Bathroom Renovations: Master Bathroom: House #2

If you remember here I told you all about our main bathroom renovation at our last house. At the same time we also had our master bathroom renovated. This whole process took 2 months but felt like 2 years!

Our master bathroom started off as a half bath and completely outdated.

 



The master bedroom was HUGE. It's really hard to see it in pictures but I'll try to show you. It was wonderful to have all that space but most of it was just wasted. That door to the left is the half bath. We made a huge, gigantic, enormous change to this room and actually put the new bathroom where that closet is and also expanded it out into the room.

Yes that is my wedding dress in the closet and every now and then I try to put it on and walk around the house in it.

We created a huge bathroom with a walk in closet. Although if you remember me talking about the odd layout of this house, this bedroom leads directly into the office (which acts as a hallway to the kids bedrooms and other bathroom). So the closet area had to be a little odd shaped due to the location of the office, but we made it work.

I knew how I wanted this bathroom to look even before the renovations were planned. White, white, white and gray! A white vanity, the same white tiled floor as the main bathroom, a beautiful white and gray swirl marble countertop, a nice big tub for all baths I said I would take, and gray walls. We went all out in this bathroom and it was definitely the hardest room to leave.

Pretty much everything in this bathroom was purchased at Lowe's.

Look at how huge this tub is! And in the 8 months we lived here with it, I never once took a bath. What is wrong with me?!

We decided to go with an already built shower surround. Rather than spending our money on tiling the shower, we wanted to spend more money on a nice floor and marble countertop.

This tile is beautiful for a bathroom floor. It was just under $3 for a square foot at Lowe's. I went with a medium gray grout color that compliments the wall color.

The gorgeous marble countertop. I wanted to rip it off and take it with me!

I will say the one thing I regret in this bathroom were the double mirrors. I really feel that one big mirror would have looked better in this space.

We had a decent sized linen closet in there.

The master closet was connected to the bathroom so it was all one big area. This organizer was really nice. It was also purchased at Lowe's.

I ordered those towel hooks and plaque off of Amazon. It's hard to tell but they matched the vanity perfectly!

This view is looking into the bathroom from the bedroom. That long mirror is from IKEA.

The wall color is Repose Gray by Sherwin Williams. It matched perfectly with the countertops and grout. I am actually using it in the main bathroom in our current home.

Let's take a quick look at the Before and After!

Before...

During...

After...

We love this bathroom so much that we plan on using all the same materials for our master bathroom renovation in our house now. Although this time I think we'll do some of the work ourselves. That will be interesting!

Gray vs Brown

First let me start off with some great news! We officially sold and closed on our last home. Hooray! It was on the market for 6 months and we got a few offers but this last offer was for full asking price. Praise the Lord! I am so glad we no longer have 2 house payments or 2 heating bills. Now let's get down to business the fun stuff.

I am in love with gray paint. It's an obsession. Every time I am looking on Houzz.com or searching for pictures of a certain room, I skip over the tan and brown rooms and fall in love with any room that's gray. I'm pretty sure I dream about the color gray at night.

Our first house was a colorful disaster. Every room was a different color and now that would drive me insane.

 



Yes, my kitchen was a beautiful coral color what was I thinking with a brick red color on the soffit and in the adjoining dining room. Eek!

Here's the dining room...

The smaller living room (there was also a big one)....

I was not afraid of color then but I think all of those blinding colors did something to me that I'll never be able to get back.

With our second house I made the biggest mistake in the kitchen and was pretty much stuck with a tan theme. Although tans and browns are very calming and relaxing.

After being stuck with a tan theme in our second home, I knew I wanted my next home to be covered in gray. Maybe I am still in color shock from our first house, but I love having neutral walls throughout a house and then using pops of color with pictures, decorations, or pillows. It's so easy to change out those little pieces if you want to go a different direction with your color scheme.

Here is a picture of our current dining room and the beautiful gray walls, which will look so much better once I get my hands on some white paint and slather it all over that trim.

What is your preference, gray or brown?