This is where it all begun...
Our back entrance&toilet is our personal Siberia and this door doesn't help. It needed an insulating strip around and curtain to hang for some extra cosiness. The mark on the wall is from a rack of clothes hooks I had already removed before I took the picture. I bought the fabric over the Christmas holidays, but was not prepared to hang it before this little entrance had been prettified a bit. For the first a curtain and a rack of hooks behind the opening door would have meant that squeezing out would have become difficult. I also hated the said hooks; they were there when we moved in, attached to an untreated piece of wood, aluminium school hooks, yuk.
So as I had my birthday a while ago I decided to use it to start my project. I painted the walls and the toilet door. Initially, I had no notion of painting the outer door's inside, but seeing it there amongst all the freshly painted surfaces, I had to. It was simply too ugly to be left alone.
(The pictures are not great, but I have been hanging on for yonks now, because the light here haven't really cooperated for picture taking, so now you have to do with what I have been able to snap)
So here it is before from all the angles, from outside:
It is a really small space and it felt very forlorn and dirty and uncared for before.
Now that the outer door is painted and curtain hung it looks like this:
On my trip to IKEA to buy the curtain material I also spotted a perfect rack for all my bags I want to hang here...
I shifted the rack away from the door and it is perfect where it is!
I then proceeded to decorate the toilet door. This is the upper portion:
and this is the lower:
Here is the view from our kitchen:
Makes me smile every time I see it! Have you done anything mad like this at your home?
PS. This post is linked to Homemade Mondays "Linky Party " on Frugal by Choice Cheap by Necessity. Have a look at a lot of frugal/creative people's posts there.
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