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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.

Pretty bare. Kind of even a little gross looking. The more I look at it the less I like it.

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.

I think they're kind of adorable now.  So much better.

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.

Like this.

All over the walls.

And then I invited the kids to join me.

I love his little expression reflected in the mirror.

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.

Of course Tolkien would appear.

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.

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