A Simple Bathroom Makeover

So here’s the deal. I started this bathroom makeover….how long ago now? For-ever, and I’m still not done. The fall weather set in and I lost my mind, then threw a pickin’ party, then I canned some more salsa, and I got side-tracked and decided to paint my kitchen counter tops instead because the bathroom ones turned out so well.  (It’s like…if you give a mouse a cookie… They have a name for it, it’s called adult ADD or raising boys when your mind automatically resets every ten minutes. What ever it is I have it. Welcome to my world.)

Moving on.

I thought, I would show some before and after pictures of this simple (and cheap) farmhouse bathroom makeover. So you can play which of these things is not like the other thing if you’re bored.

Here’s a recap…I decided to break my all time rule of never painting wood and paint some. You know, branch out a little. So I starting by painting the cabinets. I had a pretty beige picked out, then ran into this taupe at half price so I bought it. And decided I could learn to live with it at half price. (Note to self…if first husband doesn’t work out…this probably won’t work for picking out another man.) The taupe is fine.

The counter tops that I painted didn’t cost me anything. I painted them with what I had. I posted about that here. Here’s before.

Here’s after.

I love the depth of color and how finishing with a sponge full of metallic takes it to a whole other level.

We bought the light new, but that mirror came from Salvation Army. It was ten bucks. I tried to dicker, but they didn’t budge. I felt pretty good about the price, though, after pricing them new at Lowes.

The backsplash was just simple wainscoting, twenty bucks total there.

The dad-gum deal killer was the pulls. Grrrr. Pulls are expensive.  Sigh. But they cover up the holes bore out from others who have mismeasured in the past. Mistakes do have a price, I guess.

So that’s it. Here’s what the total looked like.

Light…$40

Back splash…$20

Pulls…$44

Paint…$16

Which brings the grand total to $120.

Getting it done and being able to brush my teeth in the bathroom instead of the kitchen….PRICELESS. This was much funner than spending our entire emergency fund…thanks for asking.

I still want to wash a light coat of robin’s egg blue over that sage green, but that will have to wait until the snow flys or I get in the mood for more painting. That probably won’t be any time soon, so don’t hold your breath.

Simply,

Sis

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