home tour: before and after bathroom

The home tour continues! Here is the bathroom when we first moved in~I especially like the touch of the Liquid Drano on the windowsill.

Here it is today:

*I don't light this candle with the cotton:just sittin' pretty:

What we did:

Cut out the banisters to open it up and not make it feel so 70's. Most of these are decorative and aren't supporting the wall. We just cut right through the middle and they came out like a charm. Then, fill in nail holes and sand where they were.

Removed the shower doors: take out a few screws and lift away. We just caulked the holes where the screws were and used some caulk dissolver (found at hardware stores near the caulk) to get rid of the old caulk along the doors on the edge of the tub. The tub and tile were white (thank you previous homeowners, for not matching the yellow in the wallpaper!!), and so we just gave them a good cleaning.

The rest was removing wallpaper, choosing a right blue-green-gray color for the walls ( I only went through a few samples...).

The color we ended up with is basically a cross between Benjamin Moore's Iced Marble and Valspar's Smoke Infusion. The white was just from the 5 gallon bucket we used from the kitchen and rest of the trim in the home. It was colormatched to the existing trim in the bedrooms, so I don't have a name for you.

The color we used for the cabinets is Espresso, and can be found at a big orange home improvement store in the quart cans and spray. You can read more details of the bathroom here.

Have a wonderful Thursday~this girl is off to pack. Fun times!