Last Bathroom to redo...
Master Bathroom
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Mirror, Vanity & Sink
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Before - tiled vanity top, tile around vanity on walls, dark SHORT vanity.
This vanity came up mid-thigh on us. You can't really appreciate how awful that is unless you are six feet tall and taller. We replaced the toilet when we moved in to a low flow. |
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| On Craigslist I saw an ad for a marble vanity which included the sink from a business that had some overstock. Jim did the leg work and drove to Denver to pick it up. Unfortunately, it wasn't until he got home that he realized they had given him the wrong sink. So, it was a two trip purchase. In the end - so worth it! Love the marble slab. |
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The mirror is a three way medicine cabinet. It wasn't all that deep so we weren't using it for storage.
It also really dated the bathroom, so...gone. |
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This was the before bathroom off the family room. I saved the cupboard hanging above the toilet.
I removed the door and painted it... and now here it is, below, in the master bath. |
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| Cupboard repurposed in the master bath |
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Months ago I saw an ad on Craigslist for this antique mirror and stand - for $30!
Even better, it was several blocks away! It's been sitting in the basement for months but I just knew I'd find a place for it. It was too wide for the bathroom off the family room, but perfect for this bathroom. Again, I forgot to get a before picture! It was a beautiful dark oak, and I was really uncertain about whether to paint it, but decided that the overall look I was going for was shades of white and so took the plunge and used the Ironstone Milk Paint on it - same as the vanity. |
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| Really hard to get a picture as the mirror is directly across from the window and you always see the window reflected in it. Tried to hold a curtain over the window, but still not a great photo. |
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This is the paint I used on the vanity, mirror and shelf.
Milk Paint in Ironstone. I also used antique wax over it. |
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| The milk paint chipped off the mirror and frame just the right amount to give it the aged, shabby effect I was hoping for. |
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| Top of the mirror. Lots of scroll detail to highlight with the dark wax. |
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| This is when it was finished and leaning against the wall int he basement. |
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The vanity was purchased off of Craigslist for $80.00. I neglected to get a before shot!
You can't see the feet that have been added in this shot, as they sit just a little too far back underneath, but we couldn't move them out further.
I gave the vanity a real good sanding because it had a varnish on it and I was afraid the milk paint would flake off too much. There are a few spots that I didn't sand very well as they were hard to get too, or I missed them, and those spots are flaking, but not enough to be a problem.
After painting, I sanded it, distressed, applied clear wax and then antiqued it. |
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In the future, if a future owner doesn't like the distressed look, it would be easy to paint the cabinet a solid color for a more modern look. I go back and forth on whether I want to paint it solid myself.
I am still going to get some different knobs. Thinking some antique glass ones from Hobby Lobby. |
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Added feet to make the builder grade cabinet look and feel more like a custom piece.
In the end, because of the small room and where the cabinet is positioned, you can't see the feet unless you get down on the floor. Sigh... |
Shower
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| Made a curtain to cover the sliding doors since this is the first thing you see when you walk into the room. Still want to make a cedar slat floor for the floor of the shower. They use to sell them at Ikea, but they no longer do, so will have to try to make one. |
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| I made the shower curtain from things I had. The base of the shower curtain is a panel from a curtain set I had from a garage sale, that was from Ikea ($20 a pair). The ruffles are made from an old sheet and an old lace curtain panel I've had in a closet forever (just knew I'd find a purpose for it one day!). I had some other scraps that I liked too, but in the end decided I wanted the colors pretty neutral, wanted repetition rather than lots of different fabrics - and wanted texture. I couldn't decide whether to put anything at the top. Still undecided, but made a rag banner and added it to the top. I is only attached with the hooks, so it can easily be removed if I change my mind. I made the banner from scraps of the other fabrics I used - sheets and lace. |
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| With the new window trim, shelf and shiplap, everything in the room has moved up - so the shower doors looked off. I raised the shower curtain rod to align with the overall height of the rest of the room trims. It also helps cover the tile in the shower. The tile in the shower is in good shape, so no need to replace it and it's not a bad color. However, not a great match with the floors. So the shower curtain helps keep the eye from noticing that. |
Creating a farm house window trim
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Gone are the blinds.
This window is frosted, so it doesn't really need a blind or curtain. We never raised/lowered or closed these blinds. I decided I didn't want a window covering since the room is so small and so narrow. The window is very large, which is great, but really covers the whole wall other than where the door covers the wall when the door is open. |
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None of the windows in the house had trim, and this window was no different. I painted the bathroom the same color as the bedroom. I painted it twice. The first time I painted it Silver (something) and it was a lovely gray. However, the lighting in this room made it way too blue. I liked it, but it was wrong for the look I was after. So, I didn't want to spend money on another gallon of paint, so I went to the basement and grabbed what was left over from the bedroom. It was enough. I should also say that I had a gallon of paint that was Alabaster White. I bought this paint when we were working on the bathroom off the family room and painting trim. After I got it up, I noticed it had a gray tint to it so it didn't work for the trim at all.
So thinking I could save money, I took it back to Home Depot to see if they could tint it to make the Silver (something) color. For a moment, I thought - hmm, "I should just keep this Alabaster White and use it. The gray tint might be just enough to make it work." I should have listened to that gut feeling! I really think it would have been perfect. It is worth noting here that I have the biggest struggle picking paint. It's always perfect on the swatch and all wrong on the walls. Doing samples doesn't help me either. I can't decide until the whole room is done - which means I paint rooms more than once ,ALL THE TIME! Sigh. |
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| I did want the window to have some interest since it is so large and dominates the room. I decided to try framing it out with a farmhouse style trim that would raise the height and also provide a nice wide windowsill. (Why don't windows have those anymore?) |
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The Master Carpenter.
I think he might have been a little annoyed with me when I suggested we skip the traditional trim and do our own. In the end, he was pleased with it. In this photo he is especially happy - maybe because we were done!
He gets so anxious when he sees me on Pinterest. He is such a good sport. |
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| Painted |
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The picture gives you no sense of how large it feels in real life. Love it.
(Can I say one more time how impossible it is to take pictures in a room that is so small? I'm standing in the far corner of the shower just to try to get the window in the picture and still couldn't get it all in the frame.) |
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There's an actual windowsill!
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The Floors
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| The same flooring as in all the bathrooms - some kind of a wood particle, snap together tile. |
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| No surprise to find laminate underneath |
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| 30 square feet of tile. We picked out something else and I kept thinking back to the tile I'd seen at Home Depot that was gray and looked like distressed wood. In the end, we (Jim) returned the tile we originally purchased and we went with the distressed wood looking tile. I love it. And it was less than $2.00 a square foot! |
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| We had to put backer board down first (no photo) and had enough mortar left over from the last tile project so we didn't have to buy that. I picked up some grout at Lowes, but it ended up looking like it was going to be too light, so back it went and we got Dolorean Gray grout from Home Depot. |
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| After grouting. I just love it. |
A bit of ship lap on the walls to add texture and interest...
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Before -
When we took the tile backsplash off, the glue left the dry wall a mess. |
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| You can see the drywall after the tile was removed. |
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I didn't want to spend the money to do the whole room, so just did the corner where the sink is positioned. I purposely didn't want to go to the ceiling. I wanted it to feel a bit like it's own area.
I wasn't so sure about going vertical with the planks instead of horizontal, but had an inspiration picture from Pinterest that was going vertical, so decided to go with it. |
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After painting it white. Put a three inch trim around it.
The light is washing out the top. Hard to see in the photo, but the Ironstone paint color on the cabinet and mirror set them off against the stark white. I was going for this contrast.
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