For all you Looky Loo's

See what I did there? Ha.

Our main floor powder room has actually been mostly finished for quite a while now (considering all we did was wallpaper and put up shelves) but since it took me foreeeever to find, order and receive the shelves, it's been hanging in Loo Limbo. Until now! Behold.

Before, yellow as heck:

Hieeee! There's me and my big fancy camera that I don't know how to use.

And After:
(seriously, some one teach me how to take pictures. Although the room is like only 8x3 or something so it's a little hard to get up in there.)

I found the wallpaper at Home Depot, which surprised me. The mirror is from Home Sense, and the frame and photo are from Ikea. How inspired of me, I know. I actually just ordered this print from this Etsy shop, and I'm going to try it out in there. But I also might want to put it in my bedroom, so we'll see!

And here are the shelves (purchased here), behind the toilet. Sorry, I did not get a compelling photo of the toilet. It's just a toilet.

I found the glass box at Home Sense, the Voluspa candle was a gift, and I found the little framed picture for $5 at the St. Lawrence Antique Market in Toronto. It's of this Victorian lady stepping out of a carriage. It's cool.

And of course, a basket to hold extra rolls of toilet paper. Because you wouldn't a simple trip to the bathroom to become awkward for your guests. I'm a practical sort of host.

 And here is the light fixture, from Royal Lighting (in Toronto).

And finally, this is my failed attempt to capture the entire room in one photo. You can see my arms holding the camera in sideways blindly firing off shots. Whatever.

All in all, I think I created a really nice place for guests to pee in my home!



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Just like the Abbey

I'm obsessed with Downton Abbey! I wish I lived there. Have you noticed every room at Downton Abbey has some kind of wall panelling? Chair rail, wood panelling, wainscoting etc... Obviously I need to make my house look more like Downton Abbey so I can wander around pretending I'm Mary Crawley and ordering people to pour my tea while staring at myself in the mirror.

 Sigh. I really should have been born the daughter of an Earl sometime in the early 20th century England. I would have been SOO good at it.

So, with the help of my awesome dad (the Earl of Grantham), we're installing wainscoting in our dining room. It will probably look like look nothing like this when we're done:

The dining room at Downton Abbey

I started by taking all the measurements of the room:

We needed 363" or 30.25' of chair rail (we added up all the wall lengths to determine this). And then to create the boxes within the chair rail space, we doubled that, and then figured each box would be 22' high, and then figured out how many boxes we would do AND OH MY GOD THIS IS SO BORING WHO CARES.

Anyways. We went to home depot and bought chair rail and decorative moulding. The Earl told me how much to buy and so that is how much I bought. Let's not turn this into a math lesson ok?

Then we drew guidelines for the chair rail and the boxes on the wall. It looks like some kind of ghetto Trompe-l'œil.

 
I can't wait until this is done. The dining room is currently so boring and beige. I've got some wallpaper samples on the way to check out for above the chair rail.

See the candidates on my pinterest board. And stay tuned for more pictures of the progress!