One Room Challenge #motherdaughterorc

This One Room Challenge is going to see some Mother- Daughter action!!

So Inspiration time.

Mollie's bathroom  (when she is home) is in the upstairs hall

and serves as a guest bath when we have overnight guests.

It has had a few tweaks here and there but really hasn't gotten much attention since she went to college and it's time for the décor to "grow up."
(During the middle school years it was bright purple, turquoise and lime green.
 Apologies to any guests who had to go in there before morning coffee. 
But she loved it. 
It was soooo middle school.)

It is comprised of a long room with a double vanity and a small shower/toilet room off to the right. The rooms each have a window which is nice.

A lot of things are staying like the vanity and fixtures and, unfortunately,
we are not reflooring this room right now.

She would like Chinoiserie to meet Boho Chic.

Hello. 
How do you do?

Where to begin?

There are so many things I love about this bathroom by Chez V.

One of her ORC's. Her kitchen ORC is amazing as well.
And her garden. And her textiles. 
I love her blog and follow her on IG.
She is talented and entertaining!!
We are going to try and channel a little Chez V-ness!!

Mollie wants a Chinoiserie shower curtain.

 That's been in the works since before we decided to take on this bathroom for the ORC.

(You may have seen some of the fabrics we have scouted out on Instagram
Sneak peek below!! )

I love the colors, the "collected over time" feel of this room.

Lots of white and an elephant.

All good.

( Sneak peek!)

Lots of white in this bathroom below.

 Right now our walls are white and weren't painted that long ago. We will just have some small touch ups to do and repair nail holes when we move art. I hope.

I've only done one previous ORC and painting that room white ended up taking foreverrrrr.

And separate mirrors.
Down with the giant wall of mirror over the vanity. 
Wish us luck taking that monster down.
#whoneeds7yearsbadluck

I also love the tone on tone between the white walls ad pale grayish vanity.

On the wish list.

Bamboo mirrors.

Hoping for a goodwill/thriftstore/ craigslist score.

 

Maybe paint them for a pop of color.

I love this pair of mirrors in the ORC picture below.
I actually love all bamboo mirrors as I've demonstrated before.

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Or maybe natural.

If I found the pair below I wouldn't hang them on the wall.
 I'd probably sleep with them under my pillow.

They are perfect. Perfect.

 

And they framed out the giant wall of mirror and just layered. 

I like that. I have a mirror over mirror in the master bathroom. We shall see.

As we said. There will be bamboo.

 And blue and white. Because.

via Furbish

And the floor.

I painted it a few years ago (stripes)  and it is not going anywhere 
so I'm considering a design this time or a subtle tone on tone stripe if I stick with the stripes. Either way I'm repainting the floors. Oy. It's not hard, the rooms aren't large it's just the drying time. But, I will say that two years later they still look good and there have been nail polish remover spills and lots of water splashed around on them.

Whatever happens on the floor and with the mirrors greatly affects the vanity 
and what color we end up painting it.

 So that's a big unknown right now.

 I would love to re-tile the bathroom with wood tiles from Mirth Studio. 
For more than one reason. 
Love the designs. She's from Charleston and it's such a unique and stylish product.

 And she's from Charleston  ;)

There are a couple of spots where we could use some art to create a small Anna Spiro style gallery wall and emphasize that collected look, evolved over time look that we like. 

 We have one problem area that has me a bit stumped.

 The tomato in the room. (Do you watch Parenthood?)

It is an antique medicine cabinet that is installed into the wall over the toilet.
It seemed like a good idea years ago. :(

  It could be worked on and become a cool kind of boho spot in the room or we could just cover it with a giant piece of artwork.
 Out of site. Out of mind.

We could get wordy with the giant art if we go that route.

 ( This is pretty funny, if you ask me.)

And we are going to be brave and strong and let the 1980's light fixture go.

 We will miss it so.

The ceiling fan in the WC has to stay. It's like a sauna in there  year round after a shower.

So something dangly in the other room might be nice.

 I have my eye on something on clearance 

but I like the chance to bring in another fabric pattern as well.

Fabric covered drum shade pendants like theses would accomplish that.

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Whatever we decide it's 'buh-bye' to the 80's bright brass light fixture that we painted white a few years ago ( Lipstick on a pig, I know!)

  

 And we must score some bamboo shelves for storage. 

The thrifting Gods must smile on me and quickly 

because those ORC weeks fly by faster than the last 5 shopping days before Christmas!

I'm off to see what everyone else is up to!!

Thank you to Linda at Calling It Home for hosting.

 

Best Garland Ever!!

How fun is this??
 It combines the best of all the garlands out there. It is a string of lights - in this case clear with a white cord- and torn strips of scrap fabric. I call it my Rag Swag! You simply tear the strips into 1 to 1 1/2 inch strips about 6 or 7 inches long and tie 2 or 3 between each light. As you can tell, it's not an exact science. You just decide the width, length and number of strips based on your preferences. How full and raggy you want it. You can use random scraps or plan a color scheme. I've done them to match rooms and, of course, one with owl
 fabrics for my favorite Chi O!!

I've swagged them over windows, decorated for parties and now I'm getting one together for a Christmas tree. The possibilities are endless. The string of light costs just a few dollars and the fabric could be free scraps or just a yard or so makes a whole garland. So even if you want to buy a certain fabric it won't cost much.  If you want a Halloween one for next year , orange lights are 60% off at my Wal Mart amd Halloween fabric is on sale everywhere:)

The pictures don't do it justice but they are really cute - take my word for it !  I'll try for better pictures and post them if they turn out.

This is so simple the kiddos can help or make one for their rooms - they are perfect night lights- talk about cute !

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