We haven’t finished our kitchen project yet, but I’m already moving on to the next thing. Husband needs to finish building the kitchen cabinets before we can do anything else there, and since November it’s been far too cold to work in the garage . Once the weather warms up a bit, he’ll be able to start building again. Well, he’ll be able to start building again as soon as we clean out the garage. Ahem.
So, the next project – our downstairs bath. The downstairs bath functions as both master bath as well as guest bath. It’s directly off the dining room (which bugs me, but the small footprint of the house made it a necessity). Ideally, I’d love to add onto the house on that side and create a new master bedroom (ours is rather small as far as master bedrooms go), an en suite bath, and a new guest bath. But since Husband tells me that a project like that is a little more than a couple of weekends worth of work and a little more expensive than $1000, it will have to wait. So I’m looking at the next best thing – Paint!
We haven’t touched the bath since we moved in. I don’t have any good pictures of it recently (who takes pictures of their bathroom?), but I found a couple I saved from the original house listing photos.
The pretty wallpaper in the pictures has seen better days, as we’ve been living here for going on 10 years now, and there’s a lot of moisture going on in that bathroom, plus children splashing in the tub. The wallpaper looks pretty shabby now. So I need to strip that off. I’m not planning on replacing it with new wallpaper because wallpaper plus humidity equals peeling wallpaper.
I know a lot of people think it’s sinful to paint wood, but it isn’t high end mahogany or anything, and the wood trim around the windows is in rough shape so that needs to be painted anyway. The floor is a beige-y yellow background with green and red leaves scattered. The floor isn’t in bad shape, and I have no idea how far under the tub, sink cabinet and toilet the floor goes, so I think I’ll keep that for now. (Plus as soon as I decide to put down a new floor, Husband will decide we should build that addition I mentioned above and we’d end up tearing the floor out.) But I need to do something about the color of the floor, because it really reads yellow, especially in winter.
All the fixtures – tub, sink, toilet (commode sounds so much classier, yes?), and shower are all almond colored. Not white. And replacing them isn’t going to happen right now. So there’s a lot I need to work around.
I’m far from a great decorator, but I’m going to do my best to make the bath at least live up to the gorgeousness that is becoming our kitchen. So here I am on this very snowy (again) day, pondering paint colors.