Bathroom Update

When I moved into my new house, I had a friend repaint the entire thing and all of it was done in earth tones. That would include my master bathroom. The bathroom was painted a shade of tan, which at the time was exactly what I wanted! Except, I also picked out a brown bathroom set. It had leaves and wonderful tree things on it, so I thought it was destiny. Except... after 2 years, I realized the lack of color was eating away at me. I really DO like color as well as earth tone nature! So with some help of my wonderful mother, I decided to spice up the room.

I started with the main wall looking like this. Yep, that would be a big, tan wall with nothing on it. SO boring!

I also started with a vanity like this. Brown towel, brown walls, brown jewelry box, brown soap dispenser... you get the deal:

So the first goal was to put SOMETHING on the main wall. On my toilet I have a tan and blue container and decided I wanted to accent with blues and teals. Luckily for me, my wonderful mother went with me to Hobby Lobby to help pick out some decor. Here is what we came up with!

 More color! Actually, inside of the cute blue frame with the birdie, is a picture of Spring Valley. It's a bright picture of some trees in fall. COLOR! NATURE! YESSSS. I love the different textures with the metal heart, the canvas "relax" and the wooden frame. The hooks are perfect for hand towels and my hair wraps. Step one: complete.

I wasn't sure what I could do with the vanity area. My mom and I found this awesome way to put a boarder of tile or wood trim around a large mirror to class it up, but I didn't have the money for that project at that time. So I looked around on Pinterest and found a way to spice up a towel rack! Here is what we started with:

Basically, it involved taking a piece of colorful paper and putting it into a frame, then mounting it around the towel rack. Seems easy enough, right? Here's the final product. Step two: complete!

We found a wonderful blue/brown/tan piece of scrapbook paper and an off white, clearance frame to accent the colors in the paper and bring a new color into the bathroom. We decided to laminate the paper because I don't have a humidifer in my house, so sometimes I shower with the fan off and the doors open to get humiditiy into my room. To prevent the paper from wilting and shriveling, we laminated it first. That did make it difficult and thicker to fit between the frame and the holder, but not impossible. From there, we measured the middle of the paper and traced the towel holder, then cut a hole. Then, I removed the table mount from the back of the frame and secured the frame with a small nail at the top via the hook provided to the wall to keep it steady on the wall. Then I remounted the towel rack and ta-da! I love it!

 

Other than that, my mom found an adorable burlap flower that matched the new colors perfectly. I decided to hang it above the toilet to bring some color to that side of the room. You can see the cloth container that inspired the color scheme. To top it off, Saint Nicholas brought me a set of light blue towels to tie it all together. I was still using the orange, green, and pink towels from college. Oops!

 

There you have it! A spiced up bathroom with some color! Hopefully sometime I can add the boarder around the mirror and really finish it up! Hmm, what part of my house is next?