Bathroom update

Progress on anything in our house is always slow. We take our sweet, pondering, indecisive time here at Attic24. The bathroom is a prime example. The refurb began in January and should really and truly be completed by now, but we have ground to a halt. The issue currently undergoing hot debate is the windows. We need to replace the windows before we can decorate, and yet we are unable it seems to decide on what exactly we want to do with the windows. Currently we have single glazed wooden windows, with the top opening about 1/3 of the way down. We want to have double glazed ones fitted but cannot decide whether to re-instate Victorian style sash windows (wooden, double glazed, sliding up and down), or have wooden, double glazed top-openers made.
Its a big decision because it costs a hellava lot of dosh to buy new windows. Thousands and thousands. And we want to get it right. So for now we are sitting and scratching our heads and having a jolly good ponder.

However, besides the walls and the windows being unfinished, the rest of this little room is giving me a lot of pleasure.
I am really, really enjoying some hot deep bubble baths amidst lots of shiny white ceramic.
I am enjoying sparkling chrome fixtures.
I am enjoying fluffy new towels warmed on our new chrome towel radiator.
And I am enjoying a new wooden toilet seat.

Oh, and I'm also huuugely enjoying Multicoloured Stripes and Pompoms.
We had our new flooring laid a couple weeks ago...it's a cushioned vinyl which looks like worn whitewashed planks and I happen to think it's rather nice. Makes me think of beach huts and driftwood, of summer days by the sea.
Our old bathmat was plain white and I felt everything in the bathroom was starting to look very bland and well....white. So I googled "striped bath mat" and found this stripy pompom edged beauty...isn't it funky??!!

I get rather a thrill from standing on it whilst wearing my new socks.

And here we have more Stripy thrills destined for the bathroom, courtesy of the Deckchair Stripes company. I heard about this company via Janet Bell, and I was immediately smitten. Their website is a colourful, glorious celebration of all things jaunty and stripy. Take a look at their interior stripes page and feast your eyes on all that scrumptious stripyness!

You can order up to five samples of their fabric, which of course I had to do...and of course I am now pondering and scratching my head and trying to make yet another decision. Its hard work this decorating business! Which stripes should I go for? I want to make a blind for the window and possibly a little bit of something else...
Oh, and as well as gorgeous stripy fabric they also sell this adorable pompom bobble fringe, oh my heart skips a beat when I look at all that colourful bobbly pompom stuff! Love love love it.

Another current love of mine is this particular shade of summer blue. Today in fact I am wearing a jumper this colour, and I've been painting some bits and pieces too. It just sings to me of summer skies, of lazy, relaxed, warm days. Wonderful.
You can see above I've painted a shelf already for the bathroom (although we've not put it up yet).
 

The bathroom walls are currently painted in this shade of aqua, the choice of the previous house owners which I happen to like quite a lot. But as many of the walls had to be replastered when the bathroom was being pulled apart, it's in desperate need of re painting. I'm thinking of choosing a similar shade of aqua but a little paler :: sort of a seaglass colour, if you can imagine that.

Now maybe you could help me out with yet another decision here?
Above photo is of the current wall cabinet, stained a horrid green by the previous owners. Rather than sling it out and replace it, I figured I could repaint it and put on new knobs, kind of give it a new lease of life.
But what colour to paint it?
Bare in mind there is a lot of white already in the bathroom...the suite and the tiles (all around the room to dado height, and to ceiling height above the bath) are all sparkling, shiny white. The floor as you have seen is a distressed white. Walls (above dado/tile height) will be seaglass aqua.
So should it be sky blue to match the painted shelf?
Or white?
Or another colour entirely?
Any input gratefully received.....
....thank you so much :: I love the idea of using you (in the nicest possible way) to make my decorating decisions, a sort of Global Colour Selection Panel.
:o)
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Comments

[Ibrahim]

Thank you very much for sharing. It was a very sweet post.

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[Tina Williams]

Could you please tell me where you got the flooring. Love it and am looking for the exact same thing. Thanx

[Victoria strong]

Hello could you please tell me where you got your gorgeous worn looking white Lino,it's gorgeous ,many thanks

[Natalie]

Can you please tell me where you got your wood effect cushioned flooring from please?

[Custom Home Plans Houston]

I always in love with stripes rug and pom-poms. You could add some sea glass style knobs.

