The truth about home renovation

The blogs were lying to me.  All those pretty before and after pictures that made it look so easy.  All lies!  Oh sure, some of them were like 'oh gosh golly gee, it sure was annoying to live without a kitchen for all that time, but we just put on our happy faces!'

Friends, I'm here to tell you the truth:  Home renovation sucks.  Home renovation means your closet looks like this:

Everything in the guest bedroom in preparation for the built-ins

Thank goodness we saved the wardrobe boxes from our move!

It means your living room looks like this:

Our new sofa comes tomorrow and Drew is gone this week so he had to move our old one to the basement before he left.  On the bright side, we have tons of room for our daily dance parties!  My baby girl loves to dance!

Home renovation means your kitchen and dining room looks like this:

The kitchen still isn't done, so this is how we're living.

Oh, how spoiled we were in our last house.  We didn't have to do anything but decorate, which I now realize is the part I like about DIY.  Small projects that give me instant gratification, that's what keeps me going.  These big projects that take thousands of years to complete?  You have have that shizz.

But it's not all bad.  I just needed to get that off my chest, because living in chaos is no fun and having a toddler running around makes everything fifteen times more challenging.

I just keep telling myself that it's going to be over soon, because the money is going to run out and it'll HAVE to be over.  Har de har har.

Okay!  Enough bitching!  Let's get on to some good stuff!  Like our sexy sexy backsplash (that's not done yet but we're not focusing on that.)

At first, I thought the randomness of the pattern would upset my OCD, but as my cousin's wife pointed out, randomness is itself a pattern.  

Deep, right?

This is a fancy-pants pot-filler.

It's very fancy.

I need to quit taking pictures with my phone.

Or at least turn the damn thing sideways.  Sorry y'all.

I promise I'll take better pictures next post.

If you squint really hard and look above the doorway especially, you can see the greeny gray we finally chose for the kitchen.  Well, actually it's the same color as the stripes on the dining room wall, so I guess what I mean is that I finally painted that wall.  It's Ocean Pearl by Behr and I was up until two this morning painting the kitchen and our master bathroom. Which I'm about to beg y'all to help me with.

That brings me to the other truth about home renovation:  Working with a blank slate is harder than I thought.  Let's talk about our master bathroom for a sec.

First of all, it's weensy.

It's ridiculously hard to get a decent shot of this bathroom because it's so small.

PS, it's also ridiculously hard to find a decent shower curtain for a shower stall.

This was literally the only one I could find that was even halfway cute.

Standing in the shower stall, facing the other way.

And this is my dilemma.

This too.  Please help me!

You see, I need a small project to keep my motivation going.  The rest of my house is a disaster area and I really just need some space, any space to be done.  The weensy bathroom shouldn't be that hard, right?

I painted it last night and the greeny gray looks really nice in there.  But what the heck do I do over the toilet?  It's so tiny and the vanity and medicine cabinet are brown, and I don't want to overload the room with more brown.  I was thinking to put a glass shelf over it and spray paint the hardware oil rubbed bronze so it would all match, but if I do some sort of shelves to the left of the medicine cabinet, would that be too much shelving?  Additionally, we have no towel holders.  

I bought a hook to go on this skinny part of the wall, but yeah.  

That's as far as I've gotten with this room.

Do I do a towel ring?

Like this guy?

Or a wall shelf with a towel bar and just put some art over the toilet?

Like this one?

I don't want to do a cabinet because the medicine cabinet is pretty big and two cabinets in such a weensy space would definitely be too much.

And then the window?  Curtains in such a small space would be silly - I need something clean and neat, like roman shades.  There are tons of no-sew roman shade tutorials out there, so I'm not too worried about that part.  Unless you count having to pick out fabric.  Then I get all twitchy and catatonic.

So, won't you please give me a little boost?  I've already painted - what should I do next?  Won't you please help me have just a little win in our weensy bathroom?