SMELLOW YELLOW

It’s ‘wear it yellow’ to work day today.  A day where staff are encouraged to prance about the office pretending to have ‘fun’ and wearing yellow T-shirts designed only for the sole purpose of making your outlook on life even more jaundiced than usual.  Smellow yellow- it’s a colour that doesn’t do anyone any favours unless you happen to be a banana or plastic duck.

Management spent the day with enforced grins not unlike baboons with pokers up their arses, hopelessly trying to drum up staff motivation whilst a few underpaid minions grizzled on about how their meagre salaries wouldn’t stretch to a tombola or cake sale.  Raffle?  For a minute there I thought someone was going to get lynched from the suspended ceiling tiles…

But hey, it’s Wednesday.  And in my part-time world, the best day of the week since I only get to suffer the corporate curse for half a day before catching the Biddy Bus home for some well-earned ‘me time’.

Strangely, yellow or rather cream is going to feature a great deal in my next DIY project which will focus on putting the ‘deco’ into decorating as we embark on revamping our dated Victorian style bathroom with something evoking the glamour and stylish simplicity of the Art Deco era. 

Existing dated Victorian style bathroom

Victorian/gothic look 

First to disappear will be the varnished pine tongue in groove cladding and mosaic border.  Hours it took to position each mosaic tile in place but they have no place in a Deco bathroom.

Imagine metro tiles in place of wood cladding

Instead cream mini metro tiles with coloured grouting will replace the pine cladding to roughly the same height.  I’m hoping to top the tiles with a polished chrome square edge box tile trim but I’ve yet to source some economically as even on Ebay these trims aren’t cheap. 

Cream mini metro tiles with dark grouting

A few Deco style accessories to replace the existing rustic pine ones should add a bit of glitz and glamour.  I’ve already bought a beautiful fan shaped mirror (£70 from Dunelm) to replace my vintage pine one and a couple of decorative wall lights which I’ll position symmetrically on either side of the window.

The dark green walls will be painted over in a cream/magnolia colour to tone in with the tiles, more in keeping with the lighter, neutral colours usually used to achieve an Art Deco style look.

My dream bathroom would look like this one

By now you’ll have gathered that I’m a woman with expensive tastes but with a part-time salary so the biggest challenge here is how to ensure my bathroom looks a million dollars but at a fraction of the price.