I told you in an earlier post about my wonderfully frugal buys I found for my bathroom renovation. To be honest, the paint and wallpaper would probably still be sitting in my bedroom floor if I hadn't had a surprise visit from an old friend. Dorothy Lilley and I have been friends since college when we lived in the same duplex. We've not lived in close proximity since then, but she always comes to see me when she's in town, and I just love her. She's fun and talkative and full of energy. She and her husband were in the area visiting his family, and she called me on Sunday night to ask if she could spend Monday morning through Tuesday morning at my house. Of course I said yes! Then it worked out so that her husband didn't pick her up until Wednesday morning, and I had two entire days with my good friend!!
Being the energetic person that she is, she suggested that we do a project while she was here. We picked the bathroom. That girl worked. She dug around in my garage and found some drywall scraps and patched the hole in the wall under the vanity that had been there for three years! Then we painted, then we wallpapered. We did a lousy job on the wallpaper, so when we got back from my grandson's football game (they won!) we found it peeling off the wall. We made a late evening run to Super WalMart and looked at their 'oops' paint. I was gravitating toward a bluish tint, and she kept going back to one that I called beige and she called gold. Since she has a much better eye for color, we went with the gold. It's perfect!! I ended up liking it way better than the wallpaper. Dorothy very generously bought several things for the renovation, like the shower curtain and the towel rods. She even found brushed nickel switch plate covers! And she bought some hangy downy things to hang on the hooks that have always been screwed into the ceiling in there. They're the perfect touch! I absolutely could not have done this without her.
You can't tell from these pictures I took from my phone, but the wall behind the mirror is a light mocha, and the adjoining wall is the gold color. The gold matches the shower tiles and the countertop and pulls it all together.
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