Welcome to the Throne Room

Our master bath is DONE! I can’t even say how happy I am that we no longer have all white walls with all white towels and not one item on the walls. Want to see the finished product? I thought so.
Here was the inspiration

Links to inspiration here: Mr & Mrs., Hydrangeas and Blue, LOVE sign, Striped Walls

And now for our bath.

I bought the LOVE letters (hehe) at Hobby Lobby for $3 a piece. Then I spray painted them with gold metallic paint ($5). We spray painted 8 nails and just nailed them to the wall (after Josh drilled the holes for the nails). Totally worth $17. I love how they turned out.

And my favorite part…

Isn’t Josh just the cutest child ever??? We had our parents send us pictures of us in the bath when we were kids (they just snapped a picture of a picture with their phones and texted the photo). I am in the yard because, hey, I’m the 4th child and the earliest picture of me in the bath was at age 4 or 5. Not quite what we were going for. Anyhow, I used Lightroom to fix up the photos to look okay for a 5x7 print. Just look at the difference.

I’m really pleased with the finished product. Hope you all had an eventful, but relaxing weekend!

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