Master Bathroom Makeover

We moved into our house just shy of two years ago (at the time, I was 36 weeks preg­nant with Lit­tle Brother). The house is great, but the orig­i­nal owner bought it for the pur­poses of rent­ing it out. So, you can imag­ine the qual­ity of everything–basically, the lowest-level builder’s grade. Our mas­ter bath­room is a fan­tas­tic exam­ple:
Lots of the cheap brassy/gold fix­tures. The process of updat­ing the house and swap­ping out all the fix­tures has been a slow one. Last sum­mer, we at least got a lit­tle color and decor in the bath­room (see that reveal here). We loved the results!!
But, we didn’t have enough money to update the rest of the bathroom–namely, the fix­tures. So, all the builder’s grade & brassy/gold stuff stayed. Our lit­tle bath­tub nook looked great, but our whole van­ity area…not so much.
So, when I found out that this month’s Lowe’s Cre­ative Ideas Chal­lenge involved bath­rooms, I was ecsta­tic to finally fin­ish up our bath­room! For under $500, we were able to upgrade just about all the bath­room fix­tures and give things a much more updated look!!! Here’s what we got:

Items:

• Water­pik 4-Spray Show­er­head — $49.98
• Lev­olor Wal­nut Ver­ti­cal Blinds — $39.96 x 2 = $79.92
• Port­fo­lio Bronze Van­ity Light — $29.98
• Port­fo­lio Semi-Flush Mount Light — $29.56
• Amer­i­can Stan­dard Watersense Faucets — $52.00 x 2 = $104
• Zenith Recessed Med­i­cine Cab­i­nets — $40.86 x 2 = $81.72
• Allen & Roth Soap Dis­pensers — $14.98 x 2 = $29.96   TOTAL: $405.12 + taxes

And, it’s all SO.MUCH.BETTER! Good­bye brassy/gold and yucky almost 15 year old fix­tures! The beveled glass med­i­cine cab­i­nets are great, as are the new brushed nickel faucets! And, the new shower head?! Heaven! We love the bath­room SO much more now! For a dif­fer­ent look, we even changed up the bath­tub nook by putting in dark blinds and I painted one of the frames dark brown & dis­tressed it (just like with the starfish art).  From afar, I real­ize noth­ing prob­a­bly looks bad about the white blinds. But, up close, they are awful (and sadly in every sin­gle win­dow of the house)!! They have a ter­ri­ble shiny flo­ral design on the front and are becom­ing yel­lowed & brit­tle. UGH! My hus­band has been want­ing to darken up that win­dow a bit. So, we thought the brown would do just that, plus, it ties in the brown through­out the rest of the bathroom.

It’s SO nice to have a nicer, updated space! Thanks to Lowe’s for help­ing us get this project done!

For more great ideas, check out Lowe’s Cre­ative Ideas on FB  or the Lowe’s Cre­ative Ideas blog where you just may rec­og­nize one (or more) of the faces there!

Dis­clo­sure:  I am a mem­ber of the Lowe’s Cre­ative Ideas Cre­ators & Influ­encers Net­work and received Lowe’s gift cards to com­plete my projects. As always, all opin­ions and expe­ri­ences are my own.