Kid's Bathroom Renovation Reveal

Wow, these last two weeks have flown by and I am glad they did. Looking back, I'm always amazed at how we didn't run into any snags with the renovation of the Kid's bathroom and that we (I mean, JEFF) had basically a smooth ride. Thank goodness.

So... let's revisit where we started. A 1960's style bathroom. I'm sure that back then it was delightful then (right?). 

Here's the bathroom as we had just begun the demolition of old "gold stone" tiles...

Blech.

Vanity removal. Boy, I was never so glad to see that thing go. It took up so much room in this small space.

And let's not forget what Jeff had to deal with after removing all the tiles: a rotten sub floor.

He rebuilt the non-efficient "pressed board" sub floor, putting in a bathroom efficient piece of wood that was moisture resistant.

And then the real fun began.

We decided to go with maple laminate flooring because tile and my children don't get along. They've cracked their heads on it more than once. Laminate isn't necessarily cheaper, or even easier to install because you MUST seal between each plank to keep out moisture. If we find that this doesn't work, we'll put in tile. lol Everything online says that it will and I hope so because it's not cold to step on and it looks clean all the time (and EASY to clean. you just use windex and it's shiny shiny).

I got the idea to have the mirror built into the wall from this photo the below. I liked the clean look of it. Jeff had a tricky time making it but he was up for the challenge. :) Love him.

The laundry chute needed rebuilt and I'm thrilled with how it turned out.

This was really the whole inspiration (photo source, Coastal Living).

I just loved the white and the pedestal sink was TDF.

The result. It really has far more color than I envisioned but since it is a kid's bathroom I felt this was a good thing. When we redo our own master bath I'll keep it more nuetral.

The wainscoting is Valpar's Ultra White in semi-gloss and the walls are Valspar's Cream in My Coffee in a Satin finish. It was on sale last week with $5 off a gallon. Score!

I'm a sucker for a good towel and I snagged these huge and super fluffy towels at Target for $3.99 each. They've been washed several times and you can see how plump they are. Yum. The white towels on top of Diana's (Echo in the Bone) book are not hand towels. They're actually kitchen towels in a thick waffle weave. They're not as big as hand towels and a perfect size for kids. You can get a bundle of five for $4 smacks. Easy peasy.

I absolutely adore how this turned out. From the wonderful clean lines of the Nantucket-style molding to the glass millifiori vase, this space has been transformed. The new sink and fixtures just make me smile. So clean.

The Hello Kitty hair dryer hangs from a $5 dollar Target dragonfly hook. It was so cute, that I had to purchase her. She's so sweet! I might need more. ::wink wink:: Also, I'm loving my Scentsy plug-in ala Suzan Stang and just last week I snagged some great deals on new Summer scents! :)

At night when I turn on my Scentsy plug-in it just makes this tiny area light up with joy. The kid's (mainly my girlies) are going to love it.

You can find the dragonfly hooky here.

Some years ago, maybe six or seven, I found this millifiori glass vase. It's huge and extremely thick. I was originally $99 (from Marshall's) but they had it on the deep-discount table for $24.99. I simply had to have it. It's been moved around my house over the years, wherever I needed a punch of color but I think it will stay here. It just makes that area look happy. Don't you agree? I know. Me too.

Jeff hasn't finished the trim and hinged door on the laundry chute, next week. :)

The print hanging is vintage (circa 1946). :) My Mom bought it for my bedroom when I was a young girl. It's one of my absolute favorite prints. Two little girls fighting over the love of a boy.

You can find the "il bacio" (which means "kiss" in Italian) here. Mine is in the Sepia style.

I have yet to finish the molding in the hallway, next week. I am actually looking forward to it...notice the grime of fingers on the front of the door frame leading into the bathroom. nice. stay classy.

Young House Love bought this curtain for their bathroom reno, and I wanted it too. Yay for a $30 purchase from where else? Target. It's an ultra white curtain so it should be easy to keep clean. Hello Biz.

