Well, I guess we did rehang the shower curtain at ceiling height right after we moved in – but other than that we haven’t really touched this room. In fact, pretty much all three of our bathrooms are uncharted territory for us when it comes to updates. But you’ve gotta start somewhere, so we decided to start in the one we use the most – and probably find the quirkiest. See, it doesn’t have a sink (that’s in our bedroom, actually) so it’s a really small room. We’re talking around 5′ x 6′ total (including a regular sized tub). So yes, the door practically hits the toilet (it just barely misses it). And John can stand in the center of the room and touch all four walls (my husband has quite the wingspan, but this room really is tiny).
The room’s a total beige box. Beige tile with gray veining on the floor, the same tile in the shower and even on the walls around the toilet and door, an accent row of tiles with gray trees on them, beige paint on the walls, off-white-trim, even a beige futuristic toilet (check out the curve in this video).
Oh yes, and there’s a glass shelf and towel bar right next to the toilet – neither of which we’ve ever really used for anything functional. Why? Well, hanging a towel that would literally brush against us on the way to the toilet felt weird so we use the towel hooks on the back of the door instead. And we just plopped some wood printing blocks on the glass shelf (intending to hang art to fill in that wall) but it always felt like the shelf – and towel bar for that matter – invaded our personal space in such a small room.
We jokingly call our bathroom The Travertine Palace although it’s not actual travertine tile and it’s anything but palatial when it comes to size. The funny thing is that a few folks have come over and said “wow, you don’t have to do anything to this room!” which never fails to make us laugh because it probably feels the most not-like-us of all of the rooms in our house. We’re just suckers for crisp white trim, a white toilet, a not-beige color on the walls, and not all the same tile on the walls and the floor and the shower. But we can completely appreciate that some folks would love this room as is. I think the main thing we’re craving is some contrast. It feels like such a monochromatic box to us. And when we added the crisp white shower curtain way back when, it just planted the seed that the room might feel more crisp and less all-beige if we did things like:
- paint the cream trim white
- paint the walls so they have some contrast
- craigslist the toilet and replace it with a classic white one
- replace the boob light (seen here)
- hang some bathroom-friendly art
- do something to add privacy to the window
- replace the border tile around the room (maybe in phase 2?)
- replace the floor tile down the road (just to break things up since there’s so much of it)
- I’m sure I’m forgetting something – let’s just say the room has room for improvement
So that’s the plan. I even whipped up this mood board to help us envision things. Of course we’re sure the plan will change ten times since we just figure things out as we go, but so far here’s what’s on our mind:
1. When it comes to the color scheme since we’re working with beige tile with gray veining, we want to bring in some richer gray tones (to keep everything from looking so monochromatic and add some contrast). We’d also love to introduce some pretty blue tones (to tie into the blue wall color in our adjoining bedroom).
2. We have been in love with this light fixture for a while now, and we’re hoping it pops up at our favorite local lighting outlet (The Decorating Outlet) since it would be a pretty amazing upgrade from the boob light situation that we have going on. We’re not sure if the placement will look weird though (centered in front of the window would be so much cuter) so we’ll have to see where we end up. You know we’ll keep you posted!
3. This tile. Ahhhh, this tile. We want it. Hex tile has always allured us (sort of like penny tile, except it’s even more bee-ish, and you know we love bees). So we can totally picture it in our bedroom someday. But it’s definitely going to be down the road (we want to work with the existing tile, but do dream about replacing the floor tiles to break things up since there’s so much of that tile all over the small room).
4. I painted this little ditty a while back, and have always thought it would look really cool in the bathroom (oversized art in a small room with a dramatic high-hung shower curtain could be fun, right?). Of course we have to see if it really works in there, but especially with the blue glass pendant we think it could be nice.
5. We’re loving the muted moody look of frosted glass subway tile, so we’d love to use a light gray glass tile as an accent around the room (something like this, but not exactly) to replace the tree tiles. Although we’re not sure if it’s a phase two project (depending how hard it is to track down and how challenging it is to extract the tree tiles without hurting the tile around ’em).
6. A good old fashioned white toilet! We can’t wait to replace the beige futuristic one that we have in there (we’ll craigslist it and then grab an American Standard from Home Depot, which we got for our first house for under $100 and loved more than the fancy Kohler one we inherited).
