by Blue-Eyed Bride on February 27, 2009
Before Christmas, Todd and I finally broke down and bought a replacement sink and console for our downstairs bathroom. The house was renovated right before we moved in, but the previous owners decided to keep all of the original fixtures in the bathroom.
It looked kind of cute, but the sink was such a pain to use. The mirror doubled as a medicine cabinet and was so tiny that you could barely see your whole face in it. The original tile is still on the floor and we absolutely love it. It is very tiny black and white tiles. All of the doors in our house are black and have all of the original hardware, so we wanted to find something that looked like the rest of the house for our bathroom.
This is also the bathroom that we’ll use when we bathe our little boy. Here is a picture of the bathroom before:
The original sink had a spout for hot water and a spout for cold water. The bathroom also had zero storage, so we purchased the basket in the above picture to hold towels and wash cloths for our guests.
And here is a picture of the bathroom after:
The adorable shower curtain that we had made with my mom’s help at Calico Corners in Dallas.
You can see the new sink and mirror on the right. We also reversed the direction of the door swing so that it opens out into the hall instead of into the bathroom. This gives us so much more space and allowed us to get a bigger sink console without having the door hit it when it was opened into the bathroom.
We’ve been very happy with it. I think we still kept a lot of the charm of the bathroom in our 1930s house, but everything functions like it’s brand new!
by Blue-Eyed Bride on February 26, 2009
Today is my husband’s 29th birthday!
Everyone give him a big birthday shout out!
His own little boy will be born this year, so I think we’ll have a brand new appreciation of birthdays in June.
Oh, and thank you so much to Penny Lane Designs for adding the adorable “little something extra” in my blog header! Can y’all tell what it is? It’s so sweet! Thanks, Marina!
by Blue-Eyed Bride on February 24, 2009
It’s Fat Tuesday! Happy Mardi Gras! I’ve got about 100 different songs going through my head today as I celebrate this holiday from a distance. Our neighbor and friend made us an authentic king cake (she’s from Louisiana, too), my cousin shipped one to me a few weeks ago, and then I found another king cake on our doorstep this morning from my sweet parents. The note said, “laissez les bon temps rouler.”
I had a good doctor’s appointment this morning. I am officially 24.6 weeks pregnant. My Glucola test was today. I had to fast to prepare for this appointment and I had to drink the yummy glucola orange drink this morning that tastes like a flat Sunkist. After drinking this stuff, I had to wait an hour for it to get into my system so they could take my blood and test for gestinational diabetes. While I waited, I got weighed and heard the baby’s little heartbeat again. Everything sounded great. I’ll go back in 4 weeks for another sonogram and will get to do the 4D sonogram on this visit. Just one more visit until I start going every two weeks. Time is flying!
In honor of Fat Tuesday, here is a list of all of the songs that make me think of New Orleans and/or Mardi Gras:
Let the Good Times Roll- Shirley and Lee
Mardi Gras Mambo- The Hawkettes
The House of the Rising Sun- The Animals
King of New Orleans- Better than Ezra
This Time of Year- Better than Ezra
Iko Iko- Dixie Cups
They All Asked for You- The Meters
When the Saints Go Marching In
What songs remind you of Mardi Gras? Who else is celebrating from a distance?
by Blue-Eyed Bride on February 21, 2009
My husband is interviewing hopeful new attorneys this morning, so he is spending the morning and the early part of the afternoon at the law school. I was able to partially catch up on my sleep this morning and do some “nesting.” We have a four bedroom house, so we had two guest bedrooms, a study, and our master bedroom. We initially decided to turn the study into the nursery because it was the brightest, cheeriest room in the house. We moved all of our study furniture out and then realized we didn’t have anywhere to put all of our stuff! We realized that it seemed ridiculous to have two guest bedrooms that may only be used twice a year and then try to cram our own stuff into nooks and crannies in the house.
We decided a couple of weeks ago to turn one of the guest bedrooms into our new home office and get a “family computer.” We both spend so much time together on our laptops and when the baby comes we don’t want to be doing that anymore. Not that it will be as much of an option, right? We also realized that needed to have somewhere for a third guest to sleep in case my parents and brother visit at the same time. A chair and a half was our solution! We ordered an oversized chair and ottoman and the chair is a hide-a-bed with a twin bed inside. Perfect solution!
Here is the new study. We painted it Silver Sage (a Restoration Hardware color that Benjamin Moore kindly matched for us) two nights ago. We haven’t hung anything on the walls yet because we’re still deciding on some organization pieces.
My next post will have pictures of the downstairs bathroom updates and pictures of the furniture we just had reupholstered. No nursery pictures yet!
