A very small and haphazard reveal
OK, so I got up really early lol. Also, I feel bad not sharing when others are. The pictures are mostly awful, and it's all pretty modest and straightforward, nothing special,so I don't think it all warrants opening separate threads..in the Kitchens, and in the Bathrooms, etc. I'm going to cram it all here, the pics are not very detailed either, for most of the part..
The pics(except if I'll show you couple of "befores" from the listing) were taken by me, so..I photograph as well as I sing)) I'll try to tell you verbally the right colors though lol, when sorely needed.
I'll start from outside since it was my inspiration..that's how bougainvillea looks when she's doing great( and not like now).
(and staghorn just sneaked in since I specially love him too)
so..it's a Spanish Ranch, built either in 1968 or 70 (prefer to think it's '68 since that the year when my brother was born))
It's right in the heart of the city. the city looks like a town to my inconspicuous eye...yet it's a good-sized city, more than a 100 000 population for sure. It was considered "undevelopable" until one urban planner came and drafted a plan on how to use this capricious, ever moving land..so it was hills of grass and many many orange trees before-and suddenly, the building started-and it started approximately where we are now. Thus we have a relatively (to Orange County CA) big lot, no HOA fees, and live right across the city library which makes one feel very enlightened..))
I'll start with the master bathroom because as some of you remember-one of the pendant, the pink one, broke a second before installation..probably some box stood for a brief time on top of the box with these pendants, because it was totally fine when it arrived and for several months after. So my husband glued it together. So I have this fear it will become unglued. I think that was the reason I started taking photos in the master bath..until the pendant stays glued together))
It's a pretty big room. I'd say-it's easily bigger than our kitchen. lol. We built an addition-and it had to be seamless with the house, and partially it was expanding the master bath which was a tiny room with a tiny shower before. So we kinda had this relatively big square now-and we wanted a shower with a bench, an enclosed toilet, and a bathtub with a step. Most of these are needs not wants..anyway they did screw up the framing, just an inch or two, but it had a big effect)) The bathtub is narrower, (which might be a good thing btw), so is the vanity, etc.
the shower is very big
dislike pics of toilets but oh well..it is there, door and all, so
the stone, detail..i love this stone. it's marble i think. since it behaves like marble))
the colors are slightly off or don't come through, on many pics..the house is not blessed with light and i'm not blessed with a talent in photography
for example what you see as a light gray in the toilet room is actually a pretty dark brownish purple (different paint than the rest of the space). to illustrate that's how the pendants look like IRL:
(ok I guess I have to continue in the next post )
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