Effectively, I suppose that is the place I formally introduce myself to you, EHD readers! You’ve seen many pictures I’ve taken, you’ve seen my basement, bed room and front room makeovers that our woman, Emily, has so graciously helped us design, and you will have seen small bits of my face in among the pictures/movies from workforce retreats—I’m extra of a behind-the-camera-gal than in entrance of it. Whereas I’m not an official EHD worker, it’s been so enjoyable to be part of this workforce.
Again in 2021, my household and I made the large transfer from the Eastside of Portland to the Westside for more room/extra yard/slower way of life, and so on. All the identical causes a whole lot of younger mother and father transfer to the ‘burbs. Round that very same time, a mutual good friend of each Emily and I, Max Humphrey, launched the 2 of us. The Hendersons’ rental home (whereas the farmhouse was being renovated) was in my neighborhood. As a result of we lived so shut, Max thought Emily and I ought to be mates 🙂 Whereas she’s now not up the road from me, she’s only a brief 7-minute door-to-door drive away. It’s been a reasonably nice little partnership/friendship these previous few years.
Emily has given a bit of little bit of a rundown of our residence in earlier reveals, however as a refresher, our residence was inbuilt 1962, and we’re the second homeowners. The earlier homeowners made a couple of (considerably questionable) updates, doubtless within the 90s/early 2000s. However we nonetheless did a pretty big and needed rework once we moved in. We just about painted every little thing white to begin, and slowly, with the assistance of Emily, have been including in additional coloration and character.
The Loos
Although we made some fairly main adjustments early on, cash and persistence ran dry, and we have been okay, or extra like had to be okay, placing loos on the again burner, figuring out very nicely that sometime they would wish some critical love.
The Main
Right here’s what the first rest room seemed like on the day we purchased the home. And actually, earlier than our contractors demo’d it a few weeks in the past, it nonetheless seemed just about precisely like this 4 years later! I had zero want to do an “within the meantime” fast makeover. I didn’t need to exchange {hardware}, paint the cupboards, hold a brand new towel bar–I didn’t need to waste a single greenback on bettering this area. (I’m the boring penny-pincher in my household, are you able to inform?) Truthfully, other than being small, it’s positive. Does the off-center mild fixture, bathe tile grout that by no means truly comes clear, and peeling linoleum flooring drive us insane? In fact. However our earlier 1905 Eastside residence had one small rest room downstairs and off the kitchen, so an “en suite”, small as it’s, felt and nonetheless feels very luxurious. I knew that when we saved up, our “sometime” rework would come ultimately, so investing any time into this area felt pointless.
Listed here are a couple of extra pictures earlier than demo actually began:
The Children’
On the opposite facet of our rest room wall is my daughters’ rest room–equally hideous and opulent. I say luxurious, once more, as a result of I shared a really small rest room with my mother and father and brother rising up, so what a deal with it’s for my daughters to have their very own. This area has additionally not been touched in 4 years. Between bathtub instances when my women have been little, enjoying nail salon, and doing the mad morning-dash to get off to highschool, I’ve truly spent much more time on this rest room than my very own. The urge to do a couple of of these small updates on this rest room got here… after which, ultimately, dissipated. Ultimately, the linoleum remains to be the linoleum, and the off-center lighting will nonetheless be off-center. The time and assets for the small updates simply didn’t make sense to me.
If it’s not tremendous apparent from these pictures, these loos are tiny. As a result of it’s not financially an choice to develop the general footprint, the most effective we are able to do is make them extra purposeful and extra fairly. In comes Miss Henderson 🙂
AllModern reached out to Emily a couple of partnership a couple of months in the past, and all of us felt like this may very well be the proper alternative to lastly do some updating. They’ve an excellent collection of rest room objects, from vanities to lighting to plumbing–a little bit of a one-stop store.
To be very sincere with you, loos stump me, design-wise. Every thing feels (and is!) SO everlasting. I had a tough time actually figuring out what I even needed for our main rest room. I pulled photos of so many wonderful items from AllModern’s web site, however couldn’t get a cohesive design going that felt like us. However then, late one evening throughout a doom scroll, I noticed my good friend and unimaginable prop stylist/designer right here in Portland, Karie Higgins, posted a photograph of an attractive rest room with a BAINA towel in it. This led me to BAINA’s web site, the place I fell in love with the colour scheme of considered one of their stack of towels, and the remainder is historical past.
As soon as I’d selected colours I favored, every little thing else began to fall into place. I discovered this beautiful white oak self-importance and paired it with this drugs cupboard.
I used to be additionally fairly offered on each the flooring and the bathe being blue sq. tile. I instantly pulled out all of the samples I’d gathered once we redid our hearth and ordered a bunch extra. We ultimately landed on this beautiful mild blue tile that Fireclay generously gifted. We’ll be utilizing 2×2 squares on the ground and 4×4 squares within the bathe.
Right here’s the moodboard I despatched to Emily a few months in the past. Truthfully, I used to be simply hoping she wouldn’t hate it—as a result of by that time, I used to be fully offered on the entire thing. Excellent news: she cherished it too.
Medication Cupboard | Self-importance | Tile | Checkered Towels | Striped Towels
Shifting on to the youngsters’ bathtub…
Making choices for his or her rest room felt a bit simpler than for ours. We knew we didn’t need to go too “little woman” in right here. My daughters are nearly 5 and eight, so it might be fairly straightforward to get carried away and design for his or her ages now. We nonetheless needed it to be enjoyable, however hopefully, a toilet they’ll take pleasure in after they’re of their teenagers, as nicely.
We discovered this beautiful self-importance and paired it with a giant built-in mirror/drugs cupboard.
Fireclay was form sufficient to reward us tile for each the first bathtub and for our women’ rest room. We’re going with this beautiful 2×2 creamy-colored sq. tile for the ground and will probably be doing a 4×4 sample for the tub partitions on this enjoyable, heat yellow and pale pink. Whereas the tile was ordered with the intention of doing a checkered sample, we all know I really like checkered, I’m questioning if a stripe can be fairly as an alternative?
Medication Cupboard | Self-importance | Wall Tile (yellow and pink) | Flooring Tile
Medication Cupboard | Self-importance | Wall Tile (yellow and pink) | Flooring Tile
And, that’s the place we stand at the moment! Demo started a couple of weeks in the past, and the crew (thanks, Afore!) is plugging alongside. Tile ought to be beginning within the subsequent week or so. Excited to share the completed product with you all within the coming weeks 🙂
Opening Picture Credit: Photograph by Kaitlin Inexperienced | From: Kaitlin’s 70s Impressed, Colourful And Cool Dwelling Room Revealed (Y’all, I’m So Jealous)
