skip to main |
skip to sidebar
The room with the cat poo yellow carpet went from, well, ugly...
... to toy paradise!
Once that nasty carpet was gone, it really made a huge difference! New laminate wood flooring, paint and some bright, fun curtains made the space new and just perfect for the (way too many) toys.
Bonus of having a toy room? I don't NEED to clean it up, I can just close the door and deal with it later :)
*peeks out from behind rock* Uh, hi? I've really sucked at keeping up with all this new house transformation business.
But anyway, the bathroom is DONE! (mostly)
You may remember that it looked like this when we bought the house:
Well, now it looks like this!
It took a bit longer than anticipated and it's still not 100% complete - the above toilet cabinet we bought we previously purchased and returned by someone else, therefore missing parts when we bought it (nice job with your product inspection, "big orange box store"), so that's not up yet.
I also need to purchase some decor for the bare walls and some coordinating towels. I could easily use towels we already own - but they are green and brown, the matchy-matchy color freak in me would go absolutely bonkers about the green towel hanging in the blue and grey bathroom! Darn OCD tendencies!
We got our first experience laying tile floor. It went ok, considering we had no idea what we were doing! It's certainly not perfect, but it's functional and looks pretty nice.
We had a vanity purchased, but then there was a plumbing placement problem and we had to return the one we already bought and get a different (and more expensive.. *sigh*) one. But it's in now and looks great! Design standards have apparently changed since our last bathroom remodel, because the vanity is now at kitchen cabinet height. That seemed REALLY tall at first, but the more I stand by it, the more I like it.
ANOTHER snag we ran into was the mirror. We purchased a mirror that ended up to be too large, so we returned that (are you sensing a theme here?). Bonus is that I snagged a nice decorative mirror from Target on clearance and I like it was better than what we originally bought anyway!
Pretty much the only thing we did NOT return was the toilet. Hence the probably not so clever title of this post, "The Return of the Bathroom"... get it? Huh? Not funny? Oh well, I tried.
