Mini Project #1: Pink Bathroom

Since this bathroom was obviously wayyyy too pink and retro girlie, something had to be done. While originally we thought the bathroom was going to get renovated in the fall, since the kitchen project took longer than expected (as kitchen projects usually do), we decided to take the bare minimum approach to the pink bathroom, and focus our attention on the kitchen for now.

Before: Floral wallpaper, shower curtain and Pink everywhere!

We had some out of town guests coming in at the end of July, so we took that opportunity to get our rears into gear and get something done about the bathroom. On the to do list:

1. Reattach some loose tile on the floor
2. Replace the pink toilet seat (that gave you a wild ride if you sat on it just right!)
3. Remove the wallpaper
4. Replace the light fixtures & switches (including a built-in "night-light")
5. Paint the walls
6. Decorate!

We got most everything done before our guests arrived (with only minutes to spare! haha) and now just need to finish decorating (this will fully happen much later - after major renovations!). Here are some pictures to chronicle the work...

The old light fixtures - two bulbs with large cylindrical covers on each end.

The room looks smaller without the big mirror. Scraping the wallpaper glue off and putting in new switches.

Wallpaper off, Cleaning & new Light fixtures (left)

Final pictures (with some decorations) to come!

Starting Pieces - Third Floor

Since our house is a "split" or "multi" level design, just a few steps brings us to another nook of the house!

Walking up the stairs from the living room to the top floor landing

Take a left and you enter the smallest bedroom, facing the street

Go straight and you enter the mid-size bedroom, complete with half a window and makeshift A/C unit

Enter the master bedroom - plenty of space, and nice closets! Also half a window though! :)

This is the master bath, attached to our bedroom (More on the shower to come!)

Other than the kitchen, the biggest part of getting the house ready to live in was cleaning everything. No one had really lived in the house for a year while it was on the market, and before that it seemed like an elderly couple lived there and couldn't do much of anything to take care of it. This is also why everything looked like it hadn't been touched or updated since 1970!

Last, but certainly not least, is the room that everyone talks about - the pink bathroom!

Everything, from the floor to the walls to the tub to the toilet is pink!

Robbie said that he didn't feel like a man when he walked into this room, so we knew something had to be done! We also soon found out that the toilet seat wasn't quite attached to the toilet, so if you weren't careful - whoosh - you went for a little ride right off it!