Project Bathroom: Before and After

I wish I had more BEFORE pictures, but unfortunately I didn't take too many! I was not too happy with my paint choice the first time we painted this thing about a year ago, so I ended up painted the entire room instead of just having one ugly accent wall. I also repainted the ceiling (not by choice... I kind of had to because I kept hitting it with the roller when I was painting the walls! I am not patient enough for painting!) a creamy white color. Now... my project is not complete without finishing touches right? I used my same oil rubbed bronze spray paint and painted all of my existing hardware (towel ring, tp holder, towel bar). I even sprayed a basket I had around to match the bathroom a little better. I decided to paint the vanity in the bathroom pillar white by behr and added some cute oil rubbed bronze hardware. Last but not least I sprung for a new light fixture... oil rubbed bronze of course! It looks like a whole new room, and I am pretty happy with it!

{BEFORE}

{AFTER}
SO... let's break it down...
TOTAL COST: $44
Paint on walls: $0 (left over from front room)
Paint on ceiling: $0 (left over from master bedroom)

Paint on cabinets: $5 (after $10 gift card from work)

Hardware on cabinets: $16

Refinishing tp holder, towel ring and towel rod: $0 (left over from fan project)

New light fixture: $23 (after $25 gift card from rewards debit card)

{Before}

{After}

Satisfaction from lots of hard work: Priceless.

*Next up on the to-do list for this room... remove mirror and add framed mirror, get new ORB faucet, get new shower curtain and accessories. Those are all another project for another day...far far away. For now I am happy with my newly redone bathroom.

Project Bathroom: Cabinets

With the walls a little darker, the room needed a little lightening up. I painted the dated orange icky oak cabinets with a nice fresh coat of Pillar White paint with primer from Behr. We also added some hardware to give it a little more character. I was so mortified of taking on this project, but I have to say.... I am really happy with the result! I researched a lot of cabinet makeovers, and went to Home Depot and also asked for some simple advise. I ended up first wiping down all the cabinets with mineral spirits. This takes all the gunk and grime off as well as any extra shine that needs to be removed. Then I lightly sanded any rough spots that I could feel on the cabinet fronts. I taped off the room and went to town. I used the paint with primer so it saved me a few steps. It took me quite a while to finish this project because of the dry time between the coats. Then I wanted to wait a few days for the paint to really harden before I added the hardware. All in all I think it took me a week to finish this room. Not too bad. I am still getting used to seeing a completely different look in here. But for the most part I think I really like it!

{BEFORE}{first step... remove doors}{second step... tape the crap out of it.}

{third step... paint.}

{step four... put it all back together again.}

{step five... add some cool hardware.}

{oil rubbed bronze... my fav.}

{AFTER}

Step six... enjoy.

Project Bathroom: Paint

When we first moved into this house the paint was horrible to say the least. We wanted to hurry and get the painting done before we moved all of our stuff into the house, so we only had a few days to paint our entire house. Which meant a rush decision on paint colors. I wish that I had spent a lot more time choosing my colors, because now I look at most of them and I am not happy with the original decision. For example, our hallway bathroom. I was looking for golden tan color to go with our shower curtain which had a lot of warm bronze and orange colors in it. We went with a color called Harmonic Tan, and it turned out to look more like pea green. NOT exactly the color scheme I was going for. But with a rush in our painting it would have to suffice.
I didn't want to spend any more money on paint, and we had a bunch of left over paint from our front room, so I decided to go for it. I mean really, what could be worse than pea green? A couple coats of Harvest Brown on the walls and Sandstone Cove on the ceiling and...... here you have it...
Like I said.... anything is better than pea green. Well, maybe not ANYTHING.

{this is what it looked like when we first moved in. yummy.}{this is what it looked like the first time we painted it. I promise it was much more green-y in person. Plus we just had one dumb accent wall.}

{and after... all the walls painted harvest brown by Behr. It is really hard to get a good shot of a small hallway bathroom... especially at night! oops. Well... it isn't quite this dark in person.}
{at least I don't feel like THIS anymore about my hallway bathroom paint. haha.}