My master bathroom was a disaster when we first bought the house. As I have described previously, it was like "Dynasty" and "Miami Vice" had a baby--lots of gaudy brass, giant crystal knob handles, peach tiles with curly-Q motifs. It featured a pink countertop and pink walls. It needed an update, but my money pit had sucked up all my disposable income. What to do?
At first, I just decided to paint everything, swap in new faucets and a toilet, and live with it for a while. We lived with it for another 3 years in a soothing grey. With some lingering brass.
One day, I decided I'd had enough. Ignoring my family for a good two weeks, I embarked on redesign that broke several laws of nature. Yes, I realize vinyl floor tile is for floors, but I put it on the counter. I know that's not what it's for, but hey, it's real wood and it's waterproof, and I had some. I used brown paper to carefully map the layout. Score and snap was sufficient for most of it, but I also used a large rasp/file to neaten up the curves.
Also, that nice pewter colored paint that looks so nice on your late model GM also looks nice re-coating all the metal of my shower and tub. The shower surround was repainted in "Pewter Metallic" auto paint. Tape, sand, sand more, scrape everything, clean, spray primer filler, top coat x 2. Thanks to Addicted2Decorating for step by step instructions.
Picked up some clearance decor items, spray painted some frames, printed out artwork, and that's a wrap. The vanity, with all new doors and hardware after.
 |
| before |
 |
| after |
 |
| before |
 |
| after |
The middle drawers are actually baskets you can just remove. I keep makeup in there so I can pull it out and dig through it on the counter.
And the shower/tub area:
I like the free images from the Library of Congress:
No comments:
Post a Comment