client bathroom makeover *updatesi do not advocate punching. unless someone REALLY deserves it. which is mostly never.

Gabriela Eisenhart February 11, 2013

hey you guys.

have a good weekend?

i still felt like poop turds on saturday but woke sunday a new woman.

fiona sang the sirenix song to the winx club about 4,000 times.

she watched the episode around 4 times and rewound the song around 4,000 times so that equals about 1,000 times per episode.

it also equals "pain medication" for mom and dad.

i watched none of the grammys bc i hate music so hard.

actually i love music but grammy music generally sucks.

plus if i could punch hug rhianna in the face i would.

not because she's not cute or talented...bc she is..both.

but she's such a fucking doormat she needs to have her head examined.

and punchedhugged.

instead we watched breaking bad...we are well into season 2 and that show is legit.

bryan cranston is staggeringly good.

ok..on to the bathroom makeover...

i have a client who wants an update in her bathroom but can't rip anything major out.

this is super relatable, right?

she has vintage tile which is minty-aqua green. and a lot of it.

i want to update it with wallpaper, new hardware and lighting and replace the fittings with black ceramic ones instead of the old, worn out chrome ones.

and then when she goes on to change the big stuff she'll still have some real pretty stuff to work with.

i want her to take out her existing medicince cabinet which is to the left of her mirror (which we won't be replacing at this time) with just glass shelves sitting in the recessed part of the medicine cabinet.

we'll take a plain white shower curtain and add some pretty trim.

we will change out the chrome fixtures with black ceramic ones which will make it all cohesive and like she is proud of her vintage tile bathroom that is bright aqua.

summer mums wallpaper from spoonflower.

(and yes, i am aware how awesome it is that the wallpaper and ceiling light are like sisters from another mother)

option 2 uses some vintage hot air balloons wallpaper from spoonflower and different hardware..

option 3 uses jungle spots wallpaper from furbish.

i call this not-yo-mama's-bathroom.

just kidding. i call it awesome is what i call it.

bc this is a client bathroom makeover, other than the wallpaper, i will refrain from handing out the sources..

mmkay?

for my next trick we will discuss downton.

but i have to write it first, D'OH!

p.s. if you want your own makeover please email me.

***UPDATES***

i swear to jesus i did NOT make the connection between me saying i wanted to punch rhianna is the face and her ACTUALLY being punched in the face.

it was early when i wrote that and i meant it as a total joke not taking into account that the very thing i was punishing her for was for being stupid enough to stay with the guy who punched her in the face.

BUT!

maybe she likes being punched in the face?

bc why else would you be with a guy who punches ladies in their faces?

unless u like it?

which beings me back to my point...

poor dear needs to have her head examined.

i would not punch her in the face.

i might slap her though, just before i drove her to therapy.

playing around in my cave

Gabriela Eisenhart February 7, 2013

not that cave....pervs.

my living room cave.

here we have farrow and ball black blue paint..with some primary pops of color.

this one might be my favorite. it's also the most expensive and totally unobtainable.

that rug alone is more than a car.

but i could probably find it in a MUCH cheaper and shittier fabric at rugsusa for a lot less.

here we have benjamin moore's tudor brown.

i like this a lot and i'll bet in real life it'd be awesome.

not cheap, but certainly more doable.

the sectional could be found on craig for a few hundred and then for around 700 it could be upholstered in a brown velvet. who's got a lot of brown velvet they want to give me?

and finally...

this is benjamin moore's witching hour....a crowd favorite.

here we are playing with pretty much everything i already own.

sofa- similar to my own.

rug- both, check.

side tables- check.

pillow on left- amber's shoppe.

need grasscloth covered coffee table....relatively easy diy.

need some brass lamps...easy to find on etsy or craig.

hot pink fabric shades...not as easy to find...but maybe easy to make?

joan mitchell painting- HA! in my dreams. but i am a painter too.

also, in reality there will never be a fancy overhead light.

it's a ceiling fan now and forever.

mood boards are my favorite.

in other news...

can someone please tell me if you can have the flu but no sniffles, or cough, or sore throat?

but you totally have the worst body aches, headache and joint aches (specifically elbows and knees) of your life?

but like that's it?

oh fatigued like a motherfucker?

don't make me google.

that's a downward spiral into hell.

what is the opposite of hoarding?

