Bathroom Makeover!

Upon the many times we had been in the house to view it before even owning it, everything looked nice and fine. Yeah she required a bunch of updates, but for the most part it all looked pretty cosmetic, and even the inspector whom we paid $450 to do the inspection of the home missed a few major key things that should have easily been detected by a professional.

For instance...

The very first day we moved in and used the downstairs shower we discovered that water was literally leaking from the built in shower window out onto the deck and down into the basement as well.

Great!

Now not for nothing, had the inspector actually ran the water for a bit in the shower this would have quickly been discovered.

I cannot complain though, it's now my issue, my house, and the fix had to be made by me.

When you are a new homeowner though, and unaware of the handy work involved it can easily consume you and you could end up spending an entire day installing a new window, and then another week jusyt laying in tile. Granted it could have been done faster, but it is a wee bit impossible when you are working a full time job and then coming home to work another household duty.

Due to the awkward window size we had to spend top dollar on an Andersen Window. Schnazzy, and everyone who has since seen the new window naturally commented on the brand. I for one cannot fathom why, a window is a window if you ask me, and I would have been more than happy to not have spent $280 on a new name brand window, and spent half that for a lesser known brand. But eh... such is life.

Installing the window thankfully was a do it yourself job taken on my my other half.

Here is the before and after--- well, sadly I did not get the before shot of the bathroom before he tore the walls out. Kick me now... but here it is.



 

Now the major issue with why we had to re-do this entire bathroom was previous owner laziness. Notice in the before shot how he used greenback in the shower- no wonder the crap leaked. You need cement backing in the shower, especially for tile work, which this bathroom had in plain white before it had to be torn up.

At any rate, this bathroom was a labor of love, as was my upper level bathroom.

The upper level bathroom was claimed by yours truly, the only time my other half was allowed in was when he was refinishing his bathroom! Tee-hee!

At any rate, as you can see by the photo, here is my before shot, as is, as it was purchased.

The image next to it, is my finish.

I painted the walls brown. Now initially I hated it, it seemed to dark and reminded me of poop. However after adding polyurethane crown molding, I realized that the brown was actually really nice. Nicer than I thought!

 

I then decided to paint the moulding antique gold. I did this by applying a coat of black paint, and then Martha Stewarts specialty finish paint in Penny Copper. The result was a high beam glossy copper finish, and I adore it!

 I also re-did the window frame, and even the door. All in all the bathroom now looks like a classy sassy bathroom, fit for my queen like standards. Haha!

The final touch of course came about a week later, when I came across this cute wall vinyl sticker. I added it right to the bottom wall below the window, and just adore the added touch!

I will include the tutorial on how to install polyurethane crown molding, how to paint it an antique copper, and how to use corner blocks in another post at another time.