Pic a Winner Contest!

A while ago I dropped a hint that our "Take a pic and win" contest was going to be changing up a bit.  No worries, it's a good change.  Previously, customers submitted a pic of their applied LTGQ wall decal and we randomly chose a winner.

We decided it would be more fun to get our readers involved in the process.  So every month we will choose five of our favorite customer submitted pics from the previous month and put a poll here on our blog.  Then our readers will vote for their very favorite.  The pic with the most votes wins a $50 LTGQ gift certificate!  We will randomly choose a voter to win a $25 LTGQ gift certifcate!  

Sounds fun, right?  

To submit a pic, email it to pics@leenthegraphicsqueen.com or post on our Facebook page. Got a blog of your own?  Include a link with your pic, we love to link up to our customers blogs!  We'll post our fave pics on the 1st Thursday of every month and leave the poll up til the following Monday.  We'll announce the winner that day.

To vote, just choose your favorite from the options.  Then post a comment telling us you voted.  Be sure that we can reach you if you are the winner.

Small print~ Sorry, you can't enter the same pic more than once but you can submit one pic for every LTGQ decal you have.  So if you get a new LTGQ decal next month, take it's pic and send it in!  We may post your pic on our website, shops,  pinterest, facebook and here on the blog.

The first contest begins this Thursday so get your pics sent in before Wednesday!  Good luck!  

Master Bath Reveal

So, this is how it started~

Me~ "Babe, there's water on the floor in the master bath"

JC~ "I'll need to replace the seal this weekend"

Me~ "Will that involve removing the toilet?"

JC~ "Yes, but it's an easy $5 one hour project" (this is the part where I snicker to myself "that's what you think!")

Me~ "Well, since you have to remove the toilet we may as well redo the floor while you are at it."

JC~ "Well....ok"

Me~ "Will you have to take out the vanity cabinet to do the floor?"

JC~ "Yes, why?"

Me~  "We may as well replace that too while you're at it."

JC~ silence (he knows when he's been tricked!)

Of course, it continued..."we may as well paint the walls while you have the floor out"..."we may as well replace the mirror and fixtures since we'll be painting"...and on and on.

 

So our easy one hour $5 fix turned into a two and a half month, over $300 project (we already had a few of the major pieces).  We (read James) took everything except the shower out.  Our four year old, Eli walked in one day while James was painting the empty room and said "Dad, this is quite a situation!"

After we selected the flooring (we went with the same dark laminate that we have in the Mudroom) we started the search for the perfect vanity.  We knew we wanted the look of an old table like Kevin and Layla have in their guest bath

 but were having some trouble finding something that would fit our tiny space.  Then in the middle of Home Depot while looking for fixtures I realized that with some love the little blue desk in the living room would be perfect!

 I've painted a lot of furniture in my day but I was a bit apprehensive about this one.  I knew what color I wanted it (Gypsy Teal) but wasn't sure if I wanted to distress it or how to seal it.  For the answers to my questions I turned to the furniture fixer Shaunna, of course!  I bought her ebook and it was TONS of help!

Since it's such a small room with a big pop of color we kept things simple.  We used glass knobs for the shower curtain rings, the curtain hanger and the small drawer of the vanity.

I tend to go for Oil Rubbed Bronze fixtures but with the floor and mirror being so dark we opted for chrome instead.  I think that and the use of glass jars really helps keep it bright in there. 

 

It wasn't until a couple days after we finished that I realized the carved wooden mirror that I bought at an auction (PB has a similar one) matches the box I swiped borrowed from my sister 20 years ago!

See the matching flower and vine pattern?  It was meant to be!

I found this gorgeous antique toolbox at an antique shop in Fernandina Beach.  Not sure if it will stay in here but I like it for now.

We kept our Battenburg Lace shower curtain and I made a matching curtain for the window.  You can see how we made the curtain hanger out of salvaged tongue and groove panels here.

We tied the chippy salvaged boards and distressed vanity together by placing these plaques made from antique ceiling tiles on the wall between them.

On the wall opposite the vanity is a towel bar and new medicine cabinet.  

Since there's not much storage space I had to stash TP under the towels in the basket (pretty clever huh?)

 

So, that's our master bath!  I am ready to start the boys bathroom...almost!

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Master Bath Remodel Sneak Peek 2

In my last post I showed you how James and I (ok, mostly James) made the curtain hanger for our master bath out of salvaged tongue and groove boards.  Well, after two and a half months we are finally done with the entire room.  Whew, what a relief!

It's a bit too cloudy today to take lots of pics so I will have to post the entire thing tomorrow (hopefully) but for now here are a few more sneak peeks.

 

What do you think so far?  Me, I am loving it!

Custom Curtain with Chippy Hanger

***Edited 11/18, complete bathroom can be seen here***

The renovations in our master bathroom are taking much longer than expected.  Seems like every time we make progress we have a little setback.

I can't show you how absolutely amazing our desk turned vanity came out because right now it's covered in sheetrock dust.  

I can't show you how beautiful the shiny chrome fixtures look because honestly most of them are still in the box (but the ones that are installed...gorgeous!)

I also can't show you our pretty Battenburg Lace shower curtain because it's in a box...or bag...somewhere around here...I think...

I can however, show you the table cloth turned curtain and clever curtain thingy it's hanging from! 

 

So I found these amazingly old and chippy pieces of tongue and groove paneling at my local salvage yard and immediately knew they would be perfect in our bathroom.  The color is a great compliment to the gypsy teal I painted the vanity.

First we measured out the area where I envisioned them hanging

sad empty area isn't it?

 Then James cut them to fit & I lined up the glass knobs. This step took longer than expected because I couldn't decide how low I wanted the curtain to swag.

 The he drilled the hole for the screw

Because the boards were going right up against the wall he had to countersink the screws in the back of the board.

After we nailed the boards in with small finishing nails, I cut a Battenburg Lace tablecloth in half (don't fret, I have several!), 

ironed a seam at the top, attached jute string to create the hangers and hung it up.  I absolutely adore the rugged jute against the shiny glass knobs.

 There you have it, one small piece of our bathroom is complete!  Hopefully, we will have more progress to share soon!

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