7. This represents our existing extra-long white waffle shower curtain, which will stay to add some crisp-yet-soft texture to the tile-riddled space (we got ours from amazon.com by searching 95″ shower curtain, but this image is from Target).
8. This represents our existing tile, which is beige with gray veins running through it.
9. This frosted window (found here) is one of the ways we’ve been debating adding some privacy to the room without blocking the light. You know we love frosting film (more on that here and here).
But enough planning. How about some action? Well, we’ve removed that oddly placed shelf and towel bar, spackled and sanded the holes they left, and applied one coat out of two on the walls in a rich putty color. In a bathroom (where you’re dealing with semi-gloss paint) the first coat always looks especially horrifying so we can’t wait to get the smoother second coat up there.
Oh and this picture is a really bad sell on this color (since it’s spotty and half-done and just shows a corner of the room) but you can check it out in the kitchen here. It looks great with our tiles (ties into the gray veining), will really make white items like the shower curtain and the future glossy white trim pop, adds contrast, and obviously will look a lot better once a second coat is on there and it’s dry. And you can see that we’re painting the ceiling too (which we also did in our first house’s bathrooms since we find it makes small rooms actually look less chopped-up and busy).
Of course we’ll be back with tons of finished photos for you. We just have to tackle coat number two, wait impatiently for it to dry, and then hang the shower curtain back up to snap after pics. So those will be up tomorrow! In the meantime, did you guys tackle any bathroom upgrades over the weekend? Do you have nearly done living spaces but completely untouched bathrooms? What is it about these tiny rooms that’s so intimidating?
Jenn C. says
I actually tackled some bathroom projects this weekend too. We are neck deep in a complete master bath remodel, DIY of course. I painted the vanity cabinet and frosted the window. The window was 3×5 and right by the toilet, I hit it with a few coats of the Rustoleum Frosted Glass spray and am really happy with it. Just use those light misting coats and it works wonders! Great start on the bathroom, cant wait to see more!
YoungHouseLove says
Sounds like you’ve been busy! Good luck with everything!
xo,
s
bobbi says
oh wow!
i just bought THIS toilet at home depot a couple of weeks ago – lurve it so far!
http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-202810954/h_d2/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10053&langId=-1&keyword=american%20standard%20toilet&storeId=10051
PLUS. i have that light fixture (2) in my kitchen.
i know. we’re twins or something.
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, love it!
xo,
s
Beth {Design Your Dwelling} says
We are in the midst of remodeling our bathroom so I’ve been writing about it on my blog. It’s been fun, but there are a lot of decision to make – WOW! And, who would have thought the toughest (most expensive) decisions would be the hardware. I definitely like your design board – it looks like it will turn out great! Have fun!
Julie M. says
Would love to see you guys do something not blue or green for a bathroom. That is so typical and feel like you’ve done that color scheme so much. How about a smokey gray with purple/lavendar tones for paint? It would tie in well with your gray, teal, and blues in the house and be a pop of something different for your master.
YoungHouseLove says
I just don’t think we’re lavender people! Haha. It would be fun to do different color schemes in every room as an experiment (purple! coral pink! etc), but since we actually live here we just sort of do whatever appeals to us (John included, and he’s just not a lavender man, haha)! In this case we love that blue glass pendant and already have some blue art sitting around unhung, so we’re psyched to see how it turns out. Oh but in our book we had lots of fun doing tons of different colors for things (furniture and walls alike) since they don’t all have to mesh with our house or be exactly what we’d put in our spaces- so there’s red, orange, coral, navy, black, and plum along with the yellows, blues, and greens that we know and love!
xo,
s
Mary says
The ceiling height shower curtain is so pretty from outside but isn’t it very dark in the shower?
I like a bright shower so I use those shower curtains with a view panel, like you see in hotels often. QVC and Amazon sell them.
YoungHouseLove says
You’d think so but no! We had the same setup in our first house’s bathroom and at first I thought it would be dark but the white curtain reflects a lot of light and light must pass through it easily since we didn’t notice a difference!
xo,
s
heather says
I updated our small bathroom (kind of) a while back by “testing the waters” of bright colors. I liked it at first, since it was super fun to step out of my comfort zone – but after a while I have to admit I strongly dislike it. Ours was (is) tiny too (and the only one in the house). It was a good experiment though to realize that I *love* bright colors, but I just sort of really don’t like them all over a wall (or upper wall and ceiling in our case). I LOVE seeing them in other people’s homes though and go nuts over it. It’s good to know I love it in theory, but not in reality in my own house day in and day out. I finally realized I love color, but more muted (and not beige everywhere)and then using accessories for bright pops I can change out easy. I don’t regret having a bright bathroom – but I also won’t regret when we tear that baby down to the studs to make it part of our kitchen!
