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Coastal Chic Kids Bathroom Reveal

Summer — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:01:15 +0000

Welcome to another day of our “Rooms We Love Tour”, hosted by my friend Tammy of Pink Peppermint Designs. Each day this week, a group of different bloggers are sharing rooms from their home and I’m so glad you could join along in the fun. If you came from Andrea’s blog at Life On Cedar Lane, I’m sure you’re feeling inspired! Make sure you pin away. You can hover over any of my images and on the top left, a “pin it” button will appear.

As we just built and moved into our home here in Washington State (after moving from Texas last summer), I’ve been slowly revealing different spaces as they’ve been completed. You can click on Home Resources to see the other rooms I’ve shared so far. Today I’ll be sharing with you our Coastal Chic Kids Bathroom Reveal.

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When I shared our Guest Bathroom a few weeks ago, I mentioned how hard it was to photograph because there were no windows (being in the center of the house).

The same thing goes for this kids bathroom and our laundry room. So bare with me as I did my absolute best to capture these shots of the bathroom with all the natural light I could get from the hallway and bonus room windows.

Now that we live on the West Coast and live in a Craftsman-style home, I’ve really loved embracing coastal elements in my design. I reflected on our friends’ Beach House bathroom and then when I found this coastal canvas art at Ross for $19.99, I knew I wanted a bathroom that was coastal chic for the kids and incorporate these blue-greens into this bright white space. We have a son and a daughter so it was a style they were both in favor of, since it wasn’t just a boy or girl bathroom.

I knew I wanted these mirrors but finding the right sconce took much longer. I imagined something with wooden beads but something chic.

When I found this Didier 2-Light Candle Wall Sconce , I knew it would be perfect. It was like a sconce and a chandelier….the best of both worlds.

It also had those wooden beads and definitely meets my “coastal chic” requirement.

We stuck with large white tile and thin grout for the floors and counter top. We’ll change the counter top later because I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do at the time we were building and I had to make a quick decision. I’m also still deciding on a backsplash but we’ll get to that in a second.

I partnered with my friends at Hardware Resources on this gorgeous polished chrome Hayworth Cabinet Pulls.

I’ve also linked them below, for your shopping convenience. We used these same pulls in our laundry room (reveal coming at a later time) and also our Master Bathroom that we shared a couple of weeks ago.

Lovely little details like seafoam green bathmats, an acrylic tray and bathroom jars, bathroom towels with hints of seafoam, a sea-green vase with an Aurora Borealis finish, and this casual shower curtain (that looks identical to one of our beach towels) helped create the clean coastal feel I wanted.

Ok, so I mentioned the backsplash earlier…..
Here are the few that we are looking at. There’s one that I think is in the lead, for me, but I’ll reveal that when it’s been finished. I have this crazy desire to do it myself. I love a good DIY and home improvement project.

Will it be the sea green glass tile backsplash?

Will it be the Mother of Pearl Mermaid Scales tile?

Or will it be the Mother of Pearl penny tile for the backsplash?

Stay tuned! We’ll be revealing it in the next few months!

For your convenience, I’m listing shopping links below from this post of items I used or items that are similar.

Please make sure to visit my friends Nina & Cecilia who are twins with enormous design talent and see what they’re sharing today. All the bloggers participating are listed below and you don’t want to miss a single post, trust me!

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Bright White Guest Bathroom – Transitional & Elegant

Summer — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:20:30 +0000

For today’s edition of my “Bright White Home Series” I’m sharing my very own Guest Bathroom with all of you. If you haven’t already taken a tour of the other rooms I’ve revealed so far, make sure to click on Home Resources (also at the top of my website), and click on each room.

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I really love how this bathroom has turned out so far. We still have the backsplash to do in the spring and maybe a countertop change but still thinking on it.

It was hard to photograph, being that it has not windows, so I relied in natural light coming from the guest bedroom and family room and then turned on the lights for some photos.

