A little like giving a mouse a cookie...{hall & bath makeovers}

I told you I had plans for that humongous window hanging out in my living room, right?  So here's what I did with it.  The only 'before' picture I could find of my weird little hallway was when we first moved in.  So here's the 'way before'.

And here's the after:

Of course, said J, why wouldn't we hang a window in front of the window?  That's just common sense.

And then I went after the powder bath, since it was right next to the hallway.

Before

And then I bought this little sign:

So of course I had to go antiquing to find an old frame to put around it:

And then the black and white of the sign reminded me of the fabric I had left over from the kitchen valance,





Which made me think that buying some fancy-fancy chair rail and painting it black (and painting the wall white since I had the paint stuff out) would be a good idea...



as well as hunting down some old French books
(So that any French people who use our bathroom have something to read? --J)



and French made me think of lavender, naturally...




so I thought I'd hang it all on my wall...

and then maybe I stopped because my husband is "project'd out."  But I'd have a new powder bath, and it would smell like lavender.  And then I'd go looking for a new sign.

I think this is one of my favorite projects!  What do you think?