We renovated the guest bathroom. Here are the pictures. It was fantastic and all done for less than $1000 thanks to Sam’s Club and Home Depot. 

This is the BEFORE picture.  The lovely Pepto-bismol pink tiles and 1954 toilet and sink - this is not the kind of “classic” that I’m into.  The toilet was the reason we started this whole thing.  A week before J’s bio-grandma (his dad’s mother, whom we adore) was to come to visit, we went to replace this vintage toilet (haha) as it was running constantly, despite having been serviced thrice in the past year.  See the back wraparound tile behind/above the toilet?  Well, the builders of this bathroom built it really well and just removing that part turned into us removing it all, which turned into us gutting the bathroom down to the drywall.  We had to remove it because our new “high efficiency toilets” from Sam’s were too tall.  We did get the back tile off, but it left jagged, sharp edges and we all would have felt bad if she or the kids cut themselves.  

Bathroom Before Picture

Bathroom Before Picture - there was a big upside down "F" scratched into that mirror when we bought the house. Um...teenage angst, perhaps? LOL

Bathroom Before Picture - Isn't that the cutest little tub you've ever seen?! I think I want to keep it, but lose the pink tile.

This is the AFTER picture!!  With my Buxton Blue walls!!!  *happy dance*

Bathroom AFTER picture

Bathroom After Picture (see the remaining pink tile? it's gonna go soon!)

Bathroom After Picture (some artwork awaiting its' new frame by the toilet)

Bathroom After Picture - My gorgeous wood floors

A finishing touch on the window sill - Belinda's Dream roses and purple petunia's from my garden, in my favorite Crabtree & Evelyn mug

Everything you see there is from Home Depot except for the floors (Sam’s Club) and the towel cabinet (Bed Bath & Beyond).  The light fixture is one of those builder “stock” fixtures, apparently, though I thought it went with the theme pretty well.  It matches the ceiling dome fixture.  I was stoked out of my mind to find that mirror.  The mirror actually came with an ivory ribbon and hanging knob, but as much as I loved the ribbon, it wouldn’t have fit.  The sink vanity is funny - I kicked and screamed about having something more traditional, but The Man pulled his rarely used “Boss Card,” and now I absolutely love it.  The beadboard and trim was easy to install and the wood floors were a snap, too.  The floors were the “all in one” flooring from Sam’s with the foam backing.

This was such a huge success.  The Man had me set a budget on the fly and I thought it would be a fun challenge to do it for under $1000, having never done anything like this before.  We did it for just over $850.  We could have done it for a little less, I’m sure, had I had the time to go snooping around thrift or antique stores.  We need to replace the door and window trim and when we replace the windows in the house, we’ll replace that little aluminum one in there, too, but that’s in a different budget.  The shower’s in good shape, but it has the same pink and white tile work.  I haven’t decided what kind of tile to use for the shower - I just can’t figure out what colors or textures.  Any ideas?  Plain white?