Welcome to the end of August! It’s been a week of back to school for most of Colorado and, even though we survived another intense heat wave, I can smell and see autumn in the air. If autumn has a sound I’ll never know because a Biblical amount of cicadas hatched recently and they sound like a million home fire detectors going off at once. It’s so loud that in order to have a conversation in our backyard in the evening you have to shout. I am not exaggerating; it’s quite remarkable.
Our backyard looks less “rental car parking lot” now and more like we’re going to open an outdoor cafe thanks to the string lights that I had Dave hang up. Come have a seat in our cafe: the dogs will shed and drool on you, the cicadas will serenade you at epic volumes and you can sit and wonder when the food is coming.
I would like to renovate the remarkably small main bathroom in our house next summer (or maybe this winter?!) and I keep getting sucked into images of paneled bathrooms. I am a traditionalist at heart and I love the look of painted, paneled walls in a bathroom. It seems like a warmer, friendlier atmosphere than tiled walls. I’ve compiled some images to support my argument and give you some inspiration for adding some traditional character to one of your bathrooms!
I love the mirrors integrated with the beadboard here! What a brilliant idea. Also note the drapery fabric used as a shower curtain. Genius. (Source)
I love the black paneling in the above photograph and I am a big believer in the power of either black or white paint. It’s a simple, easy design choice and you can pair any color with either one.
I love the traditional, heavy paneling here. It looks expensive. (Source)I love the wider vertical paneling in this gorgeous bathroom. I could see putting this in my bathroom. I also love the mirror. If I don’t steal the mirror paneling idea from my first image, I might look for a mirror like this. (Source: Pinterest, let me know if you know who this is from)So simple and lovely. Beadboard all the way up with built-in medicine cabinets. (Source)Another view of the same bathroom. I also love a paneled tub. If you have an alcove tub, the paneled front can dress it up a little bit. This one is made a little more luxurious by the marble top. I am not sold on this shower curtain however. (Source)Board and batten like this wouldn’t work for every house – it looks very rustic and I think that’s what I love about it. The shutters make this look like it’s tucked up in an attic somewhere. I love the creamy white used here too. (Source)Here’s some more creamy board and batten! I love this for a little cabin somewhere. (Source)I really like the antique-white paint color on the old beadboard, the hooks used for hand towels and I will stop and stare every time at that antique mirror. Vintage mirrors, if you have the patience to look around for them, are always worth the trouble. (Source)I thought I would wrap this blog post up with my design crush Leanne Ford’s “Schoolhouse Project” bathroom. Army green never looked so good. (Source)
Taylor Swift’s new album dropped today and I know what I’ll be listening to this weekend. Here’s one of my favorites so far:
Laura is a Denver Interior Designer who runs an Interior Design Studio based in sunny Colorado with a strong commitment to livable and interesting interiors. She also runs The Colorado Nest, a Denver blog about Design, Art and Life in the Mountain West and co-hosts the book podcast "The Inside Flap" on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play.
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