Master Bath Reveal + Some Finishing Touches + Links!

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14 months…that’s how long I worked on this bathroom before it was officially done! Now, in all fairness, I did remodel my friends kids bathroom and built her daughter a loft bed in that time. But when I looked back to see when I had officially started this master bath remodel I was shocked!! I couldn’t believe it had been that long! But all that time was completely worth it! I’m in love with my bathroom now, it feels like a spa! Now for some photos from when we first moved in, to when I did a bandaid makeover, to now!

Here’s the reveal video on the master bathroom! I’m super proud of this one!

My home is a DR Horton home, when we moved in it was fine, but not my style at all! The cherry colored fake wood cabinets weren’t going to work for me, neither was the yellowy beige color they chose for the walls.

One of the first projects I did in this house was painting the bathroom cabinets a blue grey color. I was so new to DIY back then that I don’t even know what color I chose, and I used a paint made for walls! Surprisingly it held up pretty well! I also took the vanity lights off and painted them black. I changed out the mirrors for these cool shelf mirrors I saw another DIYer use and really loved them! I also added a shiplap wall treatment to the back wall and ceiling. I added it to the ceiling because of this angled part, I wasn’t sure where to stop the shiplap so I just kept going!

Then with my official makeover, I tore out the whole vanity and built my own floating vanity using oak plywood and red oak boards. I have been loving arches lately, so I found some gold arched mirrors too. I’ve always thought vessel sinks were cool, so I added those to the vanity along with some beautiful gold faucets. I even found some gorgeous vanity lights in gold, I think it all fits together so well! The plumbing underneath is white PVC, so I painted that with primer and then used rub n buff in the color Gold Leaf to make them match the faucet color. I replaced the shiplap with a pole wrap type material to add subtle texture and to be less farmhouse. Then to warm up the space by I added this stunning Loloi runner.

Here’s a photo with the vanity lighting on. This is the hardware I used for the vanity drawers and the drawers on the built-in linen cabinet I’ll share in a bit.

When I built the drawers, I made them to go around the plumbing vs. having false drawers. I bought these drawer organizers that work perfectly in this space!

Here’s another angle from the mini makeover. I learned a lot from that first makeover, and it gave me courage to do more DIYs in my home. Gotta start somewhere.

And the front view. How do you feel about floating vanities? Do you like the clean look, or do you prefer more storage underneath? For us, everything under our sinks was things we didn’t use often or at all and it just held junk, so I don’t miss that storage at all. Now we are being more purposeful with what we keep in this space.

The tile that runs throughout our house is a yellow beige color 12×12 tile, and I’m NOT a fan!

Then for my mini makeover, I cleaned the tile floors really well, painted and stenciled them. I always knew this wasn’t a forever solution, so I was willing to take the risk that the paint would chip. I chose a busy stencil because I knew you wouldn’t be able to really tell if it did chip. This paint by Rust-Oleum is made for floors and shockingly it lasted for 3 years almost perfectly! I did drop a tape measure once from the ceiling, which chipped it just a tiny bit, but that chip never spread and it was even hard to find unless I got down on the floor and looked for it! The paint is a 2 part system, the first part is the paint and the second part is the top clear coat. You can read more about that in this post.

Then, after I replaced the flooring in my closet with this white hexagon ceramic tile, I started on the bathroom floors. Tyler and I removed the old tile that I had painted and I replaced it with the hex tile. It was A LOT of work! If I ever removed tile again like this from a concrete slab, I’ll hire it out! But I’m so happy with the results! Also, during the first makeover, I replaced the ceiling light with this light. For my official makeover I found this ceiling light and fell in love with it! I’ve even got the semi flush mount version in the water closet.

When we first moved in, our water closet door opened out into the bathroom and was REALLY annoying! It was always in the way.

I convinced Tyler that we needed a barn door here, partly because I’ve always wanted a barn door somewhere and this was the perfect spot for it, and partly because I hated the original door. So he built me one!

The door he built was beautiful!! But it ended up warping, I’m assuming because we didn’t acclimate it to our home before hanging it up. Or maybe it was the type of wood we used, I’m not sure. Our bathroom doesn’t get very humid because of its ventilation and size. It was also a very farmhouse style door and with the official remodel I was trying to get away from that look. I saw this photo on Pinterest and decided to attempt to make my own door similar to this one. I built it out of MDF instead of wood this time because I knew it wouldn’t warp like wood does. I LOVE the way it turned out! You can read more about it in this post.

Next is my water closet. I added floating shelves and wood slats to the back wall behind my toilet, this was the project that jump started my DIY love and earned my husband’s trust in my ability! The space was just blank when we moved in.

After I painted the room Alabaster by SW and added the shelves.

I can’t remember if I planned on adding the wood slats before I added the shelves or if I chose that after. But I love the way they look and I left them like this for the official makeover!

I did have to remove the bottom slats in order to removed the baseboards to replace the floors, and I thought about doing a different style back here but ended up sticking with the slats since I wasn’t tired of them yet.

One thing I hated was having a few rolls of TP on display on the shelves but then if you run out for me it was hard to reach since I’m so short and if you use all the display rolls and forget to add more then the rest of the TP was in the main part of the bathroom. I had this open wall in front of the toilet and decided I had enough room for a very small cabinet. I went searching my garage and found enough scraps to build one! So now we have a TP cabinet in front of the toilet that holds a whole big bag of Charmin we get from Costco! You can read more about that in this post.