I was so thrilled to collaborate and partner with Birch Lane, one of my favorite home decor brands, on this guest bathroom. I knew I wanted to have brass fixtures and hardware in this bathroom, as I do in the entire downstairs of the house, but I didn’t have any other real inspiration or starting point.

But then I came across their Caprice Cotton Shower Curtain and my jaw-dropped. I have major heart eyes for this gorgeous, elegant curtain. And there was my inspiration that I needed! I wanted this bathroom to be a very feminine and elegant space but also transitional in style, so I had to balance it out with more contemporary pieces with clean lines.

That led me to finding a light for above my round mirror. I didn’t want anything too fancy or ornate but with simple and just stunning to look at. That was this piece.

The Newsoms 3-Light Vanity Light stopped me in my tracks, just as I knew it had to be. It had a textured gold finish with iced glass and that contemporary glam feel.

I knew it would perfectly compliment the elegant shower curtain and also hang beautifully above the round mirror. I didn’t even bother looking at any others. This was the look I wanted. When you know, you know! I really love this rug I found as well.

I added pretty white and silver damask towels and this beautiful print from Oliver by Oliver Gal. The warm brass towel bar and shower curtain rod adds a more contemporary touch, making it the perfect transitional style.

This other Oliver Gal art of the angel wings was such a perfect find for this bathroom.

I kept this contemporary tray simple with faux florals and bathroom toiletries.

This Poopouri gets a laugh but trust me….you guests and visitors will appreciate this and so will you, ha!

We didn’t switch out the sink yet but we did choose warm brass accents like the towel ring and…

…and also chose this gorgeous acrylic and brass hardware. It’s also affordable (shopping links below) so I really loved finding these! Btw…this rug doesn’t match the other one but the other one is STILL on backorder! This was a random one I found at HomeGoods.

Also, not pictured is the toilet paper holder that I love and we just installed.
It matches the rest of the bars also.

This elegant bathroom will be perfect for my mom, who comes up a lot from California (sometimes with my dad), but is so feminine and I just know she’ll especially love and appreciate this space. Also, my sisters and friends will just love it, I’m sure! I really thought of them in this design.

A HUGE THANK YOU to my friends at Birch Lane for collaborating with me! Their light fixture and shower curtain really gave my guest bathroom the gorgeous transitional and elegant style that I wanted. It’s so crisp and clean and the visitors we have already had just love the feeling of the bathroom! Ok, just WAIT till you see the coordinating guest bedroom I’ve designed and am putting together right now. A little hint…it will be bright white but have a really fun pop of color!

For your shopping convenience, I’m adding some of these links, or similar, below!

xoxo,

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A Sneak Peak Of My Hardware At Our New House

Summer — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 01:17:14 +0000

Hi friends! Ok, I’ve been updating my Instagram stories with sneak peeks of the hardware I’m using in the new house. It’s been sooooo so fun to hear your reactions! However, there have been so many messages and inquiries so I’m going to share a little preview of each space with the hardware on it and link them below. I wanted to wait and share it in our reveal of each room but some of you are also in the middle of building and remodeling so I’m going to share them twice. Here’s a sneak peak of my hardware at our new house, or “Tall Trees Lane” as we call it.

Bright White Kitchen

In my all-white kitchen, I’m using these beautiful bar pulls in Golden Champagne from Amerock. I had measurements from my cabinet guy and designed the kitchen with 5 different sizes of pulls.

I didn’t want to use any knobs on the kitchen but they have coordinating ones if you want them. I’ll link them below as well. If you aren’t wanting the same Golden Champagne finish, they also carry this pull in 6 other fabulous finishes.

Amerock Golden Champagne Cabinet Hardware
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Amerock has such gorgeous lines of different hardware. I met them back at the Design Bloggers Conference this year and was really impressed with them. They’ve been amazing to work with and I highly suggest using them. I’ll be sharing more of them and all this hardware next month in my kitchen reveal!

Guest Bathroom & Built-Ins

For our downstairs guest bathroom, I decided to keep a nice flow and use brass tones like I did in the kitchen.

