Guest Bath 1
Guest Bath 1 (again, these will have better names, I promise) got a makeover pretty much immediately. 1989 threw up all over that bathroom, so I needed to get at least one guest room done, fini, wrapped up. We’ve been using this bathroom because it’s centrally located from the main living space and the stall shower is a corner one.
Let me take a moment to discuss how much I HATE stall showers. I hate them. They’re so awful. I can’t step out of the line of fire aka the water, I can’t shave my legs, there’s just no space. The stall shower in the West Wing (the master) is worse - a true coffin stall shower. It’s so small and dark and did I mention small? Horrible. I haven’t even showered in there yet. That bathroom also has a claw foot tub - cool but useless. I’ve looked at every single way to convert the tub to a shower and overall, claw foot tubs are a water-everywhere nightmare. Guest Bath 3 is also a stall shower but with a shower curtain and Guest Bath 2 has a normal human tub with surround for normal human showering. Too bad I’m not going to trek upstairs every time I want to bathe.
So back to Guest Bath 1.
The quickest and cheapest and Megan-skill-level fixes to remove most traces of 1987 are as follows:
Sticky tile the floor
Change out the medicine cabinet
Add hardware to the cabinets
Change all towel rods and toilet paper holder
Change the Hollywood light somehow
I got to work. I found a cute hexagonal marble-look sticky tile (more about this below), a hex mirror from Target, LED filament bulbs from Walmart, black hardware from Amazon (knobs, towel rods, toilet paper holder), new towels, and little decor items to tie it all together.
Sticky tiles: I’ve done these a few times over the years. As much as I wanted real tile, it was just not in the cards at the moment - I’m picking my battles aka home reno projects. I found these at Lowe’s. These look cute, but were kind of a pain to install (yes, I use that term loosely.) If I had gone with 12”x24” sticky tiles, I think it would have been easier, way less cuts. They were also not very sticky - frustrating. I watched some YouTube videos on the best way to fix this, and picked up some really sticky double-sided tape to help those stay put. I made paper templates for each cut, and about 30% of the way through the project I finally got the hang of it and was wasting much less. A bit of caulk along the edges, especially around the shower stall, and done.
Commentary:
Not a huge fan of the cabinet above the toilet, but changing the knobs to black did help. Keeping it because it’s super handy for TP storage.
An IKEA roman shade is now in the window - PS these are super cool now, magnetic! It’s a clean, streamlined look.
I’m going to attempt to chalk paint the cabinets but for now, it stays.
Anyone want to buy a 1987 medicine cabinet? Come on, please? I’ll give you a great deal!
The transformation (not revolutionary, but much, much better.)
Projects still to do:
Change faucet to black
Use marble countertop contact paper to cover those terrible counters (lost in the move currently…)
Replace the cord cover around the mirror with new so it’s not so yellowed (they couldn’t have just put the electrical IN the wall like normal people? Ugh.)
