Vanity - Not the Vain Kind

Yesterday I posted about basement progress.

I also mentioned things I was hoping to get done this week.

Well, yesterday morning I got an email from the company that I bought the bathroom vanity from and it said that it had shipped.

So I was a little surprised when like 4 hours later the Reddaway Truck guy knocked on my door to deliver the vanity!

 The box weighed like 250 lbs. so obviously it was going to take some man power getting that downstairs.

We just so happened to be having a BBQ that night with some friends and used their muscle power to get it out of the box and into the basement.

Thanks Guys!!

Here's a little sneak

It's comin' along!

House Updates!

Yesterday I started painting our main bathroom upstairs.

I am doing a darker blue on the wall with the bead board and a shade lighter on the other 3 walls.

I did bead board on the wall and I just had to copy cat Shelley and bead board my ceiling too. 

LUCKILY, when my contractor was doing stuff in my basement I had him just hang the stuff in my bathroom AND when my painters were in the basement I had them doing the bead boards upstairs as well...

I decided I could paint the bathroom walls myself though.

Here's my progress:

Next: 

About a week and a half ago I finalized my tile for the basement bathroom floors and I went with a hexagon pattern. 

So vintage and old school feel!

Up this week(hopefully):

I ordered our bathroom sink vanity, hope it shows up this week and have that installed.

Have the plumber come back and install the toilet, bath tub hardware, vanity, etc.

I ordered the shower surround last week so I hope to have it installed later this week.

Need to order and get carpet installed in the entire basement and stairs leading to the basement.

Finish painting the bathroom upstairs.

I hope you can see why I have had a drought in the craft department, 

I have spent so much time researching carpets, vanities, hardware, surrounds, etc.

Carpet

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I have spent SO MANY hours this week thinking about and looking at carpet for our basement!

I swear I could be a carpet salesman now. I've got all the lingo down!

BUT, I still haven't decided what to buy for the basement. 

 If anyone has bought carpet lately what have you bought and why?

Shag or Plush? Nylon or Poly? 

Do you upgrade the pad?

I'm struggling trying to find a great deal.

Any carpet buying tips you want to share with me?

Basement Family Room

We are at the point where we are carpet shopping for our basement and then comes a few major necessary pieces of furniture. I am in need of serious decorating advice of what to do in the basement family room. Here are a few pictures that I either like one or more elements from the photo.

All the pictures are via Pinterest...and you can specifically find them all located in my "Basement Family Room" Pin board. I would love if you would help me find more inspiration! Send me your favorite basement spaces. camillastarks (at) gmail.com

And, as always, if you don't have a Pinterest account and want one I can always send you an invite, just shoot me an email with your email address and I will send you an invite.

Guest Bedroom Ideas

I've been trying to decide how I want to do my guest bedroom downstairs in the basement. 

Here's a few pictures I have on my "bedrooms" pin board. 

Which is your favorite?

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If you want to see more of my bedroom ideas o Pinterest click HERE to view those, and tell me what is your favorite!

Colors

I've been crazy trying to pick colors for the basement.

I've got painters here priming and getting everything ready...waiting on me to pick colors!

I think I have finally narrowed it down to these:

Olympic, By The Sea (For the Play Room)

 Valspar, Peach Gala (For my Craft Room)

 Laura Ashley, Apple (Down Stairs Bathroom)

These colors don't come out looking completely true to the samples I have on the walls, but they are close'ish just to give you an idea.

And the rest of the basement is in the plain jane beige.

OK, Today I'm off to pick out Tile...Wish me luck!

Basement Bathroom

Here is what my basement bathroom currently looks like:

It's actually kinda beautiful in a weird way because you know what that picture means??

I get to do exactly what I want to do to it!

Here are some of my bathroom inspiration pin's I've gathered. Tell me what you think?

I am having a Chevron pattern put in for my tile work, not this big of a contrast but still noticeable.

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Bead Board going against the left wall. I even kind of like this color, I don't know though.

 

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I want this cabinet. Love the legs!

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Great storage for above the toilet.

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I LOVE this Anthropologie Shower Curtain, but obviously would need to be the colors of the bathroom.

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Go check out the rest of my "Bathrooms" Pin board and you can see the other Tile options I was looking at, some prints I found that would be great hung up, and other decor options and ideas. What have you done with those dark basement bathrooms you guys have?