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First thing's first: I have no pictures. (Sorry). So you'll have to use your imaginations.
Okay. So the bathroom makeover that I've been talking about for about two months now is pretty much finished.
There's still the wall-paper border to put up, and some touch-ups on the walls around the towel-racks, but those are getting done this weekend, so I'm not too worried about "spilling the beans" early. :-)
So.
The "Before 'Picture'".: A fairly standard bathroom vanity featuring brown fake-marble melamene(?) counter-top and "fake wood" cupboard doors with those ubiquitous-in-1974 burnished brass/bronze door-handles.
The towel racks and electrical outlet plates are brass. There is a wall-paper border around the top of the room that is done in an abstract pattern of beiges and brows accented with burgundies and the odd hint of turqoisite blue-green.
The walls of the bath-tub stall are cream-tile with ornate burgundy-and-beige designs all over them. Quite a sight when you first pull back the shower cutain. The shower-curtain support bar is wrapped in pinky-beige plastic that is coming appart ever-so-slightly.
The wite shower curtain is too small (because I was dumb and got one for a shower stall rather than for a bath-tub stall). The beige shower-curtain liner has ripped in a number of places along the top.
The curtain and liner are held up with brown plastic shower-curtain hooks (that don't close and so the liner occasionally has to be re-attached to the curtain hooks).
Gorgeous, no? ;-)
The "After 'Picture'".: The fairly standard bathroom vanity now features a pewter-coloured counter-top (with a "hammered metal" look), and the cupboards (not just the doors, the whole thing) are a semi-gloss forget-me-not blue. The door handles are the shape, but they are now done in the same hammered pewter finish as the counter-top.
The towel racks and outlet plates are now also finished in hammered pewter. (Although I may switch the outlet plate out for a white one, I confess).
The wall-paper border has been taken down and has been (read: will be) replaced by a new border of pale blue "tiles" (vinyl-heavy wall-paper, easy to scrub, made to look like tiles) featuring a large silver spiral on every other "tile".
The bathmat is baby blue (although it looks almost turquoise next to the cupboards).
The walls of the bath-tub stall are now plain white (painted with plastic-enamel paint appropriate for use on boats).
The shower-curtain support bar has been shorn of its ugly plastic casing and is now just a plain metal bar. (I may wind up having to cover this in a clear top-coat or something, but I don't think so).
The too-small shower curtain and cheap, ripped liner have been replaced by a white liner that is (A) the right size, and (B) reinforced with metal gromits so that it won't fall appart so easily.
The curtain is held up with plain white rings (that close, so that it won't just fall off the way it used to do).
Blue, white, and pewter. :-)
And that is the new bathroom. :-)
Hurrah! :-)
Eventually (read: When we can register in January) I'm hoping to get bathroom linens in forget-me-not blue and black (and possibly grey, but probably not), as well as a black bath-mat (or two), and some black and chrome accessories (tooth-brush holder, garbage bin, etc.) to complete the look. As it stands, I think I'll keep an eye out for black metal tea-light/votive holders that I can use to dress up the counter-top. :-)
- Nam'ara,
- Amazon. :-)
Sad side-note: I discovered, while painting the tiles that, bugger-bugger-bugger, it appears that some of the drywall behind a couple of the tiles is beginning (sp) to rot. So in a couple of years when, in theory, we have more money to spend, we will have to re-do the bath-tub stall. (And this is when the decorative black and forget-me-not blue tile border will get to go in. ;-)
Okay. So the bathroom makeover that I've been talking about for about two months now is pretty much finished.
There's still the wall-paper border to put up, and some touch-ups on the walls around the towel-racks, but those are getting done this weekend, so I'm not too worried about "spilling the beans" early. :-)
So.
The "Before 'Picture'".: A fairly standard bathroom vanity featuring brown fake-marble melamene(?) counter-top and "fake wood" cupboard doors with those ubiquitous-in-1974 burnished brass/bronze door-handles.
The towel racks and electrical outlet plates are brass. There is a wall-paper border around the top of the room that is done in an abstract pattern of beiges and brows accented with burgundies and the odd hint of turqoisite blue-green.
The walls of the bath-tub stall are cream-tile with ornate burgundy-and-beige designs all over them. Quite a sight when you first pull back the shower cutain. The shower-curtain support bar is wrapped in pinky-beige plastic that is coming appart ever-so-slightly.
The wite shower curtain is too small (because I was dumb and got one for a shower stall rather than for a bath-tub stall). The beige shower-curtain liner has ripped in a number of places along the top.
The curtain and liner are held up with brown plastic shower-curtain hooks (that don't close and so the liner occasionally has to be re-attached to the curtain hooks).
Gorgeous, no? ;-)
The "After 'Picture'".: The fairly standard bathroom vanity now features a pewter-coloured counter-top (with a "hammered metal" look), and the cupboards (not just the doors, the whole thing) are a semi-gloss forget-me-not blue. The door handles are the shape, but they are now done in the same hammered pewter finish as the counter-top.
The towel racks and outlet plates are now also finished in hammered pewter. (Although I may switch the outlet plate out for a white one, I confess).
The wall-paper border has been taken down and has been (read: will be) replaced by a new border of pale blue "tiles" (vinyl-heavy wall-paper, easy to scrub, made to look like tiles) featuring a large silver spiral on every other "tile".
The bathmat is baby blue (although it looks almost turquoise next to the cupboards).
The walls of the bath-tub stall are now plain white (painted with plastic-enamel paint appropriate for use on boats).
The shower-curtain support bar has been shorn of its ugly plastic casing and is now just a plain metal bar. (I may wind up having to cover this in a clear top-coat or something, but I don't think so).
The too-small shower curtain and cheap, ripped liner have been replaced by a white liner that is (A) the right size, and (B) reinforced with metal gromits so that it won't fall appart so easily.
The curtain is held up with plain white rings (that close, so that it won't just fall off the way it used to do).
Blue, white, and pewter. :-)
And that is the new bathroom. :-)
Hurrah! :-)
Eventually (read: When we can register in January) I'm hoping to get bathroom linens in forget-me-not blue and black (and possibly grey, but probably not), as well as a black bath-mat (or two), and some black and chrome accessories (tooth-brush holder, garbage bin, etc.) to complete the look. As it stands, I think I'll keep an eye out for black metal tea-light/votive holders that I can use to dress up the counter-top. :-)
- Nam'ara,
- Amazon. :-)
Sad side-note: I discovered, while painting the tiles that, bugger-bugger-bugger, it appears that some of the drywall behind a couple of the tiles is beginning (sp) to rot. So in a couple of years when, in theory, we have more money to spend, we will have to re-do the bath-tub stall. (And this is when the decorative black and forget-me-not blue tile border will get to go in. ;-)
