Bathroom Update - on the nautical side

Not long after I updated the guest bath, I decided the half-bath on the main floor needed some livening up.

Here it is - not bad, just not interesting. And, it sported another one of those enormous cabinets!












This time, my inspiration piece was a mirror, a wonderful mirror made from an old brass porthole, that I'd seen on Skipjack Nautical Wares and Marine Gallery. Not a bright shiny new one, a beat-up-looking old one. I can't find anything like it on their current website, but it looks most like this one.

My other inspiration was a post I'd seen on Houzz featuring nautical navigation charts on a bedroom wall - the designer simply used thumbtacks to affix the heavy charts to the walls. This fit with my basic "least effort, least patience" character, as well as my love of maps! My sister had given me one chart for our own area, so I endeavored to find more of nearby coast and rivers.

Marine navigation charts and porthole mirror

I bought a semi-nautical-looking light fixture at Home Depot, and a cool old totally not-nautical cabinet from a local antique shop. I covered the top half of two walls in Pacific Northwest marine navigation charts, using some of the yardsticks from my plentiful collection as the border. A couple of brass items from a local shop added some fun - "To Life Boats" above the sink and a bell above the toilet.

Not-so-nautical cabinet, accessorized

A model crabbing vessel, purchased from a local curio shop, tops the antique cabinet.  The lighthouse soap dispenser is a recent find (repurposed K-Mart lotion dispenser, just a little trimming of the spout did the trick). We did purchase new faucets, but have yet to install them (did I mention "lazy"? :o)

I love the wooden lighthouse curio shelf, a real steal I picked up a couple of weeks ago at a nearby shop for only $39. The wheel, not genuine, is still a fun addition. The Carter's Pills cabinet and Deep Sea Oysters metal poster are both things we already had. I ditched the wall TP dispenser for a free-standing one that holds magazines.

Nautical Half-bath

So here's the photo to compare with the "before" shot at the top of my blog - what do you think?







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