We are a family of 6. We have a TEENY bathroom. No storage, no drawers, no shelves, no closets. I measured the walk-around floor space (because who hangs out between the toilet and the sink?) and it is 4′ X 4′. We did have the bathroom remodeled (new sink, toilet, floor and paint) about 7 years ago. The “before” wasn’t completely heinous, I was just ready for a change.Yellow walls-white beadboard and trim. (Sorry ’bout the lighting-this room has one wierd, tiny window and would never have suitable light for photography-but you get the idea. YAWN!)
Yes, those are my paint swatches on the far left…I just slap it on.
Those hooks are just utilitarian. I love friends and family but there are no rules about hand-towel use.
I do love this floor
Simple, right?
Welcome to the “after”.
I know, not that different but to me it’s a nice, big change.
Mark said this was my best paint job. Not to depress him, but these walls are the only ones that are relatively scar-free. Painting the rest of the rooms has been humbling and slightly depressing. Picture elephant skin and imagine yourself painting over it. Compared to that this was dreamy.
Wanna see what Kate did? She was saying one night that she wanted to paint a mural. If you know Kate, this is the kind of thing that she always says and never expects a “yes”. I had been wanting to paint a simple tree silhouette in the bathroom. I was partly inspired by this project at “Just a Girl” and this nursery. (No, I’m not expecting, this was linked a few months ago at one of the blogs that host DIY link parties and I loved the look-that’s inspiration.)
Even though I was initially inspired by Chris’ tutorial, which was done with a projector and more exact, Kate did this free-hand. She sketched a diagram of our bathroom complete with all the fixtures and showed me her design. I tweaked some things, told her what I had in mind and she went to work. She did a rough sketch with chalk-easy to correct- and then painted the outline and filled it in. I had to do the high parts. We want to add 2 more birds-one hanging upside down-which would roughly represent a certain member of the family. These are not angry birds but very calm and content.
Impressed by the symmetry? I was. Kate didn’t measure and I did not give any instructions to that effect. This girl has an eye.
The bathroom still needs a few more finishing touches (maybe gray towels, new shower curtain and rings) but it makes me smile every time I go in.
The gray color is Sherwin Williams “Morning Fog”. The tree was painted in slightly watered down SW “Westhighland White” and the birds are just an orange acrylic craft paint.
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oh my gosh, how fabulous! i love the wall color-it made such a huge difference somehow. and with the mural, it’s even more fun. funner? hmmm…
Thanks, I checked out your blog quickly and I can’t wait to click around. I also painted my bedroom this summer and was trying to get a more gray like your “tinsmith” but it ended up more blue. I still like it but I’m liking gray these days. The bathroom color is too dark for our bedroom.
Love the color and whismy!