Small space. Big changes.
A while back I had a black sharpie in my hand, a bathroom decor I didn’t really love and a couple of random ideas from Pinterest.
The current curtains were brown and leftover from another room in another house. They just looked tossed together. Because they were.
I had this little stack of cute ruffled curtains I had in the kitchen but had taken down to wash and had never returned them to their respective kitchen homes.
Turns out being lazy about returning kitchen curtains works out well for improving the bathroom.
Then the real fun started.
In a throwback to my childhood days (goodness, my mother was gracious to encourage my creativity in non -traditional ways) I started drawing on the walls with a giant sharpie.
I drew squares mostly. Squares and rectangles.
All over the walls.
And then I invited the kids to join me.
Sharpies in hand, they embraced the wall art and recreated pictures from some well-loved stories.
Quotes appear on the opposite wall – the boards there are too difficult to draw squares upon.
I like the cartoon-like feel of it all.
For me, it’s taken a little square of a room that was pretty much my least favorite and transformed it into a room that’s not such a bad square in which to brush your teeth.
8 Comments
Alicia
This is brilliant.
laceykeigley
Thank you!
karen
this is PERFECT!!! wonder what my landlord would think?! ; )
laceykeigley
I’m perfectly certain they’d love it.
You can tell them it was my idea.
Kara
Let me just say I want to be just like you when I grow up!
laceykeigley
Haha – that’s funny.
kimmie
love the idea and creativity it encourages – also love the drawings on your wee one’s left arm in the last photo! (I, too, have sported temporary tattoos created with Sharpies!)
laceykeigley
Yeah – it made me laugh when I noticed those this morning in that picture.
Sometimes I write on myself with sharpie too. 🙂