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We renovated a bathroom last month and now it’s awesome!   It’s our upstairs hall bathroom, Ezra’s bathroom.  Well, Ezra and soon-to-be-here baby’s bathroom. It was one of those rooms we knew we would renovate when we bought the house 2.5 years ago.   It wasn’t a high priority (there are definitely things that bug me more) but it got bumped up on our list when our in-laws moved away a few months ago.   They now come in town for visits and occasionally stay with us.  Since we only had one shower (our master bathroom) we decided to bump this one up on the list, gut it, and make it nice and new for all of us.  The room was okay to begin with.   I certainly didn’t love it but it was okay.  It had a tub for Ezra, it was clean, and it had cute tile on the floor.    The sink (1970s?) was a major eye-soar though and it really didn’t fit.  The cabinet above the toilet was only about 2.5 inches deep.  You really couldn’t fit much in it so it was just taking up space in an already small bathroom to begin with.   The door (when opened, most of the time) fit right in front of the toilet and just made it awkward.   The tub was functional but had green paint stained on it from the day we like to refer to as “Green Good Friday.”  You can’t see it in the pictures but it was there and there was lots of it.  On the tub and the white tile on the wall.  I’ll save that one for another post.  I don’t think I’ve written about it before.   Let’s just say it was my husband in charge of Ezra on that day and not me.     When I saw “we” renovated this bathroom I mean we “paid” someone to renovate it.  We’re good but we’re not that good.   My husband and I have many talents but handy work is not one of them.   I can paint and that’s about it.  It was expensive (twice the amount we thought it would be) but well worth the price in my opinion.  Take a look. 
Total time for this project was ten days. Ten days of workers at our house. Right before Christmas time. Living in limbo with a 4 year old for ten days = no good. I’m not complaining but I was HAPPY when they were gone.  I wish I would have snapped a picture of all the trash. You would be amazed.  Our backyard looked like an episode of Sanford & Son for ten days. It took our contractor three trips in his truck to the dump to trash it all.   It was incredible how much stuff came out of such a small bathroom. 

And here’s what the bathroom looks like now! The pictures don’t do it justice. It was hard to photograph such a small space but trust me….it’s so CUTE now! And we love it!  It has a great feeling when you walk in the room.  New sink, toilet, tile on the walls & floor, and wainscoating on the walls.  Now it’s a shower/bath instead of bath only. We had to take out a window for the shower but it was worth it to lose a little light. We replaced the regular door with a pocket door which is pretty darn awesome.  It makes the space seem bigger and is a lot more functional. The white shower curtain is from Target. It was little short (we hung the curtain rod too high) so my want-to-be-crafty little self sewed the blue polka-dot material border on the bottom. The green floor mat is from Pottery Barn.  And the picture on the wall is an Eric Carle print that was hanging in Ezra’s nursery and room up until his most recent room switch. Here ya go!

So what do you think? It makes me HAPPY!  p.s. – We really liked our contractor on this one.  If you are in the Fort Worth area and want his name then let me know.