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Makeover Guide: Blue Bathroom Ideas

When changing your bathroom’s color scheme, you can either go the simple and easy route or there is the more remodeling option. I have divided the blue bathroom ideas below into these two sections.

1. Simple and Easy Makeover Changes

Take a look around the bathroom, and see what takes up a lot of visual space.

For example, the shower curtain doesn’t take up much physical space, but it does visually. So the color of it will really set the tone and style of the room.

What are some other items in the bathroom that can be repaint or replaced to help you create the blue color palette?

How about:

The window curtain
A frame around the mirror
The bathroom door
Painting the cabinet doors to create a blue bathroom vanity
A rug
Even the towels hanging up can add to the color scheme of the space

These types of items can easily be changed to style and add to the color palette of the bathroom.

2. Blue Bathroom Remodeling Ideas

Here are some other features that are a little bit harder to redo but can also help style the bathroom blue:

The paint on the walls (even the ceiling)
The flooring
Any backsplashes and tiled areas you might have

The Shade of Blue

If you want to create a spacious and bright feeling space, then a white and light blue bathroom is the way to go. Whereas if you wanted to create a more secluded, romantic, and relaxing bathroom – then go with a dark blue wall paint color (along with dark navy blue furniture, decor, accessories and feature pieces).

Here are some more mood board posts to get ideas and inspiration from:

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April 8, 2016 in Bathroom, Color Palettes

A Bedroom With Style: Ideas for a Vintage Kids Room

It doesn’t take much to transform your kids room into a vintage wonderland. Here are some easy ways and ideas to give your kids room a vintage makeover.

Sweet Dreams

The bed is the main focal point in the bedroom. For a vintage bed, look for a farmhouse style one, just like the bed in picture (4). You can get one of those beds here. And you can always paint over it to add a pop of color to the room. Or a wooden bed would also work.

And if you want to take it one step further, then you can look for vintage style material to use as linens and bed sheets.

Decor Ideas

Here a some simple decor ideas that can help transform your kids room:

Vintage map
Vintage style globe
A mirror with a vintage style frame
Hang up a vintage style clock – like the one in the Amazon window below
Or hang up art pieces in an assortment of frames to create a vintage gallery wall Design Tips on How To Create a Vintage Gallery Wall
Use vintage style clothing pegs to hang up photos on a piece of string. Get your pegs in the Amazon window below.
Use a bird cage to house books, a lamp, or to store items
Vintage style bunting can be found on Etsy and hung around the bedroom to decorate the space
How about hanging up some fairy lights
You could use a galvanized bucket, or a copper bucket as a trash can, like the one in the Amazon window below
Hang up some vintage style fabric as curtains, and use a vintage door knob as a tieback
Give the closets a makeover with a vintage color, and some vintage door handles

Creating a Wonderland: Kids Room Decor Ideas

Here are some posts to get more ideas from:

For more decor ideas have a look at my post here: What Vintage Home Decor Ideas Can You Buy For Under $12

Storage Ideas

By using vintage style storage containers, not only do you add storage to the room but you style it at the same time. Some ways to do this include using:

Wicker baskets and hampers
Galvanized buckets
Wire baskets
Glass jars
Wooden trunks and crates
Enamel containers and buckets

Vintage DIY Project Ideas

Here are some simple DIY ideas that will help transform a kids room:

If you have a lazerjet printer, or you can head down to your local printers, you can print out vintage designs and transfer them onto wood. You can decorate wooden crates, a wooden headboard, or just a piece of wood to hang up as a decor piece
You can print out vintage graphcis onto label paper, and used them to label glass jars
An old window can be used to create a vintage style photo frame

For more DIY ideas have a look at my post here: Handmade: Simple DIY Vintage Decor Projects

Paint colors

If you want to paint the walls in a vintage color scheme, then have a look at my vintage paint colors post for ideas and photos: Vintage Paint Colors and Palette Home Style Guide. Mint, pastel blue, and light pastel orange would be some great colors to paint a kids room.

And how about adding some decorative antique looking crown molding. Or how about hanging up a mini chandelier with a ceiling medallion.