Gabriela Eisenhart February 6, 2013

bc that's what i've got.

i truly do not hoard anything..

ok..no, that's not entirely true.

i DO hoard everything fiona has ever put on paper.

and i mean everything.

i have a hard time throwing away even a scribble.

i am working on it.

but all the rest?

i can toss or sell something easily.

and i rarely ever miss it.

my husband is the opposite of this.

he is a TOTAL hoarder.

he still gets on to me about the time i gave our flimsy, aluminum, mismatched spoons to goodwill.

saying, "they were perfectly fine".

excuse me for wanting nicer spoons.

anyway...so yeah, sometimes i replace shit with more shit but at least it's better shit...and wait..spoons are important!

where was i?

oh yeah..

getting rid of stuff.

last year i went through my kitchen cabinets and got rid of everything we never used and really pared down to just essentials when it came to dishes and glasses/cups and even gadgets that we NEVER used.

it was great!

i highly recommend it.

although i have since had to replace glasses with more glasses but that was bc shit breaks.

but it's still free of plastic and anything ugly.

i have worked my way through the whole house over the last 6 or so months and i can say that in this house we are mostly free of anything we just don't use anymore.

(this does not include the attic or the garage..but more on that later)

i am working on fiona's room at the moment..

just giving away clothes, some toys, stuffed animals (is there a stuffed animal dumping facility anywhere? bc there needs to be. a place where all stuffed animals can go to "retire")...etc..

anyway...it's an awesome feeling but i cannot get rid of ANY books.

like, no books can leave this house bc there are too many memories locked up inside them, okay??!!

but as you may know there is 0.00 storage in this old house so everything gets dumped in the garage.

and as you can imagine...that place is sanford and sons.

so..

that brings me to the point of this whole post..

the garage is getting a makeover and it. is. making. me. sweat. with. EXCITEMENT!!!!

(the attic will have to wait until we move bc i refuse to go up there)

i have been pinning garage organization like a mofo.

i have been checking the weather in 10 day spreads so i can see when the 1st warm weekend will be.

i can't wait to clear the whole thing out and see it empty.

i think this is the single most important step you can take to a successfully organized garage.

i am not looking forward to the black widows i will find.

who wants to make a guess as to how many i mike kills?

getting mike on board with this clean out won't be easy or fun but there is an incentive..

he wants to hang a punching bag from a tree in the backyard so he can kick it. and we all know that shit ain't happening.

but if the garage is nice and clean he can hang it in there.

kick away my friend.

and no, i haven't forgotten about the inside projects you project stalkers..

i will be picking up paint samples for the tv cave today so..don't worry,

we still have fun times ahead of us.

here are some martha tips for cleaning out the garage.

flerp.

downton sort of.

Gabriela Eisenhart February 5, 2013

hey all.

sorry but i don't have a full downton recap in me this week.

but i will say that i enjoyed this episode much the same way one enjoys watching a bad guy get his face smashed in with something like a flaming rocket...so like, hit with the rocket and smashed but also set on fire bc it's a flaming rocket.....but remember he's a bad guy so you reaaaalllly enjoy this act of violence.

that's how much i enjoyed this episode.

so like if the bad guy stepped on a baby duckling...but then a rocket comes out of nowhere and kills him so hard.

but in this episode lord grantham=duckling murderer with all his blustery place putting fails.

FAIL FAIL FAIL...repeat.

it was awesome.

bates is free...wait..what?

i fell asleep during those scenes.

ethel cooked some food with mrs. patmore's help which sent carson into epileptic fits.

speaking of carson..he and lord grantham are pretty much the same person, no?

they both wear suits that cut off the circulation in their necks and therefore their brains and they both hate catholics and prostitutes.

cora steals the show this week.

her bedroom scene with lord grantham was heartbreaking.

what else?

mrs. patmore gave us the cliff notes for the downstairs storyline.

"the trouble with you lot is you're all in love with the wrong person".

der.

the best scene of the night though was for sure mrs. crawley's luncheon.

the ladies in black shut lord grantham down.

poor bastard.

OH! and daisy will be the heiress to william's father's farm.

how great for her.

she'll be like a hipster organic farmer making cheese and shit.

and then of course granny getting dr. clarkson to lie to cora and robert about sybil's chances.

how did you feel about it?

i mean i got it...she felt they needed to grieve together and they couldn't do that if cora was going to blame robert forever. totally true. marriage over. but it was still a lie. no matter how unmusical a word.

it felt like a way to mask the truth to save robert yet again.

thoughts?

and totally off subject...

but this....THIS..