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DIY Fluted Bath Vanity Upgrade
Update your existing bathroom vanity to create the trendy reeded or fluted cabinetry look with multi-surface glue and wood dowels from the craft store! What You’ll Need Titebond Quick & Thick glue* 1/8″ wood dowels* (a whole bunch!!) miter saw* tape measure* sandpaper or sanding blocks* sealer* chip brushes* I love the texture a reeded (or fluted) piece of furniture brings to a room. But if you’re not in the market for a new table or new cabinets, how do you get that look in your home?? You glue them on, of course! For my particular vanity (on sale now!*)with shaker-style doors and drawers, I measured the depth of the…
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How to Make a Pink Tub Look Cool
Small updates can make a big difference in making your 1950s pink tub and tile look and feel like it’s supposed to be there! I’m sharing how I updated our bathroom without tearing them out! A few months ago while I was very pregnant with our daughter, Clara, Dad and Brandon helped me update the en suite bathroom in our master bedroom. It was a project I’d been brainstorming for a while and the timing ended up being perfect! The transformation was captured for an episode of Today’s Homeowner if you want to watch it in video form here. Add Wallpaper to Ceiling The first and most obvious thing we…
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Updating Our 1950s Bathroom with Style
Light, Bright and Fun Bathroom Updates All of the sources we used to renovate our hall bathroom to make it lighter, brighter, and a lot more fun for our kids and guests! You can’t have a post about a bathroom remodel without including what it looked like before! This is how it looked when we closed on the house. Then we stripped the wallpaper, changed out the sconces and mirror and switched out the curtains for frosted windows. And she looked a lot more like this.
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How I Elevated our Bathroom with Wall Panels
Did you know there are alternatives to tile or cultured marble for your tub and shower? I’m sharing how I elevated the look of our bathroom during our renovation buy installing waterproof wall panels instead of traditional wall tiles. When it was time to start planning our bathroom renovation, I automatically thought of which tile I was going to use around the tub/shower and what color I was going to paint the walls. But then I discovered that there is another DIY option that still gives you that same custom, high-end look! This project is sponsored by WetWall, a Wilsonart Company. I love trying out new products to share with…
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DIY Pottery Barn Inspired Bathroom Vanity
I’m showing you how to use stock lumber and a few specialty tools to build your own Pottery Barn-inspired bathroom vanity complete with furniture feet, doors and drawers! Click play above to watch the how-to video! *I’m so excited that Woodcraft is sponsoring this project! It’s such a treat to work with them since I use so many of their tools and materials on a regular basis. Links included in this post are affiliate links. I appreciate your support to keep these fun videos coming!* Materials I picked up most of the lumber used for this project at our local lumber yard. Everything else was purchased from Woodcraft.com* with pretty…
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How To Install Beautiful Privacy Window Film
Quickly Add Privacy to Your Bathroom A quick way to add privacy to bathroom windows is with frosted privacy window film. You still get natural light streaming in without dust-collecting curtains. Each of our bathrooms had shear curtains in the windows from the previous owners when we bought it. They were not my style and added to the dated style of the bathroom, but they provided much needed privacy. Our master bathroom is on the side of our house and standing at the vanity you can see straight out to the street. Which means the reverse is also true.😳 The hall bathroom was less-pressed for privacy from passersby. But you…
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DIY Live Edge Floating Shelves
How To Build Shelves with a Live Edge How to select boards, prep, seal and hang rough sewn wood for decorative shelves in a bathroom. Materials cedar boards 3 inch corner brackets* sander polyurethane* spray paint* (stain bronze) If you’ve never seen the episode from Today’s Homeowner where Dad and I have an old cedar tree cut into 1 inch planks, here’s the link to watch it now! We had to tear down the tree from my front yard because it was all over the roof and a hazard to the safety of my house. After it sat behind my garage for about a year, we drove it to a…
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Modern Master Bathroom Reveal
Small Bathroom Addition, Big Style We recently completed our master bathroom addition. Here’s how I packed a big style punch into the small space. Accent Wall I’ll start with the most obvious part of the bathroom, the tile accent wall. It’s the first thing you notice when you walk in and where we spent the most money, besides the framing and roof.
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Divide and Conquer Laundry Room Clutter
How to Add Function to a Laundry Room Changing the entrance to a small bathroom made this laundry room a whole lot more functional! Before-Laundry Room/Hallway At the beginning of this project featured on an episode of Today’s Homeowner, the laundry room served as a hallway to the small, adjacent powder room. It also lacked storage and opportunities for organization.