A Simple Bath
I feel weird about posting photos of our house here in SC when (if all keeps going well) we’ll be leaving it next month. But………so many of you ask for house pictures and so much of our hard work oozes from these walls that I want to remember how two newly weds with babies began stamping a piece of our history here 5 years ago.
This bath is one of my favorite places in the house, mostly because it was such a huge project and we actually pulled it off (I wish I had a good “before” photo!). My mom helped us redesign the existing layout around it and the new design led us to put in a hallway, closet, and laundry room right outside this door. This space was also originally a full bath with a dropped down ceiling, but we opted to take out the tub and open up the master bath behind it. The dropped down ceiling held plumbing that needed to be replaced – which Steven did – and then we left a part of it dropped down like this…
…and added recessed lighting from Home Depot. We painted the walls a subtle blue that actually looks white if you were to go off of the paint sample alone. It has remained one of my favorite colors and 5 years later I’m still in love with it. That is saying something.
The pedestal sink was a craigslist steal with faucet already attached, so we left it even though it’s not what I would have necessarily chosen. The towels and black shelf are from our Pottery Barn outlet and the plants in baskets I’ve had for years from Ikea, but I’m pretty sure they still sell something similar. It’s funny how I thought I had changed so much in the few years we’ve been gone from this house, but really the bare bones of my style have remained the same - minimal, fresh, and clean. Every time I think about adding something to the walls, or hanging a roman shade, I remind myself less is more.
And it truly is.