YoungHouseLove says
Oh yes, you learn so much about your paint color preferences when you get them up on the walls!
xo,
s
Michelle says
Ooh – I’m excited to see if you figure out how to replace the accent tiles. I’ve got the same issue in my kitchen, wierd tuscan yellow tiles in two rows around a room that’s otherwise rather modern looking.
Kristie says
I just finished our master bathroom project; I ended up having to to gut the shower entirely due to some bad tiles that ended up letting a lot of water in. It’s been a slog; I don’t know how such a small room can be so much work. But now that it’s done, and I’m recovering, I love it. We have 2 bathrooms in our house; I keep going to the newly redone one just for an excuse to look at it some more. Before and after here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sisterspikeymace/sets/72157629646598799/
YoungHouseLove says
Aw, so glad you’re recovering Kristie! Looks like that was a lot of work!
xo,
s
robyns says
I saw an octopus shower curtain on Pinterest a couple of weeks ago and thought of you… It was a giant statement and might be kind of overwhelming right next to you while doing your business though! Not to mention it was a standard length so you would have to make friends with Oh Brother and sew some additional fabric on the bottom to make it ceiling height. But it was totally you!!
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, sounds awesome! Although I’m with you, might be too much to have him standing right next to me. Haha.
xo,
s
robyns says
It would also shut up some those people who want you to splurge on something, I found it on amazon and a couple of other sites and it’s over a hundred dollars. but it is a work of art….
Kylie McCoy says
We did a bathroom makeover which not only much needed but required to be able to stand being in the room. The old colors were drap and depressing… click to see the new bathroom:
http://kyliemccoy.blogspot.com/2012/03/bathroom-makeover.html
YoungHouseLove says
So much fun!
xo,
s
Meg says
I think the reason we put off bathrooms, despite their small appearance, is because they’re harder to do on a tiny budget, even when we go the DIY route. Tile is expensive (and most often there is a lot of it) and generally the reason one would redo a bathroom is because the tile isn’t to his or her liking or major things such as a vanity, tub or toilet are broken/unusable and need replacing. Otherwise, it would be a simple fix with new towel bars (and other hardware) and a couple new coats of paint.
My boyfriend and I are planning a summertime (so we can “shower” with a hose in the backyard if necessary, ha!) bathroom reno for our only bathroom and are also hoping to use white hex tile! I’m glad to see comments from other readers (re: matte tile picking up every little mark) as well as you (re: Kohler toilets vs. American Standard) so we won’t make the same mistakes!
Can’t wait to see how your bathroom turns out!
YoungHouseLove says
That’s so true about why we put it off! And good luck with your bathroom!
xo,
s
Mary says
Love this mood board! Was recently looking for recycled glass lights and stumbled upon this one. Similar to the one in your board, so thought I’d pass it along: http://www.emmohome.com/artecnica-bright-side-lights-pendant-lamp.html. Cheers!
YoungHouseLove says
Gorgeous!
xo,
s
Georgina says
So strange that there is no sink. Must be frustrating to have to wash your hands in the tub. Can you put in a sink or is it too small?
YoungHouseLove says
Oh there’s a sink about two steps away, it’s just not behind the door to the bathroom, it’s in our bedroom! Here’s a photo to explain: http://images.younghouselove.com.s3.amazonaws.com/2011/08/bedroom-prog1.jpg
xo,
s
kelly says
I’m not one for colored toilets, but I sort of like how this one blends into the tile wall… I mean who wants to highlight a toilet?
YoungHouseLove says
I think it’s totally a personal preference thing! I guess we’d like to highlight a clean bright white toilet instead of sitting on a beige one. Haha.
xo,
s
John@Our Home From Scratch says
Excellent. I’m with you on the whole anti-beige bathroom thing. When we built our home all of the bathroom upgrades involved beiging over everything. We ended up sticking with the basic white look even though it’s builder grade boring. Looking forward to watching the progress!! Good luck!
