The bathroom has been under constant "decking-out-ness" since these pictures were taken... but lets take a moment to enjoy the two days that the window shelf was done. I was waiting to show you until I filled my apothecary jars... but can we talk about how no one has sea-glass blue bath salt? I mean come on, there have got to be tons of people looking for a great deal on sea-glass blue bath salt... tons.
So here's the before. The studs locations {as well as where I eventually want to hang my towels} determined where the beach-y window shelf would go. I stud-findered those babies out and got to work with my dry-wall knife. By the way, Chris had no idea what I was up to while he was at work.
Next blocking had to be put in. The studs only run vertically, so to have the shelf actually sit on more than just sheet rock, we {Chris was home for this part} put some leftover 2x4's in and "toe screwed" them in {similar to "toe-nailed", but with screws... yes I did just make that up}.
The back of the shelf was the inside of the sheetrock of the kitchen wall. Yep, we needed to do something back there. I got a smaller panel of bead board because it was thicker than the larger panels. Plus I didn't need that much. So there's for solidifying the back of that wall. That still made me nervous, I mean, what if i punched the back of that shelf hard enough, my fist would totally make it through into the kitchen! Then I had to remind myself, if I was strong enough to punch through 1/8 inch beadboard and 5/8" sheetrock... then I could punch through any wall in our place.
Next goes up the trim around the outside. I have been loving having tons of left over molding I can dream up fun things like this to do with.
The plan was to use these super cute hooks as towel hooks under the window shelf. Then during the "hooking them to the wood" part they totally fell apart {see pic below}. Don't worry, I got my money back. I won't trust crystal knobs from craft stores anytime soon.
I've found a really super, dooper, thrifty, awesome, blow your mind away, substitute, but I'm waiting to finish what else we've got going on in the bathroom first. So here's for enjoying those two days of a clean bathroom... sigh.
