Bathroom Redo

WOW!  It's been almost a year since I last wrote a post.  How time flies... I can't say that much has happened during this time, other than work work work. 

It does seem though that during this time all creativity and desire to do anything around the house went away.  It is especially difficult to work on projects when you come home from work exhausted and just want to crawl into bed and rest.   Alas, it is the middle of a new year and I will have no more of it! :)

Few weeks ago, Jeremy and I decided to redo our bathroom. It just seemed that one day we looked around us and everything was BEIGE. How unispiring. 

The bathroom has always been a room that I struggled with figuring out what to do.  Motivated by the many epeisodes we watched on DIY and HGTV, especially Sarah Richardson's show, we decided to brighten the room significantly.

Here are some pictures of the before: boring beige galore!

Don't mind the mess... we had just begun to get our tools together to begin our mini renovation.

Beige walls, light beige cabinets doors and trim, and beige tile. I guess you could call the cabinets, trim and door colors a cream color, but that much of it all together just blends in and looks beige.

Jeremy and our assitant Pearl.  She's the sweetest puppy in this whole world (another post on her later) and of course she can't miss any of the action.  We had to put her up later so we could actually get some work done.

And more beige... you get the idea. It was preety miserable.

So in our efforts to brighten up the room and to keep a somewhat 'country' theme, we decided to add beadboards to the wall.

Here are some pictures of the process:



As you can see, we added new, thick baseboard which I love and we also have added a trim piece above the beadboard (I just don't have a picture of it).  It was amazing how much brighter and light the room felt after just adding the beadboard.  You can see on the first picture, our paint samples.   The room is now almost complete - minus a few decorations here and there, and towel hooks, etc. 

A post will follow with pictures of the finished product!