Master Bathroom Remodel Plan

My parents planned a last minute trip to come visit us this upcoming weekend (after Mom and I figured out with our schedules and their other travels we wouldn't see each other until late April).  I've been plotting a master bathroom remodel for quite some time, so I thought with my handy dad around, we might be able to hammer a few projects out this weekend.

My goal is to make myself a relaxing and chic master bathroom that has MINIMAL costs.  The Husband generally rolls his eyes at home decor/remodeling, so if I make it as inexpensive as possible, he can't really complain when we end up with a nice new room right?

Here is the "before" (as I started clearing things out to begin painting).

The walls are not quite a lime green, but not quite pastel.  This is the color when we moved in, and I don't think I would pick this color for my house.  I do like cooler colors overall, but when I'm putting makeup on every morning in this room... I have to be careful not too put on too much blush when a green tint is being reflected back at me.  It took me a while to realize that the ceiling was also painted this spring green color and not just a reflection of the walls.

Beside the shower is a little cubby for the toilet.  The wall behind the toilet is only 29 1/4 inches, so I have plans for it in the remodel.  A small amount of money will be going towards the toilet.  It has a cushion seat and it has grossed me out bothered me since we first moved in.  I'm expecting to spend about $20 on a new seat that is hard and with better peace of mind to clean.  I don't want anything fancy like a slow close.  Just a simple non-cushy seat.

The cabinet above the toilet was left by the owners.  I'll be keeping it but moving it somewhere else to make room for something like THIS!

I love the raw look and how it makes a little cubby where you do your business feel like a special little room.  (My original plot was to do a feature tile wall with tile like this, but after calculating that the tile costs alone would be close to $200, I thought of a better idea for the sake of the Husband's patience.)  As if a sign from the DIY heavens, at a family business just a mile from our house, they had a pile of pallets sitting by the road for a few days.  I called ahead to see if they were willing to get rid of them for free.  Yes!

Next up we have the sink area.  It is beyond my budget to get a new vanity or sink, so we will be working with what we have.  I really actually like the lighting above my vanity, so I am going to use metallic spray to paint the bathroom hardware to match.  (Much like in this tutorial.)  In the end I may do some rearranging of the towel hooks and small mirror.  

For the cabinets, which are lighter wood with already flaking stain, I'm going to sand them down and re-stain or paint them, but this project is not part of this weekends' adventures.  The countertops are a simple beige laminate, which I don't mind, so I will keep them as is for now.  The cabinet hardware will also be spray painted to match the sink and shower hardware.  This is the spray I will use.  I already have one can, but I suspect I will need one more.  At $6.76 a piece, that is $13.52 for revamped bathroom hardware.  (Plus any tape and paper I might need.)

I started last night with painting the ceiling white with the ceiling paint that the previous owners had left for us.  (Which we are totally fortunate that they left us ALL of their old paint cans from the house).  I had paint brushes and a roller already on hand.  Cost for ceiling paint: $0

Last night the ceiling took two coats, and I think I will just need a bit of touching up around the corners.  After the ceiling was painted, I went to my garage paint supply to mix together a gallon of paint for the walls.  I wanted a light beige purple mauve color similar to Behr's Embroidery.

Here was my mixing station:

Here was what I ended up with after test one:

It is a tad darker and pinker than I wanted, which is fine.  I have plenty more white and purple paint that I can add in.  I'll use this darker color for behind the plank wall since it won't matter too much, then I will retint it to more of the Embriodery color.  Once it is all mixed I will have about a gallon to paint the bathroom with.  That is my task for this evening.  Wish me luck!

Later on, maybe this summer we will work on putting new tile in to replace the laminate flooring.  There is a tile in the bathroom of the restaurant we go to weekly for trivia that I LOVE.  It is a long wide tile with a beige grey base and streaks of browns, greys, purples, and blues.  I can't find an identical version online, but this one from Home Depot in grey is pretty close.

This tile is $1.89 per square foot, and I estimate my bathroom to be around 50-70 square feet that would need to be tiled.  This will by far be the most expensive part of the bathroom, but when I'm spending $0 on paint, minimal on a feature wall, and less than $50 on the hardware and toilet, the tile is somewhere I'll spend a bit.

The file piece of the bathroom plan will be a 3-4 inch tall back splash on my vanity to replace the wooden one currently there.  I'm playing around with the idea of a small detailed mosaic in whites and beiges, similar to what my parents installed in their kitchen earlier last year.  (Oh! Maybe they have leftovers! ;))

Gorgeous right?  This picture doesn't quite show the copper and white as much as it does in person, but I think for a small 4 inch backslash it would add a cute touch.  I think I would go with a similar grout color to keep it light and bright.

Off to the painting and plotting!