Before and After Bathroom

Inspiration picture.

This is a before of my vanity and a smaller mirror from when we first bought this condo.  You can see the tiles on the floor and up the walls.  The vanity top was custom made to fit this vanity and had gray lines running through it.

I then painted the vanity in a light gray to match the top of the vanity.  You can really see the lines running thru the top of this vanity.  Terry put up wainscoting to get rid of the tiles running up the wall.  Those tiles running up the wall were too much for me.  So this is how it was before the magic happened last weekend.

The vanity was painted white and the hardware removed and painted with black matte spray paint.  We got a new faucet.  The top of the vanity was painted with epoxy paint since it was a custom top and a regular in stock top would not fit this vanity.  I love the vanity and wanted to keep it so painting the vanity top with the epoxy paint worked out well.  You will see that up close in the next pictures.

You can see the black hardware recycled with black paint.  I loved that I could reuse keep the silver hardware and just paint them.

I found this vintage looking faucet on Amazon.  I liked the black offsetting all the white.

The epoxy paint is genius.  It gave the vanity top new life.  Got ride of the heavy gray lines running through the top.  Epoxy paint is what you can put on your garage floors so it seals against everything and easy to keep clean.  No chipping or cracks and it holds up well in a bathroom.

This is the wall in the bathroom before.

This is the after when I got another roll of the wallpaper I already had around the mirror.  

My sweet little vintage tile for hanging a hand towel.

We were going to lay a new floor because I did not like tiles and grout.  After seeing how nice the counter on the vanity came out with the epoxy paint,  I decided to try and paint the tile floor with the white epoxy paint.  Terry did a great job.  About two coats and I liked the look.  This saved us on having to replace this floor.
Again this is used to paint garage floors that you drive your car on and it holds up.   I knew it would hold up in the bathroom.  The floor tiles and grout are sealed with the epoxy paint.  No cleaning of grout!  Nothing will penetrate the epoxy paint so the grout will not get dirty.  Genius solution again.  Saved us time and money.

In this picture you can see the marble tiles and grout before and the heavy gray lines in the vanity top.

I am loving the after.  White pretty floors and new white vanity top.  Only cost was the can of epoxy paint from Home Depot.

Before floors and bathroom walls.

After Bathroom floor and walls.

This is the before shower.  Again lots of tiles and grout to clean.

We went with the one day bathroom shower install.  We chose a small family run business instead of the big name Bathfitters or Planet Bath.
The big and popular name places were way over budget and this small business was clean and in and out in one day.  With only one bathroom in our condo we could not have our bathroom torn up for days or weeks.
I chose simple white panels and black trim.  The company is coming back this week to install a few more white shelves.  They were back ordered at the time of the shower install.  I like that the panel walls were not plastic and were a heavy duty wall panel for up keep and wear.  The glass doors run on a barn door type pulley.  I wanted simple that can go with any decor.

I am going to order a pretty shower curtain from Simply French Market on Etsy.  It will give some softness and flair to the glass doors.  Kind of a trim piece.  When I get that I will show you how it comes out.

I had this vintage hanger and glad I saved it.  It has a perfect place now in this bathroom to hang a towel on.  Stepping out of the shower and having a towel right there is great.

A big problem we had with this bathroom is the door to the bathroom.  When we originally bought the condo it has a regular bathroom door.  The problem was it opened into the toilet.  

First solution was reusing some doors we had from the kitchen and had them on a barn door pulley.  They would slide to each side in the bathroom.  It took care of the door opening in to the toilet but it still was a hard way to have privacy.  The doors were heavy and had a magnetic click together for the doors to close which made it hard to re open the doors.
I saw this great and genius idea on Pinterest.  Take bifold doors and make them fold open into the hall area leaving the bathroom walls completely open and not blocked.

They open up and close on a barn door pulley system I bought on Amazon.

Now if a guest uses the bathroom they have complete privacy and there is no taking up space in the bathroom or hall with a regular door.
Gotta love Pinterest for ideas!!!!

There you have it a new bathroom in two days.  One day for the bath installers and a day of painting the vanity, top, hardware and floors and wallpaper the rest of the bathroom.

Now I need to get some decor pieces in there.  Hoping to find some cool vintage pieces to go with my vintage framed mirror and towel hangers.

Have a great Weekend.
Hugs,
Kris

A lot of you have asked me what epoxy paint we used on the vanity counter top and floor.  Here it is.  We got this at Home Depot but I am sure any hardware store you have carries it.