Erica says
I feel you….we have beige fixtures in all of our bathrooms too. I guess at one time, it was all the rage [our home was built in 1989] – but I have always felt that white is classic.
Looking forward to renovating our bathrooms down the road, but in the meantime, we’ll live vicariously through the progress y’all make instead.
Stacey says
We’ve been pondering our bathroom updating for awhile now (since I pulled down the wallpaper in August 2010!. We have that old-school green & black tile halfway up the walls (exactly like this: http://www.timbarberltd.com/blog/sites/default/files/Mint%20Bath%20copy%20copy%20e.JPG?1327963477). My sister has the same and went with a light blue/gray, but we want to go really bold and contrast it with a strong yellow (like this: http://www.homedepot.com/buy/paint/paint-samples-posters-fan-decks/martha-stewart-living/8-oz-pencil-interior-paint-tester-msl082-79713.html).
I think we are dragging our feet in part b/c of concerns over drying time and being able to shower in there. How long have your semi-glass coats been taking to dry?
YoungHouseLove says
Aw man, that second link isn’t going through. Here’s hoping it works later (maybe their site is down?). Sounds awesome! As for how long our coats have taken to dry- waaaay longer than any other room. Since our bathroom is so small and doesn’t get much ventilation we actually waited 24 hours between coats and didn’t shower in there between then to keep the room from steaming up. Hope it helps!
xo,
s
April says
i have a question about your benjamin moore color picks opportunity…does this mean that you’ll now be using benjamin moore paint (or still color-matching with olympia paint?)
YoungHouseLove says
There’s no expectation from Ben Moore that we use their paint (they just wanted us to make color picks for their site, and know that we’ll mention other brands on our blog, etc) but we actually started using their paint a few months back when we painted our office cabinets and kitchen cabinets. Then in December/January we used a ton of their paint for secret book projects since we loved it so much from our cabinet painting experience and wanted things in the book to look as smooth and awesome as possible. We tackled walls, furniture, and beyond with it – and really do love the coverage and quality. So having used their paint for so many projects in the past few months we’ve been won over (yes, after hearing readers and contractors rave about it for years we finally gave it a try, haha). So we did purchase a quart of it for our bathroom! I’m sure we might use other brands for certain things (we’ve used Glidden, Valspar, Mythic, True Value, and Olympic paint in the past, and we wouldn’t say that any of them are bad choices, so it’ll probably just depend on the project).
xo,
s
Amber says
We’re the opposite. We tackled all the bathrooms first because I could not stand them one more minute. All 3 of them had tile countertops, tile walls, tile shower/tub surround. It was all tile from the 60s and was impossible to keep clean. Now we’re saving up to tackle the bigger projects- kitchen and flooring!
YoungHouseLove says
Wow, that sounds like such a job but it must feel so nice to have them all checked off the list!
xo,
s
danielle says
people really buy used toilets on craigslist?? who knew!!
YoungHouseLove says
You’d be amazed. Haha.
xo,
s
heather says
My husband is catching on that you can literally sell ANYTHING on Craigslist. We had a (to us) super contemporary and ugly solid birdseye maple table that he was joking about putting in the burn pile. Instead, I took photos and made $75 bucks off of it from selling it on craigslist. It was a gift for some guys daughter in NYC in a small apartment and she studied modern interior design.
YoungHouseLove says
One man’s trash is another man’s craigslist find! Haha.
xo,
s
Jae says
Home Depot has a very similar pendant for less.
http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-202786154/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053
YoungHouseLove says
Oh yes we heard that! It doesn’t come in blue and is a bit smaller, but it’s a great option if we can’t find the blue ones marked down at the outlet! Thanks for the tip!
xo,
s
Linda says
I’m looking forward to seeing the refreshed bathroom – it’s amazing what a coat of paint can do to make a room look ‘new’. Thanksgiving before last, I painted my hall bathroom (my first effort as a new homeowner) – I couldn’t do anything about the floor or tub, but the previous owner had painted the walls pepto pink to pick up some pinkish tones in the floor tile. I used Benjamin Moore Aura paint in the bathroom formulation in Venetian Portico – I couldn’t believe how well it worked with the existing floor, and how it made the entire room look so much better. And I fell in love with Aura – will never buy another paint until BM develops something better!
