My master bath…  You can take as long as you like when it’s your own home   It took forever to even get motivated  -    A) there is never any time to work on your own space,  and B) when you finally DO get time it’s the last thing you feel like doing!

I’d messed around in this bathroom years ago – the walls were troweled as my first Lime Plaster job.  The color never seemed to have enough ‘ummph’,  and of course I was a hard judge on my new troweling skills…  A couple years ago I got the grand idea to play around with stone over  oxidized gold leaf on the trim work encasing the mirrors.  That wasn’t my favorite either.   I say its hard enough to work on my own place?  It’s even harder to REDO something -

Fast forward to last week.  I was tired of  our missing hardware.  I had removed it months ago  to silver leaf it.   I didn’t want to put it back on until I had updated the wall finish.   And, I had originally intended to silver leaf the cabinets – they were oak, painted off white, and glazed (and they were yellowing).  I even went so far as to silver leaf 2 small drawer fronts and 1 cabinet door, but it dawned on me that I wasn’t going to like the ‘dressy’  silver leaf cabinets with an old weathered broken plaster on the walls…

So OUT came all my color chips, samples, wood pieces, cabinet doors etc… and I decided to change up the cabinets to the Caromal Colour Textured Basecoat Cobblestone color, with some brown distressing peaking through.  I really like that the trim surrounding the mirrors and the cabinets will be one and the same again.  And I like that the cabinets are darker.  I’m not sure I’m keen on the silver leafed cabinet hardware, though, but I will live with that for awhile.   I DO like the silver leaf towel bars etc that I finally hung back up.  Rugs might have to go?

The walls were finished by rolling out a layer of Caromal Colours Textured Plaster, then I randomly layed a damask stencil here/there with a mix of the CC Textured Plaster and the CC Smooth Plaster tinted with a little Earth Brown tint.  Over top I skip troweled the Caromal Colour Smooth Plaster then topped it off by whiz rolling on both the Caromal Colour Tea Glaze and Caromal Colour Coffee Glaze, then wiped off-

The ceiling desperately needs a coat of paint – I need to work on that tomorrow- I’d like to go darker – something in between a gold of the walls and the greenish brown of the cabinets. I’m tempted to just get flat and paint it (dreading doing a ceiling of my own when I have 3 coming up in the next 5 weeks for clients).   But, I do have that raised ceiling that I could do something fun in, if I could only thing of something…. any suggestions?    This picture shows the raised ceiling, either way, some or all of the ceiling needs to go darker….  The cabinets are in-progress here . The right column has been toned.  The rest of the columns and the cabinets have not been toned yet -

I’d love to do ALL the trim in the Cobblestone color – the windows, and the doors….. kind of like I did for this client’s master bath -

but that would would take more work as well, and I don’t have the time.  I still have the water closet (can I just call it toilet room?) walls to finish.  And I need to finish the cabinets – but I am holding off on those until later this week – I have a Caromal Colours Distressing Workshop Thursday evening and thought it would be wonderful if I did the actual product demonstrating on a real, installed set of cabinets!   So  that’s the plan, all ye attendees this week – you can take a seat on my tub ledge and watch a live play by play!