DIY . . . a few years later

I have a very cute house. I'm not bragging; it's true. But one thing that I have never been too keen about is the upstairs bathroom. Well, the bathroom itself is fine, but the paint is definitely not my favorite. I wish I could be more gentle about this, but I can't - I've always thought it looks like pee yellow. And now that I've been in my place 4 years - yep, that's right, 4 years - I finally decided to do something about it.

So, I picked out a new color {yeah, don't ask me the name} and set to work. Here's what the bathroom looked like before I started painting.

Please notice the spackle marks above the toilet. The previous owners decided that it was too much work to dig the old towel rack anchors out of the wall, so they just painted over them. Oye. So, I got to dig them out, spackle the holes and sand it down. Not fun, but it made for a much better finished product.

Here we are in the during phase. I was thinking it would be so easy because it's such a small space, but I didn't think about the huge amount of edging I would have to do in a bathroom. Blech.

And now we come to the finished product. I find the blue to be much, much more appealing and calming. I love how the color turned out. The difficulty I faced was what other color(s) to incorporate. I have grayish-brownish-greenish tile, and I didn't want to add more pastel to the room. In the end, I decided to go with chocolate brown. My fabulous sister, Jan, went with me all over town one Saturday afternoon in an attempt to find just the right bathmat. We didn't find it then, but I did find it a week or so later.

This picture is not here to show off the scuff marks on my bathroom door but to give a better shot of my beautiful bathmat that pulls the whole room together.

And there's my new bathroom. As soon as I had it all done, I was so happy and wondered why I hadn't done this mini-makeover sooner.

Now it's on to my bedroom.

You know, in the next year or two.