Weekend Work - Bathroom

This weekend the focus at the house was the bathroom! This room is definitely high priority as it's the only bathroom in the house! Mom and I specifically focused on finishing the closet and the bathtub surround.

I had previously primed the linen closet so on Saturday Mom painted it with the final white wall paint. On Sunday I finished painting the shelves and put them in! The original closet color was a greyish green, making it look dark and dirty. The white paint really makes it look so much brighter and cleaner! Mom said she already has something to put in it: the first-aid kit!

The bathtub. Holy mold-y. It was easily the grossest part of the house. I mean, I just don't understand how you can let the bathtub get that disgusting. I sprayed the tile and tub down with Simple Green® Lime Scale Remover. This stuff is amazing. I've used other products from this company and I highly recommend them. In this case, I left it sit for about 20 minutes before getting there with a stiff scrub-brush and scrubbing the heck out of the whole thing! My goodness the amount of nasty dirty residue that was running down the tiles. I could see before my eyes the grout changing colors. It was an amazing almost spiritual experience for this clean-freak! Now, because of the damage along the tub/tile border I opted to fit a peel and stick caulk strip along the border. This is just a short-medium term solution until I decide down the road to remodel the bathroom.

I also made a big decision! Seeing as how we pulled up the carpet in the bedroom, I have to replace it with something before I can move in the furniture. So after agonizing over three completely different colored laminate wood floor boards, and lots of advice to follow my gut (which preferred a hamburger over this decision), I finally said Yes to the Floor. Here's a sneak peak of the boards I was choosing from, in their almost natural environment. The furniture, espresso colored, and bedspread, blue and white, are coming with me, so I needed to make the best decision to work with what I already own. I'll reveal my decision after we've laid it down!

And finally, it's almost Halloween! To celebrate, I put up some decorations :)

Thanks for reading!