[Caroline Sullivan]

Please tell me where you got the bathroom flooring, and an idea of its cost.
Regards,

Caroline.

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[Louise]

Not sure if you still check here or not but I absolutely love your bathmat, where did you get it from?? I tried the link but not sure if they sell it anymore :-(

[Hookie, UK]

perhaps the colour of one of the pompoms in your super mat or ... this is mad.... what about stripes? you could use those little test pots in various colours that are in your mat.. using masking tape you could do it one colour at a time then when one colour is dry you could start on t'other one... imagine... it would certainly be unique.

[Peacefulmom]

I think the cabinet should be cobalt blue. I love the look of green, pale blue, white and cobalt sea glass.

[susan]

A really lovely idea for the cabinet would be to paint it blue (that gorgeous blue you're already using) then sand it on the edges just a bit for the green to just peek through. No matter what you decide I just know it will be lovely.

[Jill]

I think a lovely, soothing shade of seagrass green. The soft, grey green of sea oats on dunes. Then for a bit of whimsy, white ceramic shell handles, or in an aged pewter or brushed nickle finish.

[Jayne]

Antique cream, with black handles! I recently painted a grotty old 1970's sideboard in antique cream, and replaced the handles with gothic black ones, very cheap from B & Q. The sidebord was given to us second-hand in 1983, no idea how old it is. Now it looks like antique french furniture. I'm sure it would work in your bathroom too!

[karen]

I'd pull a color from your rug -- lime or fuchsia could be amazing.

Do you need the mirrors in the cupboard doors? It might be fun to replace them with glass and paint the inside a different color(s) than the outside.

[tiennee]

I think that shade of blue (1st picture of the bath towel) will look breezy and relax in your bathroom. A touch of the sea....Accessorize it with funky knobs! :) I'm in love with colors of laura ashley recently. Check out www.lauraashley.com.... hope this helps. :)

[jeane]

go for a soft calm cool refreshing color that trigger ur heart most, close ur eyes and felt the paint, smell it, touch it, does it make ur heart beat fast, does it taste like first love, so sweet, ooh aah, yes u have it? u found it!

[Claudia]

I can't believe I've only just stumbled upon Attic 24. Your blog is so cheery and bright, it cheers me up when I'm feeling homesick for the UK.

My opinion would be to go for a similar cream colour as those gorgeous starfish - neutral enough to set off the gorgeous walls, but not as bland as white.

All the best,
Claudia

[jo]

What fun! I get the chance to do some decorating without having to do any work! My favourite of the fabric samples is the top one - it has the sunniest colours. As for your cabinet I would go for a really bright colour that matches the blind you make - the hot pink for example. Have fun choosing and I cannot wait to see the results!

[alisonb2]

Thanks again Lucy for some great posts. Just caught up! I so remember sitting on our front doorstep with coffee and a magazine while little ones raced up and down on bikes! The magazine was the first ever copy of Your Home. It was so different, vibrant and colourful. Your bathroom would certainly have graced its pages!! Great stuff!!

[Amanda]

I'd go with a nice yellow or white but I'm sure whatever you choose will be gorgeous. Can't wait to see photos!

[Lynda]

I just automatically went - white! But I am sure that whatever you choose, it will be bright and lovely.

[jane]

hi lucy! i am enjoying your affair with color but confess to being paralysed by the abundance of choice to be much help for you. i am pretty conservative in my baths bec/ i find it more soothing to have fewer colors there. nonetheless, i love the seaglass choice, and it goes with all the brightness of the stripe-y samples. re the window: i'd go for as much window as you can force yourselves to buy. it is a fairly permanent thing, so you want to get something you love, not tolerate. and the thing about paint is that it's the cheapest thing and easiest to change if it doesn't suit for some reason. now i have exhausted my suggestions. cannot wait to see what you end up with. jkj

[Moonie]

So happy you shared this with us. We opted for the sash windows and I am addicted to them now and want nothing else. As for the shelf......I vote for the blue or sand yellow (soft and warm sand) Yum!!!! Oh those aqua walls sound wonderful. Love the lino too. It's all good!!!! :D

xoxo
Moonie

[Catriona]

We were just discussing replacement windows tonight and sash wins hands down as you can have them open a tiny bit for air flow, the others have to be open lots. Also they match the period of the house.
I vote for a pink cupboard.