Itty Bitty Bathroom #1

I think the easiest way to show all of our projects will be to do a post for each room as we finish them. Right now the only rooms that are totally finished are the two bathrooms, the kitchen and the living room. So I will start with my bathroom, and I say "my bathroom" because we have 2 itty bitty bathrooms that are side by side, as in - they share a wall. Yeah, its weird, but it's also become our "thing". For those that visited our LR house, our bathrooms were directly across the hallway from each other. We've grown to love having our own getting ready spaces, so this layout was perfect for us! (don't get me wrong, I would love to have a huge master ensuite with double sinks etc...but that's just not in the cards/budget)

Just to refresh your memory...here's what my bathroom used to look like:

The walls are textured and were painted a yellowish brown with palm trees painted on the cabinet doors and forest green trim! And yes - those are bamboo towel rods..

Our first step in redoing the whole house was painting ALL of the trim white (aka priming and then like 5 coats of paint). Next we painted all the bigger rooms (see future posts). But I had a big decision to make on the paint color for my bathroom. I am partial to clean, cool colors (duh...did anyone see my wedding?) so I did some googling. Have I mentioned that google is my best friend when choosing paint colors? I am completely incompetent when it comes to staring at paint chips in the store...BUT if I can see a room painted on a blog, I can choose so easily! Anyway - so I found Sherwin Williams - Sea Salt.

It was the perfect lightness and not too blue or too green as to clash with the cherry wood mirror and vanity and brown tile. So I got a tester and brought it home (just in case!). Well, my bathroom is SO small, I did an entire coat with less than a quart of paint! So I ran back to the store the next day for another tester and finished the job. Added in a grey bathmat from Ikea, a chevron shower curtain from World Market (is anyone surprised?), new grey wedding towels from Macy's, patterned hand towels from World Market and a fleur de lis towel hook courtesy of Sam's sister Mary.


The finished product:

These two pictures were taken before my wonderful husband replaced ALL of our interior doors. He measured, cut, sanded, installed etc. 6 regular doors and 3 different sets of closet doors, all while I was away at the beach! 

So here is a pic with my pretty white door:

The End!

Up next: Sam's bathroom