Master Bath Remodel

I am finally going to reveal the transformation of my master bathroom. It was the most drastically changed room of our house. We had to rip up carpet, yucky bathroom carpet, rip out wall paper, yucky bambo floor to ceiling wallpaper, and remove antique toilet and sink before we could paint the walls, have someone else hang crown molding, after we tried :), put up beadboard, wainscoting, and baseboards, install new lighting, install the re-purposed dresser vanity, install the new toilet and new shower fixtures, and hang curtains. Sounds easy, but some things were easy and some were a nightmare. So here are the before and afters.

The Vanity. New lighting and new vanity.


The tub. I love this tub, but we still want to get it refinished.


The toilet. Not a good shot of the new toilet, but you get the picture.


And the shower area, complete with new curtains.


On of my favorite things in my bathroom is my new vanity. We took an antique dresser, refinished, cut the hole in the top for the sink, and cut out the back and some of the drawer space to fit the plumbing.

And wallah, we have a new vanity.

Chuck E. Cheese Cupcakes

My little cousin was turning 5 and he needed some cupcakes for is birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese, well his mom needed them. She wanted to stick to the Chuck E. Cheese theme since he was sharing his party with another boy in his class, how sweet right? I had been seeing other cake decorators create the flat layered cupcake toppers, and wanted to give it a try. So here is what I created.
And here they are on the cupcakes I made for him! Yummy!

These were so much easier than I thought. I just created the image in photoshop, separated the colors and printed each color. I then used those as templates to cut the fondant out with a razor, and while still soft I put in the stick. If you are considering this, give your pieces a full day to set so that they will stand when you stick them into the cupcake. You don't want droopy fondant.

Guest Bathroom Remodel

We finished our kitchen in time for Bunco, but I still had one room left I really wanted to completely redo. That was the guest bath. With three weeks between Bunco and Easter, I pressured my sweat hubby into getting the guest bath complete so we could host Easter this year. My plan worked. He loves hosting get-togethers, so he got our tub refinished, the tile down, the old fixtures out, and the new fixtures in, with my help of course, in three weeks! I painted of course. :) So if you don't remember what our bathroom looked like before here is a reminder.
Our bathroom was complete with pink toilet, pink tub, and pink wall mounted sink that was enhanced by the exposed plumbing underneath. We were also blessed with yellowish linoleum flooring and again floor to ceiling wallpaper which was blue with pink flowers. When I decided that I would start to tackle this bathroom, I thought to myself, "I wonder how hard it is going to be to take down that wallpaper." So, as I was thinking this, I snuk to the bathroom, and grabbed a piece and yanked it. The entire piece came off in one pull, and I had the bathroom wallpaper free in 30 minutes. That really got me rolling, and this is the final product.
We got rid of all the pink, and replaced the toilet and added a black vanity with white marble top and brushed nickel accents. We added porcelain tile floors and painted the walls. We added a new vanity light fixture, but by compromise only did the large mirror stay. I am thinking about framing it out with a ledge like a window, painted out black. I love it. It feels spa-like, yet it could be changed with a new shower curtain and accents to be a kid's bathroom, which it is getting closer to being since I am so close to having the house the way I want it. :)

Sorry no tub shots yet, we still have to put back the fixtures. :)