My Complete Bathroom Overhaul, the Early Stages

After ten years with the same ugly striped wallpaper in my bathroom we are finally giving this room a completely makeover. This article will give you details on the products and methods we’re using to spruce it up.

Before we could do anything we had to first decide what we wanted the new bathroom to be. Since this is our main bathroom and I wasn’t willing to have it be out of commission for a lot more than a day at a time, we limited ourselves to reasonable projects that could be totally quickly and in stages. This will maintain the functionality on the room. This means keeping the tub and shower combination and only replacing the vanity as the major fixture upgrade. Our makeover will include the ceiling, walls and floor, as well as a new vanity, painted medicine cabinet and new faucet fixtures.

Additionally we are stripping off the ceiling (that spackle popcorn stuff) simply because the high moisture from the bathroom is already causing it to fall down around us. I have already started scraping the ceiling down for the ceiling board making use of a easy paint scraper tool. Since we’re also replacing the floor (getting rid with the stained vinyl sheeting and replacing with vinyl floor tiles) we don’t have to protect the floor from falling ceiling debris. For the finished ceiling we are using paintable white decorative ceiling tiles (they come in large sheets) and most likely won’t end up painting them. They’re plastic, bought from Menards and cost about $97 for a 4 ft by 8ft sheet. We’ll require four sheets. They are supposed to be glued for the ceiling and with proper overlap ought to withstand the moisture of a steamy bathroom.

For the color scheme we chose dark brown walls with white trim. Accents will be dark brown, carmel and white towels, a dark cinnamon brown vanity base with a white sink top and we’re painting the medicine cabinet white (both to save money and because the 3 way mirror design we have is hard to find in stores today.)

The bathroom has striped wallpaper that has to be stripped off so we’re using a standard wallpaper scraping tool (round, fits in your hand, makes a million little holes within the paper) and then spraying on a solution to eat the glue backing. So far the paper is coming off in nice huge chunks, which is a large timesaver.

The author enjoys writing about a variety of topics. For her bathroom she has focused on bathtub reviews and professional curling irons. She also recently redid her kitchen and used menards kitchen cabinets.