Bathroom Complete!!

Its  finished!  Finito!  Done! 

Our half bath remodel is complete and I am so happy with the results. 

Our cost for this remodel right around $600. $220 of that was for the vanity top and sink. Another $80 was for the faucet (on clearance from $160).  The rest was tile,trim, our window blind and misc.  We had all the paint and hardware on hand already.  I was able to save some by finding Home Depot gift cards for 50% off, which I used for the crown molding and some misc things.

And to remind you of what it looked like before, here you go:

In this room, we:

• replaced the vinyl floor with tile

• restained the exiting oak cabinet and added new door hardware

 Again, it started out as just a builders' grade standard oak cabinet:

To see my tutorial on staining my cabinet, go here.
• replace the existing vanity top, sink and faucet

This was a chrome caddy that was spray painted in ORB:

Can we talk about toilet paper holders?  I went to Home Depot to buy a new one and talk about sticker shock!  $40 for a toilet paper holder?  Really?!  Even Overstock was expensive.  I found this beauty at HomeGoods for $9.99.  Just a tip to you in case you are in the market for one.  Avoid the potential heart attack and just go to HomeGoods:

• added beadboard

After being undecided about whether or not to do the beadboard here, we went ahead with putting it up and I am so glad we did.  It is my absolute favorite thing we did to the bathroom.  If you want more details about the process, you can read about it here:

• added crown molding

We ran into a little problem here when we found out the ceiling along the first wall you see when you walk in the room was uneven:

A closer view.  The top part of the picture is the ceiling.  The gap was huge:

So, I caulked away at it and for the most part, the unevenness is not that noticeable anymore:

• painted the existing oak trim

Again, this was the before:

• painted the ceiling

After caulking all along the top and since I had to paint the molding after it was installed, the ceiling needed to be touched up.  I was out of the existing color paint.  I tried it in the same color as the molding, but I am not a white ceiling kind of girl, I guess, so it ended up like this:



• added wood blinds

These are from Overstock:

I also found this garbage can from HomeGoods:

 We also repainted this light fixture.  It had been bothering me that it was brown and didn't match the rest of the bathroom for a while (like a few years), so we finally got around to fixing that:

My husband being goofy by really trying to show it off with a little "flair"

It matches now, but I'm not sure how well that shows in this picture.

 So, there you have it!  Its done and I am so happy with it!  I'll be back next time with a tutorial on how to stain an existing oak cabinet and to answer any questions you may have!



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