Our Egyptian Bathroom
(master bathroom)

 

This was the second room, that we tackled. My aunt have given me a bit of material (cloth) and I realized it was big enough to make a curtain in the bathroom, and it had an Egyptian theme to it, which I ADORED! If you can sew a straight line and be lucky enough to find the right pattern on cloth, once again, this project is REAL easy!

 

 

 

From there, our "Egyptian" bathroom grew. This is what we call the "Master Bathroom".

 

 

 

So, I decided to surf the net and get as many images and ideas as possible. We bought a plain white shower curtain for maybe 3 dollars; I found a site with Egyptian hieroglyphics; marked out big, pencil "squares" on the curtain, then drew and painted some hieroglyphics on the outside of the shower curtain and then erased the pencil marks. I used just regular water based, tole paints and chose to paint my hieroglyphics solid black, solid gold or solid copper. I wish I had a picture to share with you, but unfortunately, after 3 years, we had to throw out the curtain. Here's where I got some of the hieroglyphics. Easy project and real cheap! *s*

 

 

 

There was a crappy looking shelf in the bathroom. My husband rounded out the edges and spray painted it gold.

 

 

 

 

He painted the door frame (see above picture) and the window frame in copper and our baseboard heater got painted in gold, also.

 

As this is an old house (120 yrs old, aproximately), the first layer on the upper walls were plaster with a cazillion layers of wallpaper. The lower walls had nice ceramic tiles. My husband and I decided to add stucco OVER the wallpaper, which created a nice textured effect.

 

He also painted the medicine cabinet (frame outside) with the gold paint.

 

Then, we went to one of our local flooring stores and explained to the young man what we were doing and he found some really nice tiles for the floor, with a bronze look.

 

 

 

 

Then, the front of our cabinet (under the sink) looked kind of bare. So I once again surfed the net and located 2 images that I wanted to paint.

         

I enlarged the images, printed them in black and white, used carbon paper to trace them on the front panels of this cabinet, and then painted them. I selected what I wanted from both "nefertiti"s and voilą!  My paintings actually look better than the picture (below)..

 

 

 

 

The final touch to our bathroom was when I was chatting with another aunt on the phone (soon after I thought our bathroom was completed) and mentioned what we had accomplished. She said her son had some kind of poster (framed) that he didn't want anymore. I shrugged and thought to myself "I doubt this is gonna be nice in our bathroom) and told her "Sure, that would be nice." I nearly had a heart attack when she brought over this poster, nicely framed!!! It was the perfect and final touch to our bathroom.

 

 

 

 

 

 MY  FAVORITE  LINKS

Faces of the Dead
Egyptian Stencils
Afterlife - Coffins - Mummy Masks
Neferchichi's Tomb - Egyptian Clip Art
 

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