Random Inspirations

The last 2 weeks have been extremely busy around here.  I've been painting and putting together different rooms throughout the house- among other things.  Today I put some of the final touches on 3 of the rooms.  First is the downstairs bathroom-  Have you ever seen Rate My Space on HGTV?  I love that show where you find 3 inspirations and then they recreate a room for you using those ideas.  Well, oddly enough, my inspiration for the bathroom came from a gift bag I saw in Target.  It gave me the idea to paint the walls gray and use the color purple with some floral theme.  My second inspiration was my friend Britt's guest bathroom.  It had the cutest accessories, including little hand towels on a flat basket.  It's hard to tell in the pictures, but the flowers, lotions and hand towels are all varying shades of purple.  Here's the before (trying to decide what gray- who knew there were so many?)........

And the after......

  The next room is Nathan's room.  My inspiration for this came from some bed sheets at Ikea that had really fun and bright animals all over them.  Roberto designed a bunch of decals for me.  You have to check out his website Graphical Interiors. The decals are ALL over my house and I LOVE them!
Before I put up the decals, I painted the room a light khaki color to replace the yucky utility paint (the khaki color is one of the stripes from the curtains  in the room).  I was going to make curtains, but then I found some that matched for $14 at Wal Mart and thought, "Why in the world would I go to all of that trouble if these work just fine?"  So, Wal Mart won out.

I also have pictures of the kitchen that we painted an olive-ish gray-green.  The inspiration for this was Autumn/Tuscany colors because of the wreathe that I have from our wedding reception.  The final step for this room is to find or make some curtains.  The current plan is to make them, but I haven't found the materials I want yet, so we'll see. 
Here are the before pics (you can tell I was really debating what color to paint the kitchen.  I made a last minute change and am really happy with the results):

  And the after......

 

One last decal to show you just for fun...I feel like a personal saleswoman for Roberto's company. :)

 

It pretty much sums up the motto of our home.