Upstairs Bathroom Makeover: Before & After
As you may recall, one of the goals I recently set for myself was to finally get around to painting the upstairs bathroom now that the wallpaper has been down for a few months. The pink butterfly wallpaper was painfully thick (not to mention hideous) and the hardest to remove so far. I spent many sweat-induced summer afternoons with a wallpaper steamer, cursing at the butterflies for being so impossible. Thankfully, there are no signs of butterflies in our upstairs bathroom anymore.
Here’s a look at a before and after of the progress made so far in the bathroom as of today. Eventually we’d like to install black and white honeycomb tiling, but for now we are starting off with budget-friendly baby steps. I’m excited to be able to finally hang our bathroom hardware so our toilet paper will have a home (I realize this is very geeky). This is the bathroom we use every day because the shower is much preferred, so it’ll be nice to see something other than primed walls.
This is a before and after of the bathroom when we first moved in and a shot of it from today. We’ll need to get a new toilet seat and a curtain to snazz it up a bit, but for now, I’m just happy to have fresh paint on the walls.
I definitely love the chinchilla gray by Martha Stewart—I’ve been struggling to find a gray I’m 100% happy with (since the other grays we’ve used so far have turned out more blue and mauve), so I’m really happy with the “true”-ness of it. Just as a side note, these photos were taken at sunset, so the gray is much brighter and lighter during the day.
Has anyone else been tackling home renovations projects now that the weather outside is getting frightful (aka cold enough to make me mumble obscenities like a crazy person whenever I have to walk the dogs)? Also, has anyone installed honeycomb tiling before? Should we leave it to the professionals, or is it something we can DIY on our own?
Tags: baby steps, bathroom, before and after, butterfly, chinchilla gray, home renovations, honeycomb tiling, Martha Stewart, second floor, upstairs, wallpaper, wallpaper removal
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6 Comments
This looks so much better! Renovations are definitely baby steps, and even without replacing bigger stuff the paint makes a huge difference.
Love the gray – it looks so much better already! Tiling is not yet in my home DIY arsenal, but is it the kind that comes on a mesh backing? That kind seems pretty simple, save for the cutting process for any end tiles. And honeycomb tile sounds awesome!
I really like it. Crazy what a coat of paint can do
I like the gray a lot especially since it’s chinchilla gray. Will Maude the chinchilla be using that bathroom?
amazing what a little paint can do. Great job.
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