quick tip i wanted to share with you- if you haven't done this already, a rod in your under the sink cabinet is so helpful for getting spray bottles out of the way and much easier to grab without digging through or knocking other bottles down!! this is something you can do yourself!
almost every time i reach for a spray bottle in the cabinet under my sink, i end up knocking down other bottles that are in my way. so, i was very happy to find this simple but so great idea... i got this idea from cybermema who got this idea from Cook's Country Magazine- it didn't take my husband very long to do at all and, within seconds, things look a bit cleaned up and functions so much better for us! such a great use of all that wasted space above and makes it so much easier to grab what you need- check it out!
the idea {that i had actually pinned a year ago, i don't know why we waited so long to do this!} called for using a tension rod, but we didn't have one hanging around- and we did have a few extra small curtain rods kicking around that we weren't using. so, my hubs drilled a small hole at each end and used them to hang the rod onto small gold hooks that he screwed into either side of the cabinet...
i Love a simple but good idea and i thought you would too! ;)
xoxo
unfortunately, we still have the tile countertops that came with our home and, until we redo our kitchen next year, i have to live with them.
ours are black and it drives me crazy that when i wipe them down, they show all the streaky wet marks.
well, i found the trick for cleaning them in one step {without having to towel dry them to get rid of moisture marks!}-- Baby Wipes!
try it- it works! and the scent is so pleasant, too! ☺
gray was my new black but that was fleeting- less than 6 months later, navy became my new black and there it stayed.
maybe because gray has been too overdone. very likely because gray is neither here nor there and i need more powerful colors- black, white, pale pink... and i still love charcoal. that's the best shade of gray. it makes a beautiful, sophisticated impact. so much to say about charcoal... for more, see our charcoal bedroom here: My color of the moment is Gray
but, anyway, back to navy: navy is timeless, classic, elegant, nautical- so it still works here in south florida, preppy, masculine- in an elegant way for femmes too! -in a truman/roosevelt/hemingway kind of way...
we painted our bathroom navy with bright white crown moulding, and a dark wood 'medicine cabinet'- it wasn't really supposed to be a medicine cabinet, we repurposed it and it worked beautifully. just the other day, my husband said to me, 'that's still one of my favorite of our finds.'
i haven't photographed the WC yet because it still isn't finished- we have yet to find and add a strip of dentil moulding below the crown {harder to find than we expected!}- but, when we do, ill be sure to post pics right away!!
in the meantime, i only have a photo of another one of our cool, old finds that we've hung in there:
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