The mirror that I ordered online last week has arrived! It showed up on my doorstep today and like a 5-year-old on Christmas Day, I immediately hauled it inside and started unwrapping it without even taking off my coat.
The frame is made out of these cool, unevenly layered wood pieces. It's just the right amount of texture that I was hoping for. Not super-rustic, but just enough to make it an interesting piece. In order to hang it up, I had to do some fancy math because it had these two hooks on the back, so I had to measure in order to center it over the vanity, and then measure where the nails would match up with the two hooks. And I kind of failed.
This was my first try, where I somehow ended up about half an inch too far to the right. (I mean, hey, I'm the girl who took Calculus twice, so what did I expect?) See how it's inching much closer to the right edge of the vanity? Argh. So I pulled it out, moved everything back to the left, and tried again. Second time was better as far as centering, but I'm a little worried it's hanging a little low - hmmmm....
I mean, it's a perfect height for me, but I know plenty of folks who have several inches on me, so it might be a little off. I'll leave it alone for now, and continue to assess. In all other aspects, I'm really happy with the mirror.
It definitely makes the room feel bigger to have it up on the wall finally, and having that darker color in there helps to make all the lighter colors pop more. So now that I have this big step taken care of, I'm starting to scheme about what comes next. For this, I (natch) need to bring back the ol' order of operations, so here's where we're at.
1. Take down hardware
2. Buy tool to remove coat hook screws and spackle over holes
3. Remove anchors for mirror and spackle over holes
4. Spackle over nail holes
5. Clean baseboards and walls
6. Paint!
7. Replace shower curtain rod
8. Buy new shower curtain, towels, and rug
9. Replace shower head
9. Buy and install new mirror
10. Buy and install new towel rod, toilet paper dispenser, and coat hook(s)
11. Think about shelving and how to create additional space
12. Buy and install new shelving
13. Figure out how to cover enormous holes where hand towel holder was
14. Buy and install new hand towel holder
15. Buy and install new lighting
Those of you keeping score at home will have noticed I crossed off "think about shelving and how to create additional space." I've spent a few hours today perusing the interwebs to try to help solve this conundrum. First, it might help to see a picture of what used to be in there. There was a single towel rack...
...and then a shelf for various toiletries, and the hand towel holder.
One of the things that I want to try to avoid going forward is having storage stuff on both the wall over the toilet, and also the wall facing the toilet. I think it just makes it feel cramped. So in my internet exploration, I discovered a piece of furniture I didn't even really know existed, but which seems kind of awesome to me: the over-the-toilet etagere (Francophiles, please excuse my lack of accents, I don't know how to type them in!).
How cool is this? What a smart idea. I feel like this could solve a lot of my problems - use the space above the toilet for storage (and get extra storage to boot!), and avoid needing to add anything to the wall facing the toilet. Not to worry, I haven't forgotten that I need to store drying towels somewhere - I'm thinking that I will add a couple of wall hooks that I could use rather than the rack. So I'm going to keep looking for etagere options along these lines, and will hopefully have something to show for it soon!
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