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Pinspiration # 1: Bathroom Face Lift!

by - April 30, 2012

It has been raining like crazy the past couple of days. It has actually been a surprisingly good thing for me. This weekend I had planned to get some major cleaning done and that included throwing out a bunch of stuff. I decided to focus my attention on our bathroom. Before I get into what I did I must explain our house. We live in a house that was built in the 1970's. My Grandpa bought it and him and my Dad fixed it up and added onto it. It is a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom home. It is basically split in half with the back half being a bedroom, bathroom and a living room. This part of the house is where Ace's room is and we made the living room into our bedroom since the rooms are super tiny. The other half of the house is another living room, kitchen, bathroom and 2 bedrooms. Our roommate has one of the bedrooms and his own bathroom and the extra room is an office.
We had planned on buying a house and were holding off on doing any type of updating or redecorating until we decided to stay here instead of buying a house since we aren't sure where we will be living when Ace starts school.
Long story short this decision sparked me to go into redecorating mode. I went on pinterest and pinned some of my favorite bathroom ideas.

My Inspiration
I saw this picture and was hooked. I knew I wanted yellow and some kind of blue in the bathroom. I had been surfing around Target and had seen these towels and so I knew this was it. I then went and measured different parts of my bathroom because I was going to need baskets, a new shelving unit of some sort and some type of shelves for the wall. I drew up an idea of what I wanted the bathroom to look like with all the dimensions (our bathroom is tiny so this was a must). We do not have a master bathroom but our tiny bathroom works for us for now while Ace is not using it for anything but bath time.

I then got the nugget ready and headed to Target. I picked the towels seen above, a matching shower curtain and a fabulous rug. I then grabbed 5 white towels, a set of washcloths (8) and 2 hand towels. The best part of all the white towels is they were $3.50 for each towel, $3.50 for 8 washcloths and $3.50 for the 2 hand towels and they were actually soft. Since I didn't want to spend an arm and a leg on towels I only bought 2 of the yellow ones as mine and Bran's main towels and those were each $12.99. 
I then went over and got a cute soap dispenser that was so shabby chic and cute. I was walking along the end caps (always do this no matter what, you find sales) and came across a shelving unit that was down to $13.95 from $19.99. I sat there debating on whether to buy it and figured I could buy it and if need be return it if I didn't use it. I then bought a set of three floating shelves, hooks (didn't end up using), a long skinny basket for over the toilet, a magazine basket and 2 plastic storage containers for under the sink.  

I also had bought some fabulous retro items for the kitchen since that is my next project and my total for all of the bathroom and kitchen stuff was about $250. I knew this had to turn out well or else my husband was going to be really annoyed with me spending that much money. Did I mention I was surprising him, haha. After hours of cleaning, taking EVERYTHING out of the bathroom and throwing out a ton of crap I was ready to get my bathroom overall started. It took all day because Ace was trying to "help" by eating all the boxes that I was recycling. In the end I am incredibly happy with the way it all turned out. I am totally in love with it. 

Now onto the Before and After shots!
Before
(Horrible isn't it? My dog destroyed the rug and I was about to get everything out before I realized I need a before pic)
After

Under Sink Before
Under Sink After
Above Toilet (Husband's Mess)

Above Toilet After
(Baskets make all the difference!)


As you can see our bathroom was in need of a major face lift! It was dingy looking from Tanner getting into the bathroom after we would take showers and his paws would get the rug dirty, the baby's stuff was everywhere, it needed a deep cleaning and it just was so unorganized and messy from neither of us being home much to get it all done. It felt so good to really get in there and clean and organize it. 
Now for the cute details!

Is that cart not perfect?

Loving these baskets! 

Love this! Found it on Pinterest and the frame is from Ikea

How pretty is this?

Shelves! I still need to add a few cute things on the largest shelf.







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4 comments

  1. I love the shower curtain and rug! Great job!!

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  2. Thank you! I got it at Target.

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  3. This is really cute! I cannot wait until Target comes to Canada next year!

    Can you tell I'm behind on reading the SUYL posts? And I'm interested (or obsessed!) enough to want to read every single one?!?!

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    1. Haha I love the SUYL posts but always forget to do them and luckily had this post already done ha! Target is AMAZING! I am obsessed with it.

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