Our Tiny Bathroom Dilemma

When we first saw our house I was torn about the upstairs bathroom. It was small with only a tiny shower stall, but the most beautiful old wooden vanity. At some point someone who lived here had turned it into the bathroom vanity and made the mirror the door to a medicine cabinet! So beautiful and charming. It won me over so much it actually took away from the fact that the colours in the bathroom were absolutely horrendous!

During our final walk through before moving in, I realized just how BAD the bathroom was! The colours were way too much for that tiny bathroom and there are just no words for the awful tile they had on the wall behind the vanity. Once we actually moved in I also realized how much I hated the almond toilet, shower stall, sink, outlets and light switches!! ALL ALMOND! So of course, freshening up the bathroom was on the top of our priority list the day we got the keys!

The wall colour itself wasn't the worst - it was just really bad in a bathroom this small - especially with the horrible burgundy tile that was on the opposite wall....

Oh - and I best point out... the glass in those sconces is NOT frosted... it's dust! YUCK!

So - once the keys were in our hands everything came OUT of the bathroom, primer went on the tile wall and the following morning a fresh coat of light blue paint went on. The new paint alone made the bathroom look so much bigger!

After taking the sconces off the wall we threw the glass into the dishwasher and sprayed the sconces themselves with aluminum paint to give them a fresher look. They looked great once they were back in on the wall.
This is the state of the bathroom as of this evening...

Since moving in we've also replaced the toilet with a low flow toilet which is WHITE (thank god) and actually takes up a lot less room. So far I'm happy with what we've done, but as soon as B's parents left on Monday he took down the old mirror and brought it down the street to have a new mirror cut (the old one was pretty gross looking). This weekend I plan on getting everything stripped down, primed and painted white. I'm being a little ambitious but I hope to have the vanity completed by the end of the weekend... with the exception of the new drawer pullsI bought off ebay tonight to replace those silver ones. I also plan on convincing B to visit our local Habitat for Humanity ReStore tomorrow night to see if we can find a pure white sink to replace the almond one we currently have (which will in turn be donated to ReStore). Those white mini blinds will eventually be used for something new... but that's a whole different project....