New bathroom

This weekend we finished a mini-remodel of our master bathroom. I absolutely love the way it turned out. I’ll post photos this evening, once I take some halfway decent ones with Doc’s fancy camera… my little snappy-happy doesn’t do so well in low light conditions.

I love the color on the walls (“Ocean View”), and although it was initially tough to get the hang of the corner-antiqueing treatment, it looks fantastic. We bought a new mirror to replace the hideous 1980s giant sheet mirror taking up the whole wall, new bath mats and toilet seat covers, and new cabinet pulls and switchplates, again replacing hideous 1980s hardware. We’re having trouble finding a towel rack and TP holder that we like that won’t cost us a week’s pay.

The thing about painting that I detest and that makes me swear every time that NEXT time I’m going to hire someone to do it for me, is the taping, masking, and painting of trim.

Last time this room was painted, someone really did a half-assed job. Instead of removing the brownish-pink wallpaper with little blue and green hash marks on it, they simply sprayed texturizer on the walls and then a thin coat of paint. Every time we touch the walls with wet hands (which happens fairly frequently, this being a bathroom and all), the paint tends to rub off. Also, nobody bothered to mask off the baseboards, and they were textured the same as the walls. This is bad for baseboards, because they tend to collect a lot of dust and dirt which then gets trapped in the little textury crevices.

But we’ve fixed all that. It’s all nice and fresh now. The room feels cool and relaxing. Our next step: framing some art for the walls. And finding a towel rack!