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.
Here is the very plain jane “before” picture right after we moved in.
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)
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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