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Spring Organization.

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Another party is coming & you are invited!

When:  starting March 26th
Where: starting at Organizing Made Fun
Why: to celebrate spring and organization

This is one you need time to prepare for so you can be prepared to participate, or just take really good notes :-D.  There are nine Organizing bloggers who are going to parade their organized homes:
Becky from Organizing Made Fun
Jen from Iheart Organizing
Anna from Ask Anna
DaNita from Delightful Order
Lesley from Goodbye House, Hello Home
Becky from Clean Mama
Toni from A Bowl Full of Lemons
Leanne from Organize and Decorate Everything
Laura from I’m an Organizing Junkie
Some of these blogs I have been reading for awhile and some are new to me.  I’m so happy to have the next three weeks to get to know these ladies.  
The parade starts on Monday, March 26th, at Organizing Made Fun.  On day #5, there will be an opportunity to link up your organized space.

I LOVE things organized and put away in their right place.  I can’t wait to see all the new ideas for my home.  Go to A Bowl Full of Lemons or Organizing Made Fun to get your button for sharing the invitation. 

$40 Bathroom Re-Do

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My son’s bathroom.

$19.99 shower curtain (from Sears, on sale)

$10.39 shower hooks (from Sears, on sale)
  $2.50  main wall color mistint paint from Lowe’s
  $2.94 (x2) sample color paint from Lowe’s
   $free 1/3 can of primer
$38.76 total spent – YES = one happy momma :-D!!!

Our timeline:
Feb 13 – took before pictures
Feb 14 – primed, painted, and made color decisions
Feb 15 – did main painting
Feb 16 – did touch up second coats, took final pictures
So – it’s not that the bathroom was horrible.  It was great six (or eight?) years ago when my sister-in-law redid the bathroom for my mom.  It was cute for all the grandkids.
However, that bathroom has been mainly my son’s bathroom since he moved into the downstairs bedroom.  It is also the guest bathroom when people come to stay.  For a couple years he has wanted to re-do it, but I was doing school and didn’t have the energy or health to do anything.  So, last fall I told him we would re-do the bathroom after all family was done staying here and it could be new and his first.  I didn’t want to re-do it and have others using it before he got to enjoy what he picked out. (Also, I didn’t want to throw off my brother’s kids since they’ve been gone two years.  They are young enough I didn’t want to mess with their memories by changing something they’d talked about.)
Vince loves the outdoors – bears, moose, fishing – but didn’t want a themed bathroom.  To him that was too cutesy.  So, we searched.  He had specific colors in mind.  I was thrilled to find the main paint color in the mis-tints at Lowe’s – $2.50?  Yes, please! (this bathroom is so small [33.2 sq. ft], the one pint of mis-tint did double coats and we still have about 1/4 of the can left over-the two samples did multi-coats and I have about 1/4 of one sample left over)

As you can tell, the lighting in this room is horrible.  There is never the possibility of any direct sunlight or daylight, and there are no windows.  You can tell it was painted a very bright spring green, with white.  I was concerned when Vince started talking about browns, reds, and no more white bead board.  When we started painting I didn’t know he was wanting the white bead board to go.  It took me a couple hours to agree – only because I was afraid this little room would become a dark, cave like, smelly hole — not cool in a boys bathroom! (I do not clean this bathroom, it is totally up to him to keep it clean.)

  
And one last close up.  On the hooks, I just used the foam roller and dabbed the ends and around the edges to give some dimension.  Not sure if it will stay or not, Vince said it looks like an open mouth…