Bathroom Quick-fix

I'd been wanting to get these shelves from IKEA for over a year now, but unfortunately we don't have a store in Kansas City.  Finally, when I was in Fort Worth recently, I went by IKEA and grabbed some!

These are the shiny white 7.5" deep EKBY TONY shelves that fit into the EKBY BJÄRNUM brackets.  You cut the shelves to the length you want and then the brackets hide the cut edge.  I cut mine to be 2 ft. long over the toilet to add much-needed storage for guest towels.

[i used fabric samples layered inside the picture frame to add my colors and pattern to the space]

before:                                                    after:

Before, I only had one towel bar for guests to dry their hands AND hang their bath towels from.  Now I have the bar for their bath towels PLUS the shelves for extra bath towels, hand towels, and washcloths.

I also hung three hooks on the wall behind the door for my husband and my bath towels... plus an extra! ;)

TIP: by repeating the dark brown stain of the sink basin in the wood vase and willow branches and keeping the other colors (white and green) consistent it makes the small room feel more organized and simplified. 

It's amazing what two little shelves can do for such a small bathroom!

To see the full transformation of this bathroom and to find out more about the other products used, click HERE!

Guest Room & Studio

This is our guest room, but is mostly used as my husband's office and display for historical trinkets!

My husband had the framed map already so I had shelves made to surround it on the wall.  I used the Rakks system, and Sawdust Inc. in KCMO made the shelves laminated with a zebrawood style Formica.

The old carpet was removed in my studio and replaced with the same engineered wood throughout the living space.

The cube bookshelf against the orange accent wall is from West Elm, my desk is actually a rolling console table from cb2 along with the two rolling file cabinets.  I had sheet metal cut from Western Metal in Lousiburg, KS for a magnetic thought-board, and I found the vintage chair from Mission Antique Mall.

The Bathroom

Before:                                            After:

During demo... I got really into it!

SHOWER:

We re-tiled the shower and added a shampoo niche' into the wall.  The porcelain tile is from Home Depot [$1.60/sqft!!!] I needed something that would tie the beige existing tub in with the gray tones I was using in the rest of the house; this tile was perfect!

Shower curtain from Crate & Barrel, green towels from cb2, white towels from Target.

That old cabinet above the toilet was just too bulky and impeding on the space, floating shelves from IKEA and towel hooks on the wall were much easier on the eyes while still providing extra storage.
For more information on the shelves click HERE!

Vanity, sink, splash, mirror, hardware, and lighting from Lowe's