I'll post more about the visit to Devon in a few days, but meanwhile here are some pictures of my refurbished cloakroom, completed just hours before we left for Devon.
We're off to the Isle of White at the end of the week too, so I might be a bit intermittent for this week.
The bathroom in this house used to be at the top of the stairs, but over the years, with remodelling, the main bathroom is now downstairs and upstairs there is a small ensuite and a separate cloakroom. It was looking a bit tired so, partly as part of my general preparations for our next plan and partly just because, I decided to tart it up a bit.
The woodwork got a fresh lick of satinwood, the walls and ceiling were freshened up with matte white and the bathroom cabinet was given a facelift.
It had been orange pine which wasn't looking so good in the bright white room! I painted the whole thing white, then put a duck egg blue in the door recesses and stuck a backdrop of a rather cheerful Japanese paper on the inside. I also replaced the door knobs with porcelain ones with a little floral motif. I'm rather pleased with the overall effect. It certainly looks more cheerful than the dreary orange pine did!
I'm not a fan of those tiles, but replacing them was a whole other ballgame, so they have to stay for the time being!
I don't know about you, but I find that the pull chords for bathroom lights rapidly look grubby. I had tried to clean ours up to no avail. Obviously I could have easily gone out and bought some new chord, but I decided instead to thread it with brightly coloured wooden beads. They will be much easier to wipe down.
The whole revamp cost me absolutely nothing because I had paint, paper, doorknobs and beads - even better!
Back soon :)
Good idea about the bathroom door string, always getting grubby.
ReplyDeleteAnd you can change the beads to suit your colour scheme or even the seasons!
DeleteIt looks bright and fresh just what a cloakroom should be.
ReplyDeleteThanks. It surprises me every time I walk in still - it's so much brighter!
DeleteI'm now going to look at the pull cord in our bathroom because I have no idea if it's dirty or not - which just goes to show that I spend more time reading than looking for things to clean! Bad bad housekeeper
ReplyDeleteReading is always a good option. If you had beads, the chord wouldn't get dirty and wouldn't need cleaning, hence giving you more time to read!
DeleteIf you know what you would like, you can "paint the tiles". it is a two step prosses and really easy.
ReplyDeleteJust an idea.
cheers, parsnip
I've had a look on the Internet about tile painting - I might give it a go. Thanks for the tip! :)
DeleteThat is such a coincidence! I was upstairs and reminded myself of how nice the 'new' bathroom pull cord is that we bought about 2 years ago, and thought I should get something similar for our downstairs shower room, and then had supper and then looked at your post ... the beads look the business!!!
ReplyDeleteMargaret P
How weird! Funny how things like that happen sometimes. Glad you like the beads :)
DeleteLove the pull cords, I recently replaced all of ours and they are getting grubby already, beads for my future cords!
ReplyDelete...hopefully future chords in future dream house?! :)
DeleteI think that your beaded pull cord may have "the Delia effect" on bathrooms all over blog land, now where did i put that costume jewellery.
ReplyDeleteWell that would be wonderful! :) will have to wait and see ....
DeleteLove the bathroom re-vamp it just goes to show you dont have to spend a fortune, beads I have loads of might have to do that :-)
ReplyDeleteI very much enjoy getting a result without having to spend money. I also consider it as decluttering as I have used up two tins of paint which are no longer cluttering my shed!
DeleteWhat a fabulous idea! I may have to do the same (I will link to your blog!) something I would never have thought of doing but so lovely! Your bathroom does look better, I agree about the tile paint, if you take the time to do it properly it would look lovely x
ReplyDeleteGreat that you like the idea - it's a simple remedy for an irritating problem, but also adds a nice little touch of decoration. I look forward to seeing your beaded chord pull too :)
DeleteI love your idea for the pull cord. It looks fantastic. X
ReplyDeleteThanks - glad you like it :)
DeleteLove the revamped cabinet.
ReplyDeleteI simply cut the cord shorter and shorter as it gets grubby .... until I have to put up another one because it looks ridiculous to visitors :-) We have about half a dozen waiting in the wings as we got them cheap from somewhere when we were doing up the house a couple of years ago.