We're not going to stay in this house forever but there were several fixtures that were going to need replacing before we sell. First it was the toilets. Then it was the faucets. Decade-old cheap paint from before we moved in is peeling. The house is over 20 years old and the builder-grade-ness is starting to show.
This was an opportunity to fix up a couple of bathrooms. However, since that can be an expensive prospect, my goal was to take a bare-bones approach so that we're not investing a ton of money that we certainly won't get back when we sell the house. The toilets/faucets were a priority and everything else was going to be cosmetic, but nicer than what was original.
I started with the master bath right before the holidays but upon running into some challenges and delays the project took about a month to complete. The old vanity removal was a giant pain in the ass and Hans and I threw just about every tool we owned at it. The part that made it difficult was how the existing water and sewer lines were run into the space.
The old mirror was really showing it's age and just looked so sad. It was a relief to tape it up and carefully remove it from the wall so that I could properly paint. We're not going to talk about the bare and un-primed drywall that was behind it...
Look at this utter nonsense of pipes.
The downstairs powder room was done in 8 days and I'm SUPER proud of how it turned out. The lessons learned during the master bath project really made the next bathroom job much quicker.
The old faucet and sink were in really bad shape. And the sink was GLUED TO THE WALL. So I learned how to cut away and patch drywall during this project. Hans had already replaced the toilet last summer so at least that was one less thing to take care of.
When I first started painting I got a little scared that I had overdone it with the saturation level of the color. It's hella peach-colored. In the end I'm really glad that I went for a bold color in such a small space.
It looks so freakin' great! I would 1000% replicate this in a bathroom at our next place. I love the sunset color paired with an earthy slate blue. It wasn't pre-meditated but the color scheme goes exactly with some old national park postcards that I framed over 15 years ago. I love it so much. The total cost of this update was around $650.
I will say that after installing two Moen brand faucets (one wide-set, one center-set), they are really almost stupid-easy to install and so far they've held up very well. I also strongly recommend buying sink/faucet combinations that work with the newer "pop-up" stopper systems instead of the old pull-bar ones. They're so much easier to deal with and are supposed to clog way less.