Half Bath MakeOver

Last week Ryan and I decided that our half bathroom needed a serious makeover. It was so boring and just bringing down the first floor of our house. There were so many nail holes in the walls and outdated features from the previous owners. So we patched up the walls, gave the bathroom a new coat of paint, and updated everything we knew we would be able to do on our own.

Here are some before shots....

Boring brown walls

Gold Mirror, white towel rack, brown walls...nothing matched



Light fixture from the 80's (even though house was built in the 90's)

Gold cabinet hardware

And here is the finished project...


Bright (much brighter than we planned) Blue walls, new mirror, & towel rack



Ryan installed a new light fixture (He's 2 for 2)

New cabinet hardware



New towel rack and hand towel



New matching wall plates, and a few decorative accessories.



It is hard to see down there but Ryan changed the toilet paper rack to a matching silver one, and even picked out a few black and white photos to match the other accessories.

Most of our supplies and new fixtures we bought at Lowes. We got all of our painting supplies there (brushes, paint, spackle, tape, rollers, pan, ect.) the new mirror, wall plates, towel rack, toilet paper rack, cabinet hardware, and light fixture. I love shopping at Lowes because they have everything you need right there. I did have to special order the cabinet hardware, but they had everything else in-stock. We ended up getting everything at Lowes for $138. (Next time we will have all the paint supplies, so if we would have had that we would have come in at $29 less). I also had some coupons for Lowes that knocked off a few dollars. All the accessories we were able to pick up at Home Goods for a total of $30. My budget goal for our bathroom was $150, and we came in just over at $170. I marked this down as a success, because in all the quotes I got, just for painting, every company was over $200. Our friend Micah came over for dinner and also supervised our painting night. He was great at giving us tips, and helping Ryan out with a few things. All in all, it was a pretty simple project, and I'm glad we went for it, and that it is done : )