Rejuvenated Bathroom

So, I have been staring at one of the bathrooms for as long as I have owned this house and saying, "I hate you." I really wanted to like it, but I just couldn't. It felt so outdated. Here is an old picture I have of it, the first time around:

Sadly, this doesn't do it justice for the tile and vanity. Oh here we go... this was right before I painted the tile.

Yes, you heard me right, I painted the tile. First, I scrub cleaned the floor. Then, I used a hand sanding pad to rough the tile up a little, but to be honest the tile didn't feel any rougher after this step. So, I proceeded with a tile primer, let it dry and then used a special paint from Lowe's for floors: Valspar Latex Porch and Floor paint, I think it was called something real exotic like...Concrete Gray...

Oh and the vanity and the countertop and the walls, they all got a new pretty paint job too. For the vanity, I used the Rustoleum Cabinet Kit. It has everything you need, you don't have to sand anything, and it turns out looking really nice. Kelly, has been pretty forgiving to me, because if you look really closely the cabinet isn't white, it is a frosty light blue. It is called "Frost," it looked like a really pretty white in the picture. Nope, it is blue. I should have known I was choosing a weird color based on the look on the Home Depot paint mixer guy's face. Lesson learned... but, it surprisingly looks nice in there.

I believe the countertop is formica and it was probably creme colored originally (don't have any pictures, I think I was always avoiding looking at it), but it was yellowing really bad.It's really hard to tell in the picture how much better these look than they did. But, the countertops were painted with a tub and sink refinisher. It was called Homax Tough As Tile Tub and Sink Refinishing Kit. I am not a pro and you can see my brush marks, but it gives it texture and I like it. I had thought about using the Rustoleum countertop kits, but they are mainly only made for laminate counters, so I was out of luck.

I should give a shout out to my amazing neighbors Marty and Shawna because they made a guest appearance at this DIY show in my time of dire need. I got myself in really deep with changing out the faucets. I had to change all the valves and supply lines because they were old and rusty. I was able to remove two of the four old valves with no problem, but the other two would not budge for me. Well, I mean one of them budged and the rusty supply line broke off. This left me in quite a predicament, I could not just put the valves back on, I now had a broken piece. Did I mention it was almost 8pm on a Saturday night? If I didn't figure it out, we were going without water for the night. NO GOOD! I had fought with it for hours, and finally sent a panic text to Shawna that I needed help. Marty, Shawna and the boys came over and saved the day. We didn't have to participate in camp water rituals in our own house for the night!!

And...... It was a nice little facelift. Now, sometimes I just go back to that bathroom just to look at it and say, "I don't hate you anymore, you are pretty!"