~**Let's talk bathrooms Part 1**~

Shall we?  We have 4.5 of them....yep....4.5 for three people....it seems a little overkill for us, but to be honest, two of them are rarely used.  The full bath off of my craft room is rarely used and our upstairs guest bathroom is only used when we have company.  The young adult in the house has his own full bath off his bedroom, we have our master bath and there is a 1/2 bath on the main floor for guests.

Lately I've been busy re-painting and updating two of them and I'm getting ready to start to re-do our master bath.   Our upstairs guest bathroom has never been painted and was still the Sherwin Williams Dover White the contractor had chosen and it was time to give it a fresh coat of paint and the downstairs bathroom was in desperate need of updating......what was I thinking when I did it 11 years ago? 

Here the full bath off my craft room that I did 10 years ago, but it still makes me smile, it all still looks good, it pays homage to animals and I still love it all these years later, so I'm leaving it alone.

 

 

Hanging above the toilet is one of the cross stitch samplers that my mother made me years ago and I just treasure it.  Here's a close up.......isn't it precious?  and the perfect gift for this cat loving family.

 

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The first bathroom I painted and decorated was the main floor 1/2 bath.  It's the bathroom most used by us and our guests and it's the smallest, so I started there......well, let me tell you, my taste has definitely changed in the 11 years since I did it....

Here's a picture of the awful wallpaper we took down.  We also had a cheap over the toilet cabinet that came with us from our first house that we got rid of and mounted a wall cabinet.

I decided to leave the wood wainscoting but no more wallpaper!

I also had to do something with the awful brass fixtures that were in the room, so my handy dandy spouse switched out the faucet, towel holder and tissue paper holder to an updated oiled bronze finish and I spray painted the light fixture an oiled bronze because I didn't mind the style just the finish and I didn't really see one that grabbed me enough to spend the money on it....beside why buy, if you can repurpose?

Sherwin Williams "Beach House" is the paint I used for most of the wall color (I've also used that color in our den, foyer, hallway and staircase walls) and on the bottom part of the wainscoted wall I used Valspar's "Green Goddess".  I also applied a bronze rub-on detail to the front of the pedestal sink.

 



I found the following picture at Kirkland's and the green in the picture played well with the green that that I chose for the bottom part of the wall.

The green on the wall in this photo appears much brighter than it actually is......it looks downright hideous here.  :)

 

The metal sign above the toilet can mean many things.  :)

 

Lastly, we replaced the cheap hollow core door with a 6 panel sold wood door (which we are slowly doing throughout our house). 

 

Thanks for stopping by and letting me share one of the projects I've been working on.  As I said earlier, our upstairs guest bathroom has never been painting and I just recently finished that project and I'm gearing up to re-do our master bath that hasn't been painted in since 2005.  Both rooms are in desperate need of a fresh coat of paint.

Stay tuned and I'll share those project with you when I'm finished!