I don’t know about you all, but when the warm weather hits it
makes me want to change things in my house. Over the cold winter months, I
found myself watching a little too much HGTV. I will happily admit I am
obsessed with the show “Fixer Upper” and not too proud to say that I even watch
the reruns. I love the decorating ideas and inspirations I get from Joanna
Gaines. I had been dreaming about making some changes to my powder room bath on
the main level and the mud room off the garage. Since we were having our
kitchen cabinets painted, I decided to have the bathrooms done as well. If you
have ever read the book by Laura Numeroff called “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie”
then you will totally get what I am about to say. If you paint the kitchen
cabinets then you have to paint the bathroom cabinets. If you paint the
bathroom cabinets then you have to paint the walls. If you paint the walls then
you have to paint the ceiling and the baseboards. If you paint the ceiling and
the baseboards you have to have a new toilet. If you get a new toilet then you
have to have new accessories. Ok Ok… I know you understand what I mean. One
project always seems to turn into ten projects. However, if you ask my husband
he will tell you it seemed like way more than ten. We even did a little DIY
project and refurbished an old entertainment console that I picked up at the Goodwill for $20.00.The photos were taken on my phone so I apologize that they
are not the best. My niece is the photographer, but she was busy and I had to
take the pictures myself.
Here are a few photos of what the bathroom looked like before.
My décor was very country.
Here a few photos of what the bathroom looks like now.
My husband made the cool shelves above the toilet and the
cute prints on the wall came from a store called And That…
Here are a few “before” pictures of my mudroom. It was very “Americana”
as you can tell from the photos.
It is still a work in progress, but I love how it is turning
out.
Here is the console and a tutorial of what we did.
1.
Here is what it looked like when my husband took
it out of the car. At the top right corner you can see where the old gaming
systems would connect. My husband simply popped it out and left the space
empty. He jokes and calls it a mail slot, but it is where I am going to put our
many remotes.
2.
The next thing we did was remove the drawers, the
fronts and their hardware. Getting these things removed makes it easier to
paint.
3.
Here is the back view.
4.
We removed the back and my husband made a new
back out of some old plywood.
5.
He thought it needed a light sanding, but I
actually think it would have been fine either way.
6.
We don’t usually paint furniture and do projects
like this in our kitchen, but we were having such rainy weather, that we
thought it was too humid outside.
7.
I highly recommend that before you paint any
piece of furniture (unless it is bare wood that has never been painted or
stained) that you prime it first. Our go to primer is by “Zinsser” and it can be
found at Home Depot.
8.
After a nice coat of primer your furniture is
ready to paint.
9.
Here it is painted. I used Behr paint, found at
Home Depot, in Swiss Coffee for the bottom. The top in this picture only has
one coat and as you can see we had to apply two coats. The top is also a Behr
paint called Havana Coffee.
10. The
finished project. The total cost of this project, including the entertainment
center was under $50.00, so I think that is a WIN!!
Thanks for stopping by!
Happy May~
Kathy
