This is somewhat of a surprise project {although it was on my list of 2014 home goals}. Over the past few weekends I have been making small but impactful changes to our guest bathroom that is connected to the queen guest bedroom. Other than in my home goals list, the last time I talked about our guest bathroom that is hooked onto our “queen” guest bedroom, was when I shared the befores of both spaces in this post. Beige central. The tones were too warm and fleshy for my taste.
I haven’t talked much about this project over the past few weeks but have shown a few sneak peaks on Instagram and on this post. I’ll share each of the details and projects in this room through out the week, but today I wanted to cut right to the before and after!
This guest bedroom and bathroom are the least used in our home {because it has the smaller bed}. So, when it will be used, I envision it will be by our nieces. Therefore, I made the space a little bolder and more colorful and playful than other rooms in our house. The same holds true for the bathroom. The bold blue vanity is painted with Country Chic Paint Midnight Sky {I’ll do a full tutorial later this week}.
Here is everything I updated in the bathroom (you can click any of the links below to read more about that particular project or link to items I purchased):
- Painted the vanity {Country Chic Paint Midnight Sky}
- Framed out the mirror with crown molding {from Lowe’s} – painted Behr Swiss Coffee in Semi-Gloss
- Added two DIY no-sew curtain panels with additional accent fabric {Target curtain panels with Kravet Jonathan Adler Limitless in Marine chevron fabric}
- Hung “art” {Old pictures I had taken in Italy that used to be in our last guest bedroom}
- Hung sunburst mirrors {Threshold for Target}
- Accessorized with the vase and greenery {Threshold for Target vase and Michael’s greenery}
- Replaced hardware on the vanity {from Lowe’s but reminded me of the much pricier Lugarno Pull from Restoration Hardware}
- Added fresh white towels {Nate Berkus for Target}
- Swapped out the light fixture {Lowe’s}
- Added a white bath mat rug {Nate Berkus for Target}
This makeover rang in at just over $150 using affordable updates and shopping for items around our home. I still need to give the walls a fresh coat of paint {likely a light gray or the Behr Castle Path I used in the adjoining bedroom}. One of these days we’ll replace the nasty Corian counters {you can see just how badly they’ve worn in four years in a lot of these photos}. The small changes I made have gone a long ways!
As you may remember, the guest bedroom itself received some much needed updates last year. You can read more about that process here. You can see I tried to keep the color scheme the same throughout the two rooms since they are adjoined. The blue on the vanity is almost a dead ringer for the blue headboard.
Later this week I’ll share the tutorials on painting the cabinets, updating the light fixture, framing out the mirror and modifying the plain Target curtains to create fun new shower curtains. I love that the blah, beige bathroom is almost gone for good!
I love the blue!! Great pick!
Such a beautiful room! Love the fixture, the paint and the shower curtain!
Gorgeous! That blue is stunning! Both rooms are so wonderful 🙂
Now we just gotta get the nieces there! 🙂
Definitely!!
wow! you blow me away with the before and afters. off to pin these pretties 🙂
Perfect, ties in with your gorgeous bedroom as well!
So pretty, Sarah! I love the bold color! 🙂
Looks really good!
I love it. You were so daring to go with such a bold blue and it works beautifully. Love the cabinet hardware too!
What a beautiful job! I like the light fixtures at Lowe’s and this make me want to go to Target ASAP 🙂
Love the whole space, but that blue on the vanity – perfection!
I love your bathroom, it turned out great! The painted vanity looks so great!
Tammy @ the colored door
What a pretty transformation! I love the blue vanity.
Kelly from http://lifeonbirchst.com
Small but impactful, music to my ears. I’m blown away by the transformation! Especially love how it ties in to the guest bedroom, too!
Super pretty updates Sarah- I love how it ties in with the bedroom!! Gorgeous!
I love your style, Sarah! This update is perfection! So beautiful!!
I love it! You know I’m in love with the vanity now! Thank you for sharing. You are one of the features today at the Make it Pretty Monday party at The Dedicated House. Here is the link so you can check out your feature. http://www.thededicatedhouse.com/2014/04/make-it-pretty-monday-week-96.html Hope to see you again at the bash! Toodles, Kathryn @TheDedicatedHouse
WOW, what a transformation!! That blue is gorgeous – great choice!!
I love the blue!! You nieces and other guests are going to adore this bathroom and bedroom. They may never want to leave!!
Hello Sarah,
Thank you for this great, descriptive post, I really enjoyed reading it, and will soon (hopefully), test some of your makeover ideas:) Sarah, I have posted some of your pictures (with a click through link to this page) as a great bedroom makeover example, on my web page. I hope you don’t mind, but if you do, just shoot me an email and I will remove them immediately. Thank you, and please keep updating your amazing website.
Hi Dina- Thank you for your comment. I don’t mind at all! Do you mind also including a text link as well (even a simple ‘image via Life On Virginia Street’ that links over)? Thank you for reading 🙂
Love it all! Would you by chance have the item number for the bathroom light fixture from lowes?
I don’t have it handy, but it should be linked in this post that has a little more detail: https://lifeonvirginiastreet.com/2014/04/guest-bathroom-lighting-and-framing-html/. I hope that helps!