Guest Bath Makeover

This is the hall/guest bathroom as it was when we moved in.

We replaced the window, cleaned it, recaulked the tub, put up a shower curtain and left it for several years.

Eventually a city water rebate incentivized us to get a new toilet.

Then we used a Home Depot coupon to get a new medicine cabinet in our master bathroom and went ahead and did both while we were at it. See ya later fun house mirror.

When we replaced the doors, the old trim peeled off layers of paint down to the drywall paper. Since the room had texturing problems already, we decided to peel it all off.

Naturally, there were some plumbing problems and John ended up ripping up the wall and doing a drywall patch afterward.

Jonah was ever helpful with projects.

After weeks of literally chipping away at the texturing, John sanded the walls down and puttied.

Then he textured the ceiling and all the walls.

The flooring came up when there was a leak on the floor, so that step was easy. Luckily the plywood was in good shape because replacing that would have meant replacing the tub and was beyond the scope of our intended project.

Right before my brother and sister-in-law were coming, I primed and painted. I wanted light gray to coordinate with the pink tile and match the Carrara marble countertop.

It was the color I used on the front door, but in the tiny, lightless bathroom it was way too dark. I repainted it the next day with a color I picked quickly at Home Depot.

It's a nice, light shade, but is more purple-tinted than I wanted. But it was done in time for John to put in the vinyl floor and baseboards. Then he installed the medicine cabinet, vanity and toilet right before company arrived.

The light fixture I picked didn't work in our space, so John patiently returned it and bought the only one in the right finish that fit. It's not the polished look I envisioned, but it was quick and cheap and I honestly haven't thought about it another second since.

The day they came I think we put the shower curtain rod up (the first one was defective and wouldn't extend, so I exchanged that, too). With the next Home Depot coupon we got the storage cabinet and I found a slide-on tp holder on Amazon.

We still need to replace the shower and tub fixtures. (They're both broken, but I can't find a shower head that's oil rubbed bronze and has a hose attached. We like to use that to bathe the kids). We also need to refinish the tub once we order that kit and have a week we're willing to be bath-less.We might eventually replace the sink fixture and cabinet knobs to match finishes, but since there's nothing wrong with them, they're staying for now. 

As always, every step took twice as long as we expected, but we (mostly John) did it! Especially compared to the paper walls and plywood floor, it's clean and fresh and beautiful and we're glad to be done.