Bathroom storage shelf

We had a lot of wood left from tearing down walls in the basement, a lot of them still really good pieces and not sure why they were glued up behind the wall being the size that they are-but this house has always kept us guessing.

I took all this wood...

Used this picture as an inspiration...(off of pinterest of course)

And got to work... I measured everything so it would be the size that I wanted it.

I let my husband cut out all the wood-since me and power tools do not always mix! I can be a bit clumsy. (Thank you wonderful husband, for all the help crafting!)

 Screwed them all together...

I then used a really thin coat of white paint and didn't worry if some parts were not covered as I really wanted a shabby chic look!

I really enjoyed making these and can't wait to find some more good treasures at this store-I'm looking for an old window now to hang up in the bathroom! Best news about this it was "free" I already had the wood, screws, and paint! Can't beat that!

Toothbrush holder

Another frugal treasure that I love!  A toothbrush/hand towel holder! For the down stairs bathroom...

 

I had a piece of wood so we cut it in two.  A long piece for the back and a short piece for the shelf.  I couldn't tell you dimensions because I just marked where I wanted it cut based on how big I wanted it to look, sorry.  Just make some up, sometimes it works best that way.

I screwed the two pieces of wood together.

I added a bracket to the back so we can hang it on the wall. 

Painted the whole thing a thin coat of white.  I then added a door knob, just like the ones on my towel rack underneath the small shelf.  This will be to hang our hand towel on!

The small shelf is for our toothbrush holder.  I found a cool looking wine type glass for $1 at a garage sale and knew I wanted it to be my toothbrush holder, so I hot glue gunned it to the top of the shelf and it has held up marvelously.  As far as it hasn't fallen off yet!

The total cost of this project was $1.50.  It was 50cents for the knob and $1 for the glass, I had the wood, paint, and bracket!

Towel/Robe Rack

At the wonderful Reuse It Center again...found some beautiful treasures!

I found a nice piece of worn out wood along with it I found some old white cabinet knobs...
We now have a towel/robe rack for our new bathroom-whenever we decide to finally finish it!
This was an amazing piece of wood because it already had holes drilled into it, so I just had to screw the knobs on and then attach 2 brackets(I think that may be what they are called, pictured below so you know what I'm talking about) to the back so we can hang it from the wall. 

This wonderful piece was $4 total and took me maybe 20min tops to complete. Pure awesomeness!

Bathroom update...

We finally have the drywall up!

The mudding and sanding is underway.  I think we are on the second coat!

It is so nice to see the walls up and it looking like a "room!"

There is still much to do, but I have decided not to focus on that and to focus on how far we have come!  I'm trying to focus on the positive.

I have also completed several projects for the bathroom that I am excited to share.  Because we are so hit and miss with the computers in this house I will try and post some of the projects as I can.  To give you an idea of what we have done...A towel/robe rack, a garbage can, a toothbrush/hand towel holder, a small standing shelf, and decoration for the wall!  I'm so excited about all of these things to finally be hanging on the wall and be in the bathroom!

I will see if I can get any pictures taken, maybe this weekend so you can see some progress, it just takes so long for them to load on here with the old computer we are using currently.  It makes me sad as I have so many things I have wanted to post about-but my lack of patience(which we are working on) has kept me from posting.  We are going to try and order a new battery for my computer to see if that fixes the problem as it no longer will turn on at all even when plugged in :(

Demolition.

Demolition bathroom style has begun! YEAH!  The master bathroom is finally about to be tackled.  I can't tell you how very excited I am for this moment!

Of course there are always surprises, one of our first two are, one wall isn't a wall at all it was just drywall glued to the outside wall, and the longest wall in the basement was studded, but all crooked.  No wonder the walls looked so crazy.

Currently, the long wall is being studded.  I'm aiming for that to be finished by this weekend, so we can start getting the drywall up. We shall see how it comes along.  We only have weekends to work on this so it is a several week/month project since we also have 2 children to chase around in the middle of putting up new walls. 

Elijah has really enjoyed getting to see power tools in action, and he even helped us rip out some of the old drywall.  He loves to help and get his hands dirty whenever he can.  His big job this past weekend, was walking around the bathroom floor and picking up all the pokies(screws) and putting them in a bucket so no one stepped on them.  Daddy cut out the old gas line and so Elijah got to see some big spark flying and man was that cool for him.  I'm excited for this to be a good family project since Elijah loves to watch and help whenever he can.