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A bathroom from Sarah's House on HGTV

Barnaby’s bathroom needs a makeover

My highly impractical outhouse chic bathroom has finally found its calling!  Though it does function well as a powder room, it’s not pretty yet and powder rooms should be pretty.    But, the tiny vintage clawfoot tub it houses is perfectly Barnaby-sized and the sides are high enough that he can’t escape from our sudsy [...]
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my bathroom isn't big enough to get a shot of the full curtain, so here's the bottom half!

Project: DIY Shower Curtain

When I was helping Becky decorate her rental apartment on a tiny budget, I found some great linen curtains at IKEA that  we purchased for her bathroom update.  I couldn’t resist buying some for my place as well.  It’s hard to find pretty fabric shower curtains that don’t cost a fortune, so I decided to [...]
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vintage clawfoot tub with new plumbing

Outhouse chic bathroom

The outhouse chic bathroom is still a work in progress.   But I’m loving my long soaks in the vintage claw foot tub.   The reproduction shower set came from Vintage Tub & Bath and it works great. The reclaimed mushroom wood wainscoting will get a second coat of milk paint to calm it down a [...]
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The Hunt: Vintage Goodies

Olde Good Things is a terrific resource for vintage and antique lighting.  I posted previously about the caged ship sconces that I purchased here.  They have so many vintage fixtures & reclaimed architectural elements that I love, restraint is required with each visit. I thought these framed anatomy drawings would be perfect decor for a hypochondriac’s [...]
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