:: Guest Bathroom Update (on a budget) ::

TILE // VANITY // MIRROR // SHOWER CURTAIN // FRAMES – Ikea // TOWELS – old Target
walls are Agreeable Grey – same as the girls nursery – but I had to brighten these pictures
so the wall color is distorted. It’s the perfect neutral grey though.

as always, my photography leaves much to be desired, but this the bathroom in all it’s glory.
this is a small guest bath and the window is in the shower – this is the best I could do.

FOREVER AGO, like, before the Pandemic, I think mid February…..
time is not my strong suit these days…. nor is having brain cells of any kind….
but sometime in February we awoke to no heat on the main part of our house. After waking the girls up (thankfully their room hadn’t dipped too low yet) and doing morning diapers, bottles etc, I opened the door to their bathroom/guest bathroom and almost wiped out from stepping into a flooded bathroom. The toilet had overflown, gone down the AC vent in the floor, and had fried the Heat/AC that is directly underneath that part of the house.
(Thankfully our master bedroom was an addition done about 10 years ago with separate heat so we were able to play in our room all morning and stay warm!)

Once we realized we were going to need an entirely new HVAC, we packed up and went to my moms house which was nice and WARM. We didn’t realize it right away but the floor and vanity also needed to be replaced from the flooding (and part of the drywall) in addition to the toilet and HVAC.

Here’s a before picture from the listing photos when we bought our house

and a beautiful “before” when we were cleaning up from the flooding.

By the grace of God insurance was going to cover the work.
I am so thankful – but also am just waiting for our AC or something else to break…..
it’s too good to be true and I know it.

So I had to rush to pick out new fixtures, but picking everything out on a BUDGET because I was under strict orders not to spend more than we were getting from insurance.
(Ugh, Husbands…. always crashing hopes and dreams.)
The good news is our guest bath is teeny tiny so it wasn’t too difficult to do with a small amount of money.

We had been in Kiawah two weeks before this happened and I had fallen in love with the floors where we stayed with Kip’s family. They were *NOT* in the budget but below was my inspiration for pretty blue and white printed tile.

Our tiles pale in comparison to these but I’m so happy I found something that could be delivered ASAP that had a similar style.

I liked the marble on our old vanity better than the new one we had to buy,
but am very happy with the curved shape of this one, the storage space underneath,
and the top is still pretty.

I love a quatrefoil so our towels (old Target) and shower curtain mimic that shape. All of the quatrefoil mirrors I liked didn’t fit correctly on the wall (too small on the wall once we made it fit below the light fixture) so I picked a different curved mirror with a little bit of shape that was on sale for under $100.
I settled on some Ikea frames with bath-time photos of the girls above the toilet
because I couldn’t find any quatrefoil wall-mount frames that I liked.

Would I love prettier details? SURE! Were we intending to pay to do this bathroom update? NOPE.
I am so happy with it and the floor makes such a difference all on it’s own.

Oh, and the other artwork is this picture my friend made us from our wedding invitation that used to hang above the toilet and now faces the toilet. I’ve always loved it and always want it hung somewhere in the house.
(speaking of the toilet, ours was one of those shorter toilets and upgrading to a Kohler made a world of a difference. I didn’t realize how low to the ground our original toilet was!)

The only thing that bums me out is the light fixture. Because of the current wiring/hole in the wall/or something my husband said, I had to pick a light that still had the bulky base instead of all of the pretty ones I attempted to order (and YES there are very pretty light fixtures out there now for good prices!).
We tried 3 others before I resigned and hung one with a giant silver base.