I came across these gorgeous Lucite Brass pulls online but they were so darn expensive. Some pulls were around $30 a piece.

I only needed 7 pulls but still…that was ridiculous. So I kept searching and found the exact pulls for a way better deal HERE.

Some of you have asked if they come in chrome also, so I’m going to link those for you below as well.

Lucite Brass Cabinet Pulls
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Master & Middle Bathrooms & Laundry Room

While doing brass hardware downstairs, I wanted to use all polished chrome hardware upstairs. I was on Hardware Resources‘s website and found these gorgeous “Hayworth” polished chrome pulls that I used for the master bathroom, the kids’ bathroom, and in our laundry room.

Aren’t they stunning?! I wanted them to go perfectly with the plumbing and mirrors and lighting. It’s clean and bold. I absolutely adore them.

The quality is amazing and I just loved working with Hardware Resources. Please check them out also! Although I used all 6″ pulls, I’ll link the pulls here below in a few different sizes. They also come in a few different finishes.

Hardware Resources Polished Chrome
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If you didn’t get a chance to see my interior paint colors I chose, you can read all about that HERE.

Please check back soon! We will be finished with our new home in just less than 3 weeks from now and will be moving in. I’ll be doing individual blog posts to reveal each room and include, again, all of my sources and you’ll get to see pictures of space completed and styled. I can’t wait to share our home with you!

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Simple Bathroom Solutions That Make A Statement

Summer — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 23:27:38 +0000

Whether you are in an apartment, simple tract home, or even a custom home, you may find that your bathroom is not flowing and functional or even aesthetically satisfying. You may have had to contact summersphc.com/anderson/services/plumbing/toilet-repair/ to get a few repairs done before even lifting a paintbrush as well. I TOTALLY get this! Since we graduated college and started climbing the corporate ladder years ago and raising our family, we have only rented so that we could be relocatable. We have 1 more temporary move left next month and then the next will be our permanent location and where we will buy or build and set down some roots. In the meantime, we find nice tract homes in nice neighborhoods and they have all pretty good bones to work with and then add a few touches to put our own “custom” feel to it and make it, not only more pleasing to the eye but more functional and cozy. So here are a few simple bathroom solutions, some of my own and some of the other designers I admire, that make a statement.

My favorite one so far might just be this open shelving (previous post here with all the details and instructions) in my master bathroom. It added that touch of rustic glam that I wanted and feels like such a beautiful space now instead of an ugly box. It was so very easy and gave this empty wall space purpose. Also note….I had plenty of lighting and didn’t want to add more BUT I wanted a chandelier over the tub. A garden candle chandelier is the perfect solution! The crystals add that perfect touch of elegance I needed! This particular one of mine was found at a garage sale years ago but you can find similar ones here, here, and here.

There is a short towel bar just outside my shower (hidden in these pictures) that we hang our towels on. However…if you’re a woman….you might use several towels ha! One for my hair, one for my face at night…and then you need more space to hang them on. I had this short wall right behind me when I was getting ready and I just KNEW what it needed! And I KNEW it would solve my problem AND look adorable. These His/Hers towel hooks are adorable, aren’t they?! Without having to say “his” or “hers”, I think you can assume which is which The frames were in my “extra frames” drawer and the darling hooks were $9.99 at Hobby Lobby…and then half off, of course, because (like the rest of you) I only buy things there when it’s half off or I have a coupon. Find them online here.
I’m glad the family before us that used to own this home went ahead and painted that bathroom toilet door a dark grey because I think it compliments the original cabinets (handles added from Hobby Lobby) well. The stain I mixed on the shelves was dark walnut with grey and so I love how it ties in they grey door and the walnut cabinets. It gives it some extra depth to the bathroom and makes it less “blah”.

So, because I love my saw and building things, I really love those girls over at Shanty2Chic.com. They give all new meaning to #buildlikeagirl! I love that they share all their plans with us. This DIY Bathroom Mirror Storage Case is just BRILLIANT!!!! I just know I’ll be making one of these for our future home. Standing ovation, Whitney & Ashley!!! {clap clap clap clap} Click on the link above and they’ll actually share their free plans and give you step by step instructions. Love it.

