WHY didn't I do this before?

As we've been at this house for two years now, I think between all of the rooms, our house has been painted every color in the rainbow. When we moved in, it needed paint so badly I just went straight to the "oops" paint section at Home Depot and bought whichever colors I thought looked interesting. While it definitely made the house "interesting," there wasn't much of a flow to it. Since then, we've (ahem, I've) painted the living room and dining room, master bedroom, master bathroom, guest bedroom, and guest bathroom, i.e, all the rooms in this house. 

The guest bathroom was one of the rooms that got the "oops" paint treatment, and it was the totally wrong paint for that room. It was some sort of green flat paint, so in addition to the walls not having been painted since approximately 1970, the flat paint was sucked into that wall, so much so that I was painting for too long and started hallucinating that the walls were greedy (green=money, paint sucking into walls, too much time painting, anyone..?). I also did a quick paint job of the awful brown vanity in there, and added some cute knobs I found at Hobby Lobby. A perfect $20 mirror from Ross and a couple sand dollars and a starfish with some ribbon I already had helped give it more of an "Anna" feel. I don't have a before picture of the guest bathroom, but trust me when I tell you it was not pretty.

I quickly started hating going in there because I always thought about how long it took to paint, so the next color to grace the walls was a sherbet orange color, inspired by some framed paintings I found at Ross. Then I started hating the inspiration paintings and put in some pictures and a shower curtain inspired by our wedding colors, aqua, orange, and champagne. I also painted the vanity top with laminate paint from the Lowe's "oops" paint section. Score on that one. We also replaced the vanity lights and ceiling light, added one of those curved shower curtain rods since the bathroom is big enough to handle it, and added crown molding. I love the crown molding. It definitely steps the bathroom up a notch. 

When we decided it was time to sell the house, we know that orange sherbet wouldn't exactly entice buyers to love our bathroom or feel comfortable in any way at all. Something also had to be done with the vanity - ideally, we wanted to replace it, but it wasn't going to happen with the deadline of a moving date quickly approaching and a zillion other projects to finish. If we did take out the vanity, we'd have to replace the bottom half of the wall because of that tile backsplash (that old Florida tile is a nightmare, it is like 2" thick with chicken wire and concrete and we removed it in our master bathroom as well) and replace the floor.

So... the old vanity got a fresh coat of paint the same color as the trim in the rest of the house, and the walls got a coat of Maison Blanche paint by Sherwin Williams. I sometimes hoard things like shower curtains and pillows, so I changed the shower curtain up with one I already had from Target. The Hobby Lobby crazy knobs were replaced by simple bronze ones from Home Depot, the pictures were taken down, and a cute Octopus print with the bathroom colors now holds the spot over the toilet. This guest bathroom is so much more inviting now; I really don't know why I didn't just paint it a color I really liked to begin with. I should really do a "things Patrick and I won't do with our next house" post.

One of the things I love about this bathroom is that I used a curtain rod as a towel rod. The wall is pretty long, so there was plenty of space for it, and I think it gives the space a little bit of personality without being overwhelmingly weird, also adding to its usefulness when we have guests.

I still need to clean the grout on the floor, I think I'll head over to Pinterest and hopefully someone smarter than me has already pinned a "how to clean grout" pin.