Along with millions of other things I have been working through at school, Sid and I decided to tackle the kids' bathroom this weekend. It's in between the two dormers upstairs so it has no window and is dark as a dungeon (and dingy as one, too.)
This is the view from the hallway. Horrible, dingy, etched swan shower doors with a dark but colorful shower curtain meant to cover up the shower doors but usually shoved to the side.
This is the view from the bathtub. The horrible oak cabinet that was actually in paintable shape with an old, scratched shell-shaped sink with a molded shelf that extended over the back of the toilet.
With three kids and no storage we opted to use these Sterilite containers for portable and individual collections of bathroom "stuff."
The glass shelves were originally in Devonne's room. We stuck them on the short wall in the bathroom to give the kids a little more storage. I'm planning to use them again after the update.
This is one of the worst things about the bathroom. It is a soffit with bare bulb fixtures affixed to the ceiling. They are high enough up that it makes the bathroom pretty dim.
This is an IKEA towel rack that Sid attached to a solid wood cleat because of the number of towels being generated each day. Here it holds the dirty lavender bath mat and zero towels. The rack will go back into the room as well.
The peel and stick pink rose vinyl tiles that Devonne chose (along with the swan shower doors) at age seven.
Now to keep this really real, here is Pumpkin, one of our cats, drinking from the toilet. This is a nice shot of the general filth that has been our kids' bathroom.
When we have guests, NO one wants to use it. I don't want to use it when the other baths are busy.
It's time for some DIY home improvement!
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