Next week we will be hanging drywall on this side of the house (insert lots of screeches!!) Seriously, this has been a looong time coming! And while I’m trying not to get too excited, I am. Fingers crossed that we will be celebrating Christmas this year with a Christmas tree and not another Christmas branch and that we will be sitting all together around a table instead of around our kitchen island. We decided that over the next four months we were going to work as hard as we can to make this happen. We so badly want to have the house finished by Christmas and cannot think of a better gift to give ourselves and the kiddo’s. So as you can guess we have a busy few months ahead of us! So once all of the tutorials are finished up for the baby basket cake I will be switching gears up a bit and working on some home decor.
Anyhoo, the other night my hubby brought home two lion claw tubs for FREE. That’s right, FREE! I was planning on trying my hand at tiling a shower in the new bathroom, but he couldn’t help but snag those free tubs. And if we go with the tubs that means less time tiling and more time spent elsewhere. Surprisingly the tubs are in pretty good shape. The inside of them are in really good whereas the outside of the tubs are in ok shape, but they will definitely need to be sandblasted and repainted. So since the tubs were free and I’m such a lover of color I think a colored tub is in order…hmm…orange? Would you expect any different? When I asked the hubby if I could paint it he just shook his head and smiled. He is a good hubby and yes we will be bathing in an orange tub! Crazy? Yes! But I’m not the only one, look at all of these colored tubs I found…
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So whatcha think? Seeing all of those make you change your opinion? Although I have to say, I love that red and turquoise tub too, it’s gonna be a hard decision. Any suggestions on a color? Or how about a mod podged tub? Now that might be stretching it a bit…but how cute?!
I love that turquoise tub, any color would be beautiful. Orange is my favorite color so I say go for it. We have a massive OLD cast iron tub but the thing is a built it so the color addition would not be as nifty!
Awesome. Ours is black. 🙂 Love the idea of orange!
Seriously…two FREE tubs?!
SO excited that you guys may have a true house by Christmas time…or something close. 🙂
I love all these, but…I have a claw foot tub and thought I would love it, but I don't. Whoever re-did it (cause I think its as old as the house which was built it 1890) thought a drain hole was needed and well now it doesn't fill up more than a regular tub. We could redo it but I would prefer to redo our bathroom with a modern touch, but I would like to do this with it and put it in the sewing room. http://i-cdn.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/boston/050211tubcouch.jpg
That is one heck of a score! How very exciting! I love ALL the colors! I tend to be bold and exotic in color choices where hubby is very neutral and 'last 10,000 years' type of color choices. He usually wins! 😉 I can't wait to see what you decide!
DO THE ORANGE!! I had a friend that had a orange one, and it was awesome!!! Really, any of the colors would be amazing!! I LOVE those tubs!! Jealous!!!
I vote to go with the orange too! I'm totally in love with that turquoise one too though. Your house story always reminds me of how we grew up. I lived among studs and housewrap paper for years! My dad remodeled our entire old farmhouse as an evening/weekend job (the whole thing took SIX years and tripled the size of their house!), and they have a purple painted clawfoot tub in their main bathroom. They look SO fun in pretty colors!
Love the stripes! The yellow, however, is making me gag. We have a yellow submarine of sorts in our bathroom, but that's only because those crazy interior decorators in the 60's felt that EVERYTHING should be yellow: tub, tile, toilet, sink…the works!
How fun!!! I can't picture the orange in my head (I love the turquoise!), but I am sure you would make it look cool and fun.
I love that you are going to paint it!!! And orange? YES! GO FOR IT!!!
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