I’ll have plans for this cabinet up in my Etsy shop soon! It was a very popular build! I built the cabinet deep enough to hold large TP rolls and set the cabinet in place for a few weeks before permanently installing it, just to make sure it wouldn’t be in the way. The photos are canvas that I drew silhouettes on with pencil and then traced over the pencil with a black paint pen and made frames for them. But here are some similar ones on Amazon for the male and female, I always get asked for the link for mine. Or you can buy some canvases and create your own. Here are some black frames for canvas.

The doors drop down with hinges. After living with this for a while now, it has worked really well!

Then there was the bathtub area. It was a pretty basic soaking tub nook when we first moved in. I was very glad for the window allowing natural light to come in.

But the blinds had to go! They blocked so much natural light from coming in! In my mini makeover, I framed the window and covered it with a static cling window film for privacy while still letting all the light in. I also added a paneling to the front of the tub to cover up this beige color and I painted the tile white with a special tile paint.

But I ended up hating the dark stained paneling I added to the tub so I painted it and added some trim and really loved that look!

Then when I did my official makeover I removed this paneling and added the same pole wrap material that I added to the back wall and ceiling. But honestly, I’m not sure which I like better. I kind of miss this box moulding, what do you think? The print I made myself, my grandma used to have a sign that read “We don’t skinny dip, we chunky dunk”, in her bathroom and I thought it was hilarious! So I bought a canvas and wrote the words in pencil until I got it just how I wanted it and then traced over it with a black paint pen and then framed it out. People love this sign! If you want one similar, I found this one on amazon that’s pretty close!

I also removed the original tile I had painted and replaced it with this Zellige tile that I’m in love with! I love the natural, imperfect, handmade look of it! I took the new tile all the way to the slanted ceiling around the window, I think it was the right move!

Then on the left wall I had this little hook system (hook system here and the basket here), which I liked, but I wanted something to cover more of the wall and bring in some warmth. I also built this bath tray that I still really love! The plans for it are available in my Etsy shop, it’s a pretty simple build! Beginner friendly!

I wanted some vintage looking shelves, so I ran to Home Depot and picked up some oak boards, a few oak corbels, and a dowel and got to work building some. I stained these shelves the same color as my vanity and built-in cabinet I’ll share about next, which is Spice Brown by DuraSeal. I also used some scrap oak and framed some prints I found on amazon for this space. I even added these cute battery operated candles so it can be nice and cozy with mood lighting when taking a bath! The little face vase came from amazon too. The succulents are faux, I can’t find the exact ones anymore, but I recently bought these from Amazon and they are very similar!

Now to address the open shelving we used to have in our bathroom. While I love open shelving sometimes, these just always got so messy looking and ended up being a catch all for things.

I didn’t do much to this space for the mini makeover aside from organizing it, just for it to eventually get way unorganized again.

I decided I wanted them mostly covered, so I removed the shelves and built a cabinet to go in their place. The bottom would be drawers and the top would be a cabinet with doors with a reeded glass in them so you couldn’t really see through if it did get messy again. I ended up with this built-in linen cabinet, you can read more about that in this post.

This cabinet is probably my favorite part of this remodel! It adds so much character and makes me so happy! Here it is from another angle.

This built-in linen closet has been a game changer for organization! I’m one who prefers drawers over open cabinets most of the time, they can just be organized so much better! For this linen cabinet I do have some things to help the upper part stay organized. I love this pretty lazy Susan to make it easy access for the things in the back. I don’t have the link to these specific baskets because I’ve had them forever, but here and here and here are some similar. I also switched to these pretty burnt orange towels with a gorgeous texture on them and I really love them! I use these black washcloths to remove my makeup so that I don’t get makeup on my good towels. I also have some baskets in the drawer to help them stay organized.

Now, for Tyler’s favorite part of our new bathroom, and the space that took the most amount of work and was the hardest to do! The shower! You can read more about this project in this post. This is what we were working with when we first moved in.

With the new shower set up, he can actually stand under the shower head without ducking!! He’s 6’4 and has to duck under all shower heads! The one in our guest bathroom sits 6’2 off the shower floor. Now with this remodel we raised the shower head up a foot and he says he feels like he’s in a spa!

I also created a shaving niche to make it easier to shave my legs and I don’t have to prop my foot up on the wall anymore!

I mean, can you even believe this remodel?! I’m so proud of the hard work put into this bathroom and how it turned out!

Then after the mini makeover.

Is a bathroom remodel something you think you could take on? It was A LOT of work! And it took way longer than I expected, but I don’t regret anything! These are the new gold hooks I added right outside the shower and vanity area to hold my bath and hand towels.

And I wanted to give a special shoutout to Signature Hardware for supplying me with my shower system and the Cremone Bolts for my built-in linen cabinet! Their products are superior and I’ll 100% use them again!

We did end up adding a water filter to the shower head, our water here in Texas is pretty bad and smells like bleach half the time! Adding the water filter has helped with dandruff and has helped our skin!

Do you think this bathroom renovation was worth all the time, energy and money?? Personally, I do! It’s my favorite renovation I’ve done yet!

Next up, my pantry remodel!