Easy place to start when decorating overwhelms you

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INSIDE: FIND AN EASY PLACE TO START WHEN DECORATING OVERWHELMS YOU.

When we moved into our home 5 years ago, we went from 1800 square feet to 4200 square feet. That alone should make your eyes 👀 bug! But we needed more space and this house had everything we wanted and more. We saw our family growing and maturing in this house. It was our opportunity to build a ‘forever’ home!

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Fast forward to 3 months after move in day. We had just purchased the living room couches and kitchen table. Not a picture was hung, not a wall painted, no rugs….we had our first visitors and they offered to help hang pictures for us. 😂😂

It was probably about that time when we realized we had bitten off way more than we could chew. We wanted to pick our own cabinet hardware, change out the carpets, upgrade the bathrooms on our own…aren’t we funny???

Needless to say, life got in the way and little by little our projects piled up until one day….we decided to decorate ONE room at a time.

Enter – The half bath.

Finding inspiration is an important part of room decoration. But the half bath? Do you really need INSPIRATION? Yes, yes you do. Everyone is different so YOU do YOU. This is what we did to get over the “overwhelming rooms to decorate” challenge.

Our inspiration came from a picture we had hanging in our old house:

The colors in this picture are very vivid.

I don’t know why but it relaxed me. SO we ran with this idea.

What we needed:

Paint
Shelving
New Lighting
New Hardware
Mirror
Pictures
Towels
Rugs

First – Paint

Using Home Depot’s visualize your color tool….I was able to find a color that Kris and I agreed on and we set off to paint.

Second – Shelving

Once the paint was on the walls, I went to hang my picture and decided it didn’t match. However, my inspiration wasn’t gone. I went to Pinterest and started looking at half bath ideas.

The BEST find was this:

This website had step by step instructions and when I showed Kris, he immediately said, “I can make those!” And he did!!!! These shelves turned out amazing and I was able to finish my half bath based on his hard work.

Next – Lighting

Choosing the right lighting is essential in a bathroom. Not too bright, not too dark.

We had nickel everywhere – lights, doorknobs, faucets….it was too much.

Brushed bronze is more our style. So we went to our favorite Home Depot and found this gem.

Fourth – New Faucets

Now, we can’t have all the hardware bronze and leave the faucet nickel.

During our trip to Home Depot, we came across this.

Rest of the Decorations

Here is what I used:

A driftwood wreath was the exact thing that we needed to complete the beach theme

This cute seahorse holds the driftwood wreath

Using what you have around the house makes decorating a blank slate a little less overwhelming. So I took some artwork the girls made with greens and blues, placed it into frames, and put it on the top shelf. I used a shadow box with pictures of our kids at the beach along with shells we collected at our favorite beach. The wicker basket was from the old house, and it worked perfectly to hold extra TP.

I used a hurricane candle holder to mix sea glass with some orange starfish to create a one of a kind addition to this bathroom.

I found towels and a rug at Target. Two of each sea blue and sand colored hand towels and a sand colored rug. I lucked out while at Homegoods one day and found ONE brown, tan, and aqua hand towel. It was perfect and the ONLY one I could find.

I had one last project I wanted to complete for this room. A sand shell arrangement. I have NO IDEA where I found the shell but I added sand dollars, blue starfish, white starfish, and a few orange starfish. I used spray adhesive to make sure everything stayed put.

When I said we went all out…I meant it. Problem was – we spent all our energy on this tiny room, we had nothing left for the rest of the house.

Stay tuned to see how we remedied that!

Start somewhere….even if it’s the smallest room in the house…