Next Project – The Studio Bathroom (A Look Back, The To Do List, And Two Wallpaper Options)

Right here’s what the studio toilet seems like as of this morning…

For these of you who’re new, I wished to make a journey again in time and present you precisely how this space began. My studio was our storage. After we purchased the home, the storage was simply studs and tar paper, so it was very darkish. Shortly after, my father-in-law got here and helped me put up drywall within the storage. So at that time, it regarded like this…

The breakfast room is thru the door on the left, and the opening on the best is how the realm in the back of my studio initially regarded. It was a really darkish storage room with a stable door resulting in the again yard.

Inside that storage room, this was the view of the realm that’s now my studio toilet. This space used to accommodate the massive furnace, however I don’t have a superb picture of the realm earlier than the furnace was eliminated.

So this space has gone by means of a large transformation. After I initially embellished the studio toilet, that is what it regarded like.

I did this hand painted design on the partitions, and whereas it was a enjoyable venture and I liked the way it turned out, this was only for me. I used to be the one one who ever used this toilet, so I went slightly loopy with colour and sample.

And on the time, I painted the again entry partitions this very daring inexperienced.

It was enjoyable for some time, however once I lastly bought round to ending my studio, these daring inexperienced partitions needed to go. I ended up portray the partitions a unique inexperienced (a customized colour that I blended myself) to tone them down a bit. This colour regarded significantly better with the floral wallpaper mural that I used within the studio, which is similar design that’s on the curtains on the again doorways.

As soon as the studio was completed, I began doing a makeover on the toilet. I don’t keep in mind what my plan was for the partitions, however I eliminated the yellow tiles and began doing this wooden accent instead of the tiles.

I feel I bought about midway completed with that, after which we modified path utterly.

I imagine it was round that point that we determined to maneuver our kitchen into the realm that’s now our breakfast room and walk-in pantry. After which we have been going to show this toilet right into a walk-through pantry for straightforward entry from the carport (by means of the again doorways of the studio) into what can be our new kitchen (within the present breakfast room and walk-in pantry space). So I principally closed the door on the toilet and walked away.

If all of that sounds complicated, or you possibly can’t envision what I imply by a “walk-through pantry”, don’t fear about it. Plans have modified since then. 😀 In some unspecified time in the future final yr, I made a decision that I didn’t need infinite transforming initiatives (and people would have been MAJOR transforming initiatives), and I used to be completely comfortable holding our kitchen proper the place it’s now, holding our breakfast room a breakfast room, and holding our walk-in pantry proper the place it’s. So the plans for all of that main transforming and development have been scrapped, and I breathed an enormous sigh of aid.

So now, that leaves me with this toilet that also must be completed. And now that our authentic visitor toilet has been subsumed into our main bedroom suite, it might now not be our visitor toilet (as a result of how awkward would that be to have a visitor toilet inside a main bedroom suite?!). So for now, this half toilet in my studio might be our visitor toilet.

Right here’s a take a look at what it seems like proper now. Once more, it’s a whole mess, so I actually do must spend a few day simply getting it cleaned up. However as soon as that’s achieved, I feel you possibly can see that getting this room completed received’t be a large endeavor.

I’ll must do some restore on the partitions with drywall mud. That’s actually the toughest half. As soon as that’s achieved and the partitions are clean once more, I’ll set up wallpaper, add some trim, change out a number of issues (new faucet, new ceiling mild), after which add a number of ornamental touches.

I’m undecided but if I’ll repaint the self-importance or not. I’ll decide that after I resolve on the wallpaper. Proper now, it’s a extremely darkish grey/off-black colour.

The most costly a part of this venture might be repairing or changing the pump that the sink and bathroom are related to. The plumbers appeared to imagine it may be repaired, however there’s a risk that it’s going to must be changed. That damaged pump is the rationale this toilet hasn’t been utilized in so lengthy.

However a number of folks stated that I ought to swap these and use the colourful squares within the storage closet and the floral within the toilet. I used to be open to that risk, so I made a decision to attempt them out. Right here’s a take a look at the teal floral wallpaper with a view into the studio. Needless to say the floral sample on the entrance wall of the studio can be on the curtain on the again doorways of the studio. (Please forgive the mess within the studio. I used to be like a twister by means of this room as I completed up initiatives for our bed room. It wants a superb top-to-bottom cleansing now that the bed room is completed.)

Once more, I’m open to this concept, however I’m not bought on it. The doorways to the toilet and the storage closet on this again entry of my studio are painted a deep eggplant colour. And one factor I don’t need is for my wallpaper resolution to begin the ball rolling on different adjustments. I need to keep away from the entire “one factor results in one other” entice (aka, the “if you happen to give a mouse a cookie” entice). And I don’t love the darkish eggplant doorways with this wallpaper.

I additionally don’t like it with the floral mural within the studio. I do know I’ve stated that I’d cowl each floor in our home with flowers, bushes, birds, and butterflies if I may get away with it, however I’d additionally like for them to coordinate, and I don’t suppose these coordinate or complement one another in any respect.

Right here’s a take a look at the colourful squares wallpaper that I truly designed for this room utilizing colours that I pulled from the floral wallpaper mural. To me, this seems far more pleasing to the attention since they coordinate and complement one another.

Each colour on this wallpaper comes from the studio, so it even coordinates with the darkish eggplant doorways.

So if I have been to resolve proper this minute, this is able to nonetheless be my alternative.

However once more, I’m open to having my thoughts modified. You may let me know what you suppose. Within the meantime, I’ll be in right here getting issues cleaned up and on the brink of begin on this venture. This must be enjoyable, and I’m actually hoping it’ll go in a short time!