our home in the cities

The Bathroom Reveal

Let’s be honest.  Our bathroom was hideous.  In fact, now that we’ve invested a little time and energy into it, I can’t believe we actually lived with such a craptastic bathroom for so long…  If only we would have done all of this when we first moved in.  We could have actually enjoyed it!

Before:

When we moved into the house, there was no shower – just a tub.  We bought a new faucet and a shower attachment, as well as a curtain rod and 2 shower curtains and – tada!  Our MacGyver shower was born.  We were insanely proud of ourselves…

Here is the hideous sink and cabinet, as well as some shelves that were blocked only by two cheap-looking doors that didn’t slide very easily.  It was not awesome.

BUT NOW?  It’s super-awesome.

Love it, love it, love it!

Another look at the shower.  We purchased a D-shaped shower rod and a clamp to hold our hand shower up to it.

We removed the old doors and painted the inside of the cabinet white.  Our towels are rolled up on the top shelf (like a spa!  yay!) and the bottom shelf has toilet paper in a basket (easily accessible) as well as 3 of the apothecary jars used at our wedding – filled with cotton swabs, cotton puffs, and ice cream salt (it’s all I had and it looks like bath salts, and I do not make ice cream.  I don’t know why we even had ice cream salt handy?  Hmm.).  I threw a candle in with the ice cream salt for fun.

I painted the old cabinet white.  It took 20.5 million coats of paint, but it was well worth it!  And we hung a small mirror next to the big mirror to reflect more light into the space.

Here’s a close-up of the cabinet with the goodies from yesterday’s package.  I managed to snag 3 glass knobs for $10 from ebay.  I was especially proud of myself since one of these bad boys goes for $9 at Restoration Hardware.  The old knobs were too crusty and dirty to go with the new white paint.

The other bathroom wall houses a mirror (more reflecting light!) and two pictures – black and white palm tree pictures that I took when J and I traveled to Hawai’i in 2004.

And now – the cost breakdown:

• Paint – $15 at Menards (we seriously just bought the cheapest paint we could find.  I have no idea what color it is.)
• (We already had primer, Ceiling paint, and paint for the cabinet)
• D-shaped curtain rod – $50
• Hand-shower clamp – $50
• Cabinet knobs – $10
• (We already had towels, frames/pictures, and all of the other decorative goodies)
• Shower curtains and rings – Target $30

Grand Total?  $155. Not too shabby… I think we’ve successfully turned this bathroom from “REMODEL ME NOW” to “Hey – maybe I could use a new sink in a few years“.  Let’s hope this all translates into a quick house sale for us!

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Now head on over to see other remodeling projects at the remodeling guy’s spring remodeling round up!