Shower Curtain Conundrum

In the spirit of pre-bathroom-makeover week, I thought I would share our thoughts on the item that will stand out the most in this space: the shower curtain. The bathroom is so tiny that the shower curtain (sadly) takes up a good portion of visual surface area in the room.  It is also the first thing people see when they walk in (and the only thing you see really if the door is open).  Let me remind you what it looks like now:

Ignore the sad, old, shrunken shower curtain that USED to be cute.  Since we are going with a grey room with yellow accents, the big question is how much yellow do we want here?  Also, we need to find a fabric or an existing shower curtain that works in half the space of a normal shower curtain (I chopped the last one I got in half). Lastly, we don’t want it to compete with the Beatles art that we will be hanging right next to it.

I went to Joann Fabrics to get some ideas.  I was looking for things more on the grey printed side but wasn’t able for find much.  So I took a few pictures of some of the gray/yellow prints that I found:

I like this but it would be too busy on an entire curtain. Perhaps a stripe along the bottom of a plain grey or yellow curtain?

Again, too busy with the alternating pattern but it would look cute as a stripe at the bottom of a solid curtain.

A little to boring and similar to what we have had for a while.  I’m over vertical stripes.  But perhaps it would look cute with horizontal stripes?

I like that the print is calmer on this but it’s not really jumping out at me.

I was a bit disappointed but there are definitely fabrics I could work with for at least part of a curtain.  So I started looking on online to see what I could find.

I love this shower curtain from West Elm but I have seen it EVERYWHERE. The simplicity is nice though.

Source

I also love this one from CB2 but they don’t make it any more. But I am sure I can find it somewhere if we decide to go for it!

Source (curtain originally from CB2 but no longer available)

This fabric is Premier Prints Barber Slub Texture Yellow Gray Bird that I found on Etsy. I like the idea but the colors are both wrong.

This fabric is Far Far Away III Guitars in Yellow/Grey by Heather Ross for Kokka that I found on Etsy. I love this print but I worry it could be too busy (the guitars are about the size of a quarter). Also, I don’t want the bathroom to be too theme-y with the Beatles poster.

I thought this would be super easy but I am beginning to think I may need to see the room actually painted to really see what balance to strike between grey and yellow.  I really love the CB2 arbor shower curtain and Walker likes the guitars (FYI, the seller on Etsy is mailing us a swatch so we can see if the colors are right).  So we will paint the room and see how we feel.

What are your thoughts?  Any other ideas?

Little Projects Update: April 23, 2012

I know I have had a lot of lifestyle posts lately and (other than my puppy silhouette art print) not too many house projects beyond the backyard. But I guess life tends to get in the way of being productive sometimes, right?  Side note: I wrote this post yesterday and woke up miserably sick today… and I was just getting caught up! BOO.  :(

I have been working on a bunch of Etsy projects as well as small things that didn’t seem to warrant their own posts.  So I decided to do a Little Projects Update post to summarize everything in one place!

First things first, the backyard is a bloomin’!  Our grapes are starting to actually look like little grapes (yay!!) and the bunches are huge.  The cacti have started sprouting flowers in strange places.  The honeysuckle vine and lime tree already have blossoms and all of the new plants are thriving in their new home.  And most importantly, we are starting to see some little grass sprouts!  We are hoping that we will have a pretty spectacular backyard in a couple of weeks.

Speaking of flowers, how about another installment of Flowers… by Walker?  On Friday I came home to this beautiful bunch of springtime flowers.  Aren’t they gorgeous? :)

Next, I told you about our second record storage crate from our neighborhood liquor store and promised a picture… so here you go!  The two crates fit perfectly and our vinyl has been organized just in time for a few purchases from Saturday’s Record Store Day 2012. Wooo!!

A while back, my Nana mailed me two more skeleton keys, knowing how much I loved the first one she gave me.  I have them hanging on the wall right now but am trying to think of how I want to display them.  Thoughts?

This may seem really silly but I finally filled my mason jar soap dispenser with Burt’s Bee’s Citrus & Ginger Root Hand Soap (Walker’s parents had it when we visited last year and we have been talking about it ever since).  I think the fact that it is yellow to match our future bathroom color scheme is awesome.  Walker thinks it looks like urine. Oh well…

I know you really don’t care about the soap… I was just using it as a lead-in to announce that we are FINALLY going to get started on the bathroom this weekend!  We have (mostly) picked out the colors and have some ideas for the rest of the space.  You remember our inspiration, right?  That sweet Beatles concert poster? Well our goal for the weekend is to have the walls painted and the art framed.  Not too tough, right? (famous last words…)

So now you have an update on a bunch of the the little things we have going on around here these days.  We have some amazing projects to come now that we have caught up on life a bit (once I kick this stomach bug- yuck)!

Bloom Into Spring Exchange 2012

I am very excited to have participated the Bloom Into Spring gift exchange hosted by Meagan at Local at Last and Lisha from One House, One Couple. They gathered together and paired up a bunch of great bloggers to celebrate spring the good old fashioned snail mail way! :)

I was lucky enough to be paired up with Cindy from This and That.  She is so sweet and I have enjoyed getting to know her though her blog, which I found out about all thanks to this little exchange!  Last week I received an awesome care package of springtime goodies.I got an adorable little duck pail filled to the brim with Reeses and Cadbury eggs (okay, you caught me!  Between receiving the package that night and taking pictures the next day, Walker and I ate most of the candy already!). She also included two shades of nail polish, some amazing cherry lotion, a cute little pink striped dish with a lid, and this amazing cup with a built in curly straw!

Naturally I had to drink a chai tea latte and give myself a manicure (while polishing off those last few eggs of course).  The pink nail polish was perfect to pair with a really sparkly pale pink that I used on my ring fingers (hard to see in this pic- sorry).A big thank you to Cindy for her thoughtful/delicious gift and to Lisha & Meagan for arranging this exchange.  If you’d like to check out what I sent Cindy, check it out on her blog.  Here is a sneak peak!

Erika

I’m Erika, an interior designer with an aesthetic that is a mix of California Bohemian, Mid-Century, and Scandinavian influences with pops of fun color and loads of natural materials. Plus plants, plants, and more plants!

My sweet family (Walker, Juniper & Hank, as well as pups Arlo & Guillermo) just reloacted from Los Angeles, CA, to Lincoln, NE. We would love for you to follow along with us on this journey!

 
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