New Mid-Century Modern Shower Curtain

I spent the weekend adding the new finishing touches on our master bath.

Here's the original realtor photo from when we bought the place, with nobody using it so it looks perfect.

Here's what it looked like for the past few years, after I added a new mirror and mirror-side lights, and figured out a way to hide most of the day-to-day, someone-lives-here-now mess on the shelves.

And here it is with the new mid-century modern shower curtain, new shower hooks that mimic the look of the metal bar on the mirror-side lights and, while you can't see it in the photo, new frosted white trash can that mimics the glass on the sconces.

Sure, they're extremely small details, but after a few years of seeing the same curtain and shower hooks with one missing ring, they really freshen up the room and put those final, final touches on it. (Except for the one or two other ideas that I might follow through on.)

Random Mid-Century Pictures from Austin

I love living in Austin and when I'm out and about exploring the city I try to snap pictures of the mid-century things I see. Most of those pics go into a post here on Mad for Mid-Century. But some of them have just been hanging out on my phone forever, either because I couldn't think a long enough post to write about them or because I was planning to go back and take more photos, but never got around to it.

So here are a few mid-century inspired, random pictures from Austin that have been sitting on my phone for too long.

A comic book rack that has to be from the '50s at Nau's Enfield Drug.

Mid-century lights at the 65-year-old Barton Springs bathhouse.

Mid-century sign at Peter Pan Mini Golf.

Mid-Century Modern Lights at Starbucks

My online search to buy my pair Moe Light honeycomb lights took me to strange places, including a patent held by Starbucks. Their patent references page 25 of the 1960 Moe Light catalog. I haven't seen the 1960 catalog yet, but the drawing that goes with the patent makes me want to see the inside of both the catalog and a Starbucks soon.

My Moe Light Honeycomb Recessed Lights

I've been waiting for a pair of decently priced Moe Light honeycomb pendant lights to come up for sale for over two years. It feels like forever. Sometimes decorating with vintage materials is a waiting game and sometimes you need to know when to compromise.

So we a near perfect pair of decently priced Moe Light honeycomb recessed lights came up for sale I snatched them up as quick as I could. They should be shipping to Austin soon.

They're just as pretty as the other Moe honeycomb lights and they'll work really well in the space we had planned for the pendant lights. And if I ever run across a pair of honeycomb pendants, I might still have a spot for them.

Mid-Century Modern Shower Curtain

Our master bathroom could use a little sprucing up. Just the small things, the details. One of those details is the shower curtain. Our current curtain is very think and doesn't allow any sunlight into the shower; all the windows are all on the outside of the shower. So every morning I have to turn on the mirror-side lights before I hope in the shower.

So I went looking for a whiteer, brighter mid-century modern shower curtain.

This octopus shower curtain is my absolute favorite but was too expensive, although I did consider it even at a high price point.

I also liked this London shower curtain, but again, too expensive for me.

With London on the mind I considered this London Underground shower curtain but it was too bright for my bathroom.

So I decided to start looking a simple mid-century modern shower curtains. This sheer shower curtain was at the top of the simple list, but a little too simple for my bathroom. I need a little bit of a pattern.

So I shifted to curtain like this one

And this one

But they had too much of a pattern for me. So I ended up with this mid-century modern shower curtain.

It's white, which should let in a lot more light, with gray pattern, which will look nice with the stone tile inside the shower.