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Hey everyone! As with every blog post lately, there’s been a humongous gap since I've last written about anything. Our little business has sort of exploded in the past few months, and we’re having some growing pains. One of those pains is that I’ve been total garbage about social media. I have tons of content to show you and less than zero time to put anything together. Every time I check something off of my to do list I add five other things in its place. I’m not complaining (I swear).. I’m saying, ”thank you.” Thank you to all of you for your patience, and for your support. Thank you for your reviews and referrals that make all the difference to a small business like ours. We are so incredibly blessed to be doing what we love. There are worse problems than being up to my eye balls in samples, and I will do my best to remind Chris of that fact when he is demo’ing bathrooms with cast iron tubs.
One of the ways in which we like to stress ourselves out is by throwing wrenches into the works of our perfectly functioning personal life. We’re flipping a 3,000 sq ft home “on the side,’ over the holidays. Cute, right? This home is in a really beautiful neighborhood, so the name of the game is to make money off of it but also create a custom vibe. I’m a master at mixing high end and cost conscious materials and Chris is a master at second guessing me right up until the very end. He calls it ‘good project management.’ I’m just thankful he can put up with me and all of my wall staring.
In this home we tackled the two guest bathrooms first, and my inspiration for them was our kiddos! One bathroom would have a more feminine aesthetic, while the other would be more masculine. Since this house is a flip I wanted to make sure that I was using gender neutral materials with accents that could easily be swapped out to suit the future owner.
Before:
The first bathroom is the bathroom we refinished in a more masculine style. It seemed like the obvious choice for the boys: it has a small vanity and is located off the kitchen where snacks are generally located. Picking up what I’m putting down?
Masculine Boys Bathroom Before and After:
What we did:
Carried flooring from the rest of the house into the bathroom
Used giant, green toned porcelain tiles as focal point and designed around them. Because the green tiles were on the pricier side, I flanked them with less expensive marble-look porcelain to keep our budget on track.
Champagne bronze is being used throughout the house. In this bathroom you’ll see champagne bronze in the faucet, knobs, accessories, and curtain hooks.
I love mixing metallics, and in this bathroom I used black for the shower fixtures, curtain rod, mirror and vanity light to contrast with the bronze.
Lastly, I decorated. A little bit goes a long way in staging a bathroom for sale. I used a rusty red rug to contrast with the green tiles, a warm beige shower curtain to compliment the detail in the Quartz countertops, and some fun accessories.
Here are some more pictures of the bathroom so you can see it from every angle:
The second bathroom was inspired by the girls because it has a bigger vanity, and natural light. We ladies need sunlight to extract our chin hairs, and a lot of storage to hide all of the crap we use to make it appear that we just woke up like this and barely have 6 layers of makeup on. It’s not quite finished, but you’ll get the idea. They love all things pink and glam, so I wanted to pay tribute to that fact without isolating any potential buyers. Feminine Girls Bathroom Before and After:
What we did:
As with the boys bathroom, we carried the flooring from the rest of the house into this space. It’s a waterproof luxury vinyl, so it’s totally appropriate to install in bathrooms.
I selected similar tile on a project for a client and loved how the combination looked up against our flooring. I used the concrete penny tile in a strip down the center, with chrome schluter to create a fun metallic pop in the middle of the shower.
Like the other bathroom I mixed metallics, but this bathroom has a more feminine mix of champagne bronze and chrome. The faucet, cabinet hardware and curtain hooks are bronze, and the light fixture, curtain rod and shower fixtures are chrome.
I found this beautiful pink and gold mirror at Ross and fell in love with it. I won’t tell you how inexpensive it was but it was in between $28 and $30 and it looks mega expensive.
I utilized the same white shaker cabinets and Quartz countertops in the bathrooms as I used in the kitchen and plan to use in the master bathroom. I want the project to feel cohesive with similar finishes throughout, but custom in that each space has its own identity and isn’t cookie cutter like most flips.
Here are some more pictures of the bathroom:
Anyone with a good eye who knows construction will see a little paint disaster. We gave someone a trial run and it didn’t work out (lol) so that will be getting cleaned up. If you didn’t notice it, yay! Carry on.
One hurdle I have when working with clients is trying to break them of the idea that everything has to match. Nothing matches in these spaces, but my hope is that you see cohesion and thoughtfulness and not a mess. If you see a mess and you miss the tropical wallpaper, then I’m not your cup anyway (haha). But I hope you’ll come back and read my blog regardless!
Hopefully you can look at these and pick out all of the similarities that make them fit in one home, and all of the differences that make them their own unique spaces.
Thanks for stopping by today and checking out this post. Please don’t hesitate to comment or private message with questions about styling your bathrooms, for kids or for adults. Happy Holidays to you all!
Xoxo
Alyssa
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