The bathing room!�

If any of you have peeked into my hope chest, you know that one of my dreams was to have a Jacuzzi tub and a master suite. What you don't know is that one day I said "That's something I will never see".� Let me tell you - My Dream came true - thanks to my wonderful husband I now have a beautiful room that houses my Jacuzzi tub, my leather chaise and sliders out to the pond. � Now I can sit in the tub and watch outside - no matter what time of the day or what the weather.� Thank you Jeff - you are so great!� We have such a great time. �

Let me describe the room for you now - the bedroom was originally 13x13 w/a half bath.� We redid the half bath earlier this year with an Impressionistic type wall paper and we tiled the floors in both rooms with a black marble like ceramic tile. � We had an addition which had been plumbed many years ago as a bathroom.

I wasn't quite sure how we would do it, as Jeff had a arched window in there and I knew I wanted a tub big enough for two.� He ditched the window & put in insulated sliders, so we can see the entire back yard & ponds from the tub.� I went to my local wallpaper store and found a Seabrook book - Impressionist III and in there I found the paper I knew I had to have - Monet's Water Lilies.� It offered several color themes and 3 different papers.� I went with the darkest (I used a piece of it for the background here & the waterlines are taken from it too).� I sponged the top half of my walls (they sold a paper that was sponged - but it was much cheaper to do it myself - $9.95 a gallon at Lowes).� Then I put the water w/lily pads paper on the bottom half of the wall - and the border is the bloomed water lilies.� There is a peachy color spray in this border, I matched it with a terra cotta spray that I used on a wicker vanity Jeff got me at a yard sale for $50.� He put up mirrors on one half of the wall that you look into from the bedroom door.� I wanted them all the way across, but it is better this way - as I don't have to look at myself naked and I have more room for hanging pictures. � Depending on when you look at my pictures I have pixs hung or not.� I am still hanging at this writing (9/6/98) but will most like update soon and forget about this sentence.� I painted the highest ceiling the lightest blue (I sponged 3 shades of blue - medium, royal and blue berry) and then sponged white clouds (now my grandchildren & I can pick out the shapes in the clouds).� I also painted the sofit but I am now going to paint it with sunset colors (purple, gold, rose) and then the lower ceiling (over the tub) I painted the middle blue and added clouds with the darkest blue.� I took white, gold & pearl (the same mix I used for the white clouds) and a stiff brush & painted stars in the night sky.� They actually twinkle when the canister eyeball lites are dimmed (3 in the low ceiling) or candles are lit.� In the high ceiling we have a brass & alabaster (fake) ceiling lite - it looks like the sun!� It is really neat to sit in the tub at night with only the candles lit and listen to the storms or the pond sounds.� It is like being out there - without the misquitos or the frogs in the tub!

This is a very peaceful room that I love to sit in and read, take a bath in (I hate to get out of the tub - sometimes the bubbles get SOOOO high!) Jeff bought me an hour glass!� I hope you have a room like this too.� Jeff still has to had the patio outside the door - his idea - not mine.

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