The Roby Family

One of the things that drew us to our new home was the guest room with it’s own bathroom.  With all of our immediate family 2+ hours away we’ve always wanted a space for them to stay when they visit.  While we love our family and want them to be comfortable when they come the guest room isn’t high on the list of rooms to remodel.  The room itself just needs a couple coats of paint.  The bathroom is small, but has potential.  The wall tile is period black & white and the floor is tiled in a cool period honeycomb tile.  The most immediate need is light & heat.  The room has a ceiling fan with no light and for some reason the room has no register for heating & cooling.

Several weeks ago I was driving down the expressway when I saw a sign advertising a lighting store’s going out of business sale.  Never one to turn away from a sale I cut across traffic, found the exit and made my way to the store.  The store owner had died and his wife was closing the store.  It was the last day of the sale and light fixtures were everywhere.  After digging through multiple stacks I came across this bathroom wall sconce.

It was marked $100 and I was disappointed because I really liked it.  I meandered around for a bit then decided to try a bit of haggling.  I walked away light in hand having paid $20.  Not really knowing much about what I’d bought I looked it up when I got back home and found the light for sale online for upwards of $250.  The reason I liked the fixture was the glass is the same as the original glass in the sconces in the other bathrooms in the house.  I finally installed it last night and it looks really sharp.  It will look even better when we get around to painting the bathroom.  We haven’t selected a light fixture for the room, so I took the light fixture from the bathroom and installed it in the room.  If any of our guests want to paint the room please let us know.

I’ve finally finished installing all the baseboard, window/door casing and picture rail in the nursery.  When working with corners that aren’t square and walls that aren’t perfectly flush trim carpentry is a frustrating process for a perfectionist like me. With help from several friends and my dad we did a fine job.  We couldn’t match the trim in the house exactly, but if I hadn’t just told you you’d never know.

While the trim still needs to be painted we went ahead and installed the new light fixture.  We chose the “Fisherman Ceiling Lamp” from Pottery Barn Kids.  It hangs down a bit in the room, but overall looks great.  I’m too tired to take pictures of it in the room but here’s the pic from PB Kids website:

I’ve been battling an extreme raging (doc’s words not mine) sinus infection for about three weeks so progress on the nursery has slowed way down.  If I can find the energy I’ll start painting the trim and post some pictures today.