I don't know exactly what this is called, but it is like a very thin wood that had this design super-glued onto it.  There is no way I could remove it, so covering it was the only option.

I went through some of my scrapbook paper and found two sheets that coordinated, and used 

Mod Podge to adhere them over the old stuff and then used the Mod Podge over the top, too.

Ta-Da! 

 I love how it turned out, and it looks perfect with the new shower curtain and the rest of the room.

Just one more look and last chance to see the toilet -- YAY!

I'm so happy that you took the time to stop by.  Hope you didn't get embarrassed looking around the bathroom -- if you just didn't have to have a toilet, it would be a much prettier room!  Oh well!  I know I kind of overloaded you with pictures, but that's just my MO and probably won't change!  I do hope you are having a great day, and will come by again, anytime.

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