Mista Lista’s last post gave you a sneak peak of some painting happening around the ‘Zoo if you were looking closely. Painting a whole house is s a slow process, especially when you are trying to work full time (Chris) and work part time/finish your dissertation (Amy). Between the two of us, we’ve managed to paint five rooms (and one room twice–more on that in a future post) since the beginning of March. Isn’t it amazing the difference that paint (and furniture and bedding) can make?
Before
After
Our master bathroom is feeling a lot better now that it has been painted in Sherwin Williams Comfort Gray and has a new toilet. We’ve adjusted to the plastic seat, which is apparently a good thing since we can’t find a non-plastic Kohler seat that would fit with our toilet should we want to swap ours out at some point. We love the chameleon nature of Comfort Gray: As the light changes in this room, it shifts from gray to green to blue. In the shadowy water closet/shower area, it even looks like a marine blue.
Oh, and did I mention we have a new shower curtain, too? I found this at Target last Friday for $19.99. 
I wasn’t supposed to be shopping for home things since we had to shell out big bucks for the roof this month, but my mom had a coupon for $15 off a home purchase of $75 that she wasn’t planning to use. While I was at Target purchasing essentials like toothpaste, I took a tour of the home goods section and found this new quilt for the spare room bed. It coordinates nicely with some pillows I made last summer. It will likely become the quilt for the guest room bed once this room becomes a nursery, but right now I’m happy that the fabric helps the random assortment of antique white, white, and black furniture and the Drizzle paint color (Sherwin Williams) come together in a more cohesive, intentional way.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it) the quilt was $69.99, so I wouldn’t get to use the coupon if I didn’t add something else from the home section to my cart…and that’s when I heard this shower curtain calling my name.
Even without the coupon, the $20 shower curtain is still a bargain compared to the $50 one we had considered buying from Bed Bath & Beyond.
Another change to the master bath involved the addition of some much needed storage in the form of a maple Cubeical that was previously snoozing in a closet waiting to be used somewhere. 
Even though our master bath has plenty of storage in theory, the deep wire rack shelves in the linen closet and the lack of counter and drawer space make storing small bath essentials difficult. We barely have room for soap dispensers and toothbrushes on the countertop. Seriously, builder, what were you thinking?! Ever notice that builders frequently make choices that don’t consider how a space will actually be used, other than for basic verbs (eat, sit, sleep, pee)? ALL. THE. TIME.
Cubeicals are hardworking little things around the ‘Zoo, let me tell you, from books to crafts to bath storage. This one tucks away nicely behind the door, so you wouldn’t know it was there if I hadn’t just told you.
The open storage is much better for accessibility and makes the best use of the otherwise dead space on that long, empty wall. 
I’ll continue to play with the arrangement of items stored here, but for now, it is helping make morning and evening routines faster. Chris even commented on how he liked having everything stored in the Cubeical. Yessir, we are making progress when the hubs actually likes and utilizes the organizational changes the wife makes.
KaZoo Party of Two 