Okay dokie then, I promised more pictures so here goes.

Adjacent to the wreck room is our basement bath. This room is sort of the hub's retreat because it has the steam shower he wanted.  I hate the shower, just can't breath with all the steam - more of a  long hot soak in a big tub kind of girl - but he loves it. However, he hardly ever takes the time to use it so the primary use of this bath is as the guest bath  to go with the "guest room" function of the wreck room (when the inflatable mattress is in play).

See those boxes on the shelf there?  I covered those. The black and white ones are banker's boxes and the deep red ones are cardboard file boxes.  This room is done in grey, black, and a deep red/wine color.  Long ago I did the walls in a paint technique that utilized plastic grocery bags.  I still like the effect though you can't really see it in the picture.  The light is not so great either - but having to stand back far enough to get the shot made the flash useless.  Ah well, you get the gist.


This shows the steam shower but the project part is that shelf above the toilet and the basket of guest toiletries  I hung the shelf - all level and everything - and filled the basket with small bottles of shampoo/conditioner, a small can of shaving cream/ razor, toothpaste, really nice soap, and a loofah.  Don't know if you can tell but the floor is a pretty black marble tile with small veins of white and brown - we got those for a super good price back when.
This is the wall opposite the sink. I used decals from Tar-jay, didn't want to commit to an actual painted design because if I didn't like it or wanted to change someday - I'd have to repaint the whole room and I like the the walls too much to risk that.

The other two things added in this room were a big black on black rug (to help with the cold tile issue) with a large textured square pattern and crown mold. Did the crown myself with the boy's help holding the crown while I nailed, cut it by hand with a miter box. A picture of crown would be boring and black on black just doesn't photograph well so no shots of those.  I still want to find a luxurious white robe to hang next to the shower for guests, but haven't seen any in stores yet - expect they will show up soon as Christmas merchandise is beginning to make its appearance.

Next project to share is up in the family room (you'll remember this room from the Christmas photos last year) - the only thing I did in this room was to frame and hang a bunch of the trip items we've brought home along the way.  Many of these items were lost in the mass of things on the shelves and lent themselves to easy framing and our local Michael's facilitated the process by having many really good weeks of frame sales this summer so now we have this grouping:
 That strip on the far left is a belt decorated with coins and seashells from Thailand.  The seven postcard sized paintings are from Burma - they were sold in a plastic sleeved strip and are each hand done in ink - the whole thing cost something like $3.  There is a piece of Belgian lace that looks like a row of town houses, a paper doll from the airport in Japan (we've never been to Japan, just the airport in Tokyo and we don't count a country as "visited" unless we leave the airport).  The items in an X are a set of handkerchiefs from Mexico, there is a small square of hand embroidery from Colombia (just thumbtacked to the wall), a piece of Islamic designed star shaped tile from Spain, and both a piece of hand woven fabric and ribbon embroidered/ hand made lace trimmed linen from Romania.

And then on the other side this grouping:
Here you can see a piece of Australian Aboriginal Art in the upper left corner - an appliquéd pot holder from Panama, more of the cards from Burma, Irish lace (center) a hand painted tile from Haiti, another - bigger- piece of appliqué/embroidery from Colombia, and a silk screened cotton print scarf also from the Tokyo airport.

The frames are all black and most of the items are just pressed to the glass with black acid free scrap-booking paper used to back them.  There are a couple items that did better with other colors behind (i.e. the Japanese doll is on gold, the Irish and Romanian lace are on dark green)  All the square frames are actually very inexpensive album frames and the Japanese scarf is in a small poster frame.

Enough for one day.  More another day.