Bathroom ideas on a budget…
“What’s for dinner Mom?” That’s what I hear every day at exactly 4pm as my oldest pops off the bus. My favorite answer? Leftovers.
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What Mom doesn’t LOVE leftovers?! It’s two meals for the price of one. It’s 50% effort for 100% yield.
So, what’s with the picture of that lovely, builder’s grade, 1989 bathroom, you ask? Well, that’s my master bathroom.
It’s a great space…
A great space which I made BIG plans for the moment I walked through those double doors the first time. My plan, simply, involves gutting the whole thing and starting over.
It’s a lovely little dream.
The thing about BIG plans and dreams, sadly, is that they usually require a BIG budget…or at least SOME budget. And therein lies the rub.
I’ve got big bathroom ideas, but here’s my budget for this space right now…
That? Well, that’s a goose egg. And it is representative of my budget for this bathroom.
A budget that is exactly ZERO.
Unfortunately, unlike most well-adjusted, normal people, I can’t really wait for that money to magically appear while I brush my teeth each morning in my builder grade baño…I’m not known for my patience.
Instead, I will employ the power of…leftovers. Here’s my list of changes and their costs:
1. LEFTOVER paint (White Duck by Sherwin Williams) to re-paint the space. COST = $0.
2. LEFTOVER chalk paint (graphite by Annie Sloan) to re-paint the vanities. COST = $0.
3. LEFTOVER curtains (taken out of storage, originally used in a guest room). COST = $0.
4. LEFTOVER rope & galvanized pipe (Home Depot for who knows what). COST = $0.
5. LEFTOVER mirror, frames (from various walls in our old home). COST = $0.
The result? Well, it’s definitely no miracle, but it’s a cost-free start…
The walls were painted, as was the vanity.
Took a bunch of frames out of storage and slapped them up on the wall. If you look closely, you’ll see some of them don’t even have pictures in them yet…it’s a work in progress, like much of my home.
Someday, I’ll rip out this jetted tub and get the old clawfoot that I dream of finding on craigslist…
And I’ll hang yet another chandelier…this one above the tub…and add beadboard, or some sort of molding feature…maybe get a bigger window, you know, when my ship comes in.
Of course, that will be then, and this is now. And for now, I’m happy (enough) with my $0 “leftover” renovation. I’m sure that will last at least another week or two.
We wrote a tutorial on how to make our DIY rope/pipe curtain rods HERE. They only take about 10 minutes to do! So check that out if you’re looking for a quick, inexpensive way to hang fabric panels.
By the way, the curtains were purchased at Homegoods. They are Cynthia Rowley Jacobean Floral Medallion drapes in Teal Blue.
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