Powder Room Makeover - Adding Wainscoting - One Room Challenge

Week 3!
If you are just joining the ORC you can see my previous posts here:

Week 1- Powder Room Before
Week 2 - Powder Room Design Plans

I hope everyone is making progress on their rooms!

We were gone all of last week and I honestly didn't think I would have anything to show you, but my awesome hubby managed to get quite a bit done over the last couple days!

The one thing I really wanted for this small windowless bathroom was an interesting wall treatment.

Here is my inspiration...

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My husband was able to modify the design to work within our space and I couldn't be more pleased! It ties in perfectly with all of the other trim detail in the house too!

I am super excited to get it all painted out....I purposely didn't color correct this image so you can see how terrible the paint / lighting combo is in this room! Yuck!

I will try and put a tutorial together once the whole room is done!

Slowly but surely checking things off the list!

Powder Room To Do:

Remove Tile Baseboards
Add new trim
Paint pocket door
Revamp vanity
Replace mirror
replace light
New toilet paper/towel bars
PAINT

Be sure to head over to Calling it Home to see what all the other amazing bloggers are up to!

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Powder Room Makeover - The Plans - One Room Challenge

Last week you got to see my terrible orange / salmon colored bathroom. If you haven't checked it out yet, go do that and come back. Fair warning. Its scary.

 I apologize. You'll recover eventually.

I'll show you pretty things today...I promise.

So, to move forward on a design I like to put a mood board together so I know what direction I want to head. I did the same for this bathroom, Keep in mind that this is just the feeling I want the bathroom to have. I haven't done any shopping for the room yet and I plan on sourcing most of the decor from antique stores, yard sales, clearance aisles and auctions. Oh, and there will be lots of DIY happening.




I'm still undecided about one key element of the room - the vanity color. So I put it as white for now (represented by the console table) , but that could change.

One of my favorite bathrooms is this one form Dear Emmeline...

I love the use of a colored vanity, so I might just go for it!

Also, I'm hopeful that I can test out the removable wallpaper from Spoonflower (I just have to convince the husband). I might create something new just for our bathroom or use one of my existing designs. I like the simplicity of the steer sketch. I normally would shy away from wallpaper, but being able to remove it is a bonus!

What do you think. To crazy?

I'm eager to start making some progress in here and can't wait for next weeks update! Until then, head over to Calling it Home and check out what the other guest participants are up too!

One Room Challenge Linking Event

Powder Room Makeover - The Before - One Room Challenge

I'm way late in the day getting up this post, and to be honest, I ALMOST skipped this round of the One Room Challenge, but in the end I just couldn't keep away. 

For those of you new to the ORC, Linda at Calling it Home, puts on a challenge twice a year. The goal? Bloggers have 6 weeks to totally transform a space. Each week we give updates and progress reports and at the end we all share our rooms a big reveal post! I have done 3 One Room Challenges now...my daughters room, our entry and our master bedroom. Its such a rush and one of my favorite things to blog about!!

So instead of skipping it, I decided to tackle one of the worst rooms left in the house. It also happens to be the smallest room in the house....

Our powder room.

Since we are keeping it real, I have to tell you I am really embarrassed that our powder room has looked this way for over two years. Thankfully I don't have to take credit for the TERRIBLE paint color....its salmon...or is it orange? Whatever color it is, its bad...oh, and its on the ceiling too! Lovely.

The hallway got done a couple challenges ago, but would you believe that I still don't have a laundry or master bedroom door up? Ha...its only because I hated the color they got painted and I have plans to change them....lets just call it a bonus ORC project. I also get to touch up the trim from a big painters tape fail that happened a few weeks ago. Yay.

The bathroom is small like I said, but I just know it can be turned into something special.

The layout of the room won't be changing and neither will the vanity or toilet. Floors have to stay for now too, but everything else is getting the boot. Except maybe the cute vintage stool.

I put together a quick checklist so we can all keep up with my progress...

Powder Room To Do:
Remove Tile Baseboards
Add new trim
Paint pocket door
Revamp vanity
Replace mirror
replace light
New toilet paper/towel bars
PAINT

Big list for a itty bitty room. I will go over more of the design details next week as I finalize my vision for the space.

Until then, head over to the One Room Challenge Linking Event to see what everyone else is up to!

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