Someday I want to re-do both bathrooms, but sometimes it’s good to go with what you have and make it look better with paint and accessories. You may end up loving it as it stands!
BTW, I love beige (especially Bleeker Beige by BM)- I honestly wouldn’t mind have your bathroom tiles at all! I had the hex tile in my rental apartment back in the 60’s – back then, very hard to keep clean but it was a, ah, vintage apartment….tile was probably well over 50 years old at the time. It’s certainly a classic!
GreenInOC says
Please check out the Toto dual flush toilets! I have one and I totally am in love with it (I know – totally weird!)!
http://www.totousa.com/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductID=570
I have a VERY small bathroom and with this, the tank isn’t as deep so it doesn’t take up much space in that department. Also, the flush is on the top so no extra space being taken up with the flush on the side. It sounds odd, but with a tiny space, every millimeter counts!
However, by far my favorite feature is the unmolded skirt. The thing stays spic-and-span clean since there is nowhere for dust to settle into and since it doesn’t have an opportunity to get into all those weird spaces, I don’t have to contort myself to clean it!!
Of course it’s dual flush so for a greenie like me, that was at the top of my list when I bought it.
YoungHouseLove says
Ooh, that is one sexy toilet. Never thought I’d type that sentence. Haha. Off to see if it can squeeze into our budget…
xo,
s
Heidi P. says
Oooh! Or you could go with the Toto wall hung toilet! That takes up even LESS space!
YoungHouseLove says
That sounds expensive yet amazing! Haha.
xo,
s
Anna says
my new place has a claw footed bath. trying to come up with some pretty storage solutions at the moment!
Bobbinoggin says
Would it bepossible to change the bathroom door to one that slides/tucks into the wall?
Also, another option for window privacy:
http://www.2jane.com/collections/window-film-by-emma-jeffs
YoungHouseLove says
Love the window film! So cute! As for the bathroom door, we’d love to make a pocket door or barn door but since the plumbing for the shower is on that wall we can’t.
xo,
s
Shelley @ Green Eggs and Hamlet says
We started painting our family room yesterday. All was well until we removed the painter’s tape (while the paint was still wet) and horrible blemishes were revealed. So we had to purchase white paint to fix the spots on the ceiling and door frames where the paint bled under the tape. Fingers crossed the purchased white paint truly matches the existing white (former owners of our house left us no paint, paint colors, etc.) so this was a best we could do type of situation.
The color looks good, though. It’s Martha Stewart’s Nutshell, a nice, deep tan. Looks great with our gray couches and white french doors.
YoungHouseLove says
Ooh that color sounds gorgeous! Here’s hoping the paint is a perfect match!
xo,
s
Bobbinoggin says
Ps sorry for the double post on two diff bathroom posts. Oops!
YoungHouseLove says
No worries! I just answered the one here and deleted the one on the old post for ya!
xo,
s
Rheanna says
I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of this before, but I was recently introduced by my boyfriend to a free web program called AutoDesk Homestyler that made me think of you guys. I’ve followed your blog for quite some time now (sneakily/religiously checking up on it every day at my work) and have never commented before, but when I saw this program, I thought you guys might like it. I know you used something kind of similar when you were sketching out your counter island kitchen set-up, so you’d probably have no problem working it. It’s just a neat little program where you can get a fairly realistic demo of any room/house you’d like to make (I am secretly making my own small/uber-functional dream house in there :D ).
If you haven’t tried it before, be warned- it can quickly become addicting! Especially will all the furniture, floor treatments, wall colors etc. that you can use. Enjoy!
http://www.homestyler.com/
YoungHouseLove says
Oh man it sounds awesome! Can’t wait to check it out!
xo,
s
Jenny @ Words On Wendhurst says
This has nothing to do with bathrooms, but I remember an old post where you talked about letting Clara eat anything she took an interest in – and I think maybe you mentioned a book about that concept? I tried searching but didn’t come up with anything.
