I’m excited to announce that I am officially participating in the spring One Room Challenge this year! If you follow me on instagram, you may be saying “wait, I thought you have done this before?” Well, kind-of, yes. I never really finished my last space partly because I have a serious problem with project burn-out and for last year’s One Room Challenge I was 7 months pregnant trying to paint a floor. Anyway, that is a topic for another day but if you are interested in seeing my last attempt to the One Room Challenge, head to my instagram to see The Treehouse.
This season’s project is our master bathroom! It is actually laughable that our master bathroom can be called a master bathroom because it is the smallest full bathroom I have ever seen. It is 4’x8′ you guys. When I sit on the toilet my knees almost touch the opposite wall. I wish we could expand and give more space to our bathroom but that would require a whole new addition to our house which just isn’t going to happen. Instead we are working with the existing floor plan with some minor tweaks to create a jewlbox bathroom. This is our first time renovating a bathroom so it is to our benefit that we have a small bathroom. Less room for mistakes? Sure, let’s go with that.
Anyway, let’s step inside to see our bathroom in it’s glorious before state…
This picture was taken the day we closed on our house. It is the only true before picture because the space is so small that I didn’t know how photograph it in its entirety.
I snapped these photos quickly when I realized Brett had already started demo! I always had a feeling that there were layers of wallpaper under that paint. Indeed there is evidence of 70s or 80s wallpaper behind what was once the sink backsplash.
OUR MUST HAVES
slate tile
shower curtains instead of glass shower wall
recessed medicine cabinet
narrow single vanity with storage
a shallow depth toilet
a wall treatment
wall sconce
mixed metals with brass and polished nickel
pocket door
moody color
INSPIRATION & DIRECTION
DESIGN BOARD
Looking at my design scheme, you can see I wanted to add some moody elements (paint and tile). The bathroom is so small and when a room is small, I like to paint it dark. In my opinion it actually looks bigger when painted a darker color. The main metal in this room is brass however I did mix in some polished nickel for interest. I am still undecided on the paint color but leaning towards this blue-green color by BM. In our kitchen we have bead board so to keep things cohesive, bead board will be our wall-treatment in the bathroom. As far as fabric goes, I am still waiting on swatches to come in. I can’t decide if I want to have solid linen for the shower curtain and a pattern for the window treatment OR pattern for both shower curtain and window treatment.
If you know anything about my husband and I, we DIY pretty much everything around our house but we learned our lesson with flooring. We made expensive mistakes with our floors and ended up turning to the pros to fix it. For this project we are hiring out the tile floor, shower tile, electrical and plumbing. Why the electrical and plumbing? When we moved into our house 4 years ago we knew the electrical needed work and we don’t feel comfortable messing with electrical and plumbing in a major renovation. I’m sure it is something we could figure out but it’s not worth our safety. We will see if this room gets done by the end of June with COVID lead times being so long these days. I started ordering things in January and I have yet to receive hardly anything except tile (thank you Bedrosians!). I’m hoping this challenge keeps us accountable!
THE FULL TO DO LIST
move existing vent pipe
new shower, toilet, and vanity plumbing
move existing vanity GFCI outlet and light switch to make room for pocket door frame
add wiring for new vanity sconce, bathroom exhaust fan and light switches
rough in for new bathroom exhaust fan
framing for recessed medicine cabinet
furr out wet wall after new plumbing
install pocket door frame
add all new drywall and tile backer board
install recessed medicine cabinet
install shower pan and niche
waterproof shower walls with Schluter Kerdi system
tile & grout bathroom floor, shower floor, and shower walls
finalize tile to hardwood flooring transition
choose fabric and window treatment
finalize paint color
install bead board
install lighting, switches and new outlets, and bathroom exhaust fan
finalize toilet selection & order
finalize vanity hardware & order
figure out tile wall transition to bead board
paint
install shower and vanity plumbing fixtures
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