snapshots: master bed and bath

when we bought our house, it had schizophrenic floors.  one room had carpet, another beautiful old parquets, another had laminate flooring, bathrooms were tiled, halls were plastic parquets, kitchen was vinyl.  all fugly.  i'll never understand why there were so many types, but we did understand that if we were going to make all of the floors as uniform as possible, we needed to do it first thing before we got too settled in our new home.

so we moved into the only room in the house with real-deal hardwood floors (our bedroom), while we ripped up the other existing floors and laid matching hardwoods in as many of the remaining floors as possible.  we kept the tile and the real parquets.  everything else had to go.

we lived in camp bonner for a month.  it was awesome, see?  sexy.

good times, good times (kidding.  i cried a lot).

here she is now (and yes, i apologize for the dim, yellowy snapshot):

what we've done (bedroom):

painted walls

stained hardwood floors

new window treatments

what we've done (master bath):

***all of our bathrooms are in pretty poor shape, so we just added cosmetic band-aids until we can afford to re-do them down the road.

painted the walls

added new light fixtures, mirror and hardware

our headboard is actually made from old doors mounted to the wall.  these doors sat in our garage for years because we weren't sure what to do with them.  chris took them from a trash-pile at a customer's house years ago (he asked first).  there is an old note nailed to one of the doors explaining their origin.  nola, baby.

one man's trash is another man's treasure.

speaking of trash, we picked up this dresser off the side of the road.  it had no drawers.  my pawpaw built some for us, added some old hardware he found in the back of the shop, and painted it in one of my favorite finishes.  ta-da!  new dresser.

stole this mirror a hundred years ago from my parents' garage.  thanks, mom and dad,  hope you weren't saving that for something special.

photographs from johnny donnels studio in new orleans.  he has since passed away and his studio is no longer there.  but here's his website.

 chris and i made these jewelry hangers a few years ago to give as christmas gifts.  i kept a couple for myself.

 nude sketch bought at an art market years ago for under $5.  pawpaw made the frame.

 leaded glass (made by a dear friend's dad) was taken from our last house before we moved.  and from the house before that as well.  pawpaw recently framed them so we could hang them in our windows here (more about that in another post).

 print from my sister.  designed by southern fried paper. bought at dallas flea.

 hook: anthro.

 knobs: target.

 mirror: hand-me-down.

make up table: pawpaw made it.  thanks again, paw.

chair: bought for pennies years ago at an antique barn in forney.

my favorite paint finish of all time.  chris jokes that i want to paint all of my furniture black.  and it's true.  you know what they say....once you go black....

deets:

curtains: target

bedding: west elm duvet cover/pottery barn shams/target bedskirt

rug: overstock.com

bedside tables: target

lamps: marshall's