A DIY powder room design. AKA "And We'll Never be Royals".

DIY powder room design…

Bathroom design, powder room design…they are some of our favorite things.

CLASSIC! Love this powder room design with grasscloth wallpaper, herringbone tile & vintage pedestal sink!!

You know what’s NOT one of our favorite things? Purple. They say purple is the color of royalty. And Lorde may have said it best…”we’ll never be royals.” Good jam, right?

Before we get knee-deep in the muck of this renovation, here is the source list for the space:

There’s another line in that song about “trippin in the bathroom.” And that’s pretty much what happened here too because this was our “royal” powder room when we moved out here to our house in the country…

Powder room design with grasscloth wallpaper, vintage pedestal sink and herringbone marble subway tile floor from www.heatherednest.com

Complete with broken vinyl roller shade, and luxurious linoleum, anyone who thought this lavender loo was staying “as is” was STRAIGHT trippin.

Before we go too much further, here’s a little video synopsis of the powder room design and transformation:

Video Overview

Powder room design and renovation process…here goes!

THIS “royal” needed a flush…

So after just two weeks living in our new pad, I decided on a new powder room design, and I started ripping the old one apart. As Lorde said “we crave a different kind of buzz”…well, this was mine. Destruction of the purple-people-eating-privy!

Ahhh, the sweet sights of progress! In our home, that’s seeing something like seeing a new powder room design take shape, and getting the child labor force going on installing cement board.

A love of k is engrained at a very young age here.

Down go the Carrara marble subway tiles.

The powder room design really took off once I found the pedestal sink. For weeks, I’d been scouring Craigslist for a vintage pedestal, and when I saw this one, I knew I had a winner.

This baby is a 1930’s-1940’s cast iron sink. It was absolutely stunning. Had a bit of rust, and needed to be re-plumbed, but for $80, I think I got a GREAT deal.

My father came along with me to pick it up…he wasn’t so impressed, to put it mildly. Sure, it had issues, but that’s universal, right? And, after all, we aren’t royals…we can deal with a little rust.

OK, so maybe more than a little rust.

We had the sink professionally refinished. Set us back about $200, which, when all was said and done, was about what we would have paid for a new sink. And in my opinion, this one was just so much cooler.

Now, there is no more rust, and we were even able to save the original faucet and “waste” stopper.

The walls are done in a burlap grasscloth. We used the leftovers we had saved from our family room in the last house.

A couple shots of the completed floor tile…

which we laid in a herringbone pattern.

GORGEOUS! White carrarra marble tile laid in herringbone pattern. Want this in our master bathroom!

Not the easiest DIY tile installation, but once you get the pattern down, it’s not so bad.

The powder room is situated in a hallway that did not offer much in the way of natural light. And in a ten-foot distance, there were FOUR swinging doors, which in a house with three kids was a recipe for a lot of noggin bumps and bruises.

And it felt like kind of a dark maze. To help make the hall feel wider and brighter,

we took out the old door, and added a pocket door and transom window. These changes made a big difference in the bathroom, as well as the hallway.

Beadboard was added around the perimeter of the room, and of course, because of my ongoing chandelier fetish, the room got one of those as well as a couple of pretty sconces.

All in all, we may not be royal here at the Heathered Nest, but we feel like we kind of gave this room the royal treatment on a peasant-ish budget. And we’re thrilled to say that this little pint-sized powder room has been a big hit in the print world! It was published in USA Today’s HOME magazine,

as well as Cottages & Bungalows and This Old House magazines!

If you’re curious, YES, that is Miss Mustard Seed, in OUR john 🙂

And now our wash-room work-over is complete. So, come on over Lorde…promise you won’t be trippin in this bathroom now. We’re just stylin’ and profilin’ up in here.

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Comments

Selena says

September 21, 2017 at 3:04 pm

I love this powder room! I’m in the process of updating ours in a similar way. I am having the hardest time finding a suitable transom window. Where did you get this one and what are the dimensions of it and the pocket door you have here? Thanks!

- Heather says
  
  September 26, 2017 at 11:26 am
  
  Hmmmm…we got it online at a place that only sells transoms I believe. I will try to find an invoice so I can give you more details on that and the pocket door Selena!
  
Sara says

March 3, 2016 at 5:42 am

Oh my goodness, I love this bathroom makeover. I have to say the purple paint was amazing! haha! That vintage sink is amazing. Wow. Love it. Thanks for sharing at Merry Monday. Pinning.

Lela says

March 3, 2016 at 3:19 am

Wow, you have done a fantastic job! The bathroom looks so good! I’d love to invite you to visit the Inspiration Thursday link party at my blog inthenewhouse.com and share some of your awesome projects! I hope to see you there!

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