She's had some work done.

I, Siana, am a sucker for a curbside project!! As we were driving down the road, thankfully in Stevens truck, low and behold there was a beautiful old piece of junk on the curb that I just knew would look beautiful with some TLC:

And she so desperately needed some help! The top and sides were coated in an old, chipping, repainted veneer. Once used to be a cherry stain was now a chipping blue nightmare. The poor bun feet, were not going to be able to be repaired they were too far gone, if we cut them off to replace the bun feet I was fearing for the integrity of the desk itself. Drawer pulls were old and 3 were unrepairable. Four missing drawer stoppers and the top left front corner was completely broken off..

However underneath the veneer was some wood in good shape and smooth. The blue paint was coming off quite well. The bun feet were cut and made in a way that we could just take off the decorative pieces and have it look like they were never even missing. Drawer pulls are simple to replace, found 5 perfect ones that should have been $25 but we got them for $10. Washers replaced the missing drawer stoppers and low and behold.. the corner of the desk was safely put in the top drawer.. this desk was meant to be!!! We used wood filler to fill some large cracks and gouges. This desk was sanded and sanded sanded, until I could not sand no more. Popped off the remaining bun feet, then sanded some more.

Primed her up

once I had it painted grey I just felt like something was missing.. it was bland and lost its character.

We researched tin tiles, pvc tiles, different stencil techniques, stainless steel cut outs.. nothing was just "right" Accidentally we ran across textured wallpaper in Lowes.. Oh my goodness!!! What a great accident!!!

After we got the paper glued on we just had to spray it with a silver mirror paint.

What a great before and after!!! I am so in love with this desk now!!!

Out with the new.. in with the newer.

We have been enjoying being home owners and the part of making your home your own. Now I know it is pretty silly to be ripping apart a bathroom that wasn't broken.. but.. I didn't LOVE it. Overall the room just felt a bit scattered and not our style SOOO I set out to make it the way I imagined. Here is what we started with, I felt like the cabinet color was a little "country" themed, and certainly not my ideal color. The flooring just had issues, poorly cut and nearly half an inch higher than the hallway flooring.

This light was horrible.. Steve said it looked like a motor home fixture, you can also see the original color behind the cabinet, which was crazy high on the wall I might add.

Once we started on the demo, I started having fun!! I actually finished 75% of the tile removal AND moved the toilet outside while Steve was at work. We had to repair a bit under the original floor and took a peek see down under the house.

Once the floor was finished and everything removed, we painted the top section of the wall, lower wall was going to be covered with beadboard.

Steve replaced that old fixture, we found it on clearance at Lowes for $13

In order to get our new tile on the floor in a level manner we used a self leveling concrete as the base

I totally wanted to use penny rounds for my flooring, and found this tile that had the occasional black tile in it as well, I fell in love :)

we used a grey grout, I could NOT imagine using a white grout on a bathroom floor anyways, but I was especially pleased to find gray.

once the flooring was done we moved right along to the bead board, I would do my entire house in bead board if I could. ... or if it was acceptable I suppose.

Finished the base off with a baseboard, and then a rail along the top to finish it off..

Finished project:

I have returned back to this project to add some new switch plates, in a matching bead board style. The entire bathroom renovation cost about $550 and a weekends worth of time.