The $300 “make me happy” bathroom!!

A few weekends ago we spent a Sunday working on our bathroom.  One Sunday all day and then a few hours the following night.  We decided that Sunday mid morning to go ahead and just do it within an hours time of talking it over.  We then set off to Lowes and Home Depot and therein began the project I like to refer to as the “recessionary re-do”.  We did not change out any major bathroom fixtures.  The tub is an old cast iron tub that was previously re-done and looks great.  The toilet is brand new as well.  So are the white cabinet and the sink.  We did remove a new medicine cabinet and light….it was cheap and ugly.  And we did swap out the following: 
    

Bathroom Light Fixture   64.00     Bathroom Medicine Cabinet  96.00 
Paint Color – Valspar Sky Blue EB6-4 23.47New Faucet – Lowes (not on website) 24.99

New Cabinet Knob    2.49

Shower Curtain   29.99
        

Black/white wall clock from Target 2.97
      Black Umbra plastic Garbage can 9.99
    Black bathroom rug  12.99
    2 new black bath towels   12.00         

Total  278.89 Tax   19.52  

Grand Total 298.41      

    Before AND After 
    

Not bad eh?  I love it.  I absolutely LOVE it.  I’m very proud of the work we did and the dramatic changes that we ended up with. I love the room. It’s bright, cheerful and makes me immediately happy every morning.  Since we live in an 1100 foot house with only one bathroom, making that bathroom a happy place has made a huge difference.  It only took us 11 months to finally get to that Sunday when we went forth making the changes we wanted to make from day one.  The majority of these items (shower curtain, rug, towels, clock…all from Target). We put a note on the wall behind the new medicine cabinet that read “We replaced the medicine cabinet in March of 2009. If you think this one is ugly and are replacing it, you should have seem the beast we removed!!!” You can see the entire bathroom info and pictures on my Flickr here   

Reason # 991,203,123,094,233 that I pick Rick. He did the majority of the painting and swap out work.  I just put the icing on the cake details and did the shopping.  Thanks honey!