bathroom barn door

I posted these pictures on Facebook, but never really talked about it.  This barn door to our bathroom was an idea that started very early in the process of designing our house.

 

Which, by the way, if you plan on remodeling a house that you just bought... you pretty much have to have some ideas before even knowing which house you are going to buy, because the process goes so fast!  We knew we wanted an old antique barn door somewhere, but never thought we would have this great opportunity for one.

 

Our bathroom door is in the smack middle of a side wall to our bedroom.  My little head sleeps about 4 feet away from that wall.  And the ceiling is vaulted, so its a perfect place for a statment piece.

 

David, the Husband, welds.  He learned from his dear old dad at a young age and has made us many a fine item with his skills.  i.e. planters at the old house, and some other things that don't come to mind at the moment.

 

We  really like this type of hardware.  www.barndoorhardware.com  I have used it a couple of times in commercial designs for some of my work projects.  But the price tag is a little scary.  About $500 for something that we needed.  So... David just made it himself. 

 

At first I didn't want him to, afraid that the R&D behind thhe $500 price tag was probably justified and he just didn't have that time and knowledge to deal with the trial and error of it all.  But as most times happens, Husband came through with flying colors.  I shouldn't be surprised anymore by his Renaissance man qualities, but it is always a nice ending. 

 

 

Husband hanging the door.

 

steel hardware

 

And then we needed to frost the glass because it is our bathroom after all.  So, David found this for me at Home Depot.  It is a stick on film that needs very little prep/set up.

 

 

 

Spray the glass with some water.

 

 

 

 

 

Take your pre-cut sheet (measure your window before, and cut with an exacto) and remove the backer.

 

 

place it on the window pane/glass starting at the top, let it fall and adhere

 

 

take a credit card or something like that to spread the water out from under the film to the edges.

 

 

and wipe away the excess water. 

You can see the transparency difference.  Its awesome!

 

 

 

Now we  need to work on some acoustical sound masking issues :)

tree branch turned wall art

This was an idea of my mom's.  We needed something over our guest bed.  We live on a lot with 100+ trees.  So, what better way to decorate than bringing in the nature.  

Found the perfect branch.  

We also found the most perfect adornments.  White porcelain flowers at Back Home.  My mom's favorite home decor store.  And then we found some crocheted flowers in yellow and grey ;) as well.  

And there you go!  Its coming together.

make a statement... wall.

This is one of my latest mini projects.  I'm happy to say they are all mini projects now.

No more total house makeovers.

A statement wall for our entry.  I toyed with different ideas, but knew I wanted a big letter and to use these antique mexican nail heads we got at Pieces of the Past.  (The same place we bought our antique door that now leads to our master bathroom.)

I use my computer and graphic software programs for pretty much EVERYTHING that I create.  From stationary, painted windows, statement walls, crafty things.

So, i started with this, AutoCAD.  (I used my graphic program, Adobe Illustrator, to get the W.  And then exported it to a .dwg autocad file.  You could also use a grid system and have your letter blown up super huge on large scale paper, etc.  This cost me no $ at all, and I'm a really impatient person, so anything that I can create/come up with at home and just DO is right up my alley.)

Then we started plotting out points on our wall.  Thanks to my bestie Morgan for helping me out!

To get the curves, I printed out those sections on 8.5x11 paper on our home printer and taped them on the wall in conjunction with the adjacent straight lines.

Another big item of discussion for any accent paint on a wall is how to get the best line with the taping off process.  I had heard of a technique where you paint the original paint color of the wall FIRST.  To basically seal the edge between the wall and the tape.  

Then, you paint your color.  And... IT WORKS BEAUTIFULLY!!!

Such crisp clean lines!

And, the finished product!

Happy Holidays!  

-katie, H&H