How many of you have husbands that get up waaaaay before you do and do not love the bathroom light shining on your face and hearing the shower, toilet, cabinets/drawers shutting, etc??? Please tell me I’m not alone LOL!!! If our future home does not have doors leading into our master bath, I will be putting them on their myself! This gorgeous bathroom below (source unknown) did such a beautiful job of using plumbing pipes on top for the track and wheels on the bottom to create that popular barn door look. Stunning! And how much do you love the old green paint left on the door??!!! {swoon}
This might just be a small toilet paper solution, but the simplicity of it and functionality of it makes it top-notch!

Click here to see more details about the Turtles & Tails: Ensuite Bathroom Renovation.

Often, I’ve thought about getting more storage space in my bathrooms and bringing a large armoire like this one into the bathroom. I pinned it years ago on pinterest and I still love it….if you have the space! To help save on that all-important space, consider moving all of your cleaning products like bleach and limescale remover to a separate cupboard. This will not only make your bathroom look tidier and save you space, but it will also be safer if you have kids in the house. Buy a cabinet made especially for storing dangerous products and keep it out of the way of children, in a utility room or garage for example. Storemasta has a wide range of such cabinets – you can check the details here. Once you’ve moved all of your cleaning products out of the bathroom, it’ll look much less cluttered and you’ll find that you have more space for decorative items such as candles and flowers.

Click here for more delightful details from Courtney at French Country Cottage.

However, not all of us have room for such a gorgeous armoire and yet we still really need the storage it provides. Well, Studio McGee nailed it by adding these recessed built-in cabinets.

Their entire bathroom renovation is worth checking out. Inspiring indeed!

Let’s talk counter-top ideas for a minute! There’s nothing worse that walking into a bathroom and knowing exactly what products were used to get ready for the day because….well, they’re all still on the counter! A quick 2-minute clean-up time is good for us adults too before leaving our bathrooms and bedrooms and heading out the front door. That being said, there are a few toiletries that can be displayed beautifully and double as decor.

I bathe 1-3 times a week to detox with epsom salt. I love keeping it in the corner of my tub in this oversized apothecary jar (from Home Goods) and a giant metal scoop so that I can reach it while in the tub. It’s pretty too!
I love this idea also of using apothecary jars for pretty soaps and such…. (source unknown)

I found a similar solution in my bathroom with this adorable set found at Kirkland’s a while ago. I love being able to access Q-tips and cotton balls quickly.

Tiered trays have soooo many uses and I especially love using them in the bathroom. They are so helpful, saving space and displaying things beautifully. I like this rustic 3-tiered tray shared by Happiness Is Homemade.

I shared this 2-tiered galvanized plant stand (found here at Target) a while ago on Instagram and since then, many people have tagged me on their photos as well. I love how many people took what was a “plant stand” and utilized it in their bathrooms as a 2-tiered tray. Great minds think alike, right?!

Here are some things below to help you with creating lovely storage solutions in your bathroom.

I hope these ideas gave you some inspiration to help you transform your bathrooms into a space you love. There’s nothing like a clean and organized bathroom that also feels like an oasis when I need a quiet bath. If you’d like to see how I display my perfume and jewelry or my updated vanity and master bedroom, I’d love for you to click on those links.

xoxo,

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DIY Bathroom Shelving Tutorial

Summer — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 05:02:01 +0000

Have you ever moved into a home and asked yourself, “What am I going to do with this little awkward space?” I have had one of those moments in every home we’ve moved into. Unless you have a custom home that you designed, you most likely will encounter this. This one in my bathroom, however, I just knew would be fun to do. But WHAT to do?

I had a few different ideas and wasn’t sure which direction I wanted to go. At first, I hung a gorgeous, tall print I loved and then had some cute pieces of decor and towels sitting on the shelf. Uh uh, no. I wasn’t feelin’ it at all! And then it came…..this easy and gorgeous AND inexpensive, might I add, shelving display.

