Bathroom mashup ...

What do you get when you mix classic cottage with 1980's tacky and then throw in some Star Trek? Our bathroom! This is one of the rooms in the house with fantastic potential, but at the moment is suffering from a terrible identity crisis.

This, we l-o-v-e about our bathroom. Classic cottage kitsch. There is tons of storage and awesome little shelves built into the frame around the mirror. A nice touch is that the shelves are slightly hidden, so items can be stored or displayed, but aren't in full view.

This, on the other hand, we don't love so much. It's the 1970's disco gold-fleck counter top. It, I'm afraid, is on the endangered species list. It does get a temporary reprieve however because the "big" bathroom renovation stuff is not high on our priority list.

These, however, are not so lucky. We absolutely can not stand the 1980's faux bronze antique fixtures that adorn our bathroom. And unfortunately for us someone in the past had managed to find the COMPLETE matching bathroom fixture suite, I mean everything from toilet roll holder to towel bar, to cabinet hinges, to door knob ... I could go on, and on. As I mentioned, the bathroom was a longer term project on our renovation roster, but largely due to these babies I am giving the bathroom a little makeover to tide us over until we can do the serious work.

The walls and vanity will be painted and new hardware installed. Mike has already taken down the triple sliding glass doors on the tub. While very functional, they looked somewhat dated and the fact that the girls almost pulled them off the track on more than one occasion quickly slotted them for removal. I will probably also find a new light fixture. While this futurama Star Trek number is not ugly, it's not really in keeping with the cottage feel that we are going for.

In the long term, the bathroom will see a new ceramic or marble tile floor, the tub insert will be removed and replaced with a free-standing, claw-foot tub and the linen closet will probably be taken out in order to open the space up more. I don't expect to see any of that work to happen in the next year though.