The bathing room! 

If any of you have peeked into my hope chest, you know that one of my dreams was to have a Jacuzzi tub and a master suite. What you don't know is that one day I said "That's something I will never see".  Let me tell you - My Dream came true - thanks to my wonderful husband I now have a beautiful room that houses my Jacuzzi tub, my leather chaise and sliders out to the pond.   Now I can sit in the tub and watch outside - no matter what time of the day or what the weather.  Thank you Jeff - you are so great!  We have such a great time.  

Let me describe the room for you now - the bedroom was originally 13x13 w/a half bath.  We redid the half bath earlier this year with an Impressionistic type wall paper and we tiled the floors in both rooms with a black marble like ceramic tile.   We had an addition which had been plumbed many years ago as a bathroom.

I wasn't quite sure how we would do it, as Jeff had a arched window in there and I knew I wanted a tub big enough for two.  He ditched the window & put in insulated sliders, so we can see the entire back yard & ponds from the tub.  I went to my local wallpaper store and found a Seabrook book - Impressionist III and in there I found the paper I knew I had to have - Monet's Water Lilies.  It offered several color themes and 3 different papers.  I went with the darkest (I used a piece of it for the background here & the waterlines are taken from it too).  I sponged the top half of my walls (they sold a paper that was sponged - but it was much cheaper to do it myself - $9.95 a gallon at Lowes).  Then I put the water w/lily pads paper on the bottom half of the wall - and the border is the bloomed water lilies.  There is a peachy color spray in this border, I matched it with a terra cotta spray that I used on a wicker vanity Jeff got me at a yard sale for $50.  He put up mirrors on one half of the wall that you look into from the bedroom door.  I wanted them all the way across, but it is better this way - as I don't have to look at myself naked and I have more room for hanging pictures.   Depending on when you look at my pictures I have pixs hung or not.  I am still hanging at this writing (9/6/98) but will most like update soon and forget about this sentence.  I painted the highest ceiling the lightest blue (I sponged 3 shades of blue - medium, royal and blue berry) and then sponged white clouds (now my grandchildren & I can pick out the shapes in the clouds).  I also painted the sofit but I am now going to paint it with sunset colors (purple, gold, rose) and then the lower ceiling (over the tub) I painted the middle blue and added clouds with the darkest blue.  I took white, gold & pearl (the same mix I used for the white clouds) and a stiff brush & painted stars in the night sky.  They actually twinkle when the canister eyeball lites are dimmed (3 in the low ceiling) or candles are lit.  In the high ceiling we have a brass & alabaster (fake) ceiling lite - it looks like the sun!  It is really neat to sit in the tub at night with only the candles lit and listen to the storms or the pond sounds.  It is like being out there - without the misquitos or the frogs in the tub!

This is a very peaceful room that I love to sit in and read, take a bath in (I hate to get out of the tub - sometimes the bubbles get SOOOO high!) Jeff bought me an hour glass!  I hope you have a room like this too.  Jeff still has to had the patio outside the door - his idea - not mine.

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