Before and After Bathroom Alcove

For the last couple of days I've been working on a small makeover in our 'master' bathroom. This alcove was made a little more useful and a lot more exciting by adding an easy to make built in shelf + some white paint (Benjamin Moore's 'Cloud White'). White♥

After the before and after is finished there is always styling to be done. Styling, I love doing it but it's racked with decision making:) Which one works for you?

Mirror Mirror

This is The Tight Shag Mirror from my Shag Series. It's made with white, hand cut vitreous glass tiles, glass seed beads and chained crystal rhinestone. In 2011 I was commissioned to make two of them.
The other day I received pictures of where they ended up...

24.25"x40", weight 25lbs.
in a beautiful bathroom designed by BedfordBrooks Interior Design.

Letting the sun shine in

 

The girl's bathroom is a project that I've been working on (off and on) for a couple of months.
I finally finished the last of the painting this morning - yeah!
This was my first project using our new (kijiji purchased) mitre saw. How did I live without it?

 

It all started with the shower curtain, Hannah's choice, which led to the colour scheme (yellow, grey and white) which led to the decision to do wainscoting.

As you can see it didn't take much to give this blah L-shaped space some much needed character. Simple changes added some simple fun charm.

If you listen real hard you can hear the birds chirping;)

Dog Print - Etsy, (by a Toronto based Illustrator)

Grey Paint - Benjamin Moore's Smoke Embers

 

An Alcove Altered

For the last couple of weeks I've been working on the girls bathroom, all with the help from our most recent kijji purchase, a mitre saw! Ahhh The Mitre Saw. My world has changed. With it the possibilities seem endless.

The girls bathroom is a long and narrow space with an alcove/nook at one end. A couple of weeks ago there wasn't much going on there. Today it's a different story.

Over the years we've taken down every big vanity mirror in the house (don't like them) and put them in the basement - each patiently waiting to be recycled.

One of them was used in 2011 for my Big Wood Ruler Mirror and last week another one was used for the girls bathroom makeover.

This is how is worked...

The mirror that I recycled was 3'x4' and luckily the alcove in the girls bathroom was about the same size.

All I did was...Adhere the mirror to the wall and put up the anchors for the shelves. 

The ladder kept the mirror in place while the glue set. As you can see the original plan was to have three shelves but decided later that it didn't make sense to have a third shelf that the girls couldn't reach. I finished up by trimming the mirror then putting the shelves in place.

It was a bit tricky to get a good shot - it's a small space.

Below is the same big mirror in two different bathrooms - hard to believe. Have I mentioned how much I love my mitre saw?

P.S. As you can see I also did some wainscoting and painting which I'll share more of when the bathroom is completely finished. Stayed tuned...

Recycling A Mirror

The Big Wood Ruler Mirror that I just finished has an interesting story. This is how it came to be...
These mirrors (photo below) are sitting in our unfinished basement, waiting to be recycled.

They came from the bathrooms in our house that we've slowly been changing up. They're a big box builder thing. When we moved in, 5 years ago, every bathroom looked like this one (left photo below). Big boring mirror topped with cheap Hollywood lights. It's a good thing I make mirrors:)

The Process: I took one of those big plain mirrors, added a big fat frame then worked some design magic. In this case the magic came from 234 wood rulers, 408 brass screws and 156 brass hex nuts.
The Big Wood Ruler Mirror was the first of these mirrors to get a new life. Three more to go. Stayed tuned...