Master Bathroom Makeover: Part 1

Well, my younger sister is gone to Michigan so hopefully I'll be back to posting regularly!!! 

But I am so excited to show you this bathroom makeover!  This is my sister's master bathroom that we fixed up while I was there in Texas!

This is my favorite room that we did!  I think it turned out GORGEOUS!  We did so much to it though, so I'm going to split it into two posts.

For this one I'm going to show you what we did to the cabinets and the mirrors!

Here is her bathroom Before:

My sister wanted her bathroom to be black/white/grayish with red accents.  

She also wanted a Paris theme.

So we started by painting the cabinets black, and distressing them:

We also painted and distressed her existing light fixtures because they had nice details, and I knew they would look awesome with a little bit of paint! haha!

 Ok, now this is my FAVORITE part!!!  

Look at these fancy mirrors! Aren't they amazing?!  The Lowe's in my sister's town carried this awesome trim.  It is actually crown molding, but it is made of a dense styrafoam!  It was perfect for this project because it is lightweight!

We glued it directly onto her builder grade mirrors with silicone adhesive. 

 So we first cut it to length, then painted it the same black as the cabinets:

After it was glued onto the mirror we caulked the seams and touched up the paint

Seriously, what a difference!  I love how it made the bathroom feel so elegant!!  Do you want to know how much it cost to frame these two mirrors? (which are huge, by the way!)

$90!  

We could have never replaced those mirrors for that price!  Love it!

 For Part II of this Master Bathroom Makeover I'll show you what we did to the tub...and a few other amazing little projects!!

Therena

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Thrifty Thursday: Large DIY Pallet Frames

I am STILL plugging away at my boys' two bedrooms!  I am so close!!  This week I made 2 large pallet frames, one for each of them.

I'll show you the one for the Star Wars room first:

I found this awesome canvas print on Amazon for only $12!  It is huge, and I thought a thick pallet frame would look really good with it.

So for this one, I measured my pallet wood, cut it at the 45 angle on my chop saw, and then used these 

L brackets from Home Depot:

 I painted the frame black, then stapled the canvas to the back of the pallet frame:

 I love how this looks, and how big it is...and for only about $15!!

Ok,  here is the next one I did, for my other son's room.  His room is "music" but I've tried mixing that with an industrial vibe.

I found these tin letters at Hobby Lobby, and thought they would go really well in his room.

For this pallet frame I didn't want mitered corners, so I left them straight, and then stained the wood darker.

 Next I attached chicken wire to the back of the frame.  I should have used staples again, but I used nails...not sure why! lol

Then I hung his tin letters onto the chicken wire, spelling out his name.  

This frame is really big too!

 Once it was all hung, I decided to added screws to the frame, where the pieces come together, just to give it some character

 Because I bought the letters on sale, this project cost me only $15 also!  

So for a total of $30, I was able to make 2 large art pieces for my boys' rooms!  

I love that... and my boys were thrilled when they came home to find them hanging in their rooms!!

Therena

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Small Bathroom Makeover

I am finally home from my crazy fun trip to Texas!  I went to help my sister fix up her new house.  They just moved there from New Jersey, and they went from a very small home to a much bigger one!  So they are still working on trying to furnish it, but we did manage to update and beautify certain areas that were needing it!  We were up past midnight most nights, but it was so fun, I loved every minute of it!  We even squeezed in a few days to shop and decorate!  

I wasn't quite sure how to go about blogging all of our projects, but finally decided to just do it by room. 

 So first I'm going to show your the little powder bathroom we fixed up!

This is how it looked when I left:

 My sister wanted a beachy theme for this space...pretty cute, right?!

Before I got there, I had my sister paint the walls in Valspar's Jekyll Grand Dining Sea Mist:

This is how it looked when I first saw it:

So the first thing we did was paint the cabinets white, and distress them:

This alone made such a difference in this bathroom!  

We also painted the existing mirror.  My sister HATED it and wanted to replace it, but because I'm so cheap, I suggested we paint it to see if it would change her opinion of it....and it did!  

We decorated using some antique glass bottles and fun seashells.

While my sister lived in New Jersey, they found this beautiful horseshoe crab that was fully intact.  She wanted to incorporate it somehow, so we got a basic white frame from Michaels, backed it with muslin, and attached the crab with hot glue: 

I also made her this fun pallet sign (my tutorial found here):

I absolutely loved how this bathroom turned out!!

 Therena

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