NordenBladet – Good morning! When at the same time you have five months worth of events unwritten then you don’t even know where to start. In March I undertook the renovation of our bathroom and hallway, but last week also the summer room (veranda) that is in use from April to October.
Today I will write about the bathroom. Within one day I renovated the little hallway leading to the bathroom and the toilet – I repainted the wallpaper and then started with the renovation of the bathroom. By now I have already painted many wallpapers but never before had I painted ceramic wall tiles. For the tiles (glazed tiles) you must use a bit different paint – water proof. I bought Tikkurila Luja ceramic tiles with matte colour. I selected two colours for the bathroom – greenish (S440 Silkkitie 177.) and grey (N499 Basaltti 21.). With the greenish one I painted the walls and with the grey one the walls around the shower set, the shower floor and the sink cabinet.
I painted the walls three times, at some places even four times and then we let it dry for three weeks. After the first layer it seemed for a second that, oh no, it won’t work, but with each layer the result got better. The final result was very beautiful! A bit here and there is still to be done – slats, wooden window sills, new blinds or shutters for the windows.
Allan changed the white electrical plugs and the silvery shower set for black ones. Super cool was also Allan’s self made wooden bench in front of the shower set. Firstly he polished the old beam that he found from the attic and then he imbued it with boat paint or more precisely boat polish.
It is super cool to pimp-renovate-repair your home on your own! I used to think that repair works are only men’s work or something that you buy in as a service with crazy prices. Actually you just need your two hands and some enthusiasm. YouTube is full of videos where you can learn the tricks of repair works and also HGTV is very good, it is full of home design and renovation ideas! Read more about my renovation blogs for example from HERE and HERE.
The little hallway before (light blue wallpaper) and after (white wall paint):
The bathroom:
We took down the old bathroom furniture (cabinets) and took it to one of our for sale apartments, I ordered a new one from Hulgimuuk.ee site (HERE) and repainted. We bought a new black shower set and black sink faucet from DEPO (Veskiposti 1, Tallinn).
With that the pimping of the bathroom did not yet end. I decided to do some art too, and took an old tabouret which I first painted the same colour as the bathroom walls and then decorated it with an ornament. I got the idea for the ornament from Riley Blake Designs website “Prairie Meadow Sew Along by Lori Holt of Bee in my Bonnet” collection of patchwork ideas (HERE). I really like recycling and giving new life to old things!
The pearls of my home are, to my mind, the rag rugs handmade with knitting looms, they bring coziness to every room of the home, they bring a positive and genuine country life aura and uniqueness. Most of the rag rugs in my home have been ordered through the Facebook group “Annyliisi käsitöö” (HERE).
That’s all for now! Hugs!