YoungHouseLove says
Oh yes, that’s a post over on BabyCenter (see the sidebar button that leads there?). The book is called Baby Led Weaning.
xo,
a
Jenny @ Words On Wendhurst says
thank you so much! I had forgotten about your babycenter posts when I searched. :-)
YoungHouseLove says
You’re welcome. Hope it helps!
xo,
s
radon south bend says
Looking good, I know how the bathroom gets tossed to the side when remodeling your home, It was the last thing that I did to my home, I had to put a radon system in the basement so at that point I figured why not remodel the basement, then it went onto the living room then kitchen, I am just now getting to all the bathrooms! :)
Heidi P. says
I love the gray walls already :). But I’m sad to see your toilet go! Haha. (Not that I should really care about someone else’s toilet…)
Anyway… It’s a European toilet and it looks so minimalistic to me that I think (other than the color) it fits the space well. *shrug* But ya gotta do whatcha gotta do, I guess. :) And I suppose the beige has gotta go somehow.
YoungHouseLove says
Yes, the shape isn’t too bad it’s more the color that throws us since we’re used to clean toilets looking all bright and shiny white! It always sort of looks dingy and dirty. Haha.
xo,
s
Lovey says
I just found out about floating tile. Its real ceramic but floats so no need to tear up exsisting floor. We’re in the process of selecting new flooring for out kitchen. This might be a good product for your bathroom. And I love watching and learning for your experiences.
YoungHouseLove says
Sounds cool! We only worry about bumping up the floor a bit (and the toilet, which can sometimes mess with the seal at the base) but we’ll have to look into it!
xo,
s
Benji says
Make sure to measure the toilet carefully. That toilet is one of the smallest on the market, maybe it was chosen because of space constraints with the door. I personally like it, and the rest of the bathroom except for the boob light (given your shower curtain height), but to each their own!
YoungHouseLove says
Great tip! We’ll have to make sure whatever we get fits in there without door problems!
xo,
s
Katie says
It cracks me up that (re-reading your initial post about the bathroom) you intended to keep the shelves and get rid of the door mirror, and now, you’re keeping the mirror and tossing the shelves!
YoungHouseLove says
Isn’t that funny? We’re definitely glad we try to think about things before doing anything rash (I use that door mirror all the time and love it now that it’s framed out!).
xo,
s
Geoff Jennings says
I need to do more of a full write-up for my blog, but since you posted this, I thought I’d share pictures of my bathroom that I’m just finishing up. We bought our house in November, it’s small, built in 1922, and I spent 4-5 months fixing it up (while working full time, and with a very small baby at home). I’ve redone or repaired nearly every part of the house, but the bathroom was big part of the work.
before and after pictures here:
http://imgur.com/a/iFf8o
YoungHouseLove says
Gorgeous! Such a great makeover!
xo,
s
Heidi S. says
We have an almost new bathroom in the basement (we had the most disgusting one down there for 10 years). Yeah!
For your toilet, you seem set on the American Standard one, but I would recommend considering the H2Option Siphonic dual flush model. This one also from American Standard. It has a smaller front to back dimension thanks to the super small dual flush tank, which is great for tight spaces. It retails for about $211 with free shipping (our local HD doesn’t stock it but ours was delivered in about a week). I have put this one in a clients tiny bathroom and we just installed one in our basement bathroom last week.
http://www.homedepot.com/Bath-Toilets-One-Two-Piece-Toilets/h_d1/N-5yc1vZarj3Z1z127jo/R-202045579/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053
YoungHouseLove says
Thanks for the tip! We’ll have to check it out! We usually add dual flush kits to our toilet after it’s installed for $20, but finding one with it built in would be nice! Of course everyone’s pointing out that it has to fit in the place of the old one (so the door doesn’t hit it). We’ll have to see what we can find!
xo,
s
Michelle says
We just upgraded to this toilet and love it!
GreenInOC says
If you do consider new flooring, may I suggest cork mosaic penny tile?!
For me it was definitely a splurge but since by bathroom is so small it wasn’t too bad. You can stain and grout it to match your surrounding flooring if you like and of course once it’s sealed properly, you’re good to go in a wet room!
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=cork+mosaic+flooring&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=XL9wT6OUIKKg2gXAipXiCg&biw=1214&bih=675&sei=er9wT976BYSi2wW39qTxAQ
YoungHouseLove says
So cool!
xo,
s
Nicole says
Love your ideas! Can’t wait to see the final product!
Starr@ The Kiefer Cottage says
Our bathroom is similarly tiny, but there is not even one finish we can live with much longer. It’s that bad. Our floor is also not even close to level, so we’ll see what we end up with. Love the hexagon tile!
