Hooked on Bead Board

I am more hooked on bead board than I realized. When I went to take pictures it was everywhere. You saw pics on it in my bathroom a few weeks ago. Here are few, er actually of lot of other places I have it...

In my dining room I have a plate shelf that goes around the entire room with beadboard on top of it ...

I have a couple of shelfs and cabinets that have it as the backing or door.

It's hard to see on that one, but the back is bead board.

My kitchen walls and ceiling are bead board stained Americana...

And my most favorite piece of furniture is solid bead board. It's made of recycled boards that have the greatest peeling turquoise paint....

Julia at Hooked on Houses hosts a really fun Hooked on Party on Fridays. Its always fun to look at all different posts.

The Perfect Saturday....

Do ever have days that just make you smile when you look back at them? Days that nothing really special happened, but that were just fun and enjoyable? Saturday was one for me.

Oh wait with one exception.....We went to watch a Powerlifting Competition that my cousin was coaching. All I can say was it was crowded with stinky STINKY boys all hyped up to lift a bar with giant weights on each end. I love sports so I thought I'd enjoy it, but it was not my cup of tea.

Okay onto the fun part. My Aunt has been telling was about this store for months. So we finally found a weekend when we could all get together. I was in heaven just pulling into the parking lot.

Recycled Memories is located on Hwy 181 outside of Floresville, TX. The owner Dawn, is super nice and has a lot of unique pieces mixed in with antiques and wrought iron...

I'm thinking about that locker unit for a future laundry room I'm planning, or maybe in a garden shed....

She had a barn in the back that was full of furniture. I only got pics of a church pew and a cool apothocary cabinet...

So you know I didn't come away from this place empty handed. I scored a small wrought iron bird bath and this neat piece. Its three shutters that are framed together and has a great patina. Here starts my Met Monday post. Sorry it took so long to get there. I've had this fake fireplace for a few years. It covers the return air vent that is annoyingly in the center of my living room wall. So I'm giving it a makeover starting with the shutters. So should I continue and paint the fireplace? Any color suggestions???

And to top off my day I got to visit with my bestest friend and her family who where staying in Castroville for the weekend. It's really fun to give another person's kids lots of sugar on Valentines at 7:30 at night. The sugar rush was good for many many laughs...

Bathroom Remodel

I thought I'd share my bathroom. About 6 years ago I bought an old pier and beam house that I completed gutted and rebuilt. My parents helped, but I did most of the work myself. I have to say tearing out the pink bathroom was at the top of my list, that is until I realized there was 6 inches of concrete below the floor and on the walls.

This is the only before pic I have. You can't tell but the floor tile is pink also.

This was a small wall at the front of the tub that created a small cubby hole for the toilet. It was gross. Before we started we thought it was just going to be popping the tiles off with some minor cleanup. Yeah were we diluted or what. This house was built before plywood was made, and definitely before cement backer board. So what did they use instead? Concrete inbedded with wire mesh. The walls had 4 inches of concrete on them, and the floors had over 6 inches. So out came the sledge hammer.

After all this was cleaned out we took out the wall that formed the cubby hole, and had to put in 4 or 5 sheets of backer board to build the floor back up to the level it was. The plumber was not happy about having to drill through it all. I hung, tape and floated, and textured the sheetrock and then the fun began.

After I got the sheetrock finished I painted it the brightest yellow I could find. I think it was called school bus yellow from SW, but not sure. The pics fade the color out, its actually a much deeper yellow than that. I finished the bottom of the walls with white washed bead board and trim.

My grandparents had always had a clawfoot tub in their garden with cactus growing in it, so I asked them if I could have it. They agreed, and I had it refinished, and then later found out it was my great grandparents bathtub from their old farm house.

I picked up a bunch of metal pieces with great old paint on them and hung them around. This bigger piece is actually two pieces that I hung together. I got the bath sign in Canton.

My mom gave me that great mirror. It's supposed to hang vertical, but it works sideways too.

The only thing that bugs me about this room is my faucet. The one I bought didn't fit and I had them put in the cheapest one they had with the intention of getting a better one. Six years later and I still have the ugly one.

Hop on over to The Remodeling Guy's Link party to see other great remodels....

A Little Paint Job...

So I have a crazy Aunt who is always giving me stuff. She loves garage sales and thrift stores like I do, but her tastes are a lot different than my own. I love her spirit, but some of her gifts go straight to the garage sale pile. It gives her joy to give, so I let her give. So at Christmas she gave me this dog.

It's orange eyes just really bothered me. So the weather was beautiful this weekend, so I decided to try and do something about those eyes. It's amazing way a little spray paint will do. I used gray primer first, and then just a light coat of white to brighten him up. Now I think he is more presentable...

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