Boy's Bathroom Project

So yesterday I posted the "before" pics of different rooms of our house and today I will begin going through them room by room to show you what we accomplished!


This was the upstairs "boys" bathroom.
In here it was pretty much just out dated and in need of some TLC.

So we began with the vanity. We removed the entire thing including the mirror which is the only piece we kept to reuse.

 It was not very "easy" to take out and I am very blessed to have had my AMAZING brother in law Sam, here to really do the things that were to hard for me alone.







We then took out the toilet and all the base molding and the door to the linen closet which I just found out I forgot to take a picture of...

After everything was out and cleaned up we went to work on painting!

Tim and the boys picked a lime green color called "Lime Ricky". Much more "boy" than the lavender we started with.
I was so kindly informed that the generic Wal-Mart Paint is actually very good top of the line paint... I asked about this and it was confirmed that it is indeed  Valspar paint here in the northwest and Sherwin-Williams in the south. The cost difference is $16 a gallon for the WM brand and $30 for the one with Valspar on the can... I personally went with the cheaper since I bought 17 gallons total for our house. I for one am very happy with the outcome.

We purchased a new "to us" toilet from the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store. This store was and is AMAZING for anyone wanting to do DIY remodel at a very good price. They have just about anything you could think of and I will share all the amazing deals I found during this process.

H4H Restore finds for boys bathroom
Toilet for $50
Sink for $20

We used plastic base boards in here so there is no chance of mold or dry rot destroying the boards

The previous owners had already purchased the beautiful vanity we installed then we bought a $50 counter top from Ikea, used 5 inch white base board to create a back splash for the $20 sink.

















We reused the original mirror, attaching it with mirror mastex which I have been informed will not come off unless I take the wall out... Good thing I won't be doing that for many years :-)
We also made our own frame for the mirror using a piece of molding I bought for $5 and painting it with silver Martha Stewart paint from Home Depot.

We re-used our lighting we bought from Costco 2 years ago.

I found the starfish shaped handles for the vanity at Hobby Lobby for $1.50 each (since they are always half off). We also replaces the handles in the bath tub and shower and got the boys all new decor for %70 off at Kohl's to complete the look. 

This little renovation took us about 3 day to finish and cost about $300 when all done. I hope you enjoyed today's installment of our adventures in The Land of the Living!

New House = New Adventure

Yesterday was the 3 month anniversary of the closing on our beautiful first home and looking back at all we have accomplished is absolutely mind blowing. Especially when we had never owned a house and we picked one that had basically no master bathroom...

One of the things we really wanted was a home that we could put some sweat into and make it totally and completely ours so, seeing this bathroom we saw the opportunity we were looking for! As well as some other areas we saw that could just easily be finished.

                               Like the family room closets...

 

And the upstairs bathroom.









Next time I will share with you some of the progression of our adventures in housedome!