We made it! I didn’t know how much I would be able to accomplish in the past week, since I broke my toe last week, but it’s finished!
I redecorated this bathroom on a budget and have been blogging about it as part of the One Room Challenge. You can find the previous posts here: Week One, Week Two, Week Three, Week Four, Week Five/Six, and Week 7. Special thanks to Linda from One Room Challenge for putting this together and the media sponsor Better Homes and Gardens.
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I am absolutely obsessed with these rugs. They are so beautiful and work well together. I don’t like things to be too matchy matchy, and I think they work to define the separate entry area and bathroom.
As you may recall, I contemplated switching up the Varga prints, but I actually grew to love them even more with the addition of the new rugs and the colors in the bathroom. I plan to repaint this entry space next.
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My goals for the bathroom were to highlight the architecture of the room, add color, and do it on a budget with minimal trips to the stores. The total came out to less than $1000 and I used a lot of what I already had.
Here’s the cost breakdown with links to the items: Faucet ($260), Mirror ($225), Rugs ($190), Paint ($100), Towel Ring ($63), Cabinet Pulls ($20), Misc ($75).
As I have mentioned in previous posts, the wall mural was inspired by @banyanbridges on Instagram. She paints colorful murals and this room was screaming for something on the walls. I wanted to incorporate a mural into the entire space, and bring it all together, but I also didn’t’ want it to become too busy. I think I succeeded! My husband Dave said that this is his favorite room that I’ve ever designed.
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I knew that I had to do something to make that missing tile spot look intentional, so I added a color block with a rounded top to mimic the lines of mirror. I also painted the gas pipe the same color as the ceiling. I contemplated covering it with something and then painting that, but with COVID it’s just too annoying to go anywhere that’s not necessary.
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The mural’s focal point is the canvas. The lines start here and then extend around the whole room. I knew where I wanted the lines to go, so I started them on the canvas and then extended the lines around the room. I’ll do a separate blog post about how to get crisp lines. If you follow me on Instagram, you saw lots of stories about this.
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The cabinet pulls I got at an Estate Sale at Maximalist Studios from Eddie Ross. They fit this room absolutely perfectly and the holes even lined up so I didn’t have to drill new ones! A fun fact is that one year ago this week Eddie Ross was at our house styling a photo shoot for BHG. I hope it someday makes it to the pages of BHG! The suspense is killing me.
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The pocket door I painted years ago. I still liked the color (Alchemy from Sherwin-Williams), so it was incorporated into the color palette.
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Let’s take a short trip back memory lane to see what this space used to look like. I’m very into sustainable design. A lot of times you can keep and re imagine what you already have, instead of ripping it all out and starting over. I was lucky and able to save a lot of money on this space by keeping what I liked: flooring, sink, cabinet, and counter tops. In the future, I want to make that large closet a shower, but that will be much more than $1000 🙂 I’m saving my money for that project.
The biggest change to the space was removing the upper cabinet that housed a gas meter. As luck would have it, the gas company came out to move the meter outside about a month before we tackled this project. We still have a pipe running vertically through this space, but it looks a million times better.
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I wanted something large to cover the electrical panel. A thrift store find canvas that I already had was the perfect size for this space. I just painted over it and incorporated the design into the whole room.
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I also already had that hanging planter and plant. The plant I stole from my craft room, so now I have to replace it!
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I couldn’t just buy any old towel ring, so I found this one on Etsy. I really love fun design elements like this, and it’s handmade in the US, so that’s awesome too.
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I would really love to hear your thoughts on this room. What to you love about it? I LOVE it all!
Be sure to check out the One Room Challenge Blog, which links to everyone’s blog posts. You will be SO inspired by what you see. I love interior design and it’s so fun to see all of the creativity.
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*Brandi
I love it all too! I especially love the hand towel holder. Fits perfectly with your amazingly unique home. Congrats for getting it done, and I hope your toe doing ok!
Thank you so much! I love that towel holder as well. It was between this and a vintage chunky wooden one that I would have painted. But I liked the unexpected hand in this one. My toe is feeling ok, I just walk really weird. Haha.
Looks so great! I love how fun it is, great Job!
Thanks so much. That is what it feels like, fun!
how fun!! love the pops of bright colors and the graphic elements … great color blocking to link the wall to the tile backsplash and i love how the lines just run throughout the room!
Thanks so much! I hoped to solve a lot of the design dilemmas with the mural and I think it worked.
I love the eclectic vibe, you did a great job!
Thank you very much! I am really happy with it.
Well done! It looks so cool and that mural!
Thanks so much!
Really fun, I love how you used the paint to solve the cabinet hole and integrate the pipe into the mural – so clever!!!
I stared at the walls for a very long time to figure it all out. Haha.
I didn’t even notice the missing tile – well done with the arch! I love the retro (but not overbearingly so) feel — it’s beachy and light.
Thanks so much! It really doesn’t stand out anymore, which was my goal. Yay.
Very clever design. Well done.
Thank you Brenda! I am so happy with how it turned out.