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Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Nautical Bathroom Makeover - The Cards We Drew

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This post has been months in the making…we started planning this bathroom in June and finally in August we’ve finished it! Our Nautical Bathroom for our son is complete and we are all in love and sighing a sigh of relief.

When we moved into our house, we had these plain, vanilla bathrooms in each room. We have 2 1/2 bathes total and to date we have one and a half finished now. Here’s our 1/2 bath makeover from a few months ago. Our master bath, the best of all, is last on the list. Our bathrooms lacked character and were outfitted with builders grade cabinets, lights, and fixtures. While the cabinets remain the same, we hit the whole room with a coat of paint and tons of updates…and we took our bathroom from THIS:

before vanilla bathroom

before green bathroom

before bathroom photos

Light green, ugly cabinets, plain jane bathroom with NO character…and definitely NOT a kids bathroom…to this AFTER:

bathroom makeover 1

nautical bathroom makeover from the cards we drew

nautical boys bathroom

Doesn’t even look like the same bathroom anymore does it?! Let’s get a side by side look for comparison 😉

before and after shower curtain shot

Before and After Bathroom front shot

before and after mirror shot Ok…enough before and after’s…although I kinda love looking at them. Let’s get down to the nitty gritty…what did we do?

I’ll have some more follow up posts this week with specifics, but here’s the what we did:

1. Painted the cabinets and trim in the room white.

painted cabinet and framed mirror

2. Repainted the room from light green to light gray, yes, it’s gray, not light blue. Promise. It’s the same color we’ll be used for our son’s bedroom makeover (next up on the list and in progress). It’s a Benjamin Moore color.

3. Replaced the plain white shower curtain with a navy and white striped shower curtain from West Elm. It’s the same shower curtain that matches the duvet cover I got for my son’s room. Notice the awesome new curved, brushed nickel shower curtain rod from Moen that I am in love with.

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4. Replaced all of the hardware in the bathroom with great new fixtures provided by Moen. Moen sent us brushed nickel bathroom fixtures to try out after I got to see them at SNAP in April. They really took the room from builder’s grade to a whole new level of customized. We used all new fixtures from their Ashville Collection that is meant to be spot resistant and microban protected. We LOVE the new fixtures and later this week I’ll show you some of the details of getting those items replaced! Thank goodness my dad is a contractor because we wouldn’t have been able to do that ourselves!

moen shower head

moen bathroom fixtures

new sink fixtures and mirror frame

5. Replaced our UGLY builders grade light fixture with an awesome, custom navy blue Barn Light Electric light fixture…one of my FAVORITE parts of the bathroom and more to come on that this week! This light fixture makes me a happy happy girl 😉 Who else can say they have this in their house?! It’s so unique!

barn light electric wall sconce

nautical bathroom light

barn light electric lights

navy blue light fixture

6. Added a MirrorMate frame to our plain, unframed mirror from before. The white frame really adds a gorgeous touch to the room and makes the mirror look custom for a great price and little effort. It takes NO time to install and I’d buy a MirrorMate frame any day over a new mirror.

bathroom makeover

7. Then, of course, we decorated. I recycled a lot of stuff I already had around the house and added a GORGEOUS handmade sign from Evie Ivy…I saw her first at SNAP and purchased a sign from her there and knew I had to have another one for this bathroom. HER STUFF IS ADORABLE and I LOVE IT. Seriously…go check it out. I want one of each (more to come on that later this week). Our previous bathroom was light green, so I used the same bath mat and striped green bath towels to go with the room.

whale splash sign from evie ivy

splash sign from evie ivy

nautical bathroom decor

I made the little frames over the toilet using scrapbook paper and wooden decorations I purchased from JoAnn’s. I painted a few of them to match my decor better, attached them to the paper, and put them back in the frames I already had. They work perfectly over the toilet and I already had them from the guest bedroom we’re converting.

Overall…I’m so happy with how this turned out. I’ll share more specific details on all the awesome vendors I used later this week.

Note: This is NOT a paid or sponsored post; however, I did receive free products from some vendors to collaborate with them for this makeover. All words and opinions are 100% my own and I personally recommend each and every one of the vendors I used for my makeover! I’ll give you more details on all the smaller pieces of this makeover as the week continues.

Special thanks to:

Moen

Barn Light Electric

Evie Ivy

Ryobi Tools

MirrorMate

My dad…for helping us install all the “hard” stuff

And my hubby for putting up with a whiny, tired pregnant woman who just wanted to finish this project.

Friday, August 25, 2017

Richard Hammond's wife Mindy on choosing bathroom decor | Mindy Hammond | Columnists | Comment

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Izzy and Willow have demanded a bedroom each, as regular readers may recall. Our girls now being 11 and 13, that seemed reasonable enough, so once again Hammond Towers has rung to the jolly sound of building work.

The bedrooms are coming along fine but there’s just one problem: their bathroom. This was last decorated five years ago, when they were little. It’s blue and white with a jaunty seaside feel: there’s a lifebelt on the wall, a huge yellow rubber duck on the bath, and I even made curtains out of fishing net. I love it. The girls, sadly, don’t – at least not any more.

Even I had to admit the decor was looking a little tired, so, cradling my favourite ducky in his red sou’wester, I opened negotiations. Which then followed a somewhat familiar pattern. “OK, I’ll redo the bathroom, but only if you promise to actually use it and stay out of mine and daddy’s.”

“We will! But please can we have a proper shower – you know, a cubicle?”

“Er, no. You’ll have a proper shower over the bath.”

“But we never have a bath! We have showers. We don’t need a bath!”

“That’s not true, you love your bubble baths, especially when you’re poorly. And trust me, in a year or two you’ll be in there for hours.”

“No we won’t, and it’s not big enough. The screen doesn’t even go all the way round.”

“Good grief, we didn’t even have a shower when I was growing up – you girls don’t know how lucky you are.”

“Yes, we know, you had a tin bath in front of the fire once a week, ‘whether you needed it or not’.”

“I’ll have you know, young lady, that the first time I had a place with a proper shower was when I moved to London and lived in a shared house with five other girls. That shower was over the bath. It didn’t have a shower screen, it had a curtain that used to fall down, so you ended up doing a weird dance with a wet sheet of plastic stuck to you, in a bathroom whose only source of heat was two electric bars in the roof.”

“Aw muuuuum!”

“Right, OK, I’ll get a proper screen to go all the way round. But I’m sorry, the bath stays, otherwise there’s only one bath in the whole house, and that’s no good when we’ve all been out in the snow and the mud, is it? After all, do you really want to share a bath with me?”

“Eeeew! No. Fine. But pleeeeaase can you make it nice?”

“I will, I promise.”

So, after a day spent trawling the internet, I joined Dave the decorator for a site meeting.

“What about a feature wall?” I said, chewing the arm of my purple designer specs like I knew what I was talking about. “You know, in a soft, warm colour, to make it feel more grown-up?”

He sucked his teeth. “First you’ll need to do something about them cracks.”

“Yes, but you can fill those, can’t you?”

“Well, I can, but in an old house like this they’ll only open up again. You’d do better to paper it – there are some nice wallpapers these days, specially for bathrooms.”

“Yes,” I said, as though I’d known this all along. Then I retreated downstairs for another look on the computer. Unfortunately, halfway down I tripped on a flip-flop and dropped my glasses, which – being blind as a bat without them – I then trod on.

So I hope the girls like the wallpaper I’ve chosen for them. It’s sort of swirly. At least I think it is. Or maybe those are flowers. Or are they giant pink sheep?