Show Us Where You Live Friday - Bathrooms

It's Friday and that means Tour Time over at Kelly's Korner!

I mentioned this once before, but this "home tour" blog party has given me all kinds of inspiration and ideas... I've been working on doing projects that have been on my "to do" list for over a year! So anyway, I'm enjoying it and for that reason, I continue to participate! That, plus this gave me a reason to CLEAN my bathrooms!

Having said that, my potty rooms are not very exciting, but I'll go ahead and post pictures anyway. We have 4 bathrooms, all of which are fairly small. I'll start with the one in which I spend way too much time (well not really that much time anymore because I have kids now!)...

The Master Bathroom

This is a view looking in from our bedroom. There are not any doors, which I have always thought was a little strange! I've learned to completely sleep through any noise my husband makes in the morning as he gets ready for work!

And we have a much too spoiled Lab, named Lucy, who gets to come inside much too often and therefore, has a much too fancy set of dog bowls in our bathroom for her eating pleasure!

This is Vance's side of the bathroom. Although the bathroom is fairly small, we do have double vanity's (at raised heights) which is very nice! And bless his heart, he is such a good sport and allows me to "girly" up his side of the bathroom with my perfumes and lotions on the 3 tiered stand!

I am known to put just about anything inside of a hurricane and bathroom "supplies" are no exception! We use Qtips everyday, so why not make them handy in an attractive container?!

This is Vance's side and a bit of a view into the toilet/shower room. That part DOES have a door, thank goodness! Vance says that part of the bathroom makes him claustrophobic... it is small, but serves its purpose :)

The shower has doors on it, but honestly, no matter how often I clean them, they always look dirty to me. Soap scum and water spots just don't stay away for very long... so, I added a shower curtain to hang in front of the doors and hide all of the "yuck"! I love it and it makes that little room seem cleaner :)

This is my side of the bathroom. I love that little stool in the corner. It used to be used with a dressing table in one of our old homes, but this bathroom doesn't have that feature and so now I stand and just LOOK at the cute stool :)

I keep cotton squares in a cute glass jar I found at Goodwill & my makeup brushes are in a cute little glass for easy access! If you've seen my other rooms in my home, you know that I love lamps and try to find all kinds of places to put little ones... this one happens to be one of my favorites!

We have a soaking tub that sits in the corner of the bathroom and I thought it needed a little "something" since it is the focal point of the bathroom. So I added this Entertaining Bucket & Stand from Southern Living at Home and filled it up with decorative towels and sponges.

I guess that's it for our Master Bath, so onto the next bathroom...

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The Guest/Kids Bathroom - Upstairs

One of the things I would love to have, but don't, is a powder room... the little bathroom that only has a sink and toilet that is used by guests. We only have one, very tiny, bathroom upstairs for guests to use and it is also the bath that the kids use. I went back and forth trying to decide if I should decorate it with kid-type decor or keep it more traditional. Since it is so small, I opted for the more traditional route... maybe one day I'll have one of those amazing Pottery Barn Kids bathrooms :)

The view from the hallway

My cute "toilet tray"! I have been a Southern Living at Home consultant for over 3 years and I go to tons of ladies homes for parties. Over the years, a question that has come up so many times is... "do you have a tray that will fit on the back of my toilet?" From the number of times I received this question, I surmised that many ladies must really have a need for a "toilet tray"! And so when I saw this one, I immediately thought of my toilet and it's been residing there ever since! And no, my kids have never knocked it off :)

I like using rolled up towels in bathrooms. These towels are sitting in a firewood/log holder next to the bathtub.

Another view of the very tiny space

The counter top

Aha! Another hurricane! I love this one filled with those fat bars of soap! It's purely decoration... we use the tacky pump soap for the kids' hand washing escapades!

Another hall view. This one shows the little step stool that is the only sign of it being a kid bathroom (that and the towels hanging on the door and the gazillions of toothbrushes/Dixie cups that usually reside on the counter top!). This little necessary piece of furniture is a major thorn in my side because it provides access to the water, toothpaste, and all kinds of other items that my little Emily can use to make a hunormous (a word said by Noah yesterday) mess! She LOVES this stool!

Can't you just see the orneriness in her grin?!

And here she is doing one of her most favorite things... brushing her teeth and standing on the stool!

So that completes the tour of the Guest/Kids bathroom. Moving on to the Basement...

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The Guest Bathroom - Downstairs

This is another tiny bathroom, but we were able to get a bathtub/shower in there so that it qualifies as a "full bathroom"! I'm thinking of painting the walls green in here... what do you think?

View from the hallway. I love the shower curtain... it is chocolate brown and very long!

The pedestal sink

The opposing wall. I learned in a Southern Living at Home decorating class one time that it is considered very "sophisticated" (word their designers used) to combine stark-white and creamy, off-white linens on a table or in a bathroom. So I tried it. The shower curtain base color is a creamy, off-white and so I used stark white towels (with the exception of the little hand towel) and stark white accents in this room. I like the contrast... it's something I would never have tried had I not been to that seminar!

And last, but not least...

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The "Guest Suite" Bathroom

"Guest Suite" is much too fancy of a term... it just means that there is a bathroom IN our guest bedroom in the basement. One day, it will be great for a middle school/teenager, but for now, it is pretty much empty... just like the guest room!

I'll decorate it when we have a reason to start using it. For now, I just threw a few things on the counter top for my mother-in-law to use (because she is the only guest we ever have!).

This is the counter top area. There is a shower and toilet, but I'll spare you the boring-ness of those photos :)

So that's all my potty rooms! Thanks for stopping by and Happy Home Touring!