Paint Can Fix It: Painting the Roses Or Dots Red. Whatever.

December is a busy month.

I am probably preaching to the choir.

I haven't only been doing Christmas stuff, there has been other "stuff" too. Problem is, finding the time to blog about it. In other words, lots of things to come in January.

In the mean time....enjoy some of what remains of the bathroom.

I made the decision, I was doing polka dots. I couldn't decide on the size or how many...but I was doing dots and they were going to be a coral red color.

After much Pinterest hunting I decided that I liked the size/spacing/randomness of this picture the best.

So, I went with it. I found a circle cap that I had, and used that as the template. If you know me, you know that while I like the way "random" looks, my brain tells me that it is all wrong. So, trying to space my dots, with out making them looked spaced was...interesting.

I started by drawing circle outlines on the walls. I would do a couple and then stand back and look to see if I liked it. The more dots I put on the harder it was to see the spacing.

So I put x's inside my dots. That didn't work quite as well as I had hoped either.

So I put on my thinking cap and went with what I had...little dot stickers.

The color of the dots was annoying, but it gave me a good idea as to whether or not I would like it, and if I needed to have more or less of them. In the end I decided that I liked the spacing. Seeing the dots visually also helped me to decide to add dots to the wall with the window and the wall with the door, that I was previously going to leave white.

Then I painted each one of those dot outlines with a little paint brush, twice.

They are not perfect, but I kind of like them that way.

Personality, and all.

Next step in finishing the bathroom was picking out a shower curtain. I do just about as well with picking out shower curtains as I do with picking out curtains. In other words. Not well.

So, I decided just to make one. Simple as pie. Um...no. Picking out fabric for the shower curtain gave me a minor hernia.
I had two pictures on my phone to help me with picking out colors.

When I finally picked out the fabric that I liked....they didn't have enough. A grown woman almost cried right there in the store. Alright, alright. I may be overselling it a bit. But I did have an internal tiff, then proceeded to buy 4 swatches to decide which one I liked best by hanging them up by the shower.

Wouldn't you know the original one that I liked, I still liked the best.

So I went back to the store and bought all of the yardage that they had, and crossed my fingers that it would work.

Fate was evidently on my side that day, because just a couple of seams later and I had a functioning shower curtain.

With a shower curtain, some dots and a bespectacled pig we were set.

There are still a couple of things that need work. Namely, finishing the vanity (Hello! no drawers!). Also this little nook is odd. It has our water softener in it, and it also has the shut off for our AC unit.

We plan on eventually putting a door there and making it a linen closet, but in the mean time I found a dresser that may find a home there.
$7 for a good wood dresser isn't bad in my opinion.

Blake always says that before and after pictures are his favorite. So for Blake, may I present....
Before:

After:
It looks like this picture is taken from a different angle then the before picture.
It isn't.
So strange that most of this bathroom use to be a big closet.