Hail, the Conquering Hero!

Took this:

...and this...

...and this...

to THIS:

Woot woot!
Certain to be a superhero in my husband's eyes when he sees!

Thursday's After

Voila!
No more icky-ness.
Hooray hooray for the 27th of May!

Now everything fits. And anything I may have missed that does not fit will be tossed. Whew! What a liberating feeling.

Okay, so you've got to know that I am NOT a flowery-print person...not in the least. And contact paper is too 80's/90's frumpalicious...I still remember the country blue & mauve stuff my mom had in our cupboards. Yuck!
But when I was clearing out some old junk that was under one of our sinks, I found a brand new roll of the stuff (in a modern, marbled flowery-print wouldn't ya know). At that point, my quaint vanity's shelves needed some 911 attention, stat...and since this contact paper is easily removed, it seemed like the perfect temporary band-aid. When I'm ready & can afford to have this beautiful beast refinished (etc), then there will be no need for the contact paper. Yea!

One thing I WILL give the contact paper, though, it certainly HAS brightened a very dark & dreary place in that vanity!

Ah! Restoring order in my life brings me peace. =) Have a great night, everybody!

Thursday's Before

Ok, so not only am I tired of living out of boxes. I'm tired of not being able to settle. Don't get me wrong, I'm loving my cute little house, but I'm finding that the previous occupant left things in a very not-cute way.

It shouldn't feel gross to touch surfaces, or feel bleck/scary to put your belongings away. This house has needed MORE than just a simple wipe-down in order to actually live here. Plenty of houses have been mickey-moused on somethings I'm sure. I totally get that. But please don't short-change a home on its cleaning. Especially when you're vacating it for someone else...especially if you're getting PAID to deep clean it by your landlord! But that's my diatribe for the day.

This quaint, antique-ish vanity in my bathroom is actually one of my fave things about this house.  (I can't wait to get rid of the crazy dark green faux paint job & replace it with a cool, pale, lemon chiffon yellow & a little bit of sky blue....doesn't it just make you want to play hooky tomorrow and go for a picnic?!)  Too bad that quaint vanity was left a hot-mess before we moved in. Today, I decided, was the day I to tackle it & made it liveable again. So the picture above is before. Stay tuned for after....