Half Bath Remodel

The bathroom on the main floor of our house is just off the kitchen. It was a tiny half bath when we bought the house--no good. We knew it needed some help so we tackled the project recently and here's how it turned out.

This is what it looked like before we started remodeling. It was just big enough for a toilet and a small vanity. Since it would be the bathroom our guests would be using I wanted to turn it into something more comfortable and inviting.

We decided to move the wall out about 9 inches which doesn't sound like much but it made a huge difference in this small bathroom! Once we moved the wall the toilet was no longer centered in the room so we had our plumber friend, Chad Baxter, fix it for us.

We picked out a small, light colored tile for the floor that's off-white with gray streaks in it.

After the wall was widened I was able to pick out a regular size 30" vanity to go in the little cove there. I picked out this one from Martha Stewart at Home Depot:

We painted the walls a flat white to get it prepped for wallpaper. My mom thought I was crazy for choosing to put up wallpaper since her whole house was covered in wallpaper from the '80s and we just finished taking hers down. But modern wallpaper now is SO pretty and I found exactly what I wanted at Houzz.com and bought it at Home Depot.com. It's called Sea Breeze Large Floral Trail Wallpaper by the Wallpaper Company. 

Luckily my mom is an expert at hanging wallpaper and she showed me what to do. I wouldn't recommend trying to hang wallpaper by yourself. It's definitely a 2 (or 3) person job!

 Here's what it looks like going on the wall. I love it!

 My mom, me, and our little helper.

After the wallpaper was up it was time to start on the wainscoting. We cut the bead board to size out in our garage and then I painted it once it was hung on the wall.

 

This is how it turned out:

 

 I picked out this light from Home Depot and my husband put it in for me.

Here's how the vanity looks. I took off the boring silver knobs and added these decorative ones I bought from Hobby Lobby. It was a little change but made a big difference!

 

I found the perfect mirror at Hobby Lobby! I just waited for it to go on sale and eventually got it for half off.

 

The last thing we had to do was add the faucet (from Home Depot), the hand towel ring, and the toilet paper holder. Then the bathroom was complete!

 Here's the finished product:

 

I took a short video to try and show the whole bathroom since it's hard to do with still pictures.

 

This project was probably my favorite to do in our house. I love cute bathrooms! Now when I have guests come over I'm not embarrassed when they have to use our bathroom.  

Bathroom Makeover

For our upstairs bathroom remodel I wanted something fun and young looking since it's the bathroom our kids use. My boys' favorite colors are blue and green so those are the colors I chose to use. I don't have a great photo of a before picture of the bathroom but you can see the walls were just a boring cream color.

The color I chose for the walls is Palladian Blue by Benjamin Moore. My cousin, Jenny, recommended it to me. I just took the paint strip to Home Depot and had it matched in Behr paint since it's less expensive. It's a perfect blue because it's bright without being too overwhelming. It matched the towels I had chosen too.

I taped off the shower and painted around the edges first. We painted the ceiling white and then I cut in the edges at the top of the wall.

The paint is still drying in these pictures but you get the idea.

 

The original tile on the floor was an orangey travertine that didn't match anything so we got rid of it. I chose to use this blue/gray colored tile from Home Depot. I wanted a darker color floor that still went with the wall color and countertop color. It was only like $1.50 sq/ft so it was definitely in my price range. I also love the long rectangular shape of it.

 

I found these cute framed starfish and sand dollar pictures at Home Goods. They were the perfect green and fit the bare wall next to the toilet perfectly.

The towels I picked out are from Target. I also got the matching shower curtain which comes in blue as well. I couldn't decide between the two but since I painted the wall blue I figured the green one would look better.

The pink peonies are from Smith's Marketplace and the owl soap dispenser and toothbrush holder are from Target.

This rug is also from Target. (What would we do without Target?)

 It's hard to show the whole bathroom through pictures so here's a short video of the finished room:

 Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed this little makeover.

 

-Brittney