Finally finished the bathroom!

We always struggled with the main bathroom in the house.  There were two red heat lamps that could be turned on with the fan that caused the little fairies eyes to glow in the wallpaper.  Creepy. We coped with it and just didn't use the red lights.  That didn't get rid of the fairies though.  Also, the vanity top was long with one sink bowl in the middle...it was blue with white swirls.  A few years ago we stripped the wallpaper and found a velvety wallpaper under that.  What a mess.  We were lucky that there was ceramic wall tile up to about the four foot mark so we were dealing with less than half the wall space. Anyway, we got the wallpaper off, spackled, and painted a khaki color.  We went for a beach theme and found a stipple roller and used a lighter tan over top.  We thought it looked alright at the time.  We also thought the ceiling would be cool if it had a sky/cloud thing going on.  That was just a bad idea all around because we painted it blue and then had clouds painted on that did not look like clouds.  Then we painted the blue over the bad clouds. It sat that way for several years.

 

I had always wanted a two bowl sink in there since Randy and Madi shared that bathroom.  I also did not like the blue and white swirled vanity.  Last summer we found a white two bowl vanity on freecycle with the faucets included.  We went and picked it up and then it sat in the garage for a couple of months.  A friend was able to come over and we installed the new-to-us vanity and got all of the plumbing hooked up.  So now we got rid of the blue sink but still had the sand walls and blue ceiling.  Baby steps, right?

Earlier this spring, maybe March, I bought a new ceiling fan and had arranged for a friend to install it for me. That worked well and got rid of those red heat lamps.  The only problem with that fan now is that it pushes out so much heat that we don't run it.  It has to be rewired: another project for another time.  We also had to sand down the lighter tan paint that we used for a sandy texture before we could paint the new color or the texture paint would show through.  I pulled out my Kirby vacuum sander attachment and Mindy and I took turns sanding.  Once that was complete she taped the trim and tile and I started priming the ceiling and walls.  It took four coats of primer to cover the blue.  Four coats!  The walls just took a couple because we sanded them pretty well and the color was lighter.  We purchased a new khaki paint color for the walls and got a couple of coats on there as well as white for the ceiling.  The bathroom was looking pretty decent by now.

Now it was time to accessorize.  We took a wall tile to Target to match up the blue swirl in the tile with a shower curtain.  We got this really pretty shower curtain that had a gradient blue that matched perfectly. We found a couple of nice floor mats as well at Bed, Bath, and Beyond.  We accessorized the vanity with a bowl and some votives.   

 

We finished the bathroom up while Madi was in Africa.  We were quite busy when she was gone! We are pleased with the bathroom now.  No more glowing fairy eyes is a huge improvement.