Yet another spin cycle~~

✍✎ It's Freewheelin' Friday! ☄✒

Dedicated to Artistic Endeavors of all Sorts

 
☝It ended with this ☝


☟and started with that ☟ 
my first floor powder room. 

     Or, more accurately, it started with my mother's advice back in my new bride/ house hunting days: "You want the laundry room on the first floor." 
    3o years, 3 houses & 9 years of prep school campus housing, sharing a far-end-of-the-former-dormitory W&D with 12 fellow faculty & administrators later,

~~VOILA~~

That is, voila after 3 color changes on the cabinets  

& 2 on the walls,

plus a visit from my favorite plumber & electrician, who also hauled those suckers from the basement.

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Then I got to the fun stuff.

I framed my lifetime collection of Playbills.
This took weeks because I re-read them all. 
Broadway over the toilet; Boston productions to the left of the window; opera & summer stock to the right;  5 years of Wilmington, DE, Playhouse road companies behind the door, & ballet to the left. 

The powder-cum laundry room has an odd little tub/shower, too. I re-hung the curtain I made featuring my favorite e.e. cummings poem, i carry your heart with me, as well as the vintage Coke tray from my mother-in-law. 

The backsplash holds the shots of our harbor during a hurricane. My sea glass gets tossed into the used vigil light container I recycled from church.

Have I mentioned MacKenzie~Childs?

6 years ago it was 17 degrees the day I hiked across 3 avenues & up15 streets to meander through their Manhattan showroom for Easter gifts (bunny finger puppets). 

I snagged the Courtly Check Enamelware cup for myself & 5 years later brought it into the laundry room from my office where it had been accompanying the Mackenzie-Childs shopping bag I use as a trash basket.

 

    I screwed the cheesy, cheap, white knobs back on the cabinets. Lightbulb Moment #1 sent me to my office for a Magic Marker & gold felt tip pen. 

   Nearly a year after the project, my sister gave me the soap dish. Lightbulb Moment #2 hit me last month. I sat at my desk staring at the box the soap dish arrived in & sneezed. I got up to get Kleenex from the powder-cum laundry room.

     24 hours later I'd removed the oval logo with an X-acto knife, slathered on 3 coats of polyurethane and transferred the tissues. 

     

Serendipity

I used a local Laundromat as a prop in The Chick Palace. I know Johanna & Lilly would get a kick out of this space. 


Now if I could just remember to take the tissues out of my pockets before I do the wash.