We're getting a very late start today because we just got off a plane this morning from Rincon, Puerto Rico. We went down there for a friend's bachelor party. It was a surprise surf vacation. We got up at 3am. Yes, we're a bit groggy.
Amazing place, Puerto Rico, ...especially the colors. They are the work of a culture that loves playing with a paint deck, but makes sure that every color is first dipped in sunlight. We're blogging the colors later today. Fresh paint chips.
Meanwhile, so much has been going on that we need to catch up on. The judges are working on their decisions, a few more entries have yet to be seen (the judges are already looking at them), we have a big awards party this Thursday in NY and LA, the CURE thread is out of control and it's Bathroom Month, so we'll continue to blog the hell out of anything and everything related to the bathroom.
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Doesn't Puerto Rico make you want to keep going back? The entire culture revolves almost subconsciously around color; reminds me of my second home(Guyana,South America). Can't wait to see the photos; and some bathroom ideas. All I have to say is...pink tiles.
P.S. L-O-V-E the book!
Speaking of bathrooms, I was thinking the other day about these friends of mine whose apartment I helped paint 2 of their apartments ago, and it was a rental and they were so very much not wanting to spend, like, ANY money on anything on it.
But I saw that ONE of the 2 the little cheap clear plastic "H" and "C" were missing from the cheap faucet handles in the bathroom sink. So, before I went there for the next morning of painting I actually went to my little local hardware store and I brought in the "surviving" one of those two plastic things, and believe it or don't, for TWENTY-FIVE cents each, I went ahead and splurged on replacing them both, so they'd both be nice.
Well, the difference it made in that bathroom was just the difference between depressing and refreshing. It made the place look like somebody lived there and cared about it.
My point was, "So what if you're just renting?" For the moment (and what ended up being, for them, about 6 or 8 years!) it's your home!"
In Maxwell's book he talks about making a little list of repairs that you can do yourself that will make you feel better about yourself and your home, and that's one that I was thinking about the other day that really can help.
where do you get that glowing bathtub? It's so cool.