When Design Love Turns to Design Hate.

Meet our powder room. It was the first room we decorated when we moved in almost four years ago.

Wainscoting and a chunky chair rail went up, the walls went black, and in came a new light, a glam mirror and some art we had laying around the house. Cheap Ikea tp holder and towel bar were installed, and we haven’t touched the room since.

I walked into that bathroom the other day, took one look around and hated it. Not everything, but most of my design choices were no longer my style. The elaborate mirror & art? It feels so black and white damask weddingy to me (this could be because we decorated it while planning our wedding). You know that style of black, white & red from a few years back? Glam and luxe, but now it feels like a wedding hall with cheap polyester seat covers. The art? Some prints I made 8 or so years ago. My photos, my work. But my love for them is gone. I used to adore this room, and now I hate it! Does it mean the room isn’t nice? Or that its not someone else’s perfect style? Not at all, just that its lost it’s luster on me. I have fallen out of love with it.

Design is like that though, isn’t it? Your tastes change. You grow as a person. Your life moves in a different direction.

It is time for a change.

What’s on my hit list?

That mirror needs to go. As does the art and accessories. I still love the wall color and trim. The small sink barely fits into the room, so swapping that out is pretty unrealistic, but perhaps the faucet could go?

So what am I thinking? Embrace the Scandinavian black & white and run with it. New shadow box mirror. New light (brass maybe?) New art (finally getting some of the prints I bought in Denmark and Sweden on the walls?!) and new towel, tp and trash can accessories.

Follow Kristen’s board Bathroom: Scandinavian Modern meets Traditional on Pinterest. 

Not a big project by any means, but one that will put me back to a style I love. Out with the glam, and in with our Scandinavian industrial vibe.

Guess I’ll be making a trip to Ikea, Mjolk and CB2 next weekend. Oh, and I will be doing this all on pretty much NO budget. Wish me luck!

What design trend are you over? Have a room in your house that needs a facelift, fast?