I am calling this part 1 because I still have some small details to add to my kids’ bathroom, but I am so happy with my progress this far that I am SO ready to show it off.
I didn’t expect to move the kids’ bathroom to the top of my new house “To-Do” list, but an idea suddenly struck and I went with it. My inspiration was this beautiful nursery picture in the Pottery Barn Kids catalog.
Inspiration Room
Here is the very plain jane “before” picture right after we moved in.
“BEFORE”
I knew immediately that I wanted to use a gray and white color scheme in the kids’ bathroom. I originally thought I would do polka dots on the walls like in the picture, but as I have 2 boys and a girl I needed a more gender-neutral theme. So, a gray (BM Cape May Cobblestone) horizontal stripe it was. (read how to paint perfect horizontal stripes here)
Best way to capture the picture in a tiny bathroom–the view in the mirror.
After chatting with Christy who assured me I could handle the board & batten treatment (see hers HERE) and reading many of the great online tutorials for it, I jumped in and… well, that was about 3 weeks ago.
OK, so it’s really not an overnight project. Like many tutorials warn, putting the battens up is fairly easy, but painting and caulking (and re-painting and re-caulking) takes a little bit of time.
To accessorize the room, I already had this towel bar and hanging galvanized buckets from IKEA that I had used in my former office. I am crossing my fingers I can obtain a third bucket next time I am at IKEA so each of my 3 children will have their own bucket and then morning routines will go more smoothly. (In my fantasy world, right?)
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This super cute basket (below) was a hostess present from Terry recently, and I hope she won’t mind that I sprayed it with metal spray paint to match my decor? 🙂 My mom found these very cool little chalkboards for me for Christmas and I am using them everywhere I can these days.
| Wire Basket | Chalkboard sign |
I also painted (and this was the point where I realized I was getting a little crazy) my formerly white shower curtain hooks so there would be another pop of yellow in the room. It really was super-easy, just a quick spray of Zinsser spray primer, then 2 quick coats of craft paint and now I have yellow shower hooks, perfect.
I made some decorative accessories like this printable sign. {Like it? Click here {Christopher Robin Printable} and download your own copy} and this great “Wash Your Hands” sign, which was a Pinterest find from 4 Men 1 Lady. I just printed it and mounted it on a plain wood plaque which I had painted gray to match first.
So, what is left to do? Well, I am on the hunt for a yellow and white rug– preferably polka-dotted, and polka-dotted towels (which I can’t find ANYWHERE in yellow, Pottery Barn Kids will you please add yellow in again soon? or Garnet Hill? Please?) and I also plan to update the bottom of the shower curtain with some yellow ribbon (or something) to ground the room with a yellow pop too.
Oh, and yes I still need to add molding to the builder-grade mirror, how could I forget that detail? (read how to do that here)
{Small bathrooms are hard to photograph, but hopefully you can get the idea}
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