Bathroom Transformation Part 1

For the past 4.5 years, we've been working on home projects and making changes as we could afford them. The biggest projects have been painting all the rooms, taking down the popcorn ceilings, and putting in wood flooring all through the house. Next up is the main bathroom. It is a small room and is in need of a facelift. The wallpaper is old and not our style. I call it "Menopausal Mauve" as was the living room carpet.

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The wallpaper came down with relative ease and a little elbow grease. Last night, John moved the toilet to finish up the last wall. He got the walls washed and prepped for texturizing before we paint and put up wainscoting. A new, simpler and classy sink will be purchased soon, as will some shelving and flooring.

Punches of color will come from the towels and Hawaiian decor. Don't worry--by Hawaiian decor, I don't mean the little Aloha girls that you stick on your dashboard. We have some vintage postcards we got in Honolulu that will be framed on the walls. Hints of the tropics will be on the shelves and shown through color and not through a full bathroom set of matchy-matchy stuff.

While visiting Mary and Caleb a couple of years ago when they lived on Oahu, we loved how the bathroom in their little house felt tropical without screaming HAWAIIAN PUNCH! Ocean breezes continually flowed through the room, and it was simple and beachy. While we cannot duplicate that in our bathroom which has no windows, we want to utilize the small space as best we can and take advantage of the skylight and light paint to make it seem bigger. Hopefully, it will turn out how we envision. Stay tuned!


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