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 Bathroom Blues

                 This bathroom is still in progress.  Check back for updates to see the final room when it's done.

 

Cost:
         $24.00 for paint
         $90.00 for 2 beadboard kits from home depot
         $60.00 for a new light fixture on sale at HD
         $80.00 for a new medicine cabinet from HD
         $30.00 for a new faucet
        
Supplies:
         Paint (Sherwin-Williams Harmony; 1 gallon White, 1 gallon Icelandic Blue (both in eg-shel finish) and
         1 quart Bin paint.)
         Beadboard, chair rail, baseboards
         Wood fill (for nail holes)
          Paintable Calking (to fill in the gaps between the chair rail and wall)
          New hardware
         

Tools:
         Paint tray, brushes and rollers (drop cloths if your messy)
         Power Drill
         Hammer
         Table saw (to cut the chair rail and baseboards)
         Electric tape
         Screws (because the medicine cabinet didn't come with any go figure)      

Action plan:
         Paint the upper walls Sherwin-Williams Harmony paint, color is Icelandic Blue.
         Install the new light fixture & Medicine Cabinet
         Paint the vanity with BIN paint, open a window when using this, use a sponge brush a regular brush
         won't work.
         Install new silver knobs and hinges on vanity
         Install the faucet

Still To Do:
         Flooring (not sure if I will go with Marble tiles, vintage looking hexagon tile or Hardwood).
         Built in glass front cabinets and three drawers below (see photo below for my inspiration of this)
         Possibly putting in a claw foot tub, otherwise a new tub with white subway tiles.
        

Inspiration:
         My inspiration for this room come from a picture of a house that was for sale in my neighborhood.  
         I chose a similar color and painted my down stairs bathroom and decided to paint my upstairs bath
         in the same color except in that bathroom I would copy the picture and use beadboard and paint the
         vanity white.  After painting both bathrooms I realized I loved the color in the down stairs bath but
         hated it in the usptairs bathroom so I decided I wanted a more vintage looking bathroom from there
         I primed the walls and repaint them in the new color Icelandic Blue. 

Process:
        I started out by painting the whole bathroom in Sherwin-Williams Macadamia.  Installed the light fixture
        faucet & medicine cabinet.  Painted the vanity with BIN paint.  Drilled holes in the doors for the new knobs,
        put the new hinges on.  Put up the other hardware.  Decided to change the wall color so I primed the
        whole bathroom and painted the top half in Icelandic Blue.  All that's left to do is flooring!

 

 

    Inspiration Bathroom

 

                                                                                           Before

                                                    

Process of Before to After

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                 AFTER

            

                          

                         
                         This is the type of cabinet and drawers I hope to be able to build
                         into this bathroom someday.