After a little too much drama for my taste, the kids’s bathroom is done! I wanted to get this one all settled so I could move Parker in here while I worked on giving our master bathroom a facelift. And I am SO please with how it turned out. To show you where we started, here is a picture from our listing.
It was very clean and well kept, but very builders grade. I took down the mirror and Aaron changed the light fixture for me pretty early on when we moved here, but I only bothered to do the shiplap halfway down the wall, knowing I was planning on ripping out this vanity.
This was actually the one room in the house I liked the color of and didn’t have to paint. It’s sort of a greige color. I just took a little chip to the hardware store and had it color matched for touchups since we weren’t left any paint.
The story is kind of the same with this flooring. It was in good shape, and quite solid, but just wasn’t what I was wanting in here. Having it retiled was more money than I wanted to spend, so I decided to try my hand again at the wall pops floor tiles.
Once we got the vanity out (Which was suprisingly well attached) I continued the shiplap the rest of the way down the wall. I like this look obviously, but it doubled by covering up any wall damage that wasn’t perfected by spackle and sandpaper.
Next up was wallpaper! I have been obsessed with this Magnolia wallpaper forever and was so excited to find somewhere to use it! I used the trim to anchor the wall paper on the side and bottom just to help keep it from peeling off the wall. Honestly, right now all Parker takes is baths anyway, so I’m really not concerned, but it’s on the wall furtherst from the shower so I feel pretty confident about it.
It was so much easier to do the walls and the floors before putting the vanity back in! So much more room to work and not try to wiggle behind things.
Last up was the floors! I laid the tiles to fit over the old floor exactly, they’re pretty thin, so they actually lined up with my transition pieces quite nicely. After I got them all laid, I ended up doing three coats of polyacrylic on top of them. I feel like this sealed it all as one piece for better water protection and making it easier to wipe and clean. Then I put quarterround along all the edges to help secure the edges in place too, so it doesn’t try to peel up. We’ve only been using it for a couple weeks, but it seems super solid and durable to me!! And so cheap and easy!
This is the point in the story where things took a rotten turn. I have done how many shiplap walls in the last 5 years? I was even thinking about not sharing this part, becuase I was embarassed. But throughout this shiplap process, on the very last board, I failed to think about the water access shut off. So on what was probably my last 5 nails, I managed to shoot one through the 1 cm cold water pipe. We didn’t realize this until a few days later, once I turned the water back on when we hooked up the pipes, it started raining from our kitchen ceiling. The only positive was that we also discovered that our toilet was slowly leaking and that was what was causing a seam to show in our ceiling. So we at least fixed that before long term damage occured.
Shockingly enough, the pipe I hit was covered through my interior water policy, so it was more of a pride issue. And you know, the fact that it started raining in my kitchen. Aaron may never let me live this down. Needless to say, I finished the bathroom with liquid nails. Definetly a lesson learned.
Everything, but the vanity, was as afforable as possible, but I cannot get over the difference everything made! It came toegther so nicely! And the curtain hides all of Parker’s bathtub toys, which is a plus! LOL
I wanted to keep the bathroom pretty neutral for years to come, but I love these colorful prints, and I have a rainbow colored rug coming in the mail too! I figure those are fun, but easy enough to change as the kids grow!