Wallpaper ideas

I have a post that shows different vintage wallpaper styles, and ways you can style a room with wallpaper. Check it out for pictures and ideas: Vintage Style Wallpaper Patterns and Designs

Here are some other vintage posts to get more ideas from:

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April 8, 2016 in Bedroom, Vintage Design

DIY Challenge: Give Your Closet Doors a Makeover – Ideas and Design Tips

If you think about it, your closet doors take up a lot of ‘visual space’ in your bedroom. This means that the style and design of them really impacts the style of the space. And it doesn’t take much to completely change the look and feel of them. Here is a list of DIY closet door ideas.

The 2 main ways to change the look of your closet doors are to:

Change the color
Add some depth

Adding depth. This is the easiest and most effective way to give your closet doors a makeover. And you’ll see in the DIY pictures below, that this is done mostly by adding trim/molding and new handles.

Doing A Simple Paint Job

This is the easiest DIY of them all. Give the closet doors a simple paint job, but use painters tape to create ‘faux trim’. By Gemma from The Sweetest Digs.

Sticking On Decorative Decal

What a simple way to add a decorative touch to mirrored closet doors. Roxanne from the Honeycomb Home used the services of Overlays to create a custom fit laminate that she stuck onto her daughters closet doors.

Adding Depth

Adding Embossed Wallpaper

Fawn showcased this DIY makeover on Remodelaholic where she used a $3.62 roll of paintable vinyl wall paper from Lowes. Also adding trim around the wallpaper for a more finished look.

Adding a Touch of Lux

New brass hinges + IKEA handles spray painted gold + inexpensive panel molding. For the step by step guide on how to create these DIY closet doors, check out Kris from Driven by Decor.

Giving a Kids Closet a Makeover

Here is another closet makeover from Kris at Driven by Décor. This time she is in her daughter’s room. This makeover would also be ideal for a home office, pantry doors, closet doors near the front door – anywhere a bulletin board could come in handy.

The DIY Faux Barn Door Makeover

What was surprising about this DIY project by Monica from East Coast Creative is that she was able to use the same closet doors. 8 pine planks, 2 handles, and s a sharpie is what it took to create the DIY barn doors.

Repurposing a Ceiling Crown Medallion for a Closet Door

Here are 2 DIY closet door projects that use crown medallions to add some glamour to plain and boring closet doors.

Jennifer, from Dimples and Tangles, combined ceiling medallions and crystal door handles to create her closet door makeover.

And here is another example of a ceiling medallion being used to spruce up some closet doors. This time the medallion is a little more decorative, and the repainted doors add an elegant pop of color to the room. Found on Pop Sugar.

Replacing The Doors

I saved this one to last, since it takes the most effort, and requires replacing the doors. That is unless you have the swing out doors in the first place vs the bi fold ones. Traci from Beneath My Heart bought 2 $20 hollow core doors, and then added the wooden frame and slats to create her DIY barn doors.

Check out these posts for more ideas and pictures:

March 26, 2016 in Bedroom, DIY

Style Guide: Vintage Bathroom Lighting Fixtures and Ideas

Safety Note: Keep in mind that whatever style or kind of vintage bathroom lighting you use, they need to be rated for the bathroom. Since bathroom lights can get in contact with moisture, or if they are close to the sink or shower, get wet.

Different Vintage Light Fixtures: In a bathroom, you have the option of combining ceiling lights, wall lights, and vanity lights. Here is a quick list of the kind of lighting fixtures that you’ll want to use one way or another in a vintage bathroom:

Gooseneck
Pancake
Nautical lights / industrial guard
School house

The collage below shows what each one looks like. You can get these lights from Barn Light Electric.

Adding Lux with a Chandelier: Other lighting ideas include using a French style chandelier. And you can add a ceiling medallion around the chandelier, or even around other pendant or recessed lights (Design Ideas for Decorative Ceiling Medallions).

Brass Fittings: You could also use more modern light fixtures, but ones with brass fittings to add some vintage luxury character to the bathroom.

Here are some other posts that could help you in designing your bathroom:

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