White & Bright: Guest Bath Makeover
We have a slew of projects to tackle in our new home, but one of the first ones we’ve done is our guest bath. Call it pride or call it hospitality, we want our guests to feel welcomed and not scared away by all the dark wood paneling and that weird yellow paint that’s everywhere. 😛
First up was painting the paneling and walls. We went with a bright white paint (Brilliant White by Benjamin Moore) on the cabinets, the drywall and over the wood panels. SO much better! 🙂
I have to admit, I absolutely hate the tile in the bathroom…and more than that, I really dislike the grout color…it’s like a weird orangey-brown that does NOT fit into my color scheme at all. That’ll be something to tackle way down the road though, so for now we gotta work with what we got.
Waterpik was kind enough to send me a shower head to try out, so we decided to install it in the guest bath. It’s called a Sidewinder, which made me laugh since that’s what my parents call Bella (she can’t walk straight and always walks sideways…special). It was our first time replacing an existing shower head—normally we are ripping all the plumbing up and starting from scratch. This was way easier and looks/functions a lot nicer! 🙂
Lastly, we put some “lipstick on the pig” by doing the best we can with the orangey tile and trying to hide it behind a really pretty floral curtain we picked up from Target along with a white bathmat. Much better! 🙂
paint / shower curtain / shower head / bath mat
Tania Griffis is an accomplished writer, blogger, and interior designer with a Journalism degree from the University of Oklahoma. She started her popular blog, Run to Radiance, in 2011, demonstrating her design expertise through the personal remodeling of six houses to millions of readers across the globe.
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i’m consistently so impressed with what you can do with a space. love that shower curtain!
Thank you! It’s much better than the scary tile…lol!
Looks fantastic! What a difference a coat of paint makes. And that showerhead looks pretty intense! I bet it was much easier to just swap it out rather than making huge changes to the plumbing!
Yes, haha! Definitely much easier.
I love the whites in there! We painted our bathroom cabinets white too and I love how they turned out! 🙂
Thank you so much. It’s a fun, easy-ish (?) way to add major style!
oh my gosh it looks amazing! come do mine
whoa girl! Looks so much better! So awesome!
You guys need to go into a remodeling business, for reallllsss.
This is so awesome! I am now seriously inspired to update one of our bathrooms! 🙂
Very pretty and love the shower curtain….adds that needed color!
Well done! I love the shower curtain florals and the white makes the space seem so much bigger. Are you going to do the mirror frame too? I recently did a cottage-chippy look to a mirror frame and I love how it turned out!
(found you on the artsy-fartsy link up)
Well done! The white definitely makes the space look bigger and I love the floral print on the curtain. Are you going to do the mirror too?
We just painted out my mom’s entire brown kitchen with white and those cabinets going white made such an incredible difference! It was like we added a window! Isn’t paint amazing? Your bathroom looks gorgeous!