Guest Bathroom Renovation - Pictures!!!

You know how one thing leads to another? Well, pulling up the carpet in the nursery led to pulling up the tile in the bathroom, which led to an overhaul of the entire Jack-and-Jill bathroom! This bathroom is between the nursery and the guest bedroom, so it needs to be functional for both a baby and for any overnight guests. We didn't HATE the decor in the bathroom when we moved in, but it certainly wouldn't have been what we'd have chosen. Between the orange wallpaper, dark vanity and poor lighting, the room seemed dreary and dirty. It's been a while since we've pulled down wallpaper and painted, so I guess we forgot how much we don't like doing it. Plus the vanity drawers had seen better days and needed replacing. Even though we knew it would be a big job, I was happy to finally brighten it up a little!

This is the view from the Guest Bedroom through to the nursery (also a work in process in this picture). Don't you know we hated to see this seashell sink go...

Once we removed the orange polka dot wallpaper we found several other layers underneath. Three are shown in this picture, but there was at least one more that we didn't capture in a photo!

Here I am busting up the tile with a sledgehammer in my cute pink hard hat and ear protection! (If I'm being honest, this is me posing to pretend like I was busting up the tile in my cute hard hat. Justin deserves all the tile-busting credit.)

We finished pulling out the sink and making the bathroom completely unusable around the end of January. Very little happened for several months until my parents came to visit and offered to help! We just about spent an entire weekend pulling down wallpaper! Then they left, and the bathroom sat untouched again. They came back and Dad did some plumbing work and installed the vanity and sink, so that was a big step in the right direction. Finally, over the Fourth of July, Mom and Dad returned and we finished the job! We are both extremely grateful for their help, because there is no telling when or if we would have finished on our own!

Dad and Justin built custom shelves for either side of the vanity (while Mom and I did the equally important work of shopping for things to put on them). They installed beadboard on the ceiling and hung a new light fixture that looks much better than the square recessed light that didn't actually put off any light anyway.

 We still have a lot of decorating to do (the fun part!) but here is the finished bathroom!

I absolutely LOVE the way it turned out! If there is any question about whether it is an improvement, here is a "before" and "after" shot side by side. It's definitely better now! 

Thank you SO much to Justin for tolerating and implementing my big ideas and to Mom and Dad for coming to Memphis several times to bail us out since we may have bitten off more than we could chew this time!