Painted chandeliers... a yes, a no?

Hello beautiful!  Hope you’re all doing well. I’ve been dancing amidst myriads of colorful autumnal leaves on chilly mornings and the skies are clear and cloudless and it is wonderfully and marvelously sunny all in one.  I am drinking in my days in tiny sips of moments; drinking them with the little spoon of my heart while I savor each moment and treasure them somewhere in my thankful inner self.

When we bought our little white cottage I replaced two of the basic, builder-grade, dome light in our kitchen and dinning room area with two of these Home Depot pretty chandeliers...

But I still have two more dome light fixtures in the kitchen that really need to be changed.  Vulgarly speaking, they look like some giant boobs to me, and that’s precisely the name I have for them… they really need to go.

Thus, I’ve been on a hunt for an old light pendant to use in my cottage kitchen; something boring and dull that could be transformed into something pretty, and cottagey.   At our local thrift store the other day I found this yucky thing here—lost in a thick coat of grime and sticky dust.  I was not in love with it, but it was the right price.  Yes, I’m cheap.  And I knew I wouldn’t feel terrible if I messed it up or didn’t like the results.  So I bought it.   

White and teal are the colors of my kitchen.  Greens, blues, teals, aqua’s… I’m so in love with this line of colors lately.   

So I hosed down “the thing” real good, gave the glasses a cleansing of hot water and vinegar and got to work. I originally wanted to paint the entire light fixture in white for a more sophisticated look, but I have a cottage, and hot or not, painting things is permissible in a cottage.  Thus, I got both the colors of my kitchen for my chandelier.  White and teal for a funky cool chandelier! ;)

I debated between painting the brass part in this lovely Island Oasis teal color, from Behr and the glasses in white, or vise-versa.  I finally decided to paint the brass in white and the glasses in teal.

Here are the glasses now ‘baking’.  I followed the Martha Stewart’s Bake-to-Cure Method, found HERE.

Oh boy... are they melting?

Stay tune for the results! ;)

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

The master bathroom renovation

Have I mentioned that I’ve been working on renovating/sprucing up our master bathroom for awhile now?  Oh yes, and although it’s not a major makeover, the work done has made such a difference in there!

I wanted to wrap up this re-do fairly quickly, and my main goal was to inexpensively refresh the place and pretty it up a bit.

I started by restoring the grout on the floors using a toothbrush and a jug of white-colored Grout Renew.   Amazing what this miracle product can do for your old/stained grout.  And it sealed it too!  

I can’t stop admiring how clean the floors look now every time I step in…

I then repainted the yucky beige walls all in white.  Our little white cottage deserves all white walls… couldn’t have any other color there. 

I’m not one to cover up my walls in art/pictures and things like that.  I prefer the freshness of clean bare walls.  So I’m leaving the walls here as they are.  The room looks particularly lovely with the walls painted in white.  Everything looking clean and bright. 

Applying molding frames to the large mirror above the counter sinks was the next step.

We measured, cut, painted, removed the light fixture, and painted some more, glued, caulked, attached the light fixture back (twice because we did it wrong the first time), cleaned up... and voila! I chose to paint the frame in gray because it makes such a pretty statement against all the white… a boring sheet of glass turned into an elegant mirror!

The master bathroom in our little cottage doesn’t have a linen closet.  So baskets that fit in the corners were the key.  

Roll the towels up into a roll and put them endwise in the basket. Closet issues resolved.  

And this idea looks really nice.  Consider it part of the décor. 

I later rescued and restored this pretty vintage chifferobe here 

that now holds all of our bath essentials and more…

I love that it only cost me $80.00 versus the $775 chifferobe found on at Etsy store that served as my inspiration.

I added some feminine touches to the room too…

always changing things there; moving things around...

Cut glass candle lights holders for those bubble baths by candle light

White roses in a pretty vintage vase

Lovely things...

A $5.00 candelabra found at "El Pulguero", a fleamarket in FL

White

My new shower curtain is the final touch… for now...

I wanted a double ruffle shower curtain similar to one I discovered on an Etsy store, but I wasn’t going to pay the $325 for it… so I bought this lovely shower curtain with crouched, bottom edge at Target for $40 and then had my friend Mayra added the ruffles and lace peeking through between ruffles.

So pretty!  I cannot love it more!

Little changes under a budget that can make such great difference!  I’m still planning on applying molding frame to the larger mirror above the tub to match the other and a towel rack above the toilet for some pretty towels.  I am also looking for a smaller version of the chandeliers we have in our kitchen area to go here for some added charm and elegance.   For now this is it.  Hope I was able to inspire you!