Kathi says
We renovated both of our bathrooms last summer…unfortunately we’re not big DIY’ers so our projects were much pricier than they could’ve been if we’d done the work ourselves. They turned out great, but dealing with the contractor was a pain. I love the rooms now – I spend way more time primpiing than I used to, just because our master bath is now the prettiest room in the house.
Laura says
omgoodness! I am in completed agreement about the light. I seriously despise them, especially when they have the little “decorative”, knobby thing in the center which only enhances their boob-like qualities. YECCKKKKHH!!! They’re just awful! Hahaha.
On another note, I’m happyily scrolling through today’s post, and then . . . snapshot of the bathroom shelves. *Twinge of guilt*
“CRAP!!! I forgot to mail out their ‘B’!!!!!”
It’s patiently sitting on my mini-living room bookcase, just waiting to be mailed. Hopefully this week! (Sorry!)
Anyways, I love your bathroom mood board. It looks fantastic. Can’t wait to see how it turns out!!!
=)
YoungHouseLove says
Aw you’re so sweet Laura! We actually found one at a thrift store so we finally have our little guy all represented!
xo,
s
Meg says
I looooove that you guys are focusing on a bathroom! I was in need of some motivation. We have one bath for our 3-bedroom house, and I’ve been working on it S-L-O-W-L-Y for awhile now. I’m taking it in steps, but seriously am working at a snail’s pace. Thanks for working on yours and sharing your design ideas! :-) Now, off to do more spackling. (See? You’re already “beating me”. Slow and steady does NOT always win. ;-D)
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, good luck Meg!
xo,
s
ashlee says
beige toilet…haha! mine is similar. and what’s even better? my upstairs bathroom has a light heather grey toilet. oh, those 1990s folks knew how to style it. my kitchen has tiles with fruit baskets and bonnets on them.
YoungHouseLove says
We had a pea green toilet in our first house! It was hilarious… for about a minute. Then it was sad.
xo,
s
natalie says
I actually have that light fixture and picked it up at The Decorating Outlet! I love it so much and I’m sure that you will love it too when you get it.
YoungHouseLove says
So excited to hear you got it there! Here’s hoping there’s still one for us!
xo,
s
Heather W says
Can’t wait to see your painted master bath. I was hoping you were working on the bathroom in the hallway. I still remember your post about the deep teal bathroom you were longing for from a pic in LONNY? I am debating on a similiar color in my half and wanted to see how I liked yours first =) Are you still thinking of going dramatic in that bathroom or not so much now?
YoungHouseLove says
Oh yes, then we painted our guest bedroom dark teal instead! So we think doing the hall bathroom that color again might be too repetitive. So we’re till debating what color to use in there. We’d love for it to be something fun though!
xo,
s
Erin says
OMG, Sherry, have you seen the new arrivals at West Elm???
It’s a white animal mecca…is it sad that I thought of you immediately?
YoungHouseLove says
Ahhh- so excited!
xo,
s
lara says
just make sure you measure the distance from the hole to the front of the toilet before removal.
we were going to replace ours that also had a close door swing, but none of the models @ home depot would work and allow us to open & close the door. so we just kept the old one.
YoungHouseLove says
Great tip Lara!
xo,
s
Josie says
oh, that’s so funny! I’m super crazy when it comes to “my style” I guess, and whenever we’ve toured homes for sale, people will be like “it’s so great already, you don’t have to change it!” and I’m like “ehhhh… yeah I’d change it” hah!
Can’t wait to see how it turns out once you put your touch on it!
Sheila says
I thought it was just us that have liked our old American Standard toilets better than the Kohler one. The American Standards that we put into our old house were so much better than the Kohler one we put into the new house. And we only went with the Kohler because it was the only white one in stock and thanks to the old one breaking, we kind of had to just get what was available.
We also have a Glacier Bay in our new house and it rocks. The Kohler one sucks but not in the way you want a toilet to.
YoungHouseLove says
That’s so funny! We have heard from a bunch of people with the same experience!
xo,
s
Jessica says
You didn’t include priming in your steps. You’re priming first, right? It’s a must-do when spackling.
YoungHouseLove says
We actually don’t prime when we use the Dap spackle that we used (we’ve used it all over the house before painting each room and always end up with a nice seamless result). We’ve heard paint is getting so much better with thinckeners for added coverage that it’s like primer + paint these days, so maybe that’s why?
xo,
s