Bathroom Face-lift

I had the morning off today, so I decided to make myself useful and finally post the pictures of our bathroom face-lift. Eventually our bathroom will have to be redone, but until we win the lottery, some paint was just going to have to do the trick!

The bathroom was horrible to start off with. Pink bathtub, beige and blue vinyl tub surround, grey trim, grey cabinets, grey/beige paint peeling off the walls, and the best, mouldy tacky ass boarder around the top of the wall to finish off the look. I can't decide whether the guy that lived here before us was just lazy, or just didn't see the shape that this room was in.

The room is incredibly tiny, so here are the before pictures to give you an idea of how everything looked when we started our little project on Monday:

This was what remained of the border since we've been slaving away at it. We had tried scoring it, soaking it, scraping it, and this is how we had left it. Let this be the warning of what happen when you put wallpaper in a master bath. Mould grows on the paper. So gross.

We got as much of the paper off as we could, then got to work on sanding the walls down, so the remaining paper was a smooth as possible.

Here is a picture of the walls after we got off as much wallpaper as we could and then sanded, and the ceiling after 1 coat of paint. The ceiling needed 3 coats to cover the grey/beige colour.

Here is what the cabinets looked like after 2 coats of paint. They are currently waiting their third coat of trim paint. (also a little peak at our gorgeous pink tub!)

And last but not least the much awaited after shot of the bathroom. We had some leftover kitchen/bathroom paint from when my mother painted her bathroom, so we used that. Not only did it match our shower curtain almost perfectly, but it was free. So the only thing we had to buy was a gallon of white kitchen/bathroom for the ceiling. We had some leftover regular ceiling paint, but considering how small the room is, I wanted the proper paint in here to reduce the likelihood of mould/mildew growth.

It's so much more calm, crisp, clean and bright looking now!