I’ve been having a great time in Chicago with my sisters. What a fun city to be on for St. Patrick’s Day! Hope you didn’t forget to wear your green today 😉
Tag: green
My mint tiles
OK, guys. I have a new obsession and that obsession is Restore. Habitat Restore, to be exact. And it is amazing. AH-MAY-ZING!
My neighbor first introduced me to Restore in Baltimore and then Restore came to Columbia! Are we lucky or what? (Hint: The answer is yes!)
I go there pretty often now and had to share my newest find: Mint Green tiles!
I scored about 50 of these beautiful tiles for $.25 a square foot. Yes, $.25! I paid $4 total 🙂 Love it!
As you can see in the photos from the store, the tiles were pretty dirty. I scrubbed the tiles for over an hour and they cleaned up beautifully.
Neither of those photos do the color justice, but this one is a better representation:
**drools**
You might be wondering why I bought tiles? Well, for my birthday gift next month we are going to redo our master bathroom.
Here’s a couple of not-so-hot pictures of our bathroom. It’s teeny, so it’s hard to get the whole thing in one shot.
Out bathroom looks a little different now with a shower curtain and a few pieces of art hung on the walls. But it’s nothing spectacular.
Here’s what I’m thinking….
Yes, it’s a sketch. And yes, this will likely change. But anyway… I am thinking a faux wainscoting treatment to the bottom half in white with a neutral color on top. We’ll replace the vanity to get something a little larger in the space, update the medicine cabinet and the lighting…. and then add the mint tiles as accent tiles. Like I said, the final product probably won’t look a thing like this… but this is my inspiration for now.
And for $4, I was willing to take the risk that these beautiful tiles will fit into my not-so-final master plan.
Happy Tuesday!
Green paint and a little sinfonia
“Hello? What are you guys doing right now?”
That’s the call we got from my sister on Friday night before she impulsively decided to come home for the weekend so she could go get soft pretzels with the hubby.
Turns out Friday was National Pretzel Day and Emily and Brian LOVE pretzels. Their love of pretzels couldn’t be denied, so Em came home (2 + hour drive), pulled into our driveway, and hopped into our car. We drove to the mall, which is thankfully super close by, with only 3o minutes until closing so this dynamic pretzel-loving duo could get them some Auntie Anne’s. Now that is dedication to National Pretzel Day.
By the way, the got five pretzels. Yes, five.
My weekend was off to an amazing start, obviously. On Saturday we got busy helping my MIL paint her living room. She’s been working so hard to redo this room and the transformation is almost complete!
She chose “Sage Tint” for her walls, and they look beautiful. They especially pop off the bright white ceiling we painted a month ago.
All that is left is to paint the trim, then she can move her furniture back into her beautiful room.
Now don’t hate me Robin, but I had to share this picture of you and Brian. You both look adorable and so happy, even though we were all covered in paint.
Although… maybe I was just covered in paint. You both look remarkably clean!
Once the room was painted, we scurried home so I could clean up and run out the door again. This time, to my little brother’s final elementary school concert.
Elliott plays the violin and has done so since he was 4 years old. I can’t believe how talented he is.
I was super impressed by the entire strings ensemble (not sure if that is what they are actually called…). We celebrated afterward by having a delicious dinner at the Melting Pot!
I’ll save my Sunday project for tomorrow, but as you can tell… our weekend was packed! I am still super tired. Good thing next weekend will be super relaxing…. oh wait. No it won’t! Who am I kidding though, relaxing weekends aren’t my style 🙂
Hope you all had a fantastic weekend.
A Smith of All Trades 