Time to Reflect

I have just spent the last couple of hours writing a new post and adding the photos and captions and clicked one wrong button and deleted all of that work! How frustrating! So, here is the photo "story" of my parents upstairs bathroom!

As I spent time traveling the past two days (13 hours in airports and planes on Monday and 7 hours in the car driving yesterday) I had time to reflect on some of the work I did at Momma and Daddy's. Most of the work is not visible because it is inside walls and beneath coats of paint, but we did the finishing touches on both bathrooms and the pantry.

This bathroom is on the second floor and has some funny roof lines. Because of the odd shape the only place for the shower was smack dab in the middle of the room. To the right of the shower is the toilet and sink and to the left is the laundry room.

Daddy added this room on a couple of years ago and it has functioned fine, but the finishes weren't complete until last week. I caulked all the trim, we painted, added shelves and then the fun part, decorated!

After

Before

There was very little storage because of the limited space and pedestal sinks. So they decided to add shelves to the shortest wall next to the sink. Because of the steep pitch of the ceiling, the space was not usable for anything else and yet it was too much space to waste.

We found the perfect bins to use for storage in the office supplies section. These bins are used for file storage, but worked so well here because they are square all the way to the bottom. (most baskets we found were narrower at the bottom and didn't utilize the space as well) We left the top shelf open for towels and since she uses only white towels, it looks very clean and organized!

I'm not going to pretend that we knew this would work out so well, but when we got home with the bins, they fit perfectly!!! I mean it was as if the shelves where built to fit them! What luck!

We used an antique metal kitchen canister for laundry detergent. And where this new addition met the old house there was an odd little niche that we closed in and made space for one more bin to store additional laundry supplies.

It is amazing how some carefully thought out storage made a tremendous difference in this odd space. The bathroom is actually quite large in floor space, but because of the odd angles of the ceiling, the space feels much smaller. The layout, use of every inch of space we could cut out for storage and the clean crisp color scheme, keep it from feeling cluttered. When it comes to organization and storage, think outside the norm. We found the best solutions in office supplies and antiques!