Bathroom help needed

Here is our master bath! You can't tell from this picture, but there is still NO shower curtain! For my b-day I was thinking about asking for one from mom... but I am still stuck on what to do - a white curtain? a linen off-white one? a neutral green one (from AtHome)? or should I go get a fabulous piece of fabric and get one made? Below is one from BB&B, a textured white/black that ends up looking ivory. Can I do Ivory/cream in a bathroom with such stark white?

Darn TV table

Jimmy was so excited to get the opportunity to buy another plasma that now we have one that we basically don't use! It is in our bedroom on a too-deep piece of wood furniture, sitting too low for us to actually watch TV in bed (bad habit I know). We probably should mount this TV up on the wall, because the room is small and already has a lot of furniture in it (big bed and big dresser, all dark wood). However - I'm having a tough time justifying spending the $200-$300 it would take to mount this huge TV and speakers on the wall, when in reality it is a guest bedroom and I don't think future prospective buyers will appreciate! Here is the room and the space - I wasn't kidding!! So I'm debating adding a taller table in here to hold up the TV, since the same amount of mula can then manifest into a piece of furniture that we can take with us and have forever. Problem: not much space and lots of wood in this room already! I've been looking for a table that is either: 1) dark wood because I know I'll use it in a future house and this room will just remain cluttered 2) wood, but painted a lighter color so it is different (think shabby chic) 3) iron with either marble/granite/glass on top I'll be honest and say that #3 is my ideal option. I've been wanting an iron table for a while, it would go anywhere in the future, yada yada. However, they tend to be pricey when nice ($1800 for my favorite one) , and I didn't have too much success finding one in the lesser-expensive antique stores downtown. So here are my options that I found lately. I'll put the price and where they are from, and I'll mention anything that stood out to me about them. Please respond if one stands out to you as one that you would be jealous of if you saw it in a friend's house! I apologize for the blurry vision - Iphones aren't exactly the best cameras, but are much more discreet! The TV stand needs to sit on a table that is at least 14" deep and 30" wide. All these tables would work. 1. I can't remember actually how much$ this one is. 18'' deep, 36'' high. From Hannah's antiques. 2. Uh, not doing so well, this one I can't remember how much either, also Hannah's antiques. The knobs match the knobs on an old dresser I have. Good dimensions. 3. $190, At Home, this one is a shabby chic greyish color, about 16" deep. 4. $400, Hannah's Antiques. kindof swirly, marble top and iron base, if you can't see. 5. $360, Nadeau's. Less wide than the others, but still would fit the TV. 6. $327, Nadeau's, sliding front in wood, more of a solid piece vs a spindly table. 7. $350, Hannah's Antiques. I talked this booth-owner down from $525, this one is 18"x48", and is 40" tall (a smidgen taller than a standard console table). 8. $347, Hannah's Antiques, green marble on top with grey iron base, cut in a trapezoid shape, width at front is 3 ft and at back is 4 ft. 9. $218, Nadeau's, traditional but very solid and good-looking. 10. $80 with the sale they are having now, Hannah's Antiques, this one is shabby chic as well and is one of the smallest, (right height though), at about 16''x 32''. Which one?!?!

Windows I Love!!

A little dream for a future home of ours. This window and the two pictures below it are from our hotel in Florence, Italy, at the Hotel Monna Lisa. They were just gorgeous and I hope to have them in a sun room one day.

With our friends Durham and Nazy, who we met up with in Florence and did a lot of shopping, drinking, and eating with! They are in NY now and he is also doing an orthopaedic residency. A very similar window I saw on a blog recently. And here is my favorite window in our house and the beautiful view into the backyard! Some more fun ones - not mine though!!

The door to our backyard. Not exactly a window I guess.

Headboards

Yay!! I've finally done it! I have created my first headboard. And I should say, to be honest, that I did not think that it was super easy (hmmm Cover and Holland....)! My thumbs are all sore from pushing together those dumb buttons and desperately trying to get the really long needle through the plywood and multiple layers of foam/batting! But, multiple trips to Hobby Lobby and Walmart later, I have successfully saved myself lots of mula as well as fixed a craving I have had for a while!

pre-headboard, with the fabric I picked out a long time ago!

you can barely see those darn buttons after all my hard work, and the second layer is hidden by the pillows!

This happens to be in the ONLY room in the house I didn't paint!! I loved the white brightness that this room has, especially since the front of our house tends to be on the darker side with the plantation shutters and the trees. I just love the pop of coral, and my next project will be to make some pillows to replace the gold ones in the picture! Here is the cute cubby in the corner, which I love because there is no real purpose (I stash purses in the cabinets below.)

My elephant is courtesy of Etsy, the shell is from Anne Donnell, my dad's first cousin, and the butterfly prints are my version of something I saw in an adorable Atlanta antique store. Here is my fine-view vanity! I would love to one day have this painting, of some coral goldfish on a celedon-blue background, from At Home in Homewood down the street from us!

Here are some other fabulous pictures for inspiration, courtesy of the blog pink wallpaper! And if you feel so inspired, try out this website, though I used Cover's help and a little pamphlet from JoAnn's fabric! http://www.bejane.com/headboard

We're IN!

Hello everyone! We are officially in the new casa! And thankfully - most of the little things we needed to do have been done! We have picked out a painter named CJ, much to the chagrin of some awful other guy who chastised me for not picking him when he quoted almost 100% more than the other two painters... However, that won't start for another few weeks so we are still with the same old colors! We are going to go with the tried-and-true Paris Rain and Texas Sage for the bulk of the house, and keep the three bedrooms in lighter shades except the 3rd bedroom, which will be Raccoon Hollow. BTW- Once we got here we realized our king bed wouldn't fit well in the 'master' bedroom, so we are using the blue room, previously referred to as bedroom #2, as our bedroom, and the old 'master' is now my room for my clothes and vanity, which I have always wanted! It is also the guest room when we have guests, so I guess I just pull out some clothes and makeup before they come over. Piper is loving her new yard and dog-door, and everything else is good (including the recent extermination of the bugs). I need to post a picture of the table Cover bought us as a house-warming present, which goes in our little kitchen! It is from Nadeau, which is this amazing store in Homewood (and I think there are others in the US), that sells furniture very very affordable that looks like antiques! My next project will probably be a HEADBOARD! I actually already have the fabric - for the 'bedroom #1' aka the previous master bedroom, our guest room, and my vanity-room. It is from Market St. Fabrics in Pensacola (I think that is the name). And I got this fabric about 1 year ago, so not only am I pumped to use it, but I am completely surprised that I bought enough at the time!