Master bath reveal

 All of the little details finally came together for me.  The master bath started out like this a few weeks ago and I'm happy with it.  It's rustic but a little bit modern kinda like us.

Seeing this makes me happy every time I walk in the room.  

From the beginning, I knew that I wanted a chandelier in the bathroom.  I could NEVER decide on what to hang on the wall and I thought a chandelier would take care of that problem.  But I'm too cheap to pay an electrician to come out and change the pot light to a chandy.  I searched everywhere for a candle one that would be used for outside but found nothing.  I found the lantern at Pier One and literally drove the cashier nuts looking at it for 20 minutes.  As soon as I put the mercury glass votive holder inside of it I was sold!   I hung it myself after you tubing how to insert the hook in a drywall ceiling.  And I got the chain cut at Home Depot for like 4 dollars.   I'm using a battery operated candle in it right now.  Not ideal, but definitely safer. 

And the little details make me smile.

This is my favorite picture.  

I'm really trying to do my best with my point and shoot camera.  Especially since I got my new MacBook Pro yesterday! A new camera would be great too but I have enough to learn about right now and I'm really happy with my Mac! And sorry about all of the pictures.  I really wanted to do a collage but that will come with time.   

I can honestly say that this room is the one that makes me the happiest in my house.  I look forward to feeling that way about all of my rooms.  But one project at a time huh?

I linked this up to DecorChick's Anything Goes Linky party.

Master bath remodel

A year ago we did our first remodel project on the house.  It was supposed to be an "update".  You know, to save money and do it ourselves.  Well that all went out the window when our contractor said we could knock down a wall and create a walk-in shower.  I'm so glad that we went for it.  The bathroom needed some serious work.  Case in point:

{Before}

We called it the Miami Vice room.  I tried desperately to keep the granite and save some money but there was no getting around the fact that its pink. 

I tried this idea from Emily but it made it more pink. 

But when I covered up the gold genie lamp faucets and hung up the black poster board, my heart skipped a beat and I thought of Melissa's master bath. Her bathroom was just the look I wanted.  But Melissa didn't have pink granite so we added that to the list.  See, full blown remodel and not an upgrade anymore. 

The picture of her bathroom was shown to all the workers so they could have an idea of what I wanted.  It really helped with the process.  Guys tend to look at you crazy when you talk about black cabinets.  But show them a picture and they somehow get it. 

I had to put a picture of these guys!  They were awesome.  All day long for three straight days, he would measure and she would cut.  They were like a machine.

{during}

{finished!}

So a very long story to say that it still looks like this a year later.  No knobs, no new towels, no artwork....nada.  It's so bad that my hubby is pleading me to do something with it. 

Any ideas?!