I thought I’d write this post once the bathroom was completed but I’ve sort of stalled out. Everything is done except finding a mirror, I keep looking for a cheap used one and haven’t convinced myself it’s worth buying a full priced one, yet. I think Wesley is the only one who even misses it, what with shaving every morning. We have a small hair and make up mirror on one wall, that was there originally, and the rest of us get by just fine with that for hair brushing and whatnot.
When we moved in the bathroom was okay but I knew it would be one of the first achievable areas for updates.
This was before, and this picture is from the realty listing and was incredibly flattering. The wall paper was textured, white stripes, and all patched together, and that one far wall with the peeling ‘wood’. Note the odd shelf above the lights, and there were two on the wall above the towel rack, crooked and odd. The shower curtain was another issue as the rod was technically too short so located in a way that caused the curtain to hang in the middle of the tub and who likes showering with a wet curtain bumping into you? Not me!
The updates all started one day because we were out of extra toilet paper in the cabinet so I sent Jerusha upstairs to get some and restock it. She brought 6 rolls, WAY too many to fit in the cabinet along with the towels, rags, and miscellaneous items. As I arranged and rearranged I decided to take the towels out of the cabinet thinking I’d just stack them on the oddly placed shelves on the wall... but why don’t I just move the shelves to make them more sightly first?
And that resulted in my beginning to tear off the wall paper which was going quite well, so I should just take ALL the fixtures off the wall and get rid of all the wall paper. AND I should pick out paint because, now I was going to have unpainted bathroom walls...
...if you give a mouse a cookie....
Gone is the wall paper and all the extra fixtures!
Over all, from the day I first tore into the bathroom, I think it took about 6 weeks to get it to looking the way it does now, mirrorless, but nearly perfect.
And in the end did I solve the towel problem? No. I didn’t. I just couldn’t put those odd shelves back up on my pretty walls so the towels live in the cabinet, still, sharing space with all the odds and ends, and we only keep two extra rolls of toilet paper.
The route I went with the bathroom was freehanding a bunch of flowers, oranges, and figs on the wall with 8oz sample jars of paint from Home Depot. They ran about $3 a piece, shipped to home for free, and I just picked the colors on line hoping they’d be close enough to matching what I imagined; they were.
We ordered a special, neo-angle curtain rod from Amazon to curtain our oddly shaped, but wonderfully large, bathtub. The curtain rod had a design flaw but my brother Mark Jerry rigged it for us and you can’t tell, it looks fine and works perfectly. I ordered 2 standard size, hotel style shower curtains to enclose the whole exposed tub perimeter. They work great and allow for no leakage.
The mirror is left to be decided upon.
Current stage of ‘final product’:
Very nice!
ReplyDeleteI always think hotel shower curtains are the way to go. They stick to the side of the tub and don't blow into the shower, carried on all the hot air. Plus they are so easy to take down and wash. I didn't know they were available online. I should look in to getting a couple.