Here is what I did:

1- Went to the home improvement store and bought (1) 1″x12″x10′ whitewood plank. Will cost you around $25-$30.

2- Cut in to (3) 3′ pieces with my saw (but home improvement store will do this for you and probably easier to take home in car). I’ll save the leftover piece and make a sign out of it or something.

3- Lightly sand and then stain the wood. I love these 2 stains. I apply one coat of the Dark Walnut and then a coat of the Classic Grey. (I use this combo on almost everything in my home…i just love it!) You can seal it with a coat of polyacrylic but I did not. Let dry overnight. Less than $10 for both small cans.

4- I purchased these 8″ decorative iron brackets from Hobby Lobby (here) and spray painted them white. At 1/2 off, they were only $3.50 each, totaling only $21 for all 6 brackets.

5- Measure and (use your leveler) to mark where you want the wooden shelves. I started 8″ up from the bottom (the height of the bracket) and then I spaced the brackets 12″ apart. Screw them into the wall and then screw the wood shelves onto the brackets. NOTE: Use your stud finder and if you are not screwing into the stud, make sure to use a wall anchor as the iron bracket + wood shelves + decor will get heavy.

6- Here’s the fun part…DECORATE!! See? Easy peasy! I grabbed some pieces from around my home and moved things around. Then I bought a couple of other things from Home Goods (a.k.a. my home away from home).

I found this darling bathroom jar set at Kirkland’s on clearance for $20 last week. The distressing, the jewels on top, the hob knob jars…it was calling my name from across the store!!!!

I love mercury glass! It has that vintage look and also so pretty! I found this beautiful vase and the flowers at Home Goods a while ago.

I love rolling hand towels. I especially love the textured ones. Make sure to roll them all the same way and face the open ends to the back.

You know those weird ladies that save all their hotel soaps? That’s me! haha! I love to keep them in my Guest Linen Closet in a special basket. I also thought it would be cute to unwrap them and put them in this apothecary jar to display on my shelves.

This cute sparkly strand around my candle is from Rod Works. It looks green but it’s a taupe color in person and so so pretty! And I also found this cute small potted faux rose arrangement there too for $7 on clearance. Woot woot! The glittery ends of the roses really add such a glamorous touch!

Along the side of my tub, I not only have one of my favorite candles (so cute in this hobnail jar) but I have a large apothecary jar full of Peppermint Epsom Salt. I like to take a hot bath with that in it twice a week to detox (will share my fave recipes soon.)

How gorgeous are these chandelier prints?! It’s hard to tell but they have some swarovski crystals that I added before framing them. They look so pretty in the daylight.

How fun is this chandelier?!! I “shopped my garage” and found it in this mismarked box (thanks movers…grrr) and was black. I removed and washed the crystals, which was very easy, and then spray painted it white and added the crystals back on. Night and day, I tell ya! I am soooo thrilled with this space!

Taking a bath now TRULY feels luxurious!!! On that note, I think I’ll take one right now and read a good book!

xoxo, Summer

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bathroom Archives - Summer Adams

Coastal Chic Kids Bathroom Reveal

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Bright White Guest Bathroom – Transitional & Elegant

A Sneak Peak Of My Hardware At Our New House

Bright White Kitchen

Amerock Golden Champagne Cabinet Hardware {Click on images to shop. Click arrows to scroll right and left.}

Guest Bathroom & Built-Ins

Lucite Brass Cabinet Pulls {Click on image to shop. Click arrows to scroll right and left.}

Master & Middle Bathrooms & Laundry Room

Hardware Resources Polished Chrome {Click on item to shop. Click on arrows to scroll right and left.}

Simple Bathroom Solutions That Make A Statement

DIY Bathroom Shelving Tutorial

Amerock Golden Champagne Cabinet Hardware
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Lucite Brass Cabinet Pulls
{Click on image to shop. Click arrows to scroll right and left.}

Hardware Resources Polished Chrome
{Click on item to shop. Click on arrows to scroll right and left.}