*~my house is cuter than yours~*: Blogiversery Bathroom Reveal

Lord have mercy, MHICTy's is 18 years old today!

To celebrate I am sharing my decorated bathroom.

Last summer I worked on several big projects around the house even if I didn't have everything pulled together for "perfect". Ideally for my bathroom I would love to have the floors and the fixtures professionally redone but other more financially pressing things always horn in. So I am stuck with the modern era peel and stick tiles and the cracked pedestal sink the house came with.

Also the bathroom is located in a spot where there is no good natural light other than the blaring, blinding setting sun, so these photos are not the best.

But enough apologies, here's the powder room:

Several years ago I found 8 yards of this amazing atomic bark cloth at an estate sale for 10 bucks! I sewed it up into curtains for the window and shower.

I also used it as the primary inspiration, pulling the mucky green out as the color for the walls. I did a sponge painting technique on the walls with gold paint to somewhat mirror the gold in the fabric.

We snagged this vintage pink swan plastic light switch cover from the bathroom wall of a thrift store that was closing down:

The General and Angela are finally up on the wall. I found the ceramic seahorses in a storage shed, broken in chunks at an estate sale several years back. I paid a buck and then just glued them back together.

Mr. Husband replaced both light fixtures in the bathroom with vintage ones.

This is the overhead light shade attached to an inexpensive new light fixture:

I have had these chalkware fish for ages! I bought them from ebay probably 25 years ago:

There are those mermaid cuties!

There is only one small niche in the bathroom that gets a spot of decent lighting and that's this lower shelf of the storage cabinet. I included many images of this shelf to help ease the assault on your eyes of all the other horrendously badly lit photos.

I wish I would have taken before/after photos of these chalkware swans. We bought them for super cheap at an estate sale 4 or 5 years ago. They had been sloppily painted white with, I don't know, a toothbrush? I repainted them with black acrylic paint with accents of gold nail polish!

Also visible is the other vintage light fixture Mr. Husband switched out.

We don't have a lot of flat surfaces in our bathroom so here are the little we have cluttered up with doo dads and what-nots:

The Eisenhowers keep watch to make sure everyone is washing their hands properly:

Above the door I hung a bunch of vintage hair and beauty helpers. I don't think the colors work properly here but I went with it anyhow.

On the wall behind the door I am still working on hanging up a barrage of vintage bathroom related ads such as this warning about mildew being murder!