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Midcentury giveaway! Enter to win free goods

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It’s been awhile since I’ve done a giveaway over at instagram.com/the_mod_bar, so I thought it was time to spread some love. Up for grabs are a few, great midcentury items.

First, a gorgeous vintage, brass candle holder. Would look amazing at your holiday table filled with candles.

Vintage, brass candleholder.

Second, you’ll win a super cool midcentury planter. I picked this up awhile ago and just thought it is SO cool and kitschy.

Midcentury planter.

Finally, you’ll get a set of three midcentury plant style enamel pins. Keep for yourself or share with a friend!

Enamel pins

Easy to enter!!

Contest is open to US residents and closes this Sunday, November 1st at 10am central. To enter, simply:⁣⁣
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1- Like this post⁣ on Instagram
2- Follow @the_mod_bar⁣⁣
3- Tag at least one friend, or as many as you want, for one extra entry per tag⁣
4- BONUS: Follow my blog here⁣ for FIVE extra entries⁣
5- BONUS: Share this post in your Instagram story (and tag me!) for 3 extra entries⁣⁣

Good luck!!

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Midcentury bathroom refresh

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We’ve been plugging away on a minor bathroom refresh — not a gut by any means but refreshing and working with what we have. We still have two bathrooms in our house (on main floor) with all original finishes. They are great bones and easy to work with, to keep the vintage feel.

I started in this project with working hard to clean the tile and steam it to as close to perfection as I can. It was installed in 1960, so I most definitely didn’t get to perfection, but it’s much better and cleaner than it was!

We knew we wanted to paint. I was toying with these two colors but in the end we decided it was too close to the tile color and wanted something different.

We went ‘shopping’ to our downstairs closet that houses all our paint from previous projects. Low and behold there was a full gallon of this Gray Horse from Benjamin Moore which we loved in a prior project. So, I was ready and had time to paint AND this full can was in front of me ready to use. Off we went with the Gray Horse. I have to admit I was a bit skeptical, because I was worried this color was ‘too cool’ for the room, but once it was done, I LOVED it! And now we can play with decor to bring in different color accents.

The biggest transformation for us was our new vanity light. We previously had a very basic three-bulb light. This 4-bulb globe vanity light really transformed the space!

I will keep you posted on our finishing design touches. I have a great shelf I want to put up, we’re going to get some new towels and a rug and likely some plants. Now the more fun stuff!

Picking a midcentury bathroom vanity light

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Next step in our bathroom refresh is to pick a light to replace the boring, standard one someone added at some point. Here’s what’s in the room now:

Original tile and vanity — need to replace the light.

We didn’t find any used / thrifted lights off Craigslist or Offerup, so we’re going ahead with getting a brand new one, staying with a midcentury, chrome look.

Having new, brighter light in here will really help brighten up the room. It’s a fairly small bathroom space so more light will really make it feel bigger and brighter.

I asked my awesome Insta followers for some help in picking from a few options. I narrowed down to three options — all with a chrome, 4-bulb layout to get the most light we can.

These are the three I came down to. The popular vote from my followers was B — which is awesome because that’s also the one that we decided would be best as well. See my homegrown little Photoshop mockup as well. I am a sucker for any globe lights…I think they just look so perfect in a midcentury space.

I found it on Amazon for about $170 — so we’re going to give it a try.

They also had it in a beautiful gold color. I really am loving all the gold-fixtured bathrooms lately, but with everything else in the bathroom being chrome — hardware, shower stall and towel bars, we’re going to stick with it.

So we have a few more steps before we get to putting the light up…still working on cleaning the tile to no end, need to caulk, paint and just get prepped for that space.

I’ll loop back with photos once we get it up!

A few other lights I love!