New House Before + After: Bathrooms

Holy wallpaper. And Hollywood Strip Lights. When we first moved into our new house, our bathrooms were BAD. I mean, bleh. 

Ben thought that maybe we could wait a while on taking down the wallpaper--at one point, he even asked, "Is there any room in the house where we could leave the wallpaper, just to save ourselves some work?" Um, no, Ben, there is NOT. Nowayinhell. 

So, we got to work on the bathrooms right away. They're livable now, but they're not done (Is anything ever done when you own a house? I'm starting to think no...).

In fact, the upstairs bathroom is nowhere CLOSE to being done, but I still wanted to share both of them with you today, because I think you'll get a nice sense of satisfaction just from seeing the walls without all that horrendous wallpaper. It kind of scratches an itch.

Lets take a look, shall we? 

BATHROOM #1: DOWNSTAIRS

DONE:

• Removed wallpaper
• Spackled + primed walls
• Painted walls
• Removed broken window shade
• Replaced light fixture (this involved cutting a big hole in the wall and installing something called a "junction box," as the original electrician seemed to have skipped this mandatory step...ugh!)
• Replaced towel rack
• Hung paintings, shower curtain, etc. 

TO-DO:

• Window treatment of some sort (still deciding, really want something like this fabric shade)
• Paint trim
• Future project: Paint cabinets white (like in kitchen)
• Replace hand towel rack and TP dispenser

BEFORE:

AFTER/DURING:

BATHROOM #2: UPSTAIRS

DONE:

• Removed wallpaper
• Spackled + primed walls
• Painted walls
• Replaced light fixture (same SUPER long and annoying process of fixing electrician's botch job in this room)
• Replaced towel rack, TP dispenser, and hand towel rack
• Hung shower curtain (not in love with it, but fine for now...)

TO-DO:

• Window treatment of some sort
• Paint trim
• Hang art (bought a great Cactus Club print for this room!)
• Paint tile floor (eventually replace tiles)
• Maybe: paint cabinets (depending on how it looks in downstairs bathroom)
• Buy bath mats
• Add some fun punches of color! Super drab right now...

BEFORE (The worst wallpaper in the entire house! Why would anyone ever do this to a helpless bathroom?):

AFTER/DURING:

I cannot tell you how good it feels to be done removing wallpaper in this house. Fingers crossed that we will never have to remove wallpaper again, because wow, it is not fun. Not one iota. 

Oh, and here's the tutorial that we used for replacing the light fixtures--until we ran into bigger problems and had to Google and YouTube and talk to our local Hardware Store about handling the wiring/install issues. Never a dull moment, that's for sure!

As for the rest of our before + after/during pics, you're going to have to wait, as that's about it in terms of big home improvement projects that we've done since moving in. We hope to paint our bedroom this weekend (and finish the doors to our kitchen cabinets!), but things have been moving slowly lately, so we'll see...

Hope you enjoyed this little peek into the new house! And thanks for all your sweet feedback re: last week's before + after pics! You guys are the BEST.