Room Posting 2: The Bird Bath

Yes, we really are referring to it as the Bird Bath. Yes, we do kinda suck. But in a fun way.

The room: The front bathroom
The style: Eclectic cottage meets graphic
The colors: Black and purple


Forgive the photo quality, but the lighting in there is dreadful. The shower curtain is quilter's cotton from our fabric stash, a bright light purple with darker purple clematis and black magpies. Just sewn down the middle and then we added a dozen buttonholes to the top! The curtain hooks were a terribly lucky find; they're purple resin clematis that look like they were made for the curtain.

The medicine cabinet is designed to look like a library cabinet. We've had it for years. On top, a pair of stuffed bats and a decorative tin. Within, a white wire bird cage. There's also a 1970s mirror which we hung over the corner of the actual bathroom mirror; the frame, now freshly sprayed black, is molded with a pair of stylized lovebirds.


Two bird ornaments we've been planning to put up somewhere for years. The towels are the same ones we had in our old bathroom, but we dyed them. The darker hand towels were supposed to be black to go in the second bathroom, but they came out this crazy dark plum, sooo ... we now have lots and lots of purple towels.


We purchased Rit dye, the curtain hooks, and the little dollar-store wire bird cage. Total decor cost for this room: about $12. The rest, again, was assembled from our yard-sale stuff and crafty stash.