Guest Bathroom redo ~ Part 3

This is my contribution to and Metamorphosis Monday and Transformation Thursday.

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This week I am having a giveaway!

It's my very first and it is for an

adorable Pumpkin Head Box.

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Some of you have asked for the details on how I made the skirt for my pedestal sink. This is part 3 in my Guest Bathroom Redo.

I had some 2.00 Waverly cafe curtains (still in the pkg.)... got a bunch off the clearance table at J.C.Penny a few years lotta years back. 

I liked the pattern, and the material was a nice heavy cotton...good for pillows, etc.  They were origianly priced at 25.00. Then marked down and down... until they ended up in the 2.00-3.00 bin.   What a bargin!

Let me stop right here and explain myself. I guess I am hopelessly out of date as far as home fashion "trends". I have collected things throughout the years and just can't let go... but that's another story for later.

Anyway... one morning it dawned  on me that I have this way out of date sunflower/garden theme going on in the guest bathroom. The good news is that I have several packages of those Waverly sunflower patterned kitchen curtains. 

So... out came the cafe curtains and low and behold... one pair was 36"long and actually the exact width to wrap the sink...perfectly!!!

I got out my self adheisive hook and loop tape and stuck the to loopy side to the curtain and the hooky side on the top edge of the sink. 

I flipped the curtains (from how they would hang on a window) so that large pattern was at the top because I thought it balanced the sink better by adding the bold at the top, since there is color in the rug. You'll see later...

Next I needed to sew up bottom a few inches and in 20 minutes flat... Okay... I never even got my sewing machine out for this project! I used double stick tape to "hem" up the bottom . Now I'm pretty sure that will not make it through the wash and will take it off before washing so that it will not get all gummy.  Also if it shrinks in legnth like most cotton, I won't have a "high water" sink!

So that is how I covered the sink issue... and now I actually have discreet storage for the extra TP and cleaning supplies!!!

I also wanted to hide the ugly pipe coming out of the toilet. It just always seem to look so dirty. I had been using a plastic flower pot but it wasn't high enough.

I bought this green wastbasket at Ross... a "happy find". But it still wasn't tall enough to hide the pipes.

So... I took the plastic flower pot and set it inside the basket. That raised it up just enough to hide the pipes!!!

This sure looks better than what I started with. What do you think about having a toilet seat cover? Not real sure about it. What do you think?

You can see the first part

of the redo ( and the new faucet)
by going here.

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I have more "fixers" in this bathroom, like the way. too. high. ceiling, to share another time. I will involve beadboard... but not in the usual way.

It will definitely be painted and it may, or may not, include a sunflower wallpaper border (yup...you heard me) that I've had for years.

All I'm gonna say is that it will be

a little topsy ~turvy.

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