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Sweet Style Saturdays: A Sweet Bathroom Gallery

January 22, 2012 § Leave a comment

Did somebody say fish?

There’s an interesting phenomenon of equating bathrooms with fish and underwater scenes. I’m not so against it… If there’s a bathtub and shower involved I completely understand the correlation of fun fish and wavy water- especially if you have kids. KF on the other hand, is very against cutesy fish decor in the bathroom. I think it has something to do with his South Jersey upbringing- most likely he encountered one too many bubble blowing fish tissue holders and underwater scene shower curtains. So when we decided to re paint and re decorate our main bathroom a few years ago, we brainstormed a design that looks a bit past the bubbling fish theme (but does not totally ignore it) and went with something a little bit different…

Welcome to our bathroom gallery!

Lets face it, people spend time in the bathroom. When you entertain, guests spend time in your bathroom as well so why not make your bathroom an additional point of interest in your home?

We are lucky enough to have 2 bathrooms (a blessing to any marriage) in our apartment and since KF is the neater of the two of us, his bathroom has become our guest bathroom as well. Since its still technically his bathroom, we geared the decor more to his liking. We started by removing the 3 wall mirrors that were originally over the sink and added a simple, framed mirror from Restoration Hardware. The lighting fixture from Ikea adds a lot of light while taking up a small bit of wall space. Next up, our bathroom gallery…

KF chose a deep grey high satin finish for the walls (which stands up very well to shower steam) and we framed several of his favorite surfing photos and magazine covers...

KF collected almost all of his summer beach badges over the years (and he calls me a hoarder!) so we added that colorful collection here and he recently popped in a note that I left him into the top frame.

Is it weird to have a wedding photo in the bathroom? Yes! But we see this photo more often placed here than we would in an album... plus there's some humor to it! Note: "fish" sighting #1

Another note from when we first moved in together... surf and beach watercolors... Hope Fiori

This day of the dead souvenir from Cabo hangs from one of KF's favorite surf posters

A shadowbox collage frame we put together that summed up one full year of KF's surfing

"Fish" sighting #2! The "shark motel" terrarium I made KF for his b-day last year (more about this in another post). The Sea Bright rock was one of the table names at our wedding. I made the Normandy Beach rock after this past summer at the beach with a rock I found there.

We are really happy with the way this “gallery” turned out. We get a lot of good feedback from it and it even inspired another area in our apartment. So, if you are looking for a way to freshen up you bathroom decor, look no further than your favorite photos and best kept trinkets. I promise you will really enjoy admiring them from this new perspective!

Happy Saturday (and Sunday)! Xo Dani

D.I.Y. Shark Party Hat

July 31, 2011 § 1 Comment

As it turns out, Shark Week usually coincides with my husband’s birthday and he LOVES sharks. This year we planned to have a fun party with our friend’s and their adorable kiddies, so I thought it would be super fun to make our own shark hats.

I started out with plain paper party hats purchased at Party City. I bought 3 packs (some matte, some metallic) so I could use only the colors that matched our theme.

We went with shades of blue plus 2 pink (1 pink for me of coarse!)

Using a 1 inch circle punch, we punched dark grey and black paper to use for the eyes and attached them with glue dots. We used plain white paper cut in strips and then triangles for the teeth.