Everyone has their own hook and fluffy towel. Hooks $3.99 for a two-pack. Again Tarjay. :)

This toilet paper holder is brilliant. Target had a two-paper holder but it would have been too large, what with the rack here and all. Thankfully after a quick stop to Walmart I was pleased to find they had a single paper holder for $2.97. No kidding. Cool huh? You just hook it over the rim of the toilet and put the lid on top. I love it. I never wanted one to attach to the wall because if you remember Nathaniel fell into the old one and pulled it straight off from the tiled wall. Not wanting to take another chance like that, I opted for an easier solution with this removable one on the toilet's tank. Plus, since this is a small space it takes up no room at all. Coolness. :)

This is the view of the hall closet from the bathroom door. Behind horrible louvered doors, it's always housed our towels and more junk than I want to admit, and yesterday I had about twenty bees in my bonnet, I decided to paint it. Yup. This wasn't in the original plan. Totally bonus extra goodness mess crap. lol However, after removing the doors and making the space clean and tidy, I am thrilled with the outcome. It's deeevine. Love love.

Eventually I'll begin to purchase the fluffy Target towels in the soft cream for guest use. The bottom shelf (the floor) will have fabric baskets for the kids winter gloves and summer goggles. :)

I used paint that I already for this job, and the inside of the closet (two coats) took nearly a full gallon. Good grief there were a lot of corners and edges and holes and crevices. Ack! Plus I wanted to paint both sides of the shelves. It really makes this space so much bigger! Loveliness I tell you.

The IKEA thick-cardboard boxes are a great purchase, totally not expensive either. They come in two-packs, the largest box set being $6 bucks, the smallest set $3 bucks. Love these. The top green tin has our First Aid supplies in it. :)

Remember to please. use. :) I remind my kids of this every day. lol

In the end, and including the cost of the shower (removal of old tiles, new tiles added and new fixtures) the total renovation of their bathroom was $1,000. It was well worth it.

Now on to the next project!

"ohhhh honey, can you come here? i have an idea........"

hee hee.

I'm linking up to Sarah's Thrifty Decor Chick Blog!

So that's what I've been up to for the last two weeks. I hope you're having a great Summer so far. Next week I'll have a lot of ready-to-ship items for you. See you soon!

Bathroom Reno...updated

Have I ever told you that my husband is handy? Well, he is and thankfully he's smart too! :) (way smart. much smarter than me.) So when I asked him about doing a complete reno to the kid's bathroom he was like, um no. But then I told him I would love him forever and he was eager to start the demolition! lol

So here we go...

the above photo is our inspiration...

the kid's bathroom is smaller than this space but i love the look
and can see our small area with this same feel.

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Here's our bathroom as it is right today.

(you might want to shield your eyes...some photos are very graphic in nastiness. just sayin'.)

my Longaberger purse was signed by Dave himself... in 1994. it's a keeper. we won't be throwing it out. don't worry. usually, it holds hair bobbies and head bands. cuz it's cute.

all of that tile is now gone. yippee! we have a very old house (1964). ok. so it's not that old. but it's old in today's standards of everyone building brand new homes or buying homes that are less than 5 years old. yeah. that's not us. our street is in the historical district (which means nothing more than we can't have obnoxious pink bowling balls that glow in our front yards) but the street next to us has those really old (and ginormous) homes that have the "historical plate" on their door fronts...now they have important homes! lol we are average but ya know? we love our neighbors and i wouldn't want to move for nothin'.

so.

back to my reno.

