Labor of Luh...uhh...Labor Powder Room

Ok, so I am pretty happy with the results, but I put a pantsload of work into this seemingly teeny tiny powder bath....and I only spread it out over like 9 months. Yay me.
Month 1: Fret over how and what and when and how much to spend and how and what and when....( You'll notice a turquoise and brown glazed piece of pottery in some of the pictures.  This was my "inspiration", but I also wanted it to resemble both tiger's eye and copper without being too coppery and glammy)
Month 2: Purchase supplies, fret over purchase because sample boards looked like chalky poo...not exactly my vision.
Month 3: Sand down existing texture, begin smoothing and prepping...stand and stare and fret.
Month 4 and 5 and maybe 6: Ignore uneasiness in the pit of my tum tum and ignore the bathroom itself...close the door and work on Halloween projects.
Month 7:  Bite the bullet and just go at it.  Sanding, texturing, taping, priming, base-ing, blending....panicking.
Month 8:  Begin venetian plaster...troweling and burnishing and hating.
Month 9:  At some point I got my "Aha!" moment and realized what I needed to do to transform chalky poo into rad gorgeousness. *Ahem*  So I put on like 3 more layers of Venetian and Highlights, hand burnished and then stained over it, waxed and buffed and buffed to a high polish with my friend the electric buffer...and then troweled on a wax mixture of real mica flakes at the midline and drizzled down into plaster and polished again.
Baby revealed.

(Big D bought and hung the super neato edison squirrel cage bulb pendant from this company out of Seattle called Rejuvenation http://www.rejuvenation.com/ ...they still use people to put together all the parts and make your order to spec...lots of cool reproduction and vintage inspired lighting and hardware.)