An Updated Bathroom

Rooms sometimes need an update and our

upstairs bath certainly did!

The before:

The old . . . 

green and beige striped wallpaper

It's the original tub,

The hex tile is not original 

(although that was what was there -- but the people we bought it from

glued carpet on top and we couldn't get the carpet up without

taking up the tile)

It came from a place in New York City that manufactured hex tile

to look like old

And it does!

White shower curtain and curtains

White tile . . . but with a dark green border

(which really looked good with the dark green and beige stripe wallpaper)

First step:

Strip off the wallpaper!

Luckily the green stripe (and the wallpaper under the green stripe) 

came off easily -- in one piece

But I was left with:

I did save a piece of this . . . it's part of the house and may be framed in the future!

This wonderful 50s wallpaper!

Which was hard to strip --

Lots of hot water, a steamer and patience

and soon my walls were wallpaper free!

The After:

A pretty green from Sherwin Williams

(I had that dark green accent tile after all)

The biggest transformation was the mirror over the sink

Many years ago we replaced the 50s medicine cabinet

with a plain mirrored medicine cabinet

But the footprint wasn't the same

And shamelessly, we just papered over the "holes"!

When we took off the wallpaper and decided that we were going to paint,

the "holes" had to be addressed.

The solution?

Frame around the mirror so it looks like a medicine cabinet from the 20's

The trim matching the trim in the rest of our house

And painted white -- of course!

All it would need is a knob

to look really authentic.

(Perhaps I need to figure out how to glue one on?)

The "pretties" on top of the linen cabinet

An old English blue and white bowl and pitcher

Bought in Nevada, Missouri

about two years apart.

Oh, they were a set but the slop jar was too expensive

And so I left it.

I even took the slop jar to the front desk and asked if they'd take more.

Nope!

And then they were closing and most booths had at least 50% off.

Guess what came home with me!

The bathroom redo wasn't just about paint!

Notice the rain shower?

When we first put in a shower,

we had a faucet with a shower hose attached put in.

It's nice to have a "real" shower

And I love the rain shower head!

The sink was one that we put in right after we moved in.

The people that we bought the house from had removed

the old original pedestal sink

And put in a dinky vanity in the space.

We bought a pedestal

And our bath remodel also included new faucets for this sink

(I had cleaned them to pieces and some of the chrome had worn off int he back)

We think the bathroom now definitely has a feel of a 1920s bathroom.

We're pleased with the results