the kid's bathroom is just grossy. we've been wanting to fix it for a long time, mainly because we want to do the other two bathrooms too but want a smaller job (in case we totally screw it up) so we can learn. you know? so this is the opportunity. the girls are at my folks' in cinci and nate leaves tomorrow. so we'll have several days IN A ROW where we don't have to fix 3 square meals and referee stupid arguments. lol :)

if you look, you can see the laminate flooring we put in a few years back...just to do a 'quick fix' until we had the time (and extra cashola) to do a bigger renovation. the tile underneath is completely rotten. yuck! do you see that open tile spot? yeah. that's where the toilet paper roll thingy was but someone (nathaniel) fell into it somehow and broke it off the wall. it's been like that for about two years. nice. so glad to see all that tile go away!

the man working hard under the old sink, getting ready to rip that sucker out and throw it to the curb

three years ago (i think it was three years ago) we ripped out all the tile in the shower and replaced it, rebuilt the walls (again, rotten wood) and it's still in perfect (and spanking clean) condition. so that's done. i'm glad too, because i don't think i'd be able to do all of that in a week. lol or should i say jeff, i don't think JEFF would be able to do all of that work in a week. lol so at least we've got that done and can move on to the floor, walls, pedestal sink (love love!) and beadboard! yummy!

old tile... blech.

this is just gross. we knew it was rotten underneath the tile, but it's a huge job--removing all that wood then to rebuild the floor (right now i can see into my downstairs bathroom from up here, lol). i'm so glad to see that 1964 tile go...yeah yeah, i know, it's retro. what of it? some things just need replacing, especially if you can find yourself getting sick off all that grotesque rotten wood!

look at all that rotten, nasty sub flooring? when they built this house they didn't use the best stuff (i think jeff told me this was pressed or particle board...he says that's wrong). he bought something else. don't ask me what. i have no clue, but it was good. lol!

i know you're wondering if we're being safe and all that. yup. totally. see hubs with his seriously heavy-duty mask? i know. it's crayzee! he's also wearing my diddy glasses for melting glass...lol such a goofy bird. i told him they weren't safety glasses, but apparently they are. who knew?! (diddy glasses take the orange out of the flame so i can see to work when i'm torching)

so here we are. it's now 11:18p and jeff just said that he needed to start on the floor. ugh. he really needs to go to bed! lol but i guess when you're in the groove, you keep working.

i can't tell you how much i'm looking forward to having a new bathroom for the kids and guests. so far, the project is going along nicely and ::crossing fingers:: soon we'll begin the master bathroom. same deal though, pedestal sinks etc. i love how they look. don't you? my bathrooms aren't huge, so they take up less space and they make it look so clean. i'm all about the clean factor. lol with four children, three dogs, one cat and a messy husband...well, you gotta grab clean whenever and however you can.

just sayin'.

Bathroom Pictures!

I am nearly finished! :) I still have to sew the skirting around my old vanity base,
add a few small photos underneath the black shelf and find some fresh flowers for the
sink. After that, I think I'm good! To see LOTS more photos, go HERE.
What do you think?

Bathroom Redo {on the cheap}

So. I have to tell you.

It's been a crazy two days.

The "original" plan was to make beads. I decided that I just didn't want to do that tonight and instead "decided" to RE-PAINT my previously PURPLE bathroom... white. Then I realized I hated didn't like the white. So. After three FULL coats (ceiling too) of the white semi-gloss paint, I AGAIN decided that I would paint the bathroom A DIFFERENT COLOR. (What!?) Yeah. I know. Seriously folks. I just couldn't do the white. I wanted it to look something like this... I LOVE the style, the whimsy with the classical and yet it's trendy. I love the whole look. So... I gave up my idea of having a "white" bathroom. (Why?) Because the tile in my bathroom is creme with flecks of gold (from the sixty's). Everything in our bathroom is original. I will post photos. Promise! (I'm just too tired right now)

So. What color did I pick? Oh come on! Do you even have to ask that? (Pink.) Yeah. So, now my little powder room bathroom is pink (ceiling too). I like painting ceilings. Just do. I'm still toying with some ideas but so far, it's coming together. I can't wait to show you. However, I forgot to take before photos. Duh. Sorry. Let's just say that this is an improvement.

Photos tomorrow!