As you can tell, if you have spent any time on my blog, I am in this massive process of reorganizing this whole place. It has been fun and frustrating all at the same time. Fun, because I am finally learning how to make it all look how I want it to look. Frustrating because it is tedious, sometimes doesn’t work like I want it to. Things that can take hours to figure out, and honestly drive me crazy. Thank you for being patient. My house tour has been very unorganized, so I am trying to get some posts that compile all the room in my house. Just for fun, here are the posts that I have done so far…
Today I am going to reveal my Guest Bathroom. I have shown you many projects but its just fun for you to see the process. I am done with this room. I might add a picture or change out something but with renovating…I am done. Here is what the room looked like when we moved into the house.
“Holy Orange!” The first thing that came to my mind when I walked in was “Orange Power.” All you Oklahoman’s get that reference, I realize that might be a little weird if you are not from Oklahoma. ”Orange Power” is what the fans of Oklahoma State University (where my husband went to college) yell at their sporting events. Click here to experince it. The problem is that I am a Sooner, born and bred. Even though my husband is a Cowboy, the last thing that I want to think of is “Orange Power”. My school has the better, more storied in tradition, ”call and response” Boomer Sooner. Click here to experience it. See, doesn’t it sound more epic? Sorry, OSU, I like ya because your part of my state and because my husband loves you, but I don’t think “Orange Power compares to Boomer Sooner. You can even see it in the vidoes. The passion and unity of Boomer Sooner just inspires chills down your back when you in the middle of it. Anyway, my husband was not going to be okay with a Crimson and Creme bathroom, so we decided the bathroom was going to be neutral ground. The orange had to go. Therefore, I painted it white just to be a little neutral. This is how it stayed for three years.
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Then, I decided to tackle the room. The shower tile, countertop, and faucets had been replaced before we moved. They weren’t exactly what I would have picked but I still liked them. We didn’t want to spend to much on this bathroom so we decided to work with what we had. The only think I didn’t like about the countertop was that it was mostly creme with white swirls. I love a good bright white in the bathroom, but I decided to make it work with painting the walls a creme and white stripe. The creme was Valspar’s Oatbran.
Here is how the bathroom turned out:
You can read how I built this blue mirror from scratch, using the wall mirror that was in my master bathroom that we replaced with the medicine cabinet.
Here is the bathroom from the other angle. I easily changed out the knobs to match the faucets (they were an antiqued bronzish color) and it made the cabinet pop.
I spray painted an exterior light from Lowes for the vanity light.
Here is the tub, I decided to add floor length curtain panels to frame out the shower. You can see how I did that here. The actual fabric shower curtain is hidden behind it. The window that you see is to the front of the house, YIKES! I made a waterproofed roman shade out of a fabric shower curtains and some old
blinds. It works perfectly. No inappropriateness in our house.
My favorite find was these floating shelves on clearance. They were the exact size of the stripes and the same color. They look like the stripes just decided on popping off the wall.
Since the cabinet has tons of storage, we decided to just decorate these shelves with pictures and then some supplies for when our guest come to town.
I did the same thing on the vanity. The jar contains extra shampoo and conditioner from Hotels I have stayed in for work. The taller containers have extra soap (for the hand soap pump refills) and mouth wash. When I have guests, I will give them dixie cups so they can pour the mouthwash in the cup. If you come to my house, all you will have to bring is your toothbrush. I will provide you with everything else.
Finally, I added a magazine rack above my towel rack. So, now you can read if you want to…..yeah, you know why. I DO read when I take a bath, but others might read at other times in the bathroom.
As far as the flooring and tub goes, we also worked what we have. Its all pretty neutral. I just had to scrub the grout to brighten it up. I am thankful that the Orange is gone…
How about you?
