Renos Revealed!

Here is my three week bathroom reno! (I think 2 of those weeks was spent on taking down the wallpaper)

A few before pictures

This renovation cost me 85$... but that is pretty misleading since I used alot of supplies I already had in my house. Let me brake it down for you:

Martha Stewart Living beadboard paintable wallpaper 24.99$
Wood trim on top of wallpaper (we already had one piece) 10$
Silver mirror from Homesense 30$
Glass knobs, found on ebay, 20$

Taking down the wallpaper

Stuff we already had.... wallpaper paste, paint, baseboards, spray paint, vintage wood frames and all the other decorations.

So here is a list of what I did... painted the room a beachy weathered grey color, put up beadboard wallpaper and wood trim on top of it. Painted the baseboards, wallpaper and wood trim the same white color. Spray painted the existing lighting fixture white, spray painted some old frames white, put new glass knobs on the vanity and white cupboard, and bought a new mirror.

The new knobs

The frames, before and after

I love the bathroom now. I can't believe I left it for so long! When I pass by sometimes I just walk in and look around. It's so fresh and bright!

Finished Project!

Bathroom Sneak Peak!

I am almost finished my mini makeover in my main floor bathroom. I have taken down all the wallpaper, painted...walls, light fixtures and trim..., and then put up some more wallpaper! I just need to find a mirror and get all the details finished. I ordered some cute glass knobs from ebay... can't wait to put those on! I just love being in the bathroom now! It was a little bit of work... but so worth it! More picture will come soon.

The Small Bathroom Reveal

I realized the other day that I never posted the final pictures of our little bathroom. I gave so much lead up... click here and here to see a few of these posts.

We added a sliding door, pot lights and a fan to this little bathroom. I kept the walls a bright white so make it feel airy. The wallpaper I found at a garage sale for 1$. It was just enough to do that one wall... I love it! Originally we were going to do tile behind the mirror. We were in home depot and had all of our tile, grout, tile glue, those little spacers, and tile trim picked out and then we realized this project would cost well over 100$ and take a lot of time, so we nixed the idea. Instead we bought a piece of plywood, stained it and varnished it many times. I still used the tile trim on the sides... It gave this project such a finished look. ... well, without further ado...

Sunday Update

I've decided to always do a Sunday update picture of our upstairs. If I always have something to report then I will feel like things are really progressing.Yesterday we framed and installed the hardware for our bathroom's sliding door.

And as a side note we changed our mind on the vanity for this bathroom. We bought the world's skinniest bathroom vanity from homedepot. At 10'' deep we are hoping this sink will not crowd the bathroom too much. Jonas calls this bathroom the "character area of the house" because of it's small size (it's 5 x 8 and has a sloping cieling)... but there is nothing we can do about it, so we will have to work with it. (below is a picture of the sink we bought)

Whitewashed and Wonderful!

I love white bathrooms! Our master bath will have three windows making it very open, bright and airy. The color white will just add to this feeling. Here are a few of my favorite white bathrooms:

Poetic Home

House to Home

Design Heaven

County Living

Sink & Faucet

Just bought this sexy faucet from ebay:


And this sink, also from ebay:

Hopefully they will work well together. I am a little nervous since the faucet is so high. Cant' wait till they come.... and even more until they are installed!

Bathroom Design

I planned a layout for this bathroom before.... but my ideas have changed some. (Click here for the before plan) My new plan is a little more modern.
I want to wallpaper the wall that has the vanity on it with the rest of the walls a light grey... almost white color. The baseboards, window trim and door will be a bright white. I want a rectangular ceramic vessel sink with modern mirror for the back and two vanity lights on either side. My plan is to paint the outside of the bathtub black. And what I am working on now is picking tile for the floor. My current favorite is this tile I found at the home show this past weekend from flatlanders flooring:

Still in Demo World

My life for the past month has been all about demolishing! This is the biggest reason for my lack of blogging- I have nothing new to share... but the end is in sight and I can't wait for the putting back together of our home part.
We have made a few decisions in the past month. We reworked the floor plan of the upstairs ... take a look:

This is the previous layout:
This is our plan:


The last image is another option for the ensuite. I am still undecided about this layout. The trick with this room is that the toilet has to be in that spot and the wall opposite the door is all windows, so I can't put a sink in front of it... and now that I think of it the bath probably wouldn't be best in front of the window either : (
Ok, I am back to the option in the last picture.

Upstairs Bathroom Reno Plans

I don't know how much I'll stick to this plan... but as of right now, this moment, this is my idea for our upstairs bathroom. I am a little nervous about the flooring. We are thinking of tiling or getting laminate flooring.
I really want to transform an old desk or dresser into a sink vanity. I think this would look stunning and be super cheap if I can find a good one on kijiji. (The one in the picture is from kijiji for 250$) I have been looking for a white rectangular vessel sink to sit atop the vanity.
The color scheme I got from my four mismatched towels. Taupe, mustard and brown. I want to paint a design on the curved wall, I don't know if diamonds will be the answer, but I like the kind of circus mystique they add to the room.

Upstairs Update

Sometimes it feels like things are moving so slowly, but then I have to remind myself we have not even been this house for two months yet! But still, for some reason, I feel like our upstairs floors should be done by now.... but regardless, we are moving forwards.
Originally we weren't planning on doing the floors in the upstairs bathroom, but it has been added into the mix. We are actually getting pretty pumped about it. We took out the sink, toilet and tub and removed the three layers of tiling. Let me just say that tub was heeeaaavy! It was a marital stability test to move it, but we did it! The floors underneath have water damage and a few unoriginal floor boards... so our plan is to use the boards from the small room (the one I really want to make into an ensuite bathroom) to replace the damaged and unoriginal boards. I plan to paint the whole bathroom... colors are still be decided, and the tub. The toilet is going back in but we want to do a new sink and table for the sink.
Anyway... here are some progress photos:

Dream, dream, dream.... dreeeeam

My last post I showed you all of our upstairs floors... minus one bedroom. The smallest bedroom has to worst floor situation. We uncovered a pretty rough patch up job in the corner and a pipe this is about a half inch above floor level. After further investigation we believe that this bedroom was once used as a kitchen. (The cupboards kind of helped in our sleuthing) So I have a new dream... I used paint program to try and explain:
An ensuite bathroom! This is the best idea. The bathroom upstairs is kind of small, so turning this small bedroom in to a large magnificent bathroom would solve this dilemma. Plus that unused hallway space would be used for more closet space in the master bedroom... then we could have his and hers closets. What do you think? I need to a plumber up there to check out the situation before I left my imagination run away with me.
Below is a picture of the bedroom and the patch job floors, most of the carpet underlay is still there and if you look you can see that pipe.