Redecorating Sucks. Totally.

[Midlodemocrat]

So, Mr. finished the two bathrooms and they look great. We put in marble tops with all in one sinks and really cool retro looking faucets. They are both going to be painted a bright white.

The dilemma? I wanted a black and white toile shower curtain and accessories for the kids' bathroom and something in a wedgewood blue for our bathroom because I am going to redo our bedroom in wedgewood blue. (It's been pale yellow with a gorgeous black and white magnolia border that he only last week told me he has hated since he put it up, but I digress).

I can't find black and WHITE toile, only black and Ivory and everything in a wedgewood blue is too fancy for me. I mean, c'mon, a shower curtain that has to be dry cleaned? Would last about ten minutes in this house, probably less. Give me a break.

So, that's been my last 1/2 hour. And, now I'm not happy.

[AlCzervik]

1. i really like toile but the black and white always seems "black and ivory" . I found a website

2 of these look like they are b & W. "Central park" and "Country life" It's only the material but you always make the shower curtain yourself or maybe you know someone that could.

http://www.onlinefabricstore.net/SearchResult.aspx?KeyWords=black%20toile&gclid=CMT8_8eNgZMCFQkvgwod-gKtFQ

[Midlodemocrat]

4. That black Country House is almost exactly what I was thinking.

I wanted something dramatic because the walls/ counters etc are white.

Thanks!

:hi:

:loveya:

[AlCzervik]

5. well good luck, i'm sure they'll send you a swatch just to be sure.

i would offer to make the curtain for you but the button hole thing, last time i tried things didn't work so well.

[Midlodemocrat]

8. I never thought about making it myself. I got a new machine not

that long ago on clearance that will do buttonholes automatically.

:bounce:

[NMDemDist2]

22. or just use big silver (black?) grommets too.

http://www.beaconfabric.com/vindex.html?cat81.htm

[lost-in-nj]

2. You could use a curtain panel also

if you found one you liked...

I admired a friends shower curtain for a while and finally asked him where he got it.
In the curtain Dept of JC Penny !!!


lost

btw
both bathrooms sound nice!!!!

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Best part is how cheap they were to do.

The marble top with the integrated sink was $200 for each room. The faucet was $118 on clearance and the tiles for the floors were $50 for each room.

Mr. is feeling better and wants to get back into doing his own projects rather than 'outsourcing' it, which is fine by me. We've got BoyMidlo to be the muscle and BabyMidlo is the 'step and fetch'. All I have to do is pick stuff out. :rofl:

[matcom]

6. marble TOPS?

fucking elitist :eyes:

[Midlodemocrat]

7. You betcha. Stock tops were about the same as laminate

but with the laminate you have to buy the sink separately. :woohoo: Go. Me.

:bounce:

[Radio_Lady]

11. Sounds really pretty, Midlodemocrat.

Good luck to all of you with the new looks!

I love black and white, but mostly in clothing.

Never worked with it in a house, although I knew a woman whose house was ALL WHITE. She was featured in the Boston Globe newspaper once.

It looked pretty.... boring to me.

I don't think she was married or had any kids.

Warm regards,

Radio Lady in Oregon

[Midlodemocrat]

14. Ha. My house is almost totally navy blue.

Navy blue and light blue and maroon in the family room,
Navy blue and pale yellow in the kitchen.
Navy blue in the downstairs bath.


I even drive a navy blue car. I figured I needed to give the navy blue a rest before my family smothered me in my sleep.

[Radio_Lady]

16. Well, the new house we're looking at is all brown. Maybe sand colored...

rugs, walls, and CEILINGS, too. Newly painted by a decorator in a speculation home.

I'm going to have a problem with my red-white-and-blue Colonial stuff. I really don't want to paint the walls.

Most of our furniture really works with the new hardwood floors in the Great Room. Let's just hope they don't squeak like the floors in our current home.

Decorating can be an anguish. Usually, I spend hours at the linens stores, but what I find is frequently available at thrift stores -- I like to be imaginative in the design world.

I've done a Perrier (water) bathroom which overlooked our swimming pool in Boston. The Perrier representative had an office in our town and he gave me posters and stickers (for the bottles). I used the stickers for borders and painted the room a beautiful aquamarine. I wish I had taken pictures of that bathroom, before we redecorated it into Southwestern motif in the 1990s.

Another bathroom in our home was devoted to rainbows, because my first radio name was Ellen Rainbow (long story about how that came about). People sent me so many rainbow treasures. I found wallpaper that matched and a diagonal wallpaper that actually spelled out the work RAINBOW. It was pretty unusual! That one was done in the 1970s but I still have many of the items we displayed there.

[Midlodemocrat]

17. If they do, you can remedy that by sweeping baby powder into the cracks.

It really works.

[Radio_Lady]

18. Unfortunately, our upstairs is not accessible from underneath. The squeaks are coming from

the subflooring under wall to wall carpets.

We tried the SQUEAK-NO-MORE system and it didn't work at all.

I'll let the next owner worry about it.

[Radio_Lady]

19. Baby powder! I'll have to remember that in the new place.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[Jamastiene]

9. Go with the black and ivory then

make your own wedgewood blue. Or, let him pick what he wants and grumble under your breath.

:hide:

[Midlodemocrat]

15. Are you kidding me? He'd do a fish or a boating theme or something

along those lines. When we were dating, he had a stuffed shark in his frickin' living room. Hammerhead that he caught and had stuffed.

It was quickly relegated to the garage and now it resides in the sunroom. Which has a beachy theme, so I guess it's okay.

:rofl:

[Jamastiene]

20. Hey, you might have just solved your own dilemma here.

Let him put the shark on the bathroom wall and get some under the sea themed shower curtains. :evilgrin:




















:hide:

[Arugula Latte]

10. Here ya go ... Here is your black and white shower curtain:

:evilgrin:

[Midlodemocrat]

12. Why, why, that's absolutely PERFECT!!! Just the effect I was going for.

Thank You!!!!

:rofl:

[Radio_Lady]

13. That's truly hysterical! You psycho!

Just kidding!

:hug:

[Jamastiene]

21. I love it. I want one.

Do they come in standalone shower size?

[Arugula Latte]

23. Here is one link ... I don't know about the sizes:

:hi:

http://www.prankplace.com/psychoshowercurtain.htm

[LeftyMom]

24. I'd give you some advice, but my bathroom is decorated in Spongebob